PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

As sad as the end of Toys R Us may be, the iconic toy store is far from the only retailer struggling these days — and it’s not the only one throwing in the towel this week. The beloved, bankrupt retailer has announced the cancellation of all in-store events, such as its annual Easter Egg Hunt and Geoffrey the Giraffe birthday parties.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It would make sense that the supermarket business might be immune from the cross-currents of retailing in 2020. Three regional players in the organic food retail business — where Whole Foods and parent Amazon rule — have declared bankruptcy over the past month. based natural foods retailer is the third significant U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

billion non-cash goodwill charge before tax, as the retailer’s long-haul forecast and market capitalization shifted, mainly due to the coronavirus health crisis. The department store retailer also recognized an $80 million long-lived asset impairment charge, according to a first-quarter financial results announcement.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Digital fraud is a long-running problem for merchants, retailers, banks and businesses of all types. Twenty-two percent of Americans have reported being targeted by pandemic-related fraud, for example, such as schemes involving fake personal protective equipment (PPE) merchants or fraudsters impersonating tax officials.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Danske Bank , the Copenhagen-based retail bank, has partnered with FinTech firm Zenegy to roll out a new method for automating payments made with corporate cards, a report from Crowdfund Insider says. Mastercard also rolled out a service to help with working capital and automation. This shows on the bottom line.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

is in talks for as much as a $25 billion stake in a Mumbai, India conglomerate that is planning to launch a “ super app ” designed to offer a mega selection of retail products, sources told Mint. In May, Tata Capital, a division of Tata Group, introduced a mobile app that promised a better user experience for getting loans.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

million in a new seed funding round, according to an e27 report. OSMDV, Quona Capital, Saison Capital, Alter Global and other unnamed investors participated. The company was formed by Nipul Mehra, who is a former FlipKart senior director of retail and a former investor at Sequoia India.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Yet another business consortium vies for a lucrative, wholesale digital banking license, according to reports. Their holders can take deposits from retail customers, but must have $1.5 billion in capital on hand, and be governed by Singapore leadership. Other companies include Razer, Grab Holdings and Ant Financial.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

Grocers are using autonomous vehicles to help bring fresh food to the doorsteps of consumers, and news came this week that another retailer plans to use the technology: Approximately one month after Kroger announced that it had started to use autonomous vehicles in Arizona, Stop & Shop is intending to use them in the Bay State.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

Flow, a startup that helps companies sell their products around the globe, has raised fresh funding from Forerunner Ventures and Fung Capital. According to a report in TechCrunch profiling the startup, Flow created a platform that helps brands and retailers sell their products in multiple regions and geographies.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In a report titled “The Dark Side of Latin America,” IntSights, which monitors cyberthreats, said Latin America is among the top regions for money laundering, done at least in part through cryptocurrency, and that such tactics are favored by organized crime. IntSights reported that there were 453.7 The tailwinds for cybercrime?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

As such, automakers are hitting the venture capital highway in droves. In the rideshare arena, InMotion , Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm, invested $25 million in a $600 million funding round for Lyft in 2017. The number of automaker-backed investments seems to have skyrocketed overnight.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

While Toys R Us has disappeared from the United States, it is going strong in Asia, which plans to open 60 new stores throughout the region this year. It currently operates more than 550 stores in the region. “We Freeman, senior managing director at GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group, said at the time.

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CB Insights

APRIL 18, 2022

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

An Egyptian firm landed the MENA region’s largest-ever seed round, a California company proved U.S.-based India’s FinBox landed an undisclosed amount of pre-Series A funding, reports in Inc42 said this week, with investors at Arali Ventures leading the investment in the credit risk management technology startup. SaaSOptics.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Commerce Ventures, Flint Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Synchrony and Sorenson Capital also participated, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There’s arguably no more polarizing macroeconomic issue in the retail world than the fate of the American mall. The problems start with how retailers view and serve the customer. It was an amalgamation of numerous challenges, either ignored or wrongly addressed, that has led to the question of relevance plaguing the industry today.

