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LatAm’s RobinFood Says It’s A Tech Company That Sells Food … And It’s Working

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Colombia-based RobinFood — Latin America’s fastest-growing chain of “cloud” restaurants — credits proprietary technology, the explosive growth of FinTechs and pandemic-led lifestyle changes as the secrets of its success. Even so, Vega said that when it comes to ordering food, the masses are underserved. They just can't afford it,” he said.

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June’s Top 12 Mobile Pay Moments

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While Apple Pay also recently launched in Singapore, Samsung Pay joins the region with its signature niche: the MST tech that makes Samsung Pay usable at virtually anywhere merchant credit cards are accepted. Anyone who loaded a gift card onto the CurrentC wallet and didn’t hold onto that gift card will lose that balance after June 28.

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Fintech Fundings: 15 Companies Raise $51 Million Week Ending Dec 25

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For just the fourth time this year, weekly fintech fundings fell below the $100-million mark with 15 companies raising a total of $51 million. The Kentucky-based company has developed a vendor management platform for banks and credit unions. HQ: Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Mobile bank/card. Person-to-person lender .

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

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This week it was Minnesota, and then yesterday Walmart really got warmed up and announced the expansion of their new payments service in: Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. Costco Card. The fizzle wears on.

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Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $460 Million Week Ending April 1

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Here are the fintech deals by size from 26 March to 1 April 2016: Ceridian. HQ: Louisville, Kentucky. The post Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $460 Million Week Ending April 1 appeared first on Finovate. Bluefin Payments received $6 million to expand its secure payment system. Latest round: $150 million Private Equity.

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Lake Trust Credit Union Launches Larky-Powered Mobile Rewards App

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Lake Trust CU customers enrolled in the free GO local rewards program will receive discounts when paying with their Lake Trust credit or debit cards at the more than 220 local merchants around Ann Arbor, Brighton, Detroit, Grand Rapids. Howell, and Lansing. The standalone app is available on both iOS and Android.

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NEW REPORT: For UN Workers, A Credit Union Crosses Borders

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Many are tapping into their cooperative natures to pursue innovations, so as to compete aggressively and keep up with larger financial institutions (FIs) and FinTech challengers. a Kentucky CU recently entered into a new agreement with a local university that will provide it the opportunity to raise its profile.

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