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DECEMBER 13, 2019

The shopping time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is six fewer days this year, the shortest since 2013. However, Thanksgiving weekend shoppers showed that toys are still hot, with 33 percent saying they were buying toys as gifts compared to 34 percent in 2018, according to data from the National Retail Federation.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Cybersecurity firm ZeroFOX closed a $74 million funding round led by Intel Capital that will be used to advance cyberattack detection and remediation, VentureBeat reported on Thursday (Feb. Existing investors NEA, Highland Capital Partners, Redline Capital Management, Hercules Capital and Core Capital also participated in the funding round.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

“It’s the golden age to be in the bitcoin market, because it’s imperfect,” said Zhou Shuoji , a former IBM technology consultant whose firm, Fintech Blockchain Group, runs a bitcoin hedge fund and venture capital fund. Chinese banks officially said no to bitcoin in 2013, and various capital control rules keep foreign presence small.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

Appear Here’s Series B round was led by Octopus Ventures and saw participation from Simon Venture group as well as existing investors Balderton, MMC, Meyer Bergman and Playfair Capital. All told, the company has raised $21.4 million to date in three rounds of funding according to Crunchbase.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Founded in 2013, the firm has recently raised its first ever capital round of $45 million after almost five years of bootstrapping. As of today, Freeletics claims it has over 31 million users in 160 nations around the world, and that it is Europe’s most used fitness and personal coaching app.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

So, he joined a training program at what was then Citizens & Southern National Bank, once the largest bank in the southeastern U.S., I got a job with First National Bank of Griffin, and I’ve been a community banker ever since.” where he stayed for 15 years, from 1998 to 2013. So, it was a very, very difficult time.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

The recent news that Colorado National Bank had been bought for that sum begs a few questions. The site Baltic-course.com noted that the two new co-owners put two million Euros in the bank to boost its capital position. Got $9 million? You can buy a nice house on expansive grounds, and maybe a fancy car, or three. Who were the buyers?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Launched in 2013, San Francisco-based Particle aims to be an all-in-one solution to help customers bring IoT devices to market by providing encryption and security, as well as data autonomy and scalability. “We are optimistic about the future,” wrote Supalla.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 29, 2014

It is annual report season, meaning publicly traded financial institutions are finalizing their 2013 numbers and submitting their 10k''s to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc. In preparation for meetings, I frequently read 10k''s.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

Said charter will mean that Circle will face tighter scrutiny but great ease operating on a national scale. Officials at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the national bank regulator, told the Boston startup they would weigh its request. Kennedy School of Government.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

The landlords who hold the bulk of the nation’s malls would like to unload those fading centers that are failing to attract traffic in the era of eCommerce. REIT has sold off 17 bottom-tier malls since 2013. Whether or not they will be able to lower the price sufficiently to attract buyers remains an open question.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

approached him about a leadership position in 2013. Traditionally, community banks have supported CDFIs through making charitable contributions, providing loan capital to CDFI loan funds or, at the highest range, making an equity investment in a CDFI. Location: Arkadelphia, Ark. Closing the gap.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In a recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics, 74% of economists who responded expect a recession by the end of 2021. Charge offs were close to zero for most banks since 2013, according to call report data from S&P Market Intelligence. According to economists, a recession is looming.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2017

Some $300 million could flood the bitcoin ETF during its first week, Spencer Bogart, head of research at venture capital investor Blockchain Capital, was quoted as saying in an interview. How bitcoin will fare if and when introduced to the Market with a capital M is anybody’s guess for now.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 10, 2023

While national banks took the brunt of subprime mortgage losses, in the years (2008-2013) following the Great Recession, credit risk spread to CRE. The writing was on the wall in late 2007; however, many community banks continued to lend at a rapid pace through 2008, not knowing they were headed full steam into a recession.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Breaking Banks Breaking Banks , billed as the #1 global fintech podcast and radio show, began in 2013 and is hosted by media firm Provoke.fm. Listen to the podcast episode, " How To Sleep Easier at Night About Capital and Risk Levels.". keep me informed. Whitepaper. Asset Liability Modeling.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

By January 2013, the second-generation Instant Pot was Amazon’s best-selling pressure cooker, and in 2016 the product rose to national consciousness when on Prime Day the price dropped to $70 and hundreds of thousands of people bought one. When his electric pressure cooker actually worked, he decided there was a business there.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

By 2013, those numbers had deteriorated — and by a lot. The “crisis” in traditional retail is one we’ve documented very well over the years — flagging the issue of retail’s death spiral some three years ago when reports about the decline in foot traffic over the holiday season in 2013 surfaced.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

Athens, Greece’s capital, has a population of just over 665,000. The European Investment Fund (EIF) via the JERMIE (Joint European Resources for Micro to Medium Enterprises) initiative allocated around €50 million to four programs between 2013 and 2015. Gross domestic product (GDP) of Greece (2015): $195 billion (in U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

That couldn’t ring truer for the state’s capital, which many consider to have a tech scene bursting with potential and growth. Last year, 147 companies in Austin’s digital tech ecosystem raised more than $966 million in new capital, with more than $3.9 You know what they say, everything is bigger in Texas. billion in exits.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2017

Americans are waking up slightly groggier this morning as we as a nation continue to adjust to Daylight Savings Time. According to the Brookings Institution, DST causes the nations robbery rate to drop by about 7 percent on average — and by about 27 percent during the evening hours.

