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2016 Innovators to Watch: 1 to 5

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Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar

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Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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Banking Keyboard App PayKey Raises $10 Million in Funding

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EXCLUSIVE – Banking keyboard app, PayKey closed a $10 million Series B funding round today bringing the fintech’s total investment to $16 million since its establishment in 2014. The funding will be used to fuel the company’s growth strategy in the Asian market, Daniel Peled, CEO and Co-Founder of PayKey told Bank Innovation. “We

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Bolt Nets $75 Million In Funding Round For eCommerce Innovation

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Bolt was founded in 2014 in San Francisco and works on tools to streamline web transactions. The round was led by General Atlantic and WestCap , and existing investors Activant Capital and Tribe Capital also participated.

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Powering Retail Innovation With Digital Technology

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Data: 2014: The year Lumen was founded. 42%: Share of consumers who are engaging in even the most routine activities online. And in tech, the future of retail may include mobile scanning. All this, Today in Data. 80M: Value of a Series C funding round Scandit closed from several investors.

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WhatsApp Moves to P2P First, Businesses Come Next

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WhatsApp–which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $22 billion–has 1.2 Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is beginning its trek into payments, using the UPI system to enable the feature in India. 200 […].

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Retailers Start New Traditions With Innovation Around The Holidays

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you could be gearing up to buy gifts in store or online. You may have missed our coverage of a few of the retail innovators that are summed up below, arranged in no particular order, or perhaps you’ll want to revisit them anew. It was hard to pick up any article about retail and not end up reading an obituary for a mall in 2014.

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