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MARCH 30, 2020

Weee, which was started in 2015, began as a community buying platform that received Asian spices and fresh produce, among other items. The company provides its offering in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle. It has reportedly notched funding in a March 2019 Series A+ round.

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s South West Regional Cyber Crime Unit (SW RCCU), in a joint operation with the Dutch police (Politie), Europol, Eurojust and the U.K.’s Over the last 10 years we’ve built one of the largest, most positive online communities, based on our core value to ‘give more than we take,’” Alan Schaaf, founder and CEO of Imgur, said in a press release.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company to debut on the stock market. Synctera Brings 'FinTech As A Service' To Community Banks. Report: Digital Lender SoFi Eyes IPO Via SPAC. The company, which was valued at $4.8

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JANUARY 11, 2021

The next round of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has kicked off with Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs), and other community financial institutions submitting applications for local businesses. See how Community Bank of the Bay partnered with Abrigo to help borrowers.

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MARCH 18, 2020

Group 8 operators were using this domain to receive stolen credit card information, and its takedown prevented there being new victims,” RiskIQ said. The San Francisco-based startup said it detects multiple Magecart breaches every 60 minutes.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Authorize.net offer extends Visa’s commitment to digitally enable businesses and helps alleviate burdens by minimizing some recurring operational costs. Those efforts include helping the Tampa SMB community get ready for the big game.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

The San Francisco–based company’s announcement marks its next step in global expansion, specifically focusing on the “gig economy,” as well as new digital marketplaces and on-demand companies. The company has offices in the aforementioned San Francisco, as well as Austin and Vancouver.

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MARCH 5, 2019

The company ceased operations in late January after laying off 30 percent of its workforce in May 2018. Munchery had said it was planning to focus on its largest market, San Francisco, in an effort to become profitable, but that never happened. That came after it shut down service in Seattle, Los Angels, and New York.

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MARCH 17, 2020

The DEO “seeks concepts and an operator to program the space to boost innovation and entrepreneurship, demonstrate creative placemaking and feature the Made in Fairfax Network. The law opens up much more territory to these operations, which had only been permitted in areas zoned for industry. and San Francisco.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The digital world has opened vastly broader avenues for community banks to attract new customers—especially if they partner with fintechs in their endeavors. Fintechs know how to reach and work with the community. Coconut Software in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, is one fintech solving this problem for community banks.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Its founders, three sisters from San Francisco, turned down Mark Cuban’s $30 million offer to buy the startup in 2015. Coffee Meets Bagel is listed as one of the alumni members of WeWork Labs , which “provides the community, education, connections and mentorship to help anyone take the startup path and grow with us,” WeWork said.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

San Francisco-based Layer1 announced that it has raised $50 million from investors including Peter Thiel, Shasta Ventures, and various crypto industry leaders. The company will use the funding to build a bitcoin mining operation, which it claims to be the first bitcoin mining company in the U.S. “at

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

As we’ve gotten to know Natty and Ryan, we’ve also seen the ecosystems in which they operate — the North and the Rockies — begin to really thrive and gain momentum,” Foundry Group said in a press release. “We Matchstick Ventures led funding with Royal Street Ventures to help fund San Francisco Bay Area startup Onward in July.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

And before Visa, he’d been at JPMorgan Chase’s consumer banking operations. The company, she said, had looked for someone with experience with firms operating at significant scale. During a call Friday to discuss the announcement , Chairwoman Betsy Duke said the vote for Scharf was unanimous across board members.

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JULY 29, 2020

The San Francisco company just raised $60 million in venture funding that the firm plans to use to boost production to meet surging demand as consumer fitness relocates from gyms to people’s living rooms. She said working out had been about community, and her firm believed a physical space was the best place to build that.

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JUNE 12, 2019

More than 100 Goodwill store locations ranging from New York to San Francisco are uploading products like collectibles, clothing and furniture to the platform to drive in-store and online sales. They find unique pieces; their purchases create jobs locally, which result in positive environmental outcomes for the global community.”.

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JUNE 17, 2016

The company’s operations in North America, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa are now returning profits, Financial Times reported. “We According to Kalanick, Uber’s China operation is currently funded thorough profits, investment money and direct investment from backers.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

The firm, based in South Africa, said it will use the funding to scale operations across Southern Africa, the U.S. In a rarity for B2B FinTech funding, B2B payments startup Flutterwave announced a $35 million fundraise, turning the spotlight to Nigeria’s FinTech community. Flutterwave. Berkshire Grey.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

More importantly, how does one use such a thing — or even a bike — and operate it in an urban environment without falling off, getting hit and suffering injury? Bird , a company focused on e-scooters , provided more than 10 million rides in its first 12 months of operation. It’s hardly an academic concern. Scooter Accident.

