PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

And lest you think changes in tax policy sow confusion only in the United States, think again. Bitcoin breeched a key psychological barrier on news that the South Korean government would tax income earned by virtual currency exchanges to the tune of 24.2 This past week saw a wild ride. Crossing borders and crossing the Rubicon.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

We have a deep dive into spend management in addition to news involving the Sprint and T-Mobile merger, as well as data on state tax laws. . The country’s Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) reportedly said Uber went against market rules. Colombia Blocks Uber From Using Its Ride-Hailing App.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

Electronic payments processing is becoming “increasingly critical” for Ontario Systems’ customers, which mandated the acquisition of SwervePay acquisition, a payment facilitator in the accounts receivable management and healthcare industries.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2018

We’ve got 17 months’ worth of cash without further raises of capital,” the executive said. Balances of the industry surpassed $1.03 The paper noted that American Express, Capital One, Citigroup, Discover Financial and Synchrony Financial had a median return on their assets of 2.1 trillion in January 2018, setting a new record.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

There’s opportunity in serving the middle market in the U.S., For the financial services (FinServ) firms that seek to serve the capital needs of the middle market (which can be defined as companies with a top line ranging from $5 million to $100 million), speed is important — and data is, too. and middle-market firms employ 29.7

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

This may be the most underserved market on the planet,” Founder and Chief Executive Officer Troy Bohlke told PYMNTS. Bohlke said it is not especially useful to lump online lenders together or paint them with a broad brush, especially in the wake of the clouds gathering over Lending Club and other firms in the industry at large.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2018

This may be the first sign of tax reform seeping into the small business labor market,” the executive said in a statement. “As As small business owners begin to realize the benefits of tax reform, they will likely translate to better wages and more jobs. percent increase in hiring activity in March.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The 2019 Canadian fintech market map. The startups selected for inclusion in the market map below are all Canada-headquartered, VC-backed fintech companies that have at least US $1M in equity funding, and have obtained equity funding since the start of 2015. Navigating the Canadian fintech market map. Data is as of 10/8/2019.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

As he recently told PYMNTS, traditional financial institutions (FIs) can lack the industry-specific knowledge and product offerings to address landlords’ unique pain points, which go far beyond managing late payments. Unique to this market is the complexity of transactions these individuals must manage in their professional lives.

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Taxes Management Industry Payments 141

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In the next 10 years, as robots and other tech bring about the “greatest transfer from labour to capital” the industry has witnessed, per a report by Wells Fargo analysts, U.S. Wells Fargo’s team of analysts in financial services and technology examined technology’s impact throughout the banking industry in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Belgium’s capital city is becoming known for more than just housing major international institutions like EU Parliament, EU Commission and NATO. Brussels is the second most diverse city in the world and is known for being a multinational, multilingual and multi-industry region. ­­­­. Belgium is on the path toward a digital revolution.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

This week, however, venture capital rounds were all about the small- and medium-sized business (SMBs), and how to address their biggest financial management pain points. raised venture capital for their SMB-facing tools, including global payments, accounting and banking. Businesses across Asia, South Africa, the U.K.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Financial technology company Sleek has reportedly netted $4 million in venture funding for its efforts to take on the traditional corporate services industry. SEEDS Capital , the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore , led the funding round, which also included MI8 Ltd.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2018

at the close of trading on Thursday (July 19), the company had a market value of nearly $2 billion. “It It is a big deal for the cannabis industry’s expansion plans,” said Matthew Kennedy, an IPO market strategist at Renaissance Capital, which runs exchange trade funds that buy newly listed shares. And at $22.39

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Emerging markets have their own challenges when it comes to banking, where big, traditional financial institutions (FIs) are anything but efficient. For the traditional FIs, evolution is slow, he said, in what has traditionally been a “swipe” market, and where in a swipe market, fraud has traditionally been borne by the issuer.

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 18, 2021

Effectively, Britain was forced into a ‘Battle for Capital’ simultaneous with its military efforts — with the efficacy of the latter dependent on the success of the former. New information about those changes comes from some of the hundreds of ledgers of War Loan investors who provided capital for war in the years 1914-1932.

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Capital Retail Taxes Industry 145

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

by regulatory initiatives (designed to spur competition in small business banking, open up the market to new challenger banks and support marketplace lending platforms), the bank loan is often the first place small business owners look when in search of capital. venture capital investments in U.K. Fueled further in the U.K.

