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New US Businesses Up 12 Pct, Highest Since 2007

PYMNTS

It’s the most since 2007, WSJ writes. That number includes gig-economy workers and others who struck out on their own after layoffs — but even excluding those people, new filings for people who intend to employ others were up 12 percent through mid-September.

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Shift to green could be worth trillions for banks

Accenture

In 2007, Google famously became the first major company to be carbon neutral. That’s been the dominant narrative around sustainability. Until now, that is. There seems to be a definite shift to changing this narrative, a shift that could be worth trillions of dollars to the banking industry. According to….

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Q: Do investors believe bank digital transformations are succeeding? A: No.

Chris Skinner

Anyone who’s read this blog since 2007 or my books since 2014 will know that I have a regular rallying call: replace core systems; refresh the bank’s technology stack to an open architecture; embrace APIs, apps and analytics; deep dive on data; transform to be digital and not industrial; rethink … The post Q: Do investors believe bank digital (..)

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NatWest reports biggest annual profit since 2007 financial crisis

TheGuardian

That is the highest annual profit recorded since it made £10bn in 2007, the year before excesses led to a public rescue that has yet to be fully unwound 16 years later. The UK lender – which is still 35% government-owned – said pre-tax profits rose 20% to £6.2bn in the year to December. Continue reading.

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Waze Introduces Contactless Payments At ExxonMobil, Shell Stations

PYMNTS

Founded in 2007, Waze said it had 130 million monthly users as of February 2020. Val Demmings (D-Florida) on Google’s 2007 acquisition of DoubleClick and its 2017 decision to merge DoubleClick’s data with user account data. country manager, in a statement. billion purchase of the Israel-based Waze acquisition.

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Contactless payments turn 10 in the UK

Payments Dive

Since the introduction of contactless cards in September 2007, it has gradually become the payment method of choice for many consumers in the U.K as society gradually moves away from cash.

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Did you realise it’s only 10 years since the iPhone was released?

Chris Skinner

Steve Jobs unveiled the new phone on January 9th, 2007. The first iPhones were made available to the grubby hands of the public on June 29th, 2007, exactly ten years ago today. This was originally just for American consumers with the UK, France, and Germany following in November 2007, and Ireland and Austria in the spring of 2008.

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