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H&R Block Acquires SMB Finance Platform Wave

PYMNTS

Consumer tax solutions provider H&R Block is ramping up its position in the small business financial services market with the takeover of Wave. “Wave addresses these concerns by delivering financial solutions and a simple user experience on a single platform.”

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Zeta Inks Deal With RuPay In India For Meal Voucher Solution

PYMNTS

Zeta, the FinTech startup that offers digital employee benefits for tax optimization, announced Tuesday (April 11) has inked a deal with National Payments Corporation of India’s (NPCI) payment platform, RuPay.

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Brazil’s Nubank On The Universal Pain Points Of Small Business Banking

PYMNTS

Those opportunities are particularly impactful in an era of banking where customer service and end-user experiences are often the defining factor of whether a customer is loyal or not. In small business banking, the friction points that threaten the user experience are quite similar in Latin America to the friction faced in the U.K.,

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Matching Up Business Insurance With The 21st Century

PYMNTS

While it totally would have made sense to only do paid advertisements and start small in only certain geographies, we really felt like part of our skill set and advantage here was on something that was scalable across geographies, and so, we wanted to have a national presence. RM: In some ways, they do, and in some ways, they don’t.

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A First Look at What’s Coming to the FinDEVr Stage this October

Fintech Labs Insights

Avalara will detail the Weird and Wacky World of Sales Tax. Did you know that sales-tax in the U.S. There are over 12,000 taxing jurisdictions covering millions of taxability rule combinations. Specifically, the presentation will focus on Apex’s API behavior, and how it facilitates customer acquisition.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

We are confident that to truly have the long-term impact we want to make, we need to focus on finding an acquirer with an existing national fresh food supply chain who can carry forward the Juicero mission. It’s not ideal when your best user acquisition strategy is partnering with a company who has a competing product. Product: Better.

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