Bank Innovation

JUNE 22, 2016

San Francisco-based Ripple announced that seven global banks have joined its network to improve their cross-border payments experience. Among the banks are Santander, UniCredit, UBS, ReiseBank, CIBC, National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), and ATB Financial. Real-time international payments are not far over the horizon anymore.

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JULY 10, 2020

He has grown from a small group of vintage cars in the San Francisco area to a global, tech-savvy transportation network in four countries with 1,500 cars. People were just canceling events, conventions … there were over 37 conventions in San Francisco that represented close to $1 billion of business coming into the city.

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BankInovation

AUGUST 23, 2021

It has been a year since Varo Money broke ground by becoming the first fintech to secure a national bank charter without buying a bank. Bank Automation News recently checked in with Varo Bank’s Wesley Wright, chief commercial and product officer at the San Francisco-based startup, which was founded in 2015 and has raised $482.4 […].

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The committee will listen to a few trade groups from automakers and technology companies, as well as a transit official from San Francisco and a few different safety advocates. House of Representatives is going to get together Tuesday (Feb. 11) to figure out self-driving car legislation, according to a report by Reuters.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced on Wednesday (Sept. Companies in California and throughout the nation are entrusted with customers’ valuable private information. 26) that they have reached a settlement with Uber Technologies Inc.,

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BankInovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Varo Bank, the first fintech to secure a national bank charter, today announced a $510 million oversubscribed funding round, a new raise that more than doubles the company’s previous funding, bringing total funding for the San Francisco, Calif.-based based mobile bank to $992.4 The bank's total valuation now stands at $2.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for its application for a national bank charter.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

Its future is now about building scale and creating a national presence for its vending cupboards. 1,000: Minimum number of Stockwell machines across the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago. All this, Today in Data. Data: 2017: The year Stockwell launched. percent: Mall vacancy rate, as pegged by Regis.

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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Mer Rouge State Bank in Louisiana and Mission National Bank in San Francisco are among 184 banks to receive $70 million of grants from the Bank Enterprise Award Program, its largest awards ever.

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JANUARY 5, 2020

The San Francisco-headquartered startup runs membership-based healthcare clinics and was launched by internal medicine doctor Tom Lee, who served as the company’s chief executive officer until 2017. trillion in 2018, as measured by Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of National Health Expenditure data.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

In other news, the Sierra Leone government will fully adopt a blockchain-enabled national identity system by the end of this year. NDIP, a collaboration between the United Nations and San Francisco-based nonprofit Kiva , is being rolled out in two phases.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) said that its Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) is down for the second consecutive month, dropping 1.1 percent after months of steady gains. . Work-from-home flexibility has also increased the demand for both primary and secondary homes.". NAR represents over 1.4 New home sales dropped 3.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

Now that San Francisco is on the verge of banning eCigarettes, the question naturally turns to whether other municipalities and states will follow suit. But the pending ban does highlight the need for a national standard regarding the minimum age to buy such products, he said. Will that happen? Likely not wide scale.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Data and technology solutions that work well in London or San Francisco wouldn’t make anything like the same impact, if any at all, in the cities where we work. “In emerging markets, the mobility ecosystem is complex; informal public transport doesn’t behave like formal public transport.

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APRIL 2, 2020

Australia’s national science agency plans to test a pair of vaccines over the next 90 days, part of a global race to stop the coronavirus pandemic. As researchers scramble for a cure, a doctor featured in “Pandemic,” a Netflix documentary, announced his team may have discovered a coronavirus cure which will now be tested by the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Among the most recent headlines, in Asia this past week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the National Bank of Cambodia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), that Business Times said will boost partnerships on FinTech and financial services innovation. The banks have also agreed to share data on emerging markets. .

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APRIL 1, 2020

This legislation represents a significant breakthrough – the first time a state or nation has passed a new law devoted exclusively to putting guardrails in place for the use of facial recognition technology,” Smith said in the post. The bill also establishes a task force to scrutinize how, when and why the technology is used.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

San Francisco-based Salesforce is gearing up for expected COVID-19 vaccination campaigns by setting up Work.com for Vaccines, which will “help governments and healthcare organizations more safely and efficiently manage vaccine programs,” the company said in a press release.

