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Alibaba’s Ant Group Produces Preparatory Regulatory Filing For Intended IPO

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Ahead of an intended initial public offering (IPO), Alibaba Group Holding’s Ant Group has conducted a preliminary filing with the securities watchdog of China, Reuters reported. The news service reported that the move hints that the two Chinese investment institutions will be heading up the group’s onshore offering.

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Ant Group Debuts Virtual Bank In Hong Kong Weeks After Filing IPO

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Ant Bank, the virtual banking division of Hangzhou, China-based Ant Group , has launched banking services in Hong Kong, Fintech News reported. We set up Ant Bank with the intention of providing increasingly mature FinTech products and services to the Hong Kong market and to provide a new choice to people locally.”. billion yuan ($10.5

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Shifting The Used Car Market Into Overdrive

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He is the cliché of a profession that has a lot of suede sheen on it, but at least one company is in the market to bring used car sales into the digital future. “We It’s hard to imagine that there’s so much technology and innovation happening up and down the mobility spectrum except for in this market — and it’s a $1.4

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Small Business Banking Catching Up in Innovation Race

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There are quite a few lending solutions these days for small businesses -- Funding Circle, OnDeck, Kabbage, and Square Capital, to name a just a few -- but innovation and digitization are lagging in other areas, such as digital account opening. Enter Gro Solutions, a sales and marketing platform for financial institutions.

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Easing The Online Shift With Integrated Invoicing

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While FinTech innovation has opened up the doors for small- to medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) to access more sophisticated solutions to manage money, software fatigue has business owners overwhelmed by a barrage of siloed systems. And according to Ronny Yakov , CEO of The OLB Group , QuickBooks is often an ideal place to start.

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Delivering Restaurant Innovation With Mobile Tech

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According to the new PYMNTS Order To Eat Tracker , the volume of mobile app orders rocketed 130 percent from 2016 to 2018, and the overall mobile order market value is set to reach $38 billion by 2020. Postmates , for instance, is joining Caviar and DoorDash in letting diners make group orders.

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The Innovative ‘Green Shoots’ Growing Out Of COVID-19’s Scorched Earth

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The uncertainty injected into the market, as Ning Wang, co-founder and chief business officer at PingPong , told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, is having undeniable effects worldwide – which are not likely to wear off anytime soon. An Opportunity for Innovation .