PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The crisis is hardly over, but post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail. The prevailing sentiment, as the crisis heads into its third month, is that more innovative government programs will be necessary to provide any meaningful relief. In comparison, small businesses selling similar products were forced to close.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Denmark has gained quite a reputation for supporting an overall positive business environment and fostering creativity and innovation – all of which have contributed to its capital city attracting the attention of global startups. There is a perception that larger companies drive innovation as opposed to startups.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

But as the pandemic has progressed it has become increasingly clear that Target is also laying claim to the paycheck, and is often more innovative and digital-first than Walmart. It’s hardly competing with Amazon yet, but Target has shown more digital momentum than any major retailer during the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

That’s the opinion of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which earlier this week said technology would be one of the underpinnings of getting lending to increase to SMEs, a group that would naturally benefit from improved access to capital. Simply put, most SME executives do not do much in the way of comparison shopping for loans.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

Some other gluten-free or vegan mixes use almond flour, by comparison, which someone with a nut allergy may not be able to eat. And, in other developments in the plant-based space, meatless burger makers are raising capital. The target market for the company consists of “the vegan community and those who are gluten-free,” Lam said.

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Tefkin

JUNE 3, 2014

While other sectors attract more mainstream press attention (payment, retail banking), the asset management industry is also deeply affected by “software eating the world” Asset Class Competition. On the “Beta” end of the scale, ETFs are steadily becoming one of the most successful innovation in recent decades.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

SoftBank’s capital firepower has helped it become the #2 unicorn investor in the world. Retail & consumer. SoftBank has invested in 35 companies in the retail & consumer sector in 2021 so far, making it the most popular sector among its 2021 investments. Clearco provides growth capital for small businesses.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. trillion failed.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s easy enough to think of small businesses as not being particularly innovative – and even to find data to back up that claim. In fact, on the zero to 100 scale offered by the Readiness Index, small businesses underscore large firms in terms of digital innovation adoption by over 20 points. Assortment as a Service.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Inspiration for innovators often comes out of the blue. We’re very good at making the comparisons and knowing who performs and who doesn’t.”. Rented.com is ending the year with a bang, according to its CEO, and is preparing to announce the Rented Capital Fund. Why Managers Sign Up. What’s Next.

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Lex Sokolin

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

When the old world wobbles, the new one seems more safe by comparison. The price of the cryptocurrency rose to over $15,000, breaking again the $250 billion market capitalization barrier. For comparison, Visa today sits at about $420 billion in market capitalization, representing the discounted cash flows of owning a payment network.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

XL Innovate. HCS went through a major management shakeup in November 2016 when former AIG head of commercial insurance strategy and innovation Greg Wolyniec joined as president and CEO, while AIG president of liability and financial lines Alexander Baugh was named chairman of HCS’ board of directors. Allianz Ventures.

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Strategy Marketing Analytics Innovation 28

CB Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2017

XL Innovate. HCS went through a major management shakeup in November 2016 when former AIG head of commercial insurance strategy and innovation Greg Wolyniec joined as president and CEO, while AIG president of liability and financial lines Alexander Baugh was named chairman of HCS’s board of directors. American Family Ventures.

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Strategy Marketing Analytics Innovation 28

CB Insights

JANUARY 24, 2018

With household retail names like Radio Shack and Toy “R” Us seeing a spate of bankruptcies and closures over the past few years, it seems the long-predicted “retail apocalypse” has arrived. Alibaba, meanwhile, has publicly announced a strategy to combine online and offline commerce, dubbed “new retail.”

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

In total, there were 13 fintech startups (or 15 by the Bank Innovations definition ), 12% of the total YC W16 class of 109. Point-of-sale financing for retailers. Connects marketplace lenders to institutional capital. Tags: Investors, big data, business intelligence, investing, capital markets. Total raised: Unknown.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

From a tech standpoint, this is probably one of the single most important innovations that has happened first in China, and at the moment it’s only in China,” said Richard Lim, managing director of venture capital firm GSR Ventures. And not for lack of trying or interest. The New Million Dollar Question.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Few places are more receptive to new ideas and innovative business models than Silicon Valley. Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. Select Investors: BlackRock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

The easiest possible summary is that in a post-apocalyptic future, the United States has become the Kingdom of Panem, which consists of a rich, technologically vibrant capital city ringed by 12 impoverished agrarian or industrial districts that are exploited for their resources by wealthy residents of the capitol. District 2: Walmart.

Branding 101

Branding Florida Retail Online 101

Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 19, 2020

To a venture capital investor, the embedded option is more attractive given a portfolio structure that requires unicorns. In American terms, you should think of Visa or MasterCard as a comparison, or maybe American Express. But that in turn yields better venture capital metrics, i.e., revenue multiples that look like 30x.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Capital Preferences is an enterprise consumer risk profiling system that uses a series of simple investment games based on advances in game theory, econometrics and experimental economics, to help banks, insurers and wealth managers solve growing regulatory scrutiny and unscientific profiling methods used to document client risk preferences today.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In this review of failure, we’ve looked in our venture capital database to find the most well-funded startup companies that ultimately failed or had an undesirable exit, such as an asset sale or an acquisition for less than the total funding raised by the company. The 101 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time. Total Funding: Over $100M.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

As part of that capital raise, there was also a commitment to buy an additional $30 million in tZERO tokens to be used inside the blockchain/crypto-enabled ecosystem that Overstock, with its tZERO subsidiary, is creating. It’s tough slogging it out these days as an online retailer with a value proposition based purely on selling stuff cheap.

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Payments Bitcoin blockchain New York 110

CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Read on for post-mortems on 10 of the latest startups to bite the dust. “The Those were the only metrics we tracked.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

That further opened commercial access to other commerce centers, formed the Republic of Turkey with a new regime and moved the government’s capital from Istanbul to Ankara. The Bazaar’s most serious blow was the capture of Istanbul by the Allied Forces during World War I. And so went the Ottoman Empire.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

That further opened commercial access to other commerce centers, formed the Republic of Turkey with a new regime and moved the government’s capital from Istanbul to Ankara. The Bazaar’s most serious blow was the capture of Istanbul by the Allied Forces during World War I. And so went the Ottoman Empire.

Online 112

Online Google Branding Retail 112

CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

Retail is under pressure to crack the AI code. After all, corporations in every industry are scrambling to adapt and integrate artificial intelligence into their products — and retail is no exception. 15-Min Flash briefing: Can AI Save Physical retail? Using CB Insights data, we dug into the changing retail landscape.

Retail 78

Retail Online Branding Strategy 78

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals. Get the 65-page report on teardowns for Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more. JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B

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Lending Capital Company Google 78

CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

New Frontiers in Retail Tech. Download this research briefing to see how corporates and startups are shaping the future of retail with tech. They don’t need to rely on traditional retail stores for exposure. They’re competing more efficiently by rethinking not just the product, but also the retail model.

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