CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Mr. Bettenhausen previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney. Chris Chilbert will serve as the Chief Information Officer in the Bureau’s Operations Division. Donna Roy will serve as the Bureau’s Chief Operating Officer. Bettenhausen will serve as Senior Advisor and Counselor to the Director.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

Marriott CEO and President Arne Sorenson said on a Monday (May 11) earnings call that, overall, “negative trends appear to have bottomed in most regions around the world. He noted that occupancy levels in the region are currently a bit more than 30 percent, which is higher from the lows of below 10 percent in mid-February.

Trends 178

Trends South Carolina Regional United States 178

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Abiodun Animashaun, the co-founder of the Lagos-based ride-hailing startup Gokada, will serve as country manager. Alicia Levine, who works at BRCK, an internet hardware and service startup, will become the company’s chief operating officer. Both Chipper Cash founders emigrated to the United States to study and work in Silicon Valley.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

11) that Open, which operates a small business banking and financial services platform, announced the Founder’s Card, the result of its existing partnership with Visa. The card is designed to integrate services, including expense and recurring payment management for SMB users, as well as a rewards program.

Cards 101

Cards United States Regional Groups 101

CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Since 2012, investments into the region have nearly tripled. GIC, Tiger Global Management, ICONIQ Capital.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

“We’re also seeing it for government platforms at the federal, state and municipal levels.”. That consolidation, he maintained, is creating a better experience for the downstream customer — and opening up opportunities for companies based in the United States but that have global aspirations.

Payments 132

Payments Software United States Branding 132

PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

Wing wants to expand its delivery service in the United States and other countries as well. The company wants to hire people to help it grow into new regions, help with the regulation of air delivery and find new business partners. . The company also posted listings for a chief pilot, engineers and operations managers. .

Virginia 125

Virginia United States Regulation Google 125

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As measured on a GAAP basis, revenues in the United States and Canada were up 41 percent, to $2.5 billion, and marked the fastest-growing region. billion in the latest quarter, while managed accounts was up by 75 percent year over year. billion, as measured against 2018.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2017

Performance Food Group Company , a leading food service supplier, announced that it has entered into a strategic referral relationship with NCR to bring NCR Silver, the cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) solution, to more restaurants throughout the United States.

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PopularBank

APRIL 3, 2024

As the youngest baby boomers approach retirement, the number of retirees in the United States keeps growing, with many of them retiring as middle-income seniors. An expert who is already familiar with potential obstacles owners and operators face — staffing issues, covenant challenges, case acuity, and occupancy concerns.

Community 52

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BankBazaar

APRIL 19, 2023

The US regional banks were under pressure as concern grew among customers and investors about the financial health of the banks in the country. Yes, customers can withdraw their insured deposits or transfer them to other accounts or financial institutions in the United States. Why did US banks collapse?

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US United States FDIC Regulation 78

TrustBank

JUNE 3, 2021

Realtor.com states the active listing count tracks the number of for-sale properties on the market, excluding pending listings where a pending status is available. Analysis of this data shows that there were 504,436 housing units available for sale in the United States.

Metro 52

Metro Portland United States Washington 52

PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

million in fresh funding, capital that will go toward “a B2B offering (that allows) individual travel agents at large online travel management companies and tour operators to offer a ‘seamless travel experience’ to their end customers, making the booking experience simpler, faster and cheaper.”. Multiple Payment Struggles.

Innovation 152

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Banks operating in oil and gas intensive areas of the U.S. Using data from quarterly Call Reports going back to 2013, analysts compared the performance of “energy-sensitive banks” with that of similar banks that aren’t located in energy-dependent regions. Possible causes Why might that be the case?

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Comparison Regional Study Risk Management 150

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In a panel discussion with Karen Webster, observers from the front lines of real-time payments said the shift will require new approaches by banks and corporates toward liquidity, receivables management and partnerships. In the United States alone, for example, The Clearing House’s RTP network serves 70 percent of all DDAs.

Payments 245

Payments System Innovation Management 245

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

We’ve been working with him over the course of this year, and given our renewed focus on our acquisition and financing approach, now was the right time to ask him to step in to manage our upstream banking relationships and the fleet management.”. Big Changes. That’s hardly all.

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San Francisco United States Capital User Experience 101

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

We’ve been working with him over the course of this year, and given our renewed focus on our acquisition and financing approach, now was the right time to ask him to step in to manage our upstream banking relationships and the fleet management.”. Big Changes. That’s hardly all.

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San Francisco United States Capital User Experience 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

In January eCommerce leader Wayfair had to thin its employee ranks to meet profit targets, and just this week regional Midwestern home furnishings retailer Art Van Furniture filed for bankruptcy with minimal customer notice. Branch sells to individual consumers as well as office purchase managers. Furniture is a tough business.

United States 130

United States Course Groups Retail 130

PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

That’s the amount that Klook — a startup based in Hong Kong, which focuses on the travel industry — raised in funding earlier this month, eyeing a continued push into the United States and Europe. With the merchant solutions, efficiency of their daily operations and booking fulfillment[s] are optimized,” Liu told PYMNTS.

