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Japan’s Startup Index Soars To Highest Point Since 2006

PYMNTS

The Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Index , which tracks Japan’s startups, has climbed back up this year to finally match an earlier high set in 2006. Investors could be focusing their attention on Mothers because the mainstream indices are stuck,” said Makoto Sengoku, a market analyst at Tokai Tokyo Research Institute Co. in Tokyo.

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Turkey to be cashless by 2023

Chris Skinner

Nevertheless, from a financial markets point of view, it’s a fascinating place. Payments in Turkey, an ever-growing market… by Soner Canko, CEO of BKM Turkey, at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, has a banking sector that defies expectations. million POS machines in the market.

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Alphabet Market Cap Hits $1T

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tech firm to reach $1 trillion market value, joining Apple, Amazon and Microsoft in hitting the milestone, according to reports on Thursday (Jan. Apple was the first tech giant to see its market cap top $1 trillion. The two men founded Google out of a Menlo Park garage in 2006. per share — a market cap of $964 billion.

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Payroc Expands Payment Processing Services With Bluestone Payments Acquisition

PYMNTS

Bluestone Payments, founded by Linda Rossetti and launched in 2006, connects merchants in niche markets to payments programs through a referral system. Global payment processor Payroc announced Wednesday (Nov. 18) in a company press release emailed to PYMNTS that it has acquired Bluestone Payments.

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Pepsi’s $705M Buy Of Snack Seller Makes It Leader Of China Market 

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The move, if approved by Haoxiangni shareholders and China’s top market regulators, would make Pepsi “China’s leading consumer-centric food and beverage company.”. China’s snack market is very profitable and grew 400 percent from 2006 through 2016, according to a study in 2019 by China’s Ministry of Commerce.

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How Banks Can Win More Commercial Real Estate Deals

South State Correspondent

We offer free lender training to banks that want to improve their marketing, customer service and loan profitability. If you remembered back in 2006, the securitization market hit its high in volume, and many of these deals were 10-year fixed rate transactions that all come due in 2016.

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4 Top Cloud Financial Planning Solutions

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Anaplan is a cloud-only planning software company that was founded in 2006. IBM Planning Analytics entered the cloud market with a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. Some evaluations below are summarized from Gartner, August 2019, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions.

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