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Aura is using grocery stores to market installment loans to the underbanked

Bank Innovation

For Aura, an online lending platform for low-income families, reaching underbanked borrowers means going beyond the bank setting and working with retailers to reach customers who may be overlooked by traditional lenders. In addition to […].

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Farfetch Raises $250M To Grow Luxury Fashion Platform

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Tencent is a global technology company based in Shenzhen, China, and Dragoneer is an investment firm based in San Francisco. Farfetch has over 80 luxury brands on WeChat, which include Moncler, Balenciaga, Saint Laurent, Armani and Ralph Lauren. Each company will purchase $125 million of the notes. “I

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How Chubbies Went From A Cult Fave To A Highly Imitated Brand

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There are brands that claim to take the customer experience to the max — and then there are brands that redefine what exactly the max means. Chubbies takes its customer community seriously, and it makes it very clear that this is well beyond a marketing ploy. We bring customers to the forefront.”.

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DraftKings To Merge With Other Companies, Go Public

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The company currently has offices in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco and Las Vegas. The combination of DraftKings’ leading and trusted brand, deep focus on customer experience and data science expertise and SBTech’s highly innovative and proven technology platform creates a vertically-integrated powerhouse,” Robins said. “I

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DraftKings To Merge, IPO At A $3.3B Market Value

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The company currently has offices in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco and Las Vegas. The combination of DraftKings’ leading and trusted brand, deep focus on customer experience and data science expertise and SBTech’s highly innovative and proven technology platform creates a vertically-integrated powerhouse,” Robins said. “I

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Fabletics Announces Brick-and-Mortar Expansion

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Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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How Embedded Finance is Changing Purchasing & Borrowing Behaviors

Perficient

In the first two blogs in this series, Getting Started On Embedded Finance and Embedded Finance: Bolstering Brand Experiences, we defined embedded finance and looked at the goals and strategies that firms should take at the outset of their modern embedded finance journey, as well as how and why firms should consider getting embedded banking.