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 7, 2024

On the panel, John Spottiswood , chief operating and data officer at Jerry , recommended that businesses favor escalating the issue to humans early, then in time, expanding the bot’s ability to respond to consumers with concerns. Scaling through community banks and credit unions is, of course, another move plenty of fintech companies seek.

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communities. That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Last week, the CFPB announced the appointment of new members to its advisory committees: Consumer Advisory Board (CAB), Community Bank Advisory Council (CBAC), Credit Union Advisory Council (CUAC), and Academic Research Council (ARC). Leigh Phillips, President and CEO, EARN DBA SaverLife (San Francisco, CA).

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The CFPB announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, and Credit Union Advisory Council. New members to the Consumer Advisory Board will serve three-year terms and new members to the Community Bank and Credit Union Advisory Councils will serve two-year terms. Kathleen C.

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JUNE 4, 2019

The startup is fully compliant in all 13 cities it operates in, he said. “We and San Francisco, where local city councils and even state legislatures that have entertained “anti-Airbnb bills” that seek to limit how often they can rent out properties through the platform, and for how long. Washington D.C.

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JULY 2, 2019

For instance, Chinese bikesharing company Mobike , which once attracted billions from big-name investors, said it is closing down all of its operations around the world, to focus solely on China. That deal came after Lyft rival Uber bought bikesharing operator JUMP. But that doesn’t mean everything is coming up roses.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

The above chart is from a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter: Slow Business Start-ups and the Job Recovery published in July. But in strategic planning retreats that I moderate, community financial institutions insist that they lend to small businesses. Some took offense.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

More recently, the eCommerce operator said, “Our approximation is that less than 1 percent of reviews are inauthentic” — at least, according to Sharon Chiarella, vice president of community shopping at Amazon. The power of online reviews go beyond large, distantly located eCommerce operations, too. Power of Reviews.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Bots help increase productivity, so it makes sense that a company focused on increasing workplace productivity would invest in the bot developer community,” said Rob Guilfoyle, cofounder and CEO of Abe , which builds AI-powered banking chatbot software for progressive banks and credit unions. As for new bots this week, Digit launched one.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Tuohy pointed out in a San Francisco Chronicle article that college campuses are conducive to the deployment of robots due to a few reasons. In those locations, their batteries can be automatically swapped out “so they can continue to operate independently, with no human involvement,” according to the company.

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JUNE 14, 2019

We are thrilled to expand Rebag’s retail footprint to the Miami community. Brookfield Properties operates some of the most exciting and visited malls in the country, and we are thrilled to introduce our CBD shops to their centers,” Green Growth Brands CEO Peter Horvath said in a press release. Operating hours span from 6 a.m.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

He moved from San Francisco, where he could walk into a fancy corner bodega and buy, say, a specialty bag of beans, to New Haven. Simon wondered if he wanted to open a store or have an online venture, but he considered the latter because he knew more about how the web works than how to operate a brick-and-mortar store.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

In total, backers placed $273 million across companies operating in alternative finance, treasury management, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and B2B sales tech. In an interview with The Street, founder and director Andy Chan said he hoped to turn Qupital into a unicorn and heighten confidence in Hong Kong’s FinTech startup community.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2016

The CFPB has announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, Credit Union Advisory Council, and Academic Research Council. Paulina Gonzalez, Executive Director, California Reinvestment Coalition, San Francisco, CA. Community Bank Advisory Council Members.

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APRIL 24, 2017

The company operates on a “one-for-one” business model, which means that it donates one pair of shoes or glasses to communities in third-world countries for every pair sold to a first-world consumer. These donations often take the form of charitable community projects such as schools and other public works in the area.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Even so recent news does show that the brand — now owned by a France-based operation after Atari all but faded out after the late 1970s and early 1980s video game craze and the massive industry crash that followed — is making a play to take part in the emerging trend of making hotels more attractive to gaming-minded consumers.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

The eCommerce giant signed contracts with apartment owners and managers representing over 850,000 units, including ones from AvalonBay Communities Inc., They will receive mobile notifications when packages arrive, including a code for retrieving them. Equity Residential, Greystar and the Bozzuto Group. Next Wednesday, Oct.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

This year’s winners: Left: Central Valley Community Bank, People’s Choice Award; Middle: Kennebec Savings Bank, Exceptional Community Bank Service Award; Right: Cross River Bank, Emerging Service Program Award. Exceptional Community Bank Service Award. Instead, we give those dollars to the community.”. Asset size: $1.36

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