PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The funding initiative is being led by existing investors Great Hill Partners LP, the Boston-based private equity firm, Eight Roads Ventures, the global venture capital firm based in China and.406 406 Ventures, the Boston venture capital fund. Its RegalPay platform is used by more than 350 corporate customers and partners.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk. Flutterwave.

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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Bartow Morgan Jr., who ran Brand Banking when it was sold to Renasant, also plans to raise $150 million to expand the seller's products and services.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Photo by Harold Daniels Derek Williams, president and CEO of Century Bank & Trust in Georgia, is bringing his passion for community banking to his term as ICBA chairman for 2023/24. Derek Williams and fellow Georgia community bankers at the 2013 ICBA Washington Policy Summit, now the Capital Summit.

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MAY 23, 2023

This data is critical for pricing, capital allocation, and marketing. In terms of absolute probabilities of default, Arizona, Texas, and Georgia are the three riskiest states in terms of likelihood of default. ” The reality is that banks should be much more granular than that to allocate capital more efficiently.

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American Banker

MARCH 26, 2020

A former market president for State Bank Financial would serve as CEO of the proposed Classic City Bank.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2021

The round drew participation from Fifth Wall Ventures, General Global Capital, QED Investors, Crossover VC, and Founders Fund, among others. It currently operates in 14 markets across the states of Florida, Colorado, Georgia, Texas, and Utah, catering to almost 2,600 qualified off-market buyers. HOW’S THE COMPANY PERFORMING?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

16), Beall, Illinois-based food service retailer Ruby Tuesday has agreed to an acquisition by Atlanta, Georgia, private equity franchise funding firm NRD Capital. per share and NRD Capital assuming or retiring all debt obligations, CNBC reported. According to CNBC news reports published on Monday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

million investment round in commercial card startup DiviPay, reports said this week, via the bank’s venture capital unit ANZi. based Steadview Capital, adding to the previous Series A round announced in April. ForwardLine said it plans to deploy the capital to bolster its loan origination initiatives. SaaSOptics.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

“BusinessManager enables financial institutions to purchase small- and medium-sized businesses’ [SMBs’] accounts receivables at a discount, providing immediate access to working capital for the business and creating strong fee income opportunities for the institution.”. First Volunteer Bank has 24 branches through Tennessee and Georgia.

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William Mills

MARCH 8, 2018

As headquarters to large companies including NCR, WorldPay and First Data, the Georgia Department of Economic Development reports that Georgia fintech companies generate more than $72 billion annually, third in the nation behind New York and California. So how did we get here in such a short amount of time?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Clover Health , a tech-driven provider of Medicare Advantage insurance plans, plans to go public through a merger with a blank-check company called Social Capital Hedosophia, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday (Oct. The transaction, set to close in early 2021, values Clover at about $3.7

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2017

The $3 million in funding was led by Thrive Capital, including participation from SV Angel, Techstars, FJ Labs, Corigin Ventures, MetaProp and a number of angel investors, reported TechCrunch. The platform is licensed in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

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The Paypers

APRIL 9, 2018

(The Paypers) IFC , a member of the World Bank Group, has joined forces with Basisbank to boost access to working capital and trade finance for Georgia’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

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American Banker

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Highlands Banking would be based in a community near the state's borders with Georgia and South Carolina.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

educated entrepreneurs met while working abroad at Renaissance Capital and Deutsche Bank. such as Zopa and Lending Club, they saw an opportunity in emerging markets that had been ignored by the big banks, such as Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan. Observing the rise of disruptive companies in Europe and the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

The paper reported that, in May, the online retailer “added two directors to its 11-member board that were nominated by activist investor Starboard Capital. A Walmart representative said locations will open in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana and Virginia soon, as well as on a microsite on Walmart.com. The takeaway of those personal moves?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Increasing access to capital to underrepresented small businesses is vital to economic growth and the communities they serve. million grant aimed at increasing small business and economic opportunities in Texas, Louisiana and Georgia. The goal here is to bring down the loan approval process from five weeks to less than one week.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

Walker joined Edwards and Speight for this weeks’ chat about the PPP’s ongoing rollout and brought an unusual perspective to the discussion as he is the CEO of a business that just got a loan via First Planters as well as a board member at a different community bank and a Georgia State Senator.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