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MARCH 31, 2020

Right now, the new OpenTable feature is being used by seven businesses throughout San Francisco and Los Angeles — six restaurants that are acting as pop-up markets and one grocery store. The company said it was in “active talks with other national grocers/retailers.”.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Uber Money teams are also located in Palo Alto, Amsterdam, New York and San Francisco tech centers, Livemint reported. Uber Money in India would be reportedly based on Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the real-time payment system of the National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI). percent business stake per news in January.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

The nation’s residential real estate sector took a giant step forward in July as year-over-year sales increased by nearly 9 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). For the first time, national median home prices exceeded $300,000, NAR said. Existing home sales swelled to 5.86 million in July, up from 5.39

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Let's Talk Payments

APRIL 9, 2016

San Francisco (April 11, 2016) – National Funding, one of the largest private lenders of small business loans, today announced that Torrie Inouye has been named the company’s president.

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APRIL 10, 2020

The deal follows JetBlue’s announcement that it has temporarily consolidated service in Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The new schedule comes amid a record drop-off in flying as the nation deals with stay-at-home orders during COVID-19. between April 15 and June 10.

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APRIL 21, 2020

The San Francisco-based online food ordering and delivery service launched by Uber in 2014 said it will match up to $3 million in contributions made by customers, according to TechCrunch. Uber Eats said it will send its matched portion to the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Employee Relief Fund.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Yelp’s new “Local Economic Impact Report” said that the number of business closures in the pandemic has continued to increase nationally: “As of Aug. leading to more restrictive actions by local authorities, 60 percent of those closed businesses are “not reopening (97,966 permanently closed),” said San Francisco-based Yelp.

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MAY 8, 2020

Preserving cash has proved popular among several states, including New Jersey and cities like New York, San Francisco and Philadelphia, which have all passed laws mandating that cash be accepted everywhere. This law will establish sound and consistent guidelines to help preserve a nationwide option for consumers to pay with cash.”.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The San Francisco-based company said in the Thursday (Nov. When it announced the deal in February, Vroozi noted it would enable the company to launch a procure-to-pay option aimed at mid-market companies in the two island nations. 19) release that it will add Simfoni’s spend analysis capabilities to its procure-to-pay solution.

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MAY 3, 2020

San Francisco tech startup founders are accepting tougher funding terms — if they can even get any money — as many announce layoffs, cuts and spending freezes amid the global coronavirus pandemic, according to the Financial Times (FT). “At research by Silicon Valley Bank indicated, according to FT.

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JULY 2, 2020

“We’re most encouraged to see such widespread bipartisan support for the Payne bill,” Bruce Renard, executive director of the National ATM Council, a coalition member, said in May. State laws to protect cash have already been passed in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York City, San Francisco and Philadelphia.

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MARCH 5, 2020

In a new digital real estate game called Upland, players can buy virtual versions of properties in San Francisco, Cointelegraph reported. The South Korean National Assembly passed new legislation that would lay the groundwork for the legalization and regulation of digital currency as well as digital currency exchanges.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

The CEO of SoFi, the digital personal finance company based in San Francisco, said its investor accounts have doubled this year, mostly due to fractional shares. The company said the account is secure and offers rewards for savers with higher interest relative to the national average of transactional accounts.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

Founded in May of 2016, San Francisco-based Darkstore offers a platform that enables on-demand, same-day and 2-day delivery options for eCommerce sites. On the delivery end, Darkstore has partnered with a spread of startups and local and national courier and major shipping companies to then ship out same-day.

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JULY 13, 2020

Brooks, 50, who held a career in the banking sector including stints at OneWest Bank, has served on the board at Fannie Mae and as chief legal officer at Coinbase, the digital currency exchange headquartered in San Francisco, California. Brooks told U.S.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

In a speech delivered by webcast at the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Innovation Office Hours, Fed Governor Lael Brainard said that the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is working with researchers at MIT to “build and test a hypothetical digital currency oriented to central bank uses.”.

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JULY 2, 2020

billion takeover of Fitbit, the San Francisco-based wearable technology maker, the Financial Times reported. Australia and the 27-nation bloc that makes up the EU are not the only watchdogs examining the proposed deal. European regulators are investigating Google’s proposed $2.1 In December, PYMNTS reported that the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

Following a successful test run in San Francisco, Jack in the Box and DoorDash are now offering delivery options to 229 major cities across the U.S., including Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle and Las Vegas, among a number of others. DoorDash also has similar delivery partnerships in parts of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Stripe, a technology company that allows businesses to make and receive online payments, has launched in five more European countries, the San Francisco firm announced Wednesday (May 27). The global payments company is now doing business in the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Malta.

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