PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

B2B startups saw a little bit of everything this week when it came to venture capital. million funding round over the weekend, with the corporate expense management company seeing funding from Sabadell Venture Capital, Venturecap, Bankinter, Telegraph Hill Capital and Kibo Ventures. Spain-based Captio revealed a $1.1

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Digital payments — and specifically, card-not-present transactions — may be convenient for consumers, but can impact the very operations of the retailers serving them. As a result, Visa and PYMNTS found that 76 percent of the surveyed Main Street businesses reported having cash flow shortages.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

Businesses of a certain size — and in industries as varied as construction and restaurants — know the pain of wondering if they will have enough capital to fund operations, inventory, expansion and other mission-critical business activities. For loans made via the Working Capital operation, the new money tends to support inventory.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

came from a Series A round drawing participation from Level Equity, Open Ocean Capital, Episode 1 Ventures, and Entrepreneur First, and $4.9M Operating in 211 jurisdictions, PassFort caters to a diverse customer base. Operating in 211 jurisdictions, PassFort caters to a diverse customer base. HOW’S THE COMPANY PERFORMING?

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

Menlo Ventures , the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, closed a new $450 million venture capital fund aimed at investing in early stage companies focused in the consumer, enterprise and so-called frontier technologies markets. The move is designed to put the VCs closer to where the action is.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

Verse will join the Cash App organization at Square, enabling the two teams to learn from one another as we provide them with additional support through Cash App technology and resources.”. At this point, our main priority is enabling Verse to continue their successful growth in Europe,” Square said. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

The purchase comes as Ontario Systems has recently shifted to being backed by private equity money, as it was acquired last year by New Mountain Capital, according to a Government Technology report. SwervePay, meanwhile, offers text payments and automated balance messages on top of its main services for electronic payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Aside from SoftBank, Microsoft, Toyota and Didi Chuxing serve as the company’s main backers. As it stands, Grab , which launched in 2012, has operations in areas like Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. (Sources have since told Reuters that the company plans to invest two times that much at a minimum.)

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Perficient, though not new to insurance, is consistently realigning to capitalize on the industry’s digital transformation potential. Personalized Experiences Across the Ecosystem We are looking at a lot of different technologies and platforms to help enable personalization.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, John Rainey , chief financial officer and executive vice president of global customer operations at PayPal , noted that CFOs (including himself) have learned to pivot, too, with ground-level, tech-driven insights that move well beyond simply tracking money flows. What’s Important To Merchants.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 10, 2023

By gauging an industry’s health as a whole, you could decide that the restaurant market in your area has remained stagnant while the technology industry is booming. Are there high capital or technological costs? Technological advances boot out products over time—cars replacing horses, for example.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. Café X Technologies. Total Disclosed Funding: $51M.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Notable Tactical Differences in Lending Competition Many of the largest banks in the country consider themselves technology companies that manage and measure profitability and maintain relationships. Scale, security, and innovation are all linked to better information technology design and implementation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Nonetheless, Many FIs are looking to simplify and secure their onboarding procedures while also enabling customers to stay safe during the pandemic, leading them to seek out innovative technologies to do so. Brazil-based facial recognition and identification technologies provider Acesso Digital recently reported that more than 5.2

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

Andreessen Horowitz has revealed that it is transitioning from being a venture capital (VC) firm to a registered investment advisor (RIA). Last year Andreessen Horowitz became the first venture capital firm to raise a large fund focused on cryptocurrencies, worth $300 million. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

ZipLoan operates a digital platform to connect small businesses to loans, with a focus on kirana stores and micro-enterprises. Mexico’s Creze secured about $12 million in fresh funding that will bolster the company’s small business lending operations. Lending-as-a-service technology company Blend has secured a nearly $1.7

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

Two Hanoi-based FinTech startups, Vimo Technology and mPOS Technology, are merging to create NextPay Holdings, according to reports. The CEO of mPOS Technology, Nguyen Huu Tuat, will become CEO of the new company. NextPay’s main focus is on offline payments. The CEO of Vimo, Do Cong Dien, will become COO of NextPay.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

Access to capital for small- to medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) has always been vital, as well as a challenge. In some cases, when a traditional bank shuts the door on an SMB applicant, a business owner may not know where else to turn for capital. But the price tag is rarely painless. In some cases, tax advantages may be available.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Because many banks are now producing below their cost of capital, growth further exacerbates their issues and drives them out of business (likely through a sale) faster. In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. Improving efficiency is like “losing weight” and “working out more.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

stc pay, a Saudi Telecom Company subsidiary, said the deal would allow it to team up with a number of financial and technology driven enterprises, as well as help the country as a whole to lessen its reliance on cash. The company is owned by the monetary authority, and one of its main goals is to popularize the use of electronic payments.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