As New Mexico’s capital city, Albuquerque naturally put in a bid, but the state’s more southern offering may prove more interesting, as it straddles the U.S.-Mexico Amazon, Georgia. Stonecrest, Georgia, has promised to rename itself “Amazon, Georgia” if the eCommerce giant elects to put down its second set of roots in their soil.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Interest in the space has been revitalized due to the harsh financial blows the pandemic has dealt, providing opportunities for SMBs to gain capital and for lenders to facilitate. The small- to medium-sized business (SMB) lending industry is in a unique position during the pandemic. Of the 32 million SMBs in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2016

Reports added that Dell has already extended invoice payment terms to suppliers in the past in order to free up working capital — that included extended payment terms to Microsoft and Intel vendors. . “We have full confidence in the Dell/EMC merger,” the supplier stated. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

His reasoning revolves around the issue of proving ownership of certain assets and access to capital. Pointing to economist Hernando de Soto’s work and a partnership with bitcoin and blockchain company Bitfury and the Republic of Georgia’s National Agency of Public Registry.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

Though most testing takes place in California, those operations also are conducted in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Michigan and Washington State. The technology has undergone five billion hours of simulations, he said.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

A” malls were successful before the crisis, and will eventually build on that success and the capital of their owners, like Simon Properties, to recover. As an example, Simon and Allied Esports have started a project at the Mall of Georgia outside of Atlanta that will result in a two-level, 13,000-square-foot dedicated esports facility.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Below, PYMNTS examines the latest in commercial card innovation, and uncovers ways that the commercial card industry is capitalizing on a slew of opportunities to drive adoption in B2B payments. For vendors, commercial card acceptance can be a matter of wielding technology to lower interchange costs. A Focus On Transparency.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

million round of funding led by Hyde Park Angels, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Ludlow Ventures, Sandalphon Capital and others. But, in order to do so, Provi needs to build relationships in each market, as the distributor for a particular liquor brand in Colorado could be different than a distributor in Georgia, for example.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Select Investors: DN Capital, The Raine Group, 500 Startups. Select Investors: Accel Partners, Horizon Ventures, Lowercase Capital. Select Investors: Advancit Capital, Lowercase Capital. Select Investors: Accomplice, Advancit Capital, aXiomatic eSports, Greycroft Partners. Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia.

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CB Insights

JULY 25, 2017

The three most active investors in US-based unicorns, by total number of deals to these companies, are the VC firms Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Tiger Global Management. The newest unicorn in the US is 3D printing startup Desktop Metal , which became a unicorn in July 2017 after raising a $115M Series D. Connecticut. Vox Media.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Ameris Bancorp in Georgia wanted to buy a premium-finance business but settled for a joint venture, blessed by its regulators, after being flagged for insufficient Bank Secrecy Act compliance.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The application process is worth watching since the group is seeking the first Georgia charter in seven years and would be based in a market where more than 90 banks have failed since 2007. Pacific Metro Bank would cater to Chinese-Americans around Atlanta.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

The eCommerce giant reportedly plans to invest $500 million in the food segment as it capitalizes on increasing Internet penetration in the country. Possibly Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and/or Delaware, according to Lidl’s website. This good news for Amazon probably spells bad news for local rival Flipkart.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 25, 2017

July 2017 saw the two largest-ever restaurant tech deals: a $151M private equity investment by Vista Equity Partners to Providence-based Upserve , and a $101M Series C (with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Generation Investment Management, and Lead Edge Capital) to Boston-based Toast.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 24, 2016

Today, the Georgia-based company announced it has originated $2 billion in loans during the past five years. The credit line is dynamic; it automatically adjusts to furnish businesses with the right amount of capital they need to grow. The 75,000 small business customers on Kabbage’s platform hail from all 50 U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Through the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee and Washington are looking to standardize the ways firms across traditional financial services and FinTech upstarts apply for, and are granted, licenses. Can the states make licensing – of the money movement kind – any easier?

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2020

In other news, crypto exchange Bitfinex wants to get back over $800 million in seized funds in four different countries via an investigation into payment processor Crypto Capital, according to CoinDesk. Other Crypto Capital officials were charged with fraud and conspiracy around the same time.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Fiserv wins inaugural Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Fintech ADVANCE Award for its Verifast palm authentication technology. UK-based Revolut launches new customer service chatbot, Rita – “Revolut’s Intelligent Troubleshooting Assistant.”

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