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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 9, 2019

The Wall Street Journal reported that the partial closure of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is to blame for the delay, with companies including Gossamer Bio, Alector and Blackstone Group LP’s Alight Solutions putting planned IPOs on hold for this month. Data shows that an average of about three dozen companies go public on U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

And, according to reports, the possible initial public offering (IPO) joint global coordinators include Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, Nomura Holdings, Goldman Sachs and SMBC Nikko Securities, which is a unit of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. SoftBank , however, did not comment to Reuters on the reported news.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

As part of the deal, Northmill must maintain a capital minimum of €5 million. N26, which started in 2013, has a valuation of €2.38 Monzo recently secured €126 in funding on a €2.2 There is a number of cloud-operated FinTechs offering the same services as Northmill. It will be competing with N26 in Germany, Revolut in the U.K.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2019

This is up from 35% in 2017, and way up from 18% in 2013, according to Financial Technology Partners’ 2018 Annual Fintech Almanac. Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic investor.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

For small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in need of capital, bank loans are undoubtedly the first place they look. For smaller companies that have traditionally relied on bank loans, private equity and venture capital funding, it links them to another source of capital.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revoked it for “a string of frauds,” according to the Global Trade Review. When it needed to have capital on hand to fulfill its redemption requests, the company sold the overvalued or fake loans to new investors in order to pay off the old ones.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

million has been stolen from businesses as a result of these attacks, the latest data from the Australian Cyber Security Center (ACSC) as reported by SmartCompany revealed. Reports noted one business, hedge fund Levitas Capital, was forced to shutter operations following a whopping $6.4 In total, about $104.5

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This metric surged from 2 percent as of June 30, 2013, to 4.4 • Security measures to deter and detect cyber-attacks. The OCC noted a full doubling of loan growth among banks and federal savings associations in the district over the past year. percent as measured on June 30 of this year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2016

Aiming to stop hackers in their paths , startup StackPath came out of stealth mode on Monday (July 25) with $180 million in venture capital funding. The company, which also made four acquisitions on its first day as an operating company, is launching a Security-as-a-Service platform to help companies combat data hacks.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 13, 2015

According to Palm Springs FCU President & CEO Debbi Pitigliano, the drive was provided to the NCUA and contained members’ personal information, including names, addresses and social security numbers. Target’s late 2013 breach is among the largest in recent memory, affecting over 70 million individuals.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

The GAO said it had seen — through interviews with 11 FinTech firms — loan volume grow by sevenfold, while collaborative efforts with banks continued to grow from 2013 to 2017. Included in that movement toward tech in capital markets, he said that could include blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI). Sandboxes, Gathering Steam.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

The new capital will be used to accelerate SecurityScorecard’s ongoing scale and foster innovation in its delivery of cybersecurity health ratings. Since launching in 2013, the company has actively tracked more than 100,000 companies and identified vulnerabilities using an outside-looking-in perspective.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Capital One made the headlines then – a genius move, many called it at that time, for an issuer that lacked demand in deposit accounts and had no other way to provide a debit-like offering that would make their brand sticky to consumers. The REDCard has seen its growth slow appreciably since 2013, the year of the infamous Target breach.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

Earlier this year , Luxembourg passed a bill to amend an existing securities law so that it includes blockchain. According to CoinDesk , the country’s parliament passed Titled Bill 7363 to “provide greater certainty for investors and make the transfer of securities more efficient by reducing the number of intermediaries,” the chamber said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

Founded in 2013, New York-based Orchard initially provided Wall Street firms with data on the marketplace lending sector. But the business began to falter after Orchard decided to become a trading platform for loan securities. Both companies declined to comment.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

The company was founded in 2013 to “build the world’s first decentralized wireless network,” according to the Helium website. Now the company has recently raised $15 million in capital, bringing its total to some $51 million. Among the main challenges that push faces is the question of security.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

BlueVine, which is an online lender that is focused on the small business market, raised funding last year and has secured a total of $188 million in venture capital funding since 2013. That is less than half of the $4.4 billion in investments online lenders saw back in 2015.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

attorney’s office in San Francisco, according to the transcript from a civil Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) case obtained by CNBC. And the Central District Court in Israel has ruled that bitcoin is an asset and subject to capital gains tax (CGT). The criminal case is being handled by the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2019

” Getaround, which launched the connected carsharing marketplace in 2013 with its Getaround Connect device, will now operate in seven European countries: Norway, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Belgium and the U.K. We cannot imagine a better match, and, with the new solid owners, the access to capital for Nordic growth is ensured.

