PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Add Simon Property Group to the list – the real estate investment trust formed a blank check firm known as Simon Property Group Acquisition in an IPO slated to raise up to $300 million. Funds that have expertise in both companies operating in Asia and how U.S. capital markets work hold a significant advantage.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

South African regulators also approved Goldman Sachs for a bank operation license as the firm strives for growth in the most liquid and sophisticated economy on the continent. The filings also indicated that interest income would be spread across operating segments. Last month, it named Jonathan Penkin as head of the local business.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

Mumbai-based Tata Capital , a division of Tata Group, is rolling out a mobile app to make it easier for its business loan customers to manage their accounts. Tata Capital is deeply invested in providing easy access of credit to merchants and dealers through its Channel Finance and Term Loan products.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Bad news hit the startup community this week as new analysis from CBInsights revealed a significant decline in venture capital (VC) funding in the first quarter of 2020. Asia Capital & Advisors led the round, reports said, while Global eTrade Services and Curzon Investments also participated. Apollo Agriculture. CLARA analytics.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

China’s Ant Group is mulling the creation of a new consumer loan unit that would allow it to continue making loans throughout the country while complying with new Chinese banking regulations. Ant Group had planned to go public for $35 billion, which would have made it the largest IPO in market history. China TransInfo Technology Corp.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

General Electric ‘s divestiture of GE Capital assets continues as MUFG Union Bank announced plans to acquire GE Capital’s Trade Payable Services (TPS) operations. 16), MUFG Americas and GE Capital said MUFG Union Bank will acquire GE Capital’s supply chain finance platform for an undisclosed sum.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We intend to search for targets that operate in consumer-facing industries in the U.S. Elsewhere in the filing, the sectors in which Virgin Group operates are listed as travel and leisure, financial services, health and wellness, technology and internet-enabled, music and entertainment, media and mobile, space, and renewable energy.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

New Chinese finance rules will force Ant Group to comply with regulations to back up any payments, lending or other finances with substantial capital, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). 1, and will have to apply for a license to do so. Ant began looking to make an initial public offering (IPO) filing last month.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

Amsterdam-based startup Creative Group announced it has raised €22 million in funding from Prime Ventures. Founded in 2010, Creative Group enables customers to digitally buy or send prepaid credit to spend with their favorite brands, as well as to send cross-border credit remittances. We are excited to have Prime Ventures on board.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

moneycorp, has acquired an Australian independent treasury advisory company called the Rochford Group for an undisclosed sum, according to reports. The company’s cloud-based treasury risk management platform features proprietary worldwide capital flow forecasting programs, as well as productivity-boosting workflow models. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm Equiteq announced that it advised The Shelby Group , an eProcurement transformation and optimization consulting firm, on a recent growth investment from Boston-based private equity firm WestView Capital Partners , according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

16) that merger talks with TCS Group Holding (Tinkoff) have fallen apart. . TCS Group Holding is the parent company of the Russian lender Tinkoff Bank. “We Lavka stocks roughly 2,000 items and operates as a digital market for convenience items. Russian search giant Yandex said in a statement on Friday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

has entered into a definitive deal to sell Cost Plus World Market to Kingswood Capital Management, while Authentic Brands is reportedly in discussions with Arcadia Group and Debenhams. has entered into a definitive arrangement to sell Cost Plus World Market to Kingswood Capital Management. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

With a round led by ACA Investments, comparison shopping platform iPrice Group has notched $10 million in Series B funding. Its last announcement for fundraising was in 2018 from the venture capital arm of Line. The platform, as of now, teams with “super apps” such as Home Credit and Line.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

After news surfaced in May that Golden Gate Capital was considering a merger of Eddie Bauer and Pacific Sunwear of California , the private equity firm has created a new operating company comprised of the two retailers. The group, which is estimated to take in $1.5

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

India-based financial services provider Reliance Capital has announced it will exit the lending market. Anil Ambani , group chairman of the non-bank financial company (NBFC), revealed the firm’s plans on Monday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sequoia Capital has agreed to invest around 6 billion euros in Auto1 Group before the online car trading platform's initial public offering (IPO), Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. fund Lone Pine Capital reached a preliminary deal to buy around 50 million euros of Auto1 stock from DN Capital , an early investor.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Paul-based Matchstick Ventures raised $30 million in a second seed funding round led by Foundry Group, reports said on Friday (Sept. We’ve co-invested and served on boards with them and [Foundry Group Managing Director] Seth Levine has been an official advisor to Matchstick since inception. Minneapolis-St. Onward raised $1.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

The investment group also sat down with Monzo’s competitor Revolut, and recently funded London-based digital bank startup OakNorth with £297.7 operations, reporting to Bloomfield. No deal was struck yet, and the talks are still in the beginning phase, sources said. expansion.

