PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

Federal prosecutors believe that the woman allegedly responsible for the Capital One hacking is a danger to society who needs to stay in prison while awaiting trial. Thompson is accused of stealing personal data on more than 100 million Capital One customers. The Capital One theft “was only one part of her criminal conduct,” the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Capital One employees raised red flags over security risks before the company suffered a massive data breach. She added that the cybersecurity unit’s total head count has risen over the past several years, explaining that “the Cyber Team is a net importer of talent within Capital One.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The holidays are unfortunately one of the busiest times of the year for fraudsters looking to capitalize on the surge of shopping and payments activity. The scam then requests the employee to submit those gift card numbers to the “boss” over email, falsely claiming that the gift cards are gifts for employees and others.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

What about gift cards? Research says millennials love gift cards , so that may be a way to create a budding bitcoin trend. But other research says to forget millennials and focus on ourselves, as many of us enjoy buying eGift cards for me, myself and I — and, sometimes, you. Just like cash.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

Meal kit service Munchery has filed for bankruptcy and still owes $3 million in unfulfilled customer gift cards and another $3 million to its vendors and suppliers. That came after it shut down service in Seattle, Los Angels, and New York. The company expanded too aggressively in its early years,” the filing states.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The type of tax paid — capital gains tax, corporation tax, income tax, national insurance contributions, stamp taxes or VAT — will be decided by the tax authority. In other news, crypto exchange Bittrex is being sued over a SIM swap that enabled criminals to obtain 100 bitcoin, currently worth nearly $1 million.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle. INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv. Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Although the investigation came around at the same time a Seattle woman hacked a database of credit-card issuer Capital One Financial that was stored on the eCommerce giant’s cloud server, examiners were reportedly not aware of the breach when they visited Amazon’s Virginia facility.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2016

SEATTLE — The Silicon Valley model for its startups is well-known. Heck, there’s a Wikipedia for it. It centers on a simple principle: build a business that scales, no matter the initial profitability. And then scale it like mad. Or, in technical terms, build a business that has the potential Read More.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1. Many applied, few were chosen.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Nets and OT will combine their capabilities to offer an end-to-end mobile payment solution, which will include host card emulation (HCE) and tokenization to secure payments. “By These are the guys who are not necessarily limited to just stolen credit cards or spoofed accounts. The collaboration, announced on Oct.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Virtual card issuance. Business lending and corporate cards. Fraud prevention tools. Supporting merchant partner growth. Growing the internet economy.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Swipe fees alone are a $90B-a-year business for banks, card networks like Visa, and payment processors like Stripe. The company announced it would pass on the special card savings Amazon gets from card networks (because of the volume of purchases they can guarantee) to retailers that adopt Amazon Pay.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Research shows that the country has the fourth highest mobile penetration in the world (83 percent) and the highest credit card penetration (five credit cards per person, on average). SoftBank’s capital will be used to fund Coupang’s continuing investments in end-to-end fulfillment service and same-day delivery operations.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 15, 2017

SWITCH , a Seattle-based startup that makes it easy to manage your online payment information, has raised $400,000 in funding from angel investors. million in total capital. Chris Hopen, SWITCH co-founder and CEO, called his technology the “first of its kind, credit card updater for online accounts.”

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023. 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Except maybe they did partly.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

For the third year in a row I traveled from Seattle to the LA-area to drop my son off at college. And for the third year in a row, Bank of America declined my card at Target buying groceries and incidentals for him. And this time it was an EMV chipped card. Capital One did have its concerns along the way though.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2017

By offering software solutions that streamline law offices’ workload, automating rote and repeatable work, projects that might have previously required hundreds of hours of human capital, could be accomplished much more efficiently. Smart money investor(s) : First Round Capital, Bessemer Ventures. Benchmark Capital.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

For the third year in a row I traveled from Seattle to the LA-area to drop off my son at college. And for the third year in a row, Bank of America declined my card at Target buying groceries and incidentals for him. And this time it was an EMV chipped card. Capital One did have its concerns along the way though.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 14, 2022

Oil Capital: The History of American Oil, Wildcatters, Independents and Their Bankers 2016 Dwight L. House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street 2009 William D. A Term at the Fed: An Insider's View 2004 John Moody Moody, John The Masters of Capital: A Chronicle of Wall Street 2012 George S.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

After a period of beta testing that lasted months longer than expected, Amazon opened its first unmanned Amazon Go store to the public in Jan’18 in Seattle. Today, Amazon operates four Amazon Go stores: 3 in Seattle and 1 in Chicago. Select investors: CRV, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator. Theoretically, (i.e.,

