PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2018

In terms of regions, Mexico saw the most toy industry growth at 15 percent for the first half of the year. Brazil and the United States closely followed, with 11 percent and 7 percent growth respectively. In terms of regions, North America – driven by the United States – is the largest part of the world for toy sales.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

That’s the amount that Klook — a startup based in Hong Kong, which focuses on the travel industry — raised in funding earlier this month, eyeing a continued push into the United States and Europe. The users themselves come from more than 80 countries and regions, he said. There are macro tailwinds in place, he told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Kirk has a decade of experience running treasury and capital markets for large fleet companies, and is well known on the capital markets side. Its Getaround Connect device now operates in the United States, as well as in seven European countries: Norway, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Belgium and the U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Kirk has a decade of experience running treasury and capital markets for large fleet companies, and is well-known on the capital markets side. Its Getaround Connect device now operates in the United States, as well as in seven European countries: Norway, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Belgium and the U.K.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

Online retailers are vying for “high-quality warehousing space, one of the few links in the logistics chain not handled in-house by the eCommerce companies given the high upfront capital costs of owning property.”. For one, consumers outside the biggest cities are buying more online.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

million in fresh funding, capital that will go toward “a B2B offering (that allows) individual travel agents at large online travel management companies and tour operators to offer a ‘seamless travel experience’ to their end customers, making the booking experience simpler, faster and cheaper.”. based startup called Duffel.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

In January eCommerce leader Wayfair had to thin its employee ranks to meet profit targets, and just this week regional Midwestern home furnishings retailer Art Van Furniture filed for bankruptcy with minimal customer notice. Branch manufactures furniture components in United States and in China and recently Canada.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. Now that cannabis is recreationally legal in eight states and medically legal in another 19 states, it may not be too much longer until it’s legal through the entire United States.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

There is no invoice sitting in a regional back office on a desk threatening to bring down the entire spreadsheet,” Praeger noted. A hole that Mastercard and AvidXchange are going to make a very large and scaled-up effort at filling in Q4, when this service goes live in the United States. Hard to say.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Fresh on the heels of a $200 million round of fundraising, Tel Aviv’s Red Dot Capital is straying from its bread-and-butter focus on homegrown Israeli technology and security startups to find opportunity half a world away in Southeast Asia. But Stern said the strategy shift isn’t just based on the need to fuel growth.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Today, Amazon Pay has evolved to include a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants. Traction/Metrics: Today’s iteration is Amazon Pay, a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants and shoppers. Amazon Cash.

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CB Insights

JULY 21, 2017

Not looking to miss out on Southeast Asia’s digital leapfrogging are China’s internet giants, which have rapidly increased their investments in the region over the last two years (with more rumored). At risk are the region’s banks, insurers, and even local startups amid an aggressive land grab by larger players.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2016

Can someone please make capital available? In literally every state and in over 80 percent of conversations we had with store front merchants, the ability to borrow money or secure a line of credit was the first and most important thing owners mentioned as a primary headwind in recent memory. And for good reason.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 21, 2014

Small business debt crowdfunding __ While commercial lending in the United States is up this year, the small business segment is still vastly underserved. For example, Regions Bank has a brilliant, and from what I hear, very profitable pricing strategy ( see post ). years, that it would be relatively simple to update.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

As more companies look to capitalize on these commercial opportunities, investment into the drone space continues to grow. While recreational drones are strictly prohibited in active forest fire regions, they have proved useful when operated by the appropriate teams. Conservation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

According to Visa , 40 percent of its own transactions done outside the United States are done through tap-and-pay means. As of the end of 2018, there are over 90 million Chase credit and debit cards wielded by customers across the United States. Tap-To-Pay Inches Into The U.S. Outside the U.S., In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

As told by Citi and GE , the pandemic prompted a massive online shift as stores closed and consumers became wary about venturing out. The year-over-year increase in cross-border online sales was even more dramatic in other regions. There was another inconspicuous but remarkable dimension to these trends, however.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Indian online payments platform Cashfree has landed millions in new funding to help fuel its growth, while InComm Payments has acquired Brazilian gift card processor Todo Cartões. Cashfree has notched tens of millions in new capital to help power its growth. Apis Partners, the U.K.-based

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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.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Pixelon: Online video vaporware. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. Select Investors: CapitalG, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Total Funding: $490M. The Outcome.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

That capital announcement comes despite fears over what Brexit might mean for the FinTech sector across the pond in general, and the peer-to-peer lending sector continues to grow — by some estimates, at about 50 percent annually. We built up technology to handle receiving traded-in goods from consumers who wanted to sell online,” Moore said.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2017

By the end of 2017, nearly $1.8T worth of mortgages will have been originated in the United States this year, according to government-backed mortgage lender Freddie Mac. This helped navigate fragmented regional regulations. In order to offer online solutions, we must first understand their property, income, assets, and credit.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Using digital identities on the blockchain, this entire process can be taken online in a secure manner — increasing efficiency, lowering costs, enhancing data security, and reducing the chance of manual errors. This manual verification process also increases the likelihood of errors and can involve multiple third-party service providers.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 15, 2021

By region: USA: 20 startups. United States (20). Streamline your debt capital raise and management. R2 Capital. Stripe Capital for Latin America. Capital #SMB. Capital #SMB. Stripe for online identity verification. Finance SMBs’ working capital needs with personal credit cards.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Customer journey: Using chat to get people from online to brick-and-mortar. Slack launched its own $80M chatbot fund, partnering with leading VCs including Spark Capital, Index Ventures, Accel, KPCB, Social Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz. Retail & e-commerce: Convenient shopping & scheduling. Source: Trim.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

For example, there’s no standard format or central repository of patient data in the United States. For context, there are over 18,000 clinical studies that are currently recruiting patients in the United States alone. The country has issues with messy data and lack of interoperability, similar to the United States.

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CB Insights

APRIL 26, 2018

But taking a closer look at other countries where they’re protecting their intellectual property beyond these regions gives us some insights into their current or future expansion plans.). This patent was published in China in 2015, with the United States and European Patent Organization in 2016, followed by Japan and Korea in 2017.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Over 1M millennial women are becoming mothers every year, meaning Gen Y now makes up the majority of annual births in the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Online platforms like Hipcamp and Campsy have emerged to help campers book unique lodging experiences like yurts, treehouses, and caves.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 20, 2017

Select Investors: Good Capital. Better World Books collects and sells books online to fund book donation and literacy projects around the world. Select Investors: Data Collective, Female Founders Fund, Ribbit Capital, Google Ventures. Select Investors: Flywheel Ventures, Root Capital, Golden Seeds, Linseed Capital.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Events in countries as far-flung as Saudi Arabia and China are showing that when it comes to capital flows – specifically, when investors park money across borders – all sorts of ancillary costs are attached, intangible ones that suddenly have an impact when investors may least expect it. Important to the United States!”.

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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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