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Perficient

JANUARY 25, 2023

Banks are focused on efficiency initiatives to optimize their operations and lower costs. While institutions want to increase their technology play, they are weary of overcomplicating operations. Another example is Eno , Capital One’s virtual assistant. Here are five banking trends we’re forecasting for the new year.

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FirstInternet

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And it’s likely that, unless you operate or are involved in the financial functions of a business, the term is something of a mystery. Managing working capital on a day-to-day basis is vital for any business. Utilize excess capital efficiently. Operations requiring dedicated oversight. Pay funds in a timely fashion.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

ICONIQ Capital led the round, with participation from new investor Sapphire Ventures and all existing investors including Madrona Venture Group, OpenView, Salesforce Ventures and Shasta Ventures. Sales enablement platform Highspot announced it has secured $60 million in Series D funding.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Chinese eSports provider VSPN has raised $60 million in a Series B+ funding round to help it expand its operations overseas. Investors in the latest financing included Prospect Avenue Capital, Guiotai Junan International, and Nan Fung Group. Lighthouse Capital served as the exclusive financial adviser.

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BankInovation

JUNE 15, 2023

Mastercard is inviting startups to address challenges within the credit card giant’s operations while taking part in its small business program that offers the company’s network access.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

Venture capital activity in the B2B space found software and data management firms securing funding. The company said in a statement that the funding round was led by a series of investors, including General Catalyst, Foundry Group and former Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik. Tidelift has said the funds will be used to expand operations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Velo Labs has unveiled a joint effort with Visa and Lightnet Group to build out payment offerings together in Asia, according to an announcement. Velo Labs, Visa and Lightnet Group will work together on payment offerings targeted at serving the micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) lending market in Asia, the announcement stated.

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BankUnderground

APRIL 28, 2023

This post investigates whether large and small banks in the UK and US differ in the cyclical patterns of capital positions and credit provision. The reforms aimed to ensure that banks have sufficient capital resources to absorb losses and reduce the cyclical effects of bank capital (and regulation) on the supply of bank credit in stress.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Italy’s BNL , part of BNP Paribas Group , has debuted its multi-banking solution developed in conjunction with open banking FinTech Tink , according to a press release. Absa Group Collabs With Surecomp. The FI aims to wield Backbase tools to create digital banking channels across its operations, with its focus first landing on SMBs.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Source: S&P Capital IQ for Banks-Savings Banks and Credit Unions between $1B-$10B in total assets. If the median size credit union from the $1B-$10B group I analyzed achieved the bank versus the credit union expense ratio, the CU would make $11.8 Retained earnings is their least expensive form of capital. YTD=June 30, 2022.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

One proposition is a 9 percent core capital requirement on the top tier, akin to banks. Middle-layer non-bank lenders would follow a board-approved policy on capital adequacy, and upper-layer shadow financiers would follow exposure rules like those big banks follow. It will only let them take on a limited amount of leverage.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Two government officials told the news outlet that India is in talks with Germany state-owned bank KfW Group, various institutions in Canada, as well as the World Bank. The publication cited unnamed sources that revealed India’s government is discussing a deal with foreign lenders to open up about $14.5

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Payments Source

JANUARY 23, 2019

Advent International Capital has bought a majority stake in the Argentine operator of Visa for about $725 million from a group of local banks.

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Operations Capital Groups Cards 64

CB Insights

JULY 8, 2021

The round drew participation from Bain Capital, Seedcamp, Stripes Group, Thrive Capital, Creandum, and Kinnevik. The company operates in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Britain, and Ireland. Pleo , a business expenditure platform, has raised $150M in a Series C. How’s the company performing? Want the full post?

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Capital Company Cards Report 79

South State Correspondent

JANUARY 17, 2024

We focused mainly on customer profitability and used risk-adjusted return on capital as a proxy for profitability. Through this understanding of profitability and productivity, bank managers can set better strategies and tactics plus start to optimize the allocation of capital. The answer is – most likely.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

But some players are taking matters into their own hands with the formation of a new group to promote responsible SME lending practices, on both the borrower and lender sides. The announcement also revealed Breakout Capital, a small business lender, as a new committee member for the group. “We The CRBF is not the U.S.’s

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 14, 2024

Strategic Horizon and Capital As mentioned, the problem that bank’s often run into when it comes to strategic planning is their time horizon is too short. The fundamental problem is a bank’s implied average life of capital is long, some 18+ years, but their strategic horizon is too short – likely under three years.

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