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 14, 2014

But with only a couple contactless terminals in my usual Seattle haunts, I guess I''ll be buying lots of coffee at Peet''s and Tully''s while I test it. However, I would not be surprised if major issuers, who''ve already seen contactless card usage fizzle, take a wait-and-see approach for the remainder of 2014. But I digress.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. HQ: Seattle. Top 17 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (Dec 2021). Fundera (NerdWallet). Biz2Credit. Website visits: 940,000 (Oct 2021, SimilarWeb). Employees: 119 ( Pitchbook ). Articles: 176 (Crunchbase). Trustpilot : 4.6

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 29, 2015

PaymentsViews interviews Doug Yeager, inventor of Host Card Emulation (HCE). Marketing Mag interviews new VP of marketing for Thinking Capital , Roshni Wijayashinha. Alumni updates: Giftbit earns spot in Techstars Seattle 2015 accelerator. ScriptRock updates its DevOps platform with new data visualization, search.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Avalara , an innovator in automated tax management for small businesses, raised $96 million in new funding from a group of investors including Warburg Pincus, Sageview Capital, and Technology Crossover Ventures this week. Avalara’s total capital raised is more than $318 million.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. HQ: Seattle. Related: Top 17 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (Dec 2021). Fundera (NerdWallet). Biz2Credit. Website visits: 940,000 (Oct 2021, SimilarWeb). Employees: 119 ( Pitchbook ). Articles: 176 (Crunchbase).

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. CAN Capital. Lighter Capital. HQ: Seattle. Related Stories SMB Lenders: Kabbage Continues to Cook Under American Express Ownership SMB Charge Cards: Brex is the new Amex Watch 12 Fintech Startups Pitch at Startupbootcamp Amsterdam Demo Day (May 2021 update)). Biz2Credit.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2018

Seattle-based Suplari enhances the eProcurement process with artificial intelligence, with a focus on helping the enterprise identify cost-savings opportunities and supplier risk they might have otherwise missed. The India-based startup has already seen funding from Kalaari Capital, Saif Partners and Beenext. eProcurement. Logistics.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lost/stolen credit & debit card solution. HQ: Seattle, Washington. Tags: SMB, merchants, credit/debit cards, acquiring, bitcoin, crypto-currency, blockchain, point of sale. Platform for investing in early-stage startups. Latest round: $14.4 million Debt. Total raised previously: Unknown. HQ: New York City. OK Car Insurance.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

HQ: Seattle, Washington. AI for capital markets news. Tags: SMB, merchants, security, payments, POS, credit/debit cards, authorization. Total raised: $154.3 million ($98.3 million Equity, $56 million Debt). HQ: Sao Paulo, Brazil. Source: Crunchbase. International payments service. Latest round: $38.5 million Series C.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Bravo to CEO Brian Vance, President Jeff Deuel and team for a watershed expansion into the hot Seattle market with a bank whose commercial skills can complement those of its acquirer. The Get Outta Dodge (and Focus) Award – Goes to Capital One for exiting a significant mortgage business to focus on cards and direct banking.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

HQ: Seattle, WA. Connects marketplace lenders to institutional capital. Debit card with company-driven expense rules. Nigerian online credit card processor. Tags: SMB, merchants, acquiring, credit/debit cards, acquiring, Y Combinator (investor). Source: Crunchbase. Front Desk. Latest round: $1 million. LiquidX.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

The development of new technologies is threatening to disrupt the business models of many of these traditional players, as fast, efficient and low-cost platforms are providing access to capital that traditional banks are either unwilling or unable to deliver to the marketplace. . B2B Card Payments . Switch, Inc.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

The real-time payments solution will be available for JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, PNC and Wells Fargo later this year, according to what representatives told Reuters. Square offers free card readers and charges 2.75 Bank of America announced its plans on Wednesday, following in the footsteps of U.S. at Starbucks. While, in the U.S.,

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Finally, congratulations to Finovate alum Financit which grabbed an undisclosed, but we are guessing considerable, amount of capital from Goldman Sachs. Prepaid card platform. LoanBook Capital. HQ: Seattle, Washington. Tags: Consumer, mobile, debit/credit cards, account aggregation, PFM. Ten companies raised $1.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The Facebook pop-ups will be on offer in New York City, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle from now until early February 2019. Square said its capital loans business grew 34 percent year on year, while LendingClub’s loan originations gained 18 percent year on year.

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