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B2B Venture Capital: Corporate Social Media, Marijuana Procurement, and Big Data

PYMNTS

This week, the two countries were the only markets that landed on the B2B venture capital board, with funding landing at SaaS, Big Data and procurement startups across a range of industries, from corporate social media management to marijuana procurement. PYMNTS breaks down the $24 million in venture capital raised. Back in the U.S.,

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Keeping Ahead Of The COVID-19 Outbreak

PYMNTS

Both of the nation’s mega-retail players have spent the week strategizing how to strike a balance between three goals — protecting their thousands of employees, serving their massive customer bases and keeping supply chains operating at as close to normal as imaginable given the highly abnormal circumstances. to enhance testing efforts.

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Balancing customer expectations (and risks) in real-time payments

Insights on Business

Even now, efforts to expand Faster Payments for use in retail are being explored, presenting their own unique challenges. Yet, P2P apps without those same safeguards are already well established among the US consumers and are making headway in retail as well. Fingers-crossed. Want to get face-to-face with the future of payments?

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Balancing customer expectations (and risks) in real-time payments

Insights on Business

Even now, efforts to expand Faster Payments for use in retail are being explored, presenting their own unique challenges. Yet, P2P apps without those same safeguards are already well established among the US consumers and are making headway in retail as well. Fingers-crossed. Want to get face-to-face with the future of payments?

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. Monty Python “I’m Not Dead … Yet” Award – Goes to physical retail. THE BANKING AWARDS. Happy Holidays!

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Fintech Fundings: 15 Companies Raise $125 Million Week Ending May 1

Fintech Labs Insights

Payments via social media. HQ: Las Vegas, Nevada. Tags: Payments, mobile, social, Facebook, Startup Chile (investor). Electronic gift card platform. HQ: Palo Alto, California. Latest round: $16 million Series B. Total raised: $29.2 Source: FT Partners. Online auto insurance comparison site. HQ: Mumbai, India.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

Then, they spent an equal amount of time working on distributing that content both through social media (Reddit, personal finance forums) and through SEO (which wound up driving about 20% of Mint’s overall traffic). Nevada — #10 in Credit Karma searches. We’re making investing accessible to young people.

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