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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. We are primarily a secured lender, with our greatest concentration of loans in Texas. million to $1.28

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

In addition, corporate clients will be able to apply for working capital loans and make vendor and salary payments. In Africa, the biggest private bank in Kenya, CBA, has cemented a partnership with a FinTech there, Ennovative Capital, a Kenyan firm that licenses software to boost payments speeds.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in which Sears Chief Executive Eddie Lampert’s hedge fund, ESL Investments , invested in supplier insurance broker contracts totaling $93.3 In 2013, those investments hit $232 million, and in 2014, they hit $80 million, according to reports. Reuters cited documents filed with the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

million in a funding round that was led by Pangaea Ventures and Happiness Capital. The value of fake and counterfeit products went from $461 billion in 2013 to $509 billion in 2016. percent in 2013. Now, the company reportedly has raised $7.5 That’s an increase of 3.3 percent, up from 2.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In a 2014 podcast episode, Planet Money visited one Planet Fitness location that had signed up 6,000 total members – 20 times the number of people their building can serve –secure in the knowledge that less than half of the members don’t ever set foot in a gym again after that initial visit.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

million in a funding round that was led by Pangaea Ventures and Happiness Capital. The value of fake and counterfeit products went from $461 billion in 2013 to $509 billion in 2016. percent in 2013. Now, the company reportedly has raised $7.5 That’s an increase of 3.3 percent, up from 2.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In May it reprimanded the bank and told it to set aside $800 million in capital to cover any potential risks from the scandal. According to news from The Wall Street Journal , citing the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (DFSA), the government agency had closed the inquiry but said it would now reopen it.

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Abrigo

APRIL 1, 2015

McGrane and Hilsenrath also noted that following the push for higher capital cushions, “regulators are now focusing on corporate governance and the role of directors to ensure banks have the right culture and controls to prevent excessive risk taking.” What about liquidity risks, interest rate exposure and IT security threats?

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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.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2017

The big news this week in cryptocurrency is, of course, bitcoin hitting new record highs amid the possibility that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could approve a bitcoin exchange–traded fund. How bitcoin will fare if and when introduced to the Market with a capital M is anybody’s guess for now. In February 2014, Mt.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2016

The latest Store Front Business Index™, a PYMNTS and CAN Capital collaboration, reveals that while the past 12 months have been a raucous time for the stock market, it’s been a profitable time for many store front businesses. To download the 2016 Q2 PYMNTS.com Store Front Index™, powered by CAN Capital, click the button below. .

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JUNE 23, 2016

SM: When this happened, both the Bangladesh Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank in New York had security lapses that enabled the theft. Bangladesh’s Central Bank should have employed better perimeter security and data analytics to monitor for abnormal behavior from malware/spyware on their network.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Veterans often find it extremely difficult to secure bank funding, despite the fact that a myriad of programs exist to encourage entrepreneurship among those who have left the military in good standing. Between its founding in 2013 and 2016, StreetShares had previously raised $8.3 The problem, Rockefeller explained, is in underwriting.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

Earlier this year, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported that there was a reduction in the number of fraudulent tax returns identified between 2013 and 2015. On the other hand, around that same time the IRS released data showing that phishing and malware incidents in the 2016 tax season increased by 400 percent.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

We also charted the share of unicorns that have been added to the club each year since 2013 by location (US vs. non-US). In 2013, over 70% of companies that achieved unicorn status were US-based. Blum Capital Partners LP, Tiger Global Management, Sonae.com Ventures. Sequoia Capital China, China Media Capital, DCM Ventures.

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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. These lenders and equity players can have more flexibility than many banks and help a bank secure its position in exchange for future upside.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

We examine the findings from several market reports on small business access to capital, lending, growth and employment. That’s up from 57 percent in 2013. Researchers also found that the number of B2B buyers that spent at least 90 percent of their budgets online has doubled between 2013 and 2014, from 9 percent to 18 percent.

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