PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

York Capital Management and Mike Archer, a former president of Applebee’s and TGI Fridays, bought Houlihan’s in 2015 and now blames the chapter 11 filing on a number of factors, including expensive leases, a tight labor market and “the rapid growth in costly third-party delivery.”. Documents filed in U.S.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Optimizing risk, compliance and security. Too often cloud adoption can just happen, and security teams are asked reactively to make it secure and compliant. But it is possible to gain control and establish a proactive foundation of well governed, compliant security upon which these cloud projects can be built and managed.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The quick-service restaurants (QSRs) that remain are facing a fiercely competitive market as they attempt to cater to consumers whose preferences have changed significantly since the pandemic’s onset. Managing Order Integrity. He said the firm has partnered with two food services platforms to resolve these challenges. “We

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv. Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

Seattle startup FLEXE looks to enable online retailers to compete against Amazon’s logistics capabilities. The company boasts more than 500 warehouses across all major North American markets. “Our partnership enables FLEXE clients to leverage our secure facilities and skilled workforce.”.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2016

SEATTLE — The Silicon Valley model for its startups is well-known. Heck, there’s a Wikipedia for it. It centers on a simple principle: build a business that scales, no matter the initial profitability. And then scale it like mad. Or, in technical terms, build a business that has the potential Read More.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1. Many applied, few were chosen.

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TrustBank

JUNE 3, 2021

If you are looking to buy a house, you have likely observed that the real estate market is very competitive, with increased bidding activity leading to higher prices. One reason that the real estate market is so hot is that there is very low housing inventory available. Prices have continued a very strong increase thus far in 2021.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Nets and OT will combine their capabilities to offer an end-to-end mobile payment solution, which will include host card emulation (HCE) and tokenization to secure payments. “By The collaboration, announced on Oct. Payments Take The Field. Each of these players brings their own set of technologies and assets to the voice-activated party.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Such was the news out of Seattle HQ this week — Amazon is pushing toward fully automating its warehouses, but won’t be hitting that target until sometime next decade. Shrivastava continued, “Today, we are thrilled to open Key by Amazon to millions of Prime members who can now have their Amazon packages delivered securely to their garages.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Members purchased millions of Alexa-enabled devices, received tens of millions of dollars in savings by shopping from Whole Foods Market and bought more than $2 billion of products from independent small and medium-sized businesses. Big Move of the Week: Real-Time Security Ranking.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2018

It’s a thought that comes to mind this week because the World Cup is currently underway in Russia, and because this week’s news managed to offer up a win, a loss and a draw, depending on where one looked. . According to a release earlier this week, Erica now has one million users, a milestone managed in just two months. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2017

Descartes System Group , a Canadian logistics company with global reach, has acquired ShipRush , a Seattle-based shipping company that connects small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with delivery carriers across the U.S., Mazi Silveira, Descartes’ vice president of global marketing, said the businesses complement each other perfectly.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This large gap is being filled by a number of investing startups such as Roofstock, Concreit, and Fundrise all going after the $70B market (US annual purchases of rental real estate). The Seattle-based startup delivered a near-perfect pitch at the Altanta demo day a fews weeks ago (see above), and we are enthusiastic about its prospects.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Blockchain is permeating nearly every industry, from healthcare to supply chain management. IBM has more than 1,500 employees working on the technology and claims 32% of corporate blockchain market share, according to reports. Microsoft captures 19% market share, second only to IBM. VCs and corporations are hot on blockchain.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

It was a big week for advances in robotic deliveries, with Postmates securing the first permit to test robotic sidewalk deliveries in San Francisco. Scout saw its first tests in Amazon’s Seattle backyard — and company officials predict California will prove an easier testing ground with it sunnier and milder weather.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. These APIs handle everything from acceptance and processing to settlement and reconciliation, while ensuring compliance and security. Market opportunity.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 3, 2019

NACTO is an association of 63 American cities and 10 transit agencies across North America, including Seattle and the King County Metro and New York and the MTA. ” By creating a data standard for the streets, various parties can collaborate more effectively to identify and manage street space.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Endless CRM and data management projects that shook our foundations and gutted our PMOs. Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. It will never regain its IPO value and it trades at one-third the market cap of LendingTree. FinTech threats and distractions.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

