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B2B Startup Investors Go After The Niche Markets

PYMNTS

Aptible plans to use the investment to launch its Aptible Comply platform, a security management solution that provides companies and SMBs with automated security and compliance tools. Growth Street. ’s Growth Street is on a mission to reshape the small business overdraft with its line of credit solutions for SMBs.

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When Retail Fraud Is An Inside Job

PYMNTS

Indeed they do, particularly in comparison to the high-visibility data breaches that befell Home Depot and Target a couple years back β€” instances where, of course, the cybercriminals responsible came from outside the company, thereby fitting the popular notion of how such fraud typically operates. It can be done online,” he told the NRF. β€œIt

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. trillion failed.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Restaurants Rule, FireEye Flounders And Lending Club Is Back On The List

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So, while seemingly paling in comparison, this week had its fair share of Sizzles β€” and some interesting Fizzles. Upserve is said to have a fancy, slick restaurant management algorithm that could help Square Capital refine its own fancy, slick risk management algorithm to make better lending decisions. Online Lending.

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Fintech Fundings: 17 Companies Raise $235 Million Week Ending Sep 25

Fintech Labs Insights

Risk management. Financial services comparison portal. Online investment advisory. Online invoice marketplace. Financial services comparison portal. Tags: Investing, information, trading, analytics, investors, wealth management. Source: Crunchbase. Gold trading platform. HQ: Bejing, China. HQ: France.

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Fintech Fundings: 24 Companies Raise $560 Million Week Ending Sep 18

Fintech Labs Insights

Online investment platform. Financial services comparison site. Risk management for P2P lending. Tags: Consumer, personal finance, price comparison, lead generation. Health insurance. HQ: New York City. Latest round: $32.5 Total raised: $327.5 Source: Crunchbase. Aspiration. HQ: Marina Del Rey, California.

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Fintech Fundings: Companies Raise $ Million Week Ending Feb 26

Fintech Labs Insights

Mobile & online payments in India. Online marketplace for real estate investing. Money transfer price comparisons . Tags: Consumer, investing, real estate, wealth management. Source: Finovate. Fraud protection for e-commerce. Latest round: $20 million Series B. Total raised: $31 million. HQ: San Jose, California.