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 19, 2012

If I said it once, I said it one thousand times: “My biggest fear is that the Fed is sowing the seeds of the next crisis with their flatter yield curve tricks, leaving many investors holding these low yielding long bonds when rates rise in future years, unable to get out without substantial capital losses.” in July and CoreLogic, +4.6%

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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

How Banks Can Leverage: Niche markets abound in banking, and community banks are in the perfect position to create a following on a national level should they desire. The tactic worked – in 2013, Gentle Monster’s oversized glasses were used to portray the main character of a huge Korean drama show.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

capital appreciation and dividends. For comparison purposes, here are last year''s top five , as measured as of December, 2013: #1. The lion''s share of their growth, profitability, and capital have come since their re-branding to Open Bank in 2010. This, naturally, eliminated many of the smaller, illiquid FIs. Well done! #3.

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BankUnderground

APRIL 3, 2024

Meanwhile, UK corporates also increased their debt levels in the pre-GFC period as they borrowed from banks (aqua bars in Chart 2) while also taking advantage of the increased accessibility to capital markets where they issued bonds (green bars in Chart 2). a) Final data point is aggregated quarterly data in 2023 up to 2023 Q3.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The government has pledged nearly $2 billion per year since 2013 to support the local startup landscape. SoftBank’s capital will be used to fund Coupang’s continuing investments in end-to-end fulfillment service and same-day delivery operations.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

A healthy culture of dissent may have helped the company focus on its product issues before they became a national scandal, but workers who raised red flags were ignored and, if they persisted, asked to leave the company. Select investors : Amazon, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Bowman Capital Management LLC. Total funding : $161M.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 19, 2013

Housing markets have begun to improve with the national indices showing year-over-year growth of 3% to 4% recently. Higher wage earners will see an increase in the top tax bracket, from 35% to 39.6%, and an increase in their capital gains and investment income levels from 15% to 20%. 4% in 2013, rather than -1.2% Stay tuned!

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Throughout the summer, the great bond market selloff of 2013 continued on. Greenspan faced the 1987 stock market crash when he was new and in the late 1990s, faced the Asian currency crisis and the collapse of Long Term Capital Management, and the stock market crash of 2000. This is not a good trend.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

But, outside of a few states that are attempting to rein in how digital currency products are handled, there’s no set standard nationally on how or if bitcoin’s blockchain should have a set of regulations. That fund was filed with the SEC for regulatory approval in July 2013.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 22, 2014

Between the end of 2010 and 2013, one new bank opened in the United States. . While we may see an uptick in the number of new bank charters from the near zero we have today, too many other industries with less regulation will attract capital. At the same time, the pace of new bank charters has dwindled to near non-existence.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

In 2013, there were 6,812 FDIC-insured financial institutions. Because the nation's balance sheet and income statement is not improving. And capital ratios have held steady and strong. In fact, if you listen to some institutional investors, the industry is over-capitalized. Where are we and where have we been?

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NCR

MARCH 23, 2017

The research showed that the MENA fintech marketplace expanded considerably between 2013 and 2015, with the number of start-ups more than doubling from 46 to 105. Payments is one of the biggest focuses for fintech ventures in the region, along with money lending and capital raising. Up to 250 new businesses could be launched by 2020.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Using the CB Insights database, we surfaced 7 startups capitalizing on the potential for small-sats to transform space exploration and intelligence. (We Select Investors: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, First Round Capital. Select Investors: Space Alliance, RRE Ventures, Vulcan Capital. PLANET LABS.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

While India-based Blume Ventures takes the lead for most active venture capital investor in the country, corporate and CVC deals to the tech sector have risen every year since 2012. The Times Group is often referred to as the nation’s largest media conglomerate. Intel Capital. BII has been investing in India since 2013.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

National Award Recipient. To start a bank in the ’80s was not an easy task, but after a two and half year process, Shirley Nelson did it and personally sold the majority of the stock to capitalize the bank,” says C. Michael Ziemann, a longtime co-worker of Nelson’s who also served as Summit Bank president until his retirement in 2013.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

This regulatory pressure, paired with tighter capital controls in China, has led to a tapering off of private tech investment from Chinese investors in the US. In the briefing we’ll highlight 2017 trends and explore what’s ahead for fintech in 2018, looking across payments, wealth management, insurance, and more.

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