Launched in 2017, Jio is India’s largest mobile network operator, with more than 388 million subscribers. the biggest firm in India by capitalization. He added that Jio could fit well into the sovereign wealth fund’s technology portfolio. Vista Equity Partners followed days later with $1.5 billion in Jio. billion in Jio. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2018

Reuters , citing people with direct knowledge of the matter, reported that with the new round, the unit’s valuation has doubled ahead of an expected initial public offering (IPO) – and that the funding underscores how willing investors are to pour money into a Chinese technology company. Google gets 27.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

Virtual cards allow AP departments better control over expenses and cash flow, improve operational efficiencies and guard against card fraud. Among other things, Northwood said BirchStreet’s new module BirchStreet Pay allows operators to pay by check, automated clearing house (ACH) and virtual card. In this month’s feature story, U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Well-funded and organized fraud operations, meanwhile, continued to amass more capital, manpower and technology. For the benefit of these businesses, my hope is that they recognize that they can no longer afford to continue operating at the status quo. It’s important for everyone that Main Street gets back on its feet.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Financial institutions are in the midst of becoming more mobile, with many of those legacy operations opting to — or at least considering — working more closely with FinTech providers to upgrade services, retain customers and acquire new ones. The debut of 5G promises to add another tool that can aid such efforts. What does that mean, then?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

A new report from treasury management technology firm Kyriba and CFO Research Services offered CFOs a chance to lay out their wish lists for their treasurer peers, with chief financial officers pushing the treasury function to embrace a more prominent role. .

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Chris Skinner

MAY 30, 2017

Here is how he saw things … Fintech in Rwanda: the place where Telcos are surpassing Banks in the financial sector Telcos dominate in the financial sector of Rwanda Last week I participated in the leading fintech conference in Africa “Dot Finance”, which took place in Kigali, capital of Rwanda.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It was designed to settle transactions with clients of its wholesale payments operation, mainly for international and securities transactions related to blockchain. “JPMorgan Coin could be internal, could be commercial, it could one day be consumer,” Dimon said during a question-and-answer session at the bank’s annual investor day.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

China’s JD.com ’s quest to expand into technologies such as artificial intelligence and automation is causing its expenses to soar, with the company seeing its Q2 technology costs go up over 70 percent year over year for the third consecutive quarter. According to TechCrunch , the company spent 2.8

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are the lifeblood of many economies — Europe’s among them — and working capital is the lifeblood of SMBs. Yet many firms struggle to gain access to the capital that helps them launch or sustain operations. Initially we plan to operate in the Netherlands.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

million in new venture capital (VC) funding. The company currently operates in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, with expansion plans to enter other new markets in the first quarter of 2018. He added that the company operates its own sorting facility and distributes items for delivery that are picked up by drivers.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers 8. Banking Transformed Banking Transformed by the Financial Brand’s Jim Marous has new episodes several times a month and features executives from financial institutions, financial technology firms, authors, consultants, and other experts in the banking industry. BankTalk 3.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

The pandemic is continuing to throw typical business operations for many industries into flux, resulting in disastrous financial consequences. The hope is that these changes will offer SMBs the adaptability they need to keep their operations moving throughout the ongoing pandemic. Government entities in the U.S. SMBs across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The company has been fast-tracking the opening of shops and burning through $150 million within six months of operation. The main difference between the two shops is that Luckin stores are a cross between a sit-down cafe and pick-up booths, which are also delivery hubs for staff to take orders to customers in 30 minutes.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

And in a new interview, PYMNTS got a glimpse of where things are headed, and how payments and commerce technology could help further drive the trend, and even spark direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales. That technology can be a bit complicated, and PYMNTS is not a science or engineering journal. Need for Transparency.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Elara Technologies, which owns Housing.com, PropTiger and Makaan, has acquired FastFox.com at a valuation of almost Rs 100 crore ($14,447,317), according to reports. “We intend to use our capital and expertise to expand FastFox’s offering beyond Gurugram to other markets in India ,” he added.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

The new 5G mobile network technology is getting its first deployments, but that’s not the only communications game in town. A technology that tracks lost scooters people rent could play a role in the coming years in digital retail and payments, at least going by recent reports. Telco Alternative. Internet of Things.

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