Regional 103

Regional United States Capital Mobile 103

PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

Peter Shore, general manager of payments services firm Transpay , and Guillermo Bracciaforte, co-founder of online freelance marketplace Workana , recently spoke with PYMNTS about the payment preferences of gig workers and making gig economy payments more efficient. That includes data science, digital marketing and social media operations.

Payments 123

Payments United States social media Course 123

PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

In the latest webinar series, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster jumped into the findings of the Global Cash Index, gaining a sense of the story behind the numbers in the United States and the Americas in general. Clearly operating efficiency remains a priority but [so does] consumer engagement.”. percent over that time frame.

ATM 192

ATM Millennials United States Study 192

Perficient

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

As the Colombian economy expanded into global trade, companies in the region needed enterprise resource planning (ERP) to take the first steps with digital transformation. What was the turning point for expanding operations as a nearshore software development partner? Camilo : The early 2000s marked the start of our transformation.

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Software America US Leadership 501

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

focused operations on the other side of the pond. Massaro said Flywire has established international payments solutions with four of the top five schools in the United States, and with six of the eight Ivy League schools. . The new announcement from Europe comes after success in building its U.S.-focused

Payments 112

Payments Study Regional United States 112

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Visner of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) — managed by nonprofit MITRE , in support of the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence — said it’s important to put the cyberthreats, and Iran’s willingness to deploy them, in context. cloaked well enough so that the U.S.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 17, 2020

New regional banks will struggle with operational maturity and customer experience. While the whizzes in finance and credit can scale fast, the worlds of operations, information technology (IT) and digital cannot. The talent arms race is beginning to cut into progress on operating efficiency.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

He notes that the growth numbers in emerging markets, like China, Vietnam and Nepal, are “really strong” (and similar to corridors into Australia and New Zealand, where Flywire was already operating). Having a strong regional director to help with local expertise is “critical,” says Massaro.

Payments 100

Payments Regional United States Marketing 100

PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

The question involves how connected cars communicate with outside networks, an area that touches multiple issues related to web-enabled driving – including safety, data collection and management, payment and commerce features, and the further spread of the Internet of Things. Some European countries also favor the 5G connection standard.

United States 130

United States Technology Guidelines Data 130

Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Third Time’s Finally the Charm for Temenos in the United States? While growing outside the United States for many years and mopping up on the international core system competition, the U.S. If the Kony acquisition is similar to Akcelerant and Avoka acquisitions thus far, disruption at Kony should be manageable.

United States 89

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

“When importing into the United States, a series of customs laws make it illegal to import goods using a falsely labeled country of origin, sometimes equating the practice with smuggling,” the publication said. Separate reports in CFO.com also emphasized the legal risks linked to transshipments. “In some cases, U.S.

Compliance 164

Compliance Survey United States Report 164

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A regional government in Russia is now working with state-backed VEB, reports in CoinDesk said this week, as authorities explore how to use blockchain “to improve the quality of management decisions.”. United States. Blockchain may be shaping up to be a topic left to individual states to handle.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

In early May, Mastercard , in partnership with SEDESSON, the Mexico state agency for social benefits, and Edenred Bank, announced a first-of-its-kind test in Mexico’s Sonora state – the first regional test of biometric card technology in national history. The Mastercard biometric card manages to clear that bar.

Cards 187

Cards Security United States Technology 187

PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

At least, that is the narrative that most people in developed countries have internalized, said Derek Pak, regional head of Customer Fraud Management for Asia-Pacific at Mastercard , in a recent conversation with Karen Webster. Once cards became significantly harder to clone, fraudsters took their bag of bad tricks online.

Cards 109

Cards Fraud Regional Training 109

PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. Now that cannabis is recreationally legal in eight states and medically legal in another 19 states, it may not be too much longer until it’s legal through the entire United States.

Las Vegas 140

Las Vegas Los Angeles Retail United States 140

PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2017

has its lures, with the locale an attractive place for employment, at least as measured by respondents based outside the region, with 57 percent saying the U.K. places ahead of the United States. Management has said the firm will begin hiring immediately upon open. The Deloitte survey found that the U.K.

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Survey Regional Fintech Course 101

PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

Flywire, a global payments company that makes it easy for businesses to manage cross-border receivables by streamlining how businesses and consumers pay them, announced that it had closed its Series D $100 million funding round led by Singapore-based investment company Temasek. That really good day was enjoyed by Flywire yesterday (July 26).

Capital 102

Capital United States Payments Groups 102

Ublocal

JUNE 5, 2023

Below is a list of the core requirements: Must be an operating business, organized for profit Located in the U.S. and primarily operating in the U.S. By taking advantage of these resources in combination with Union Bank’s offerings, small business owners in the region can maximize their chances for success.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

The lockdown of the United States economy quickly and radically changed the way consumers browsed, shopped and paid for services as well as goods — and not all small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) were prepared. SBA reports show that $510.5 billion in the net amount of approvals on Thursday (May 28) — approximately $2.7

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Maine ATM Innovation Millennials 130