After 4 years with the company, Brian joined Google as a Software Engineer and inevitably rose to become an Engineering Manager. Jeff began his post-graduate career as a Management Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. Shortly after, he joined eBay as Senior Vice President and General Manager. JEFF JORDAN.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The total included one new alum, Praesidio , which will be presenting its security and fraud control integrations at next month’s FinDEVr. The Seattle-based startup raised $3 million to bring its total funding to $5.3 Cloud-based security for financial institutions. HQ: Seattle, Washington. Latest round: $15.5

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In parallel, Amazon has made several fintech investments, mostly focused on international markets (India and Mexico, among others) where partners can help serve Amazon’s core strategic goal. Market strategy outside the US. The patent expired in 2017 and opened up the market for competitors to launch off-marketplace payment solutions.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The first, online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. The legacy players held their market share by providing digital services deemed “good enough” to retain customers loath to switch banks. And from the very beginning, there have been pure-play digital banking startups.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

This week’s venture capital (VC) investment tracker finds that both blockchain and alternative finance are leading markets. Based in Seattle, Qumulo offers businesses data management technology via its cloud-based file storage solution. Paxos provides settlement services in the precious metals securities trading market.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Edgewater Markets. HQ: Seattle, WA. Credit management tools. Real estate investing management platform for consumers. Tags: SMB, expense management, expense reports, debit card, prepaid, accounting, bookkeeping, Y Combinator (investor), Community Federal Savings Bank (issuer). Latest round: $40 million.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

HQ: Seattle, Washington. Payment security technology. Private tech stock market to sell pre-IPO shares. AI for capital markets news. Tags: SMB, merchants, security, payments, POS, credit/debit cards, authorization. Source: Crunchbase. International payments service. Latest round: $38.5 million Series C.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Investment management platform. HQ: Seattle, Washington. Curated stock & market ideas. Tags: Security, enterprise, FinDEVr 2015 alum. HQ: Irving, Texas. Latest round: $100 million Debt. Total raised: Unknown. Source: Crunchbase. InvestCloud. HQ: New York City. Latest round: $45 million Series B. Total raised: $54.1

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

Legacy banks around the world have been under tremendous pressure in recent years to transform their business models, as upstart FinTech companies are removing the barriers to entry and credit access that have kept large numbers of growth businesses and consumers out of the market. market, for example, quadrupling to $3.4 billion. .

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Coda Automotive was an early player in the electric vehicle market, an early failure, and a great example of why being early is not always an advantage — even if the future your company envisions is probably the right one. Another, larger problem was that the market for electric cars did not take off the way that Coda expected.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

and Canada (its most lucrative markets, revenue-wise) isn’t growing and it’s suffered through a reputational beating over the last year. And for good reason, Karen Webster noted in a recent commentary – a minority of users managed to turn Facebook into a home and hub for some of the vilest content on the internet.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Feedvisor, an algorithmic commerce startup that helps sellers optimize their inventory and increase sales in online marketplaces, has secured $20 million in Series B funding from General Catalyst. Founded in Israel, Feedvisor also has an office in Seattle. This brings the site’s total amount raised to $33 million.

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TrustBank

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Zillow Offers, a subdivision of the company, had been speculatively investing in the residential real estate market even as the company was also providing real estate listing and internet home pricing services. The data for Portland, OR and Seattle, WA — markets in the Washington Trust Bank footprint — observed iBuyer market share of 2.3%

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Independent Banker

JUNE 29, 2015

For some community banks, video tellers, sometimes called interactive teller machines or ITMs, can work well for select markets or under certain conditions, experts say. We implemented the ITMs because we wanted to reach our rural markets with a full-time banking experience,” he says. “A

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

We can use mobile apps and voice commands to control our lighting, temperature, and home security. T echnology trends and market needs are pushing companies to set their sights on the residential real estate and construction industry. Technology companies have infiltrated the home. That is beginning to shift.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

Samsara’s applications include fleet management, collision prevention, and delivery coordination. Select Investors: First Round Capital, Altos Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Index Ventures, Darwin Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Greylock Partners. Services include a CRM, report generation, and marketing tools.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 18, 2019

There was even an Alexa-enabled laptop (pictured right) with a sticker mimicking the famous “Intel Inside” marketing. Compared to other years, when the Seattle giant’s presence was minimal, Amazon seemed to be asserting itself as the major hardware and software player it is. Smart Cities will measure and manage.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

TD has been a player that maintained its acquired market share so we are hoping this one doesn’t get messed up like other Canadian banks that have struggled in the Southwest. There’s nothing more Gonzo than a CEO who simply bleeds the soul of front-line relationship managers, and Brager could write a bestselling book on this topic.

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