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In two days, you can hear from Chase, US Bank, Capital One, BMO, M&T, PNC, Citizens, Truist, Huntington, and more, a feat that can only be done at a conference of this caliber. We asked ten banks how they define small business and where it reports and got different answers. However, this was the most common structure.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

But a new eCommerce platform coming out of the Alibaba Group in Southeast Asia is bringing a unique business model to malls in that region, one that could provide a blueprint for struggling U.S. Meanwhile a new Seeking Alpha report brought a sobering reality to the state of U.S. shopping destinations. mall owners.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Bain Capital Ventures: 2020 Is B2B Payments’ Breakout Year. Bain Capital Ventures’ partner Matt Harris told PYMNTS that 2020 marked the tipping point for commercial payments. “I Visa reported fiscal Q4 results that illustrated a rally in pent-up demand, with volumes up quarter over quarter. Trackers And Reports .

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 19, 2019

The region, which includes countries like Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines, among others, is a widely under-banked market. In fact, according to a CB Insights report, published Wednesday, […]. One of the reasons for this rise may be, perhaps surprisingly, the ride-hailing business.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

There’s good news for Amazon Pay users in India: Amazon is giving customers in the region cashback of up to Rs 1,000 ($14) when they load in Rs 5,000 ($71) or more, according to reports. Last year, Amazon and private equity firm Samara Capital announced they were acquiring the Indian supermarket chain More for an undisclosed amount.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2018

million — in the retailer’s operations in Brazil. The global equity fund plans to release the money over three installments, Reuters reported. For capital raises, the first two installments will bring in 750 million reais individually. As part of an agreement with Walmart , Advent International is planning on investing 1.9

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.” Another one seems ready to bite the dust. The company owns 458 stores in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

reports in Seeking Alpha said late last week. The financial institution currently targets the Caribbean with its banking services and, according to analysts, its financials remain strong despite natural disasters in the region. Reports said 159 companies went public in the U.S. The bank is 91.7 Other IPOs in the U.S.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Payments companies assumed risk for losses associated with chargebacks, fraud, KYC, or AML, while also providing support, dispute management, and reporting.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The iPhone 11 rolled out just over a week ago, and Apple CEO Tim Cook told the German newspaper Bild that the latest model enjoyed a “very strong start,” CNBC reported on Tuesday (Oct. Both bits of good news set off a mini rally in Apple’s share price, pushing the company’s market capitalization over $1 trillion.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

In its recent report, “ Insolvency Forecasts: Corporate insolvencies begin to rise ,” Atradis found that this year is expected to be the first since the 2008 financial crisis in which insolvencies rise, despite financial stimulus initiatives, loosening financial regulations and steady global economy growth in recent years. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

EDBI, EV Growth, Rakuten, 33 Capital and Cornerstone Ventures also partook in the round, DealStreet Asia reported. ShopBack CEO and Co-founder Henry Chan said, per the report, “With the new funding, we will develop new features to help our users save even more money and time by making smarter buying decisions.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Grocery retailer Kroger is partnering with Berlin farming startup Infarm to offer “living produce farms,” Kroger announced in a press release on Tuesday (Nov. market, but it already has more than 500 farms globally and has teamed with 25 major food retailers in the U.K. This is the vertical farming company’s first venture into the U.S.

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PopularBank

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This realignment in our New York Metro market is consistent with our small business and retail services model in South Florida,” said Popular, Inc. Founded in 1893, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, Popular’s principal subsidiary, provides retail, mortgage and commercial banking services in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 8, 2022

With 100+ public banks reporting, we have more than a representative sample to see 2Q 2022 bank earnings trends and derive some operational insights on bank performance. For retail accounts, for the first time since the pre-pandemic era, spending growth has outstripped income growth. These betas were better than initially forecasted.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

He also saw that candy sales were important, and, lastly, he imported products from other regions of the world. That retailer would be Five Below, which, after opening its doors in 2002, called itself “the Five-and-Dime for the iPod Generation” in a 2011 press release. The New Five-And-Dime Store.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

The announcement from the mobile network provider serves as the latest demonstration that 5G is coming, and that retailers and payment services providers should get ready to operate in the 5G world. As that report explained, “last year, Verizon launched in-home 5G service based off proprietary specifications. 5G Potential.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2018

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Atlanta-based company, which enables retailers, health-care providers and home contractors to offer loans to their customers, could go public as soon as this summer. and venture-capital firms DST Global and QED Partners. which valued the company at nearly $4.5

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

VTEX, an eCommerce company that has helped companies like Walmart sell online, has raised $140 million in a funding round led by SoftBank’s Latin American fund, according to a report by TechCrunch. Brands and retailers want reliability and the ability to test their own innovations. billion in gross merchandise value.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

DOWNLOAD THE 61-PAGE consumer banking REPORT. Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. Table of contents: Market map: the startups disrupting retail & commercial banking.

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