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BankUnderground

AUGUST 11, 2022

Examples include tax measures to stimulate firm-level Research & Development and structural reforms to eliminate distortions in labour, financial, and product markets. The algorithm uncovers the presence of five well-separated clusters of start-ups, which we label large; capital intensive; high-leverage; cash-intensive and basic.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) has raised short-term interest rates by 3.00% in the six months between March and September. The market is now forecasting an additional 1.25% in hikes by year’s end, with the next move coming on November 3rd. However, all of these five predictors are, on average, wrong.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

That also encompassed “reimbursement of goods and services tax receivable from Zomato” of $35 million. India is an important international market for Uber. 1 food delivery business, per industry estimates. Venture capital fund Prosus Ventures led round. percent in the food delivery company. Swiggy is India’s No.

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Abrigo

JULY 15, 2015

The transition from compliance to consulting makes sense: tax season is just that, a “season,” and nearly 60 percent of respondents to a Sageworks survey indicated they saw an increase in total revenue by adding financial services to their accounting practice. The advantage of working capital is obvious to some degree.

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BankBazaar

JULY 4, 2019

The salaried-class, especially, hopes against hope that they will get some relief from with respect to Income Tax. The general ask is to either have a higher tax-exemption limit or more tax breaks. Psst… did you know that a Home Loan can help you save on Income Tax? Higher income tax exemption limit. 50,000 in NPS.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 3, 2023

We made the case that, over time, the market does not adequately compensate banks for credit and interest rate risks. Bankers provide advice based on the customer’s particular situation and needs, as those needs change and evolve over the customer’s lifetime and as the market changes.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

As innovative technologies move down stream, small and medium-sized businesses are poised to benefit significantly from being able to customize a flexible payroll and human capital management (HCM) program. Employees and a shifting talent landscape have introduced the demand for payroll flexibility. ” In the U.S., ” In the U.S.,

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Accenture

APRIL 21, 2017

European banks are in the midst of a ‘perfect storm’ of negative interest rates, regulatory pressures and market disruption, and are in search of new sources of value. The solution of choice for each bank must be qualified based on the specific characteristics of its client segments and local market considerations.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Digital payments startup QFPay , the largest global partner of WeChat Pay and Alipay, raised $20 million in new funding led by returning investors Sequoia Capital China and Matrix Partners, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday (Aug. WeChat and its local version Weixin hit almost 1.1

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BankUnderground

AUGUST 30, 2023

Some broad measures suggest increasing profits, but conflate market and non-market sector dynamics and omit important corporate costs. This decline has not been uniform across firms, however: firms with higher market power have been better able to increase their margins; others have experienced large declines.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Expense management technology is now a saturated market, particularly for the small business space – which is notoriously difficult to serve, because they are too small for large, enterprise-grade solutions, but too large for consumer-specialized tools. “Some observers will define the market as $10 million in the top line to $1 billion.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Industry expert John Meyer digs deeply into the implications of this industry-changing rollup deal here. Digital banking provider Alkami acquired data analysis and marketing campaign management provider Segmint Digital banking and payments provider Bottomline was acquired by Thoma Bravo for $2.6B.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Existing clients include corporations across a range of verticals, like the telecom and manufacturing sectors, but the publication noted that Shell’s investment in the company also propels the company into the energy market. tax reform — a decline to the tune of $2.5 billion, according to an ABC news report at the time.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

. “We hope to reinforce Hong Kong’s role as a springboard,” said Francis Ho, associate director-general of Invest Hong Kong, after a seminar at the first International Industrial Capacity Cooperation Forum, held in conjunction with the eighth China Overseas Investment Fair.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Toward the start of 2018, analysts began to highlight the potential for venture capital (VC) to embrace the B2B business model. and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

It’s a debate with significant implications for lawmakers in areas like minimum wage and tax policy. Labor Department classified these gig workers not as employees, but as contractors, in a case that enabled an unnamed company hiring these gig workers to not have to pay federal minimum wage, overtime or Social Security taxes.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

But the streak of B2B FinTech investments continues for startups of several industries, including cybersecurity, alternative finance and more. In total, businesses secured more than $145 million in venture capital (VC) across the U.S., Compared to consumer and enterprise, relatively less investment has been made in this market.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2017

That means accounting software for these professionals is big business, too, with investors placing about $43 million in new funding to one industry player, FreshBooks. Because while the technology available to the self-employed is more sophisticated than it’s ever been, there’s still one massive hurdle the industry needs to overcome. “I

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

In addition, corporate clients will be able to apply for working capital loans and make vendor and salary payments. In Africa, the biggest private bank in Kenya, CBA, has cemented a partnership with a FinTech there, Ennovative Capital, a Kenyan firm that licenses software to boost payments speeds.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

In fact, the work-sharing industry unexpectedly took the lead this week, landing more than five times the amount of funding as Flywire. Cross-border B2B payments company Flywire secured $100 million in funding this week, led by Temasek, while existing backers Bain Capital Ventures and F-Prime Capital Partners also participated.

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