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Tracking The Trends That Shaped 2020’s The Digital-First Economy

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As told by Citi and GE , the pandemic prompted a massive online shift as stores closed and consumers became wary about venturing out. The year-over-year increase in cross-border online sales was even more dramatic in other regions. There was another inconspicuous but remarkable dimension to these trends, however.

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Prepare for stronger C&I lending demand: A $1.7 trillion “wave”

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Takeaway 3 To fully capitalize on the forthcoming C&I wave, institutions need the right products, systems, people, and technology. Indeed, measuring C&I balances from the low to the high of an expansionary period shows commercial lending grew by the following amounts during recent upcycles: 1993-2001: 87.5% 2004-2008: 82.6%

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Billtrust’s First Institutional Investor Sells Stake

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A press release issued Monday (May 14) said Edison sold its stake in Billtrust to private equity firm W Capital Partners. That takeover sees Billtrust expanding its Quantum offering to integrate business credit reports, online credit applications, machine learning-powered credit scoring and credit analytics.

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Data Dive, Farewells Edition: Apple, Chase, SoFi, Uber

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iTunes dominated after its 2001 release by putting two things in one place that had never existed before: a digital MP3 player that actually worked, properly paired with a store that made accessing music for a small fee much easier than trying to pirate it. SoFi and Uber Reshuffle Their Upper Levels.

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When Predictions Go Right … And Not So Right

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Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the internet (which there isn’t), the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.”. In fairness, it was 1995 — Amazon was a year old and a bookseller online. and around the world.

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Green Dot CEO: 20 Years Of Innovating ‘Banking For The Masses’

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That brought about an idea to create a card that would give kids — who didn’t have a credit card, but did have access to high-speed internet at school — a way to buy things online. By 2001, sales were good enough that Streit was able to persuade CVS and Walgreens to get in on the action. area Rite Aid stores in 1998. What’s Next.

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Should Facebook Buy eBay?

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That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. E-Bay acquired online ticket exchange, StubHub, in 2007.

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