Chris Skinner

MARCH 22, 2017

Hence, they invested $680 million in India’s Paytm in September 2015, just before demonitisation stimulated Indians to open 200 million wallets on Paytm. Under the agreement, Ant Financial will assist Ascend Money to grow its online and offline payments and financial services ecosystem.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 13, 2018

The Toronto-based startup, which demoed at Bank Innovation 2015 in Seattle […]. Its engineers were also looking for a side project. What they came up with was a way to make billpay easier, and a bot, called Kbot, to smooth the way.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. In 2015, the tech media was gaga over Snap and its ability to corral the so-called most valuable eyeballs in media: the millennial. When Amazon was just about selling books online, its competition was the physical bookstore. Then there’s Amazon.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Legacy retail company Foot Locker has invested $100 million in Goat Group, an online platform that sells and resells rare and classic sneakers, according to reports. Eventually, the two companies will collaborate for an online presence as well as in physical stores, to offer customers exclusive shopping opportunities. million so far.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. And who will influence how innovation happens. From Betty Crocker to Boxed.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

Online universities have become common as more students seek convenient, flexible ways to earn degrees. Western Governors University (WGU), a nonprofit online university based in Salt Lake City, was founded in 1997 by 19 governors of western U.S. The university began utilizing a webcam-based system in 2015.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 26, 2017

Innovate Finance has just published their report on the first half of 2017, and the investments made in FinTech. Billion in H1 2017 –with UK investment up 37% reveals Innovate Finance H1 2017 saw 787 deals globally, attracting $6.5 Global VC FinTech investment attracts $6.5 billion of investment compared with $7.0

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2019

Online bank N26 is now Germany’s highest-valued startup with a 3.5 The company will also invest in innovative new features like Shared Spaces, which lets customers create shareable sub-accounts. N26 is one of the few tech companies that bring digital innovation from Europe to the U.S. and Brazil. N26 now serves more than 3.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

Using those models, the trailing 12-month, non-adjusted, online retail sales numbers show an increase of 31.4 CPG Goes Online — And To Auto-Refill. It’s also where CPG companies have reported seeing big spikes of online sales, particularly to new consumers. And where are they spending their money?

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Chris Skinner

JULY 14, 2017

The way in which they’ll achieve that is through local partnerships, and many of those have been started already: Ant Financial invests in Thailand’s Ascend Money as part of global expansion play, November 2016 Alibaba to lead $200 million investment into Paytm’s online marketplace, February 2017 Jack Ma’s Ant Financial makes first investment (..)

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. In the modern digital era of QSR, it is almost impossible not to mention Starbucks and its myriad contributions to innovation — including the first really successful launch of a mobile wallet product in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2017

And when that problem is a personal one, the drive to create an innovative solution that actually works is even stronger. MW: GhostBed launched in December 2015, but the idea and design for it came to me nearly ten years ago. But selling online was a part of my original vision. Here is an excerpt of the conversation.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Launched in November 2015, PeerStreet has been Read More. It seems like all the players in the marketplace lending space felt the cloud of uncertainty that surrounded the industry last year. Except for PeerStreet. The platform brings real estate to the marketplace lending space, opening up a previously inaccessible asset class to investors.

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BankBazaar

JULY 31, 2023

And as they say, the rest is history! $60 Million Jackpot: Funding Frenzy in 2015 Fast forward to 2015, and BankBazaar struck gold with a whopping $60 million in Series C funding. With this innovation, customers could complete the Know Your Customer (KYC) process online, swiftly and effortlessly.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Founded in 2015, the company has farm clients across 40 states, with its most of its customers located in the Midwest. “I At Barn2Door, we aim to make it easy for farmers to sell their food online , improving the convenience for their customers. There is a lot of innovation in food right now, capturing a lot of publicity,” she said. “We

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

With a digital bank license, we will be able to broaden our product offering … so that we can accelerate our mission to innovate the financial industry,” said SG Lee, CEO of Viva Republica. Since its launch in 2015, Toss has become the only FinTech unicorn in Korea. “Toss has already become the leading financial super app in Korea.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Warehouses, though still manually operated, are in need of more automation and robotics technology to accommodate the massive challenges and demands created by the prevalence of online platforms. Among Nike’s other innovations was last year’s foray into blockchain-compatible sneakers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The latest example of the power of those digitally-enabled innovative efforts comes from online freight marketplace operator Convoy. Founded in 2015, Seattle-based Convoy is among the biggest operators of online marketplaces that match truckers with shippers needing to move cargo,” the report said. Rowe Price Associates.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Social media mogul company Facebook has launched P2P payments through Facebook Messenger in the U.K. is the next market to have the service, after Facebook first launched the payments feature in the U.S. According to reports, all major banks in the U.K. are taking part in the service. To use […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

New York’s Department of Financial Services is recommending that online lenders are subjected to the same scrutiny and regulations that traditional banks face. Cuomo on June 1, 2017, required DFS to study online lending in New York State and submit a report of its findings. A bill signed by Governor Andrew M. Superintendent Maria T.

Online 100

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Automotive sales are increasing going digital — and more consumers are buying more used products of all types online. Online Auto Sales. The deal is not the only recent news involving the online retail sales of automobiles. Amidst all this, the sale of other used goods online continues to gain popularity. Retail Waste.

Online 112

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar. 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. million merchants, whereas in September of 2015 that number was only 392,000.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Innovations — some more fantastical than others — keep emerging, though. Synthetic identity fraud continues to grow , but far slower than when it ran rampant in 2015 and 2016. Unbanked or underbanked consumers are also likely to lack the digital IDs necessary to use conveniences like online banking or taxpaying. Voice patterns?

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 12, 2016

Citi Fintech launched in the fall of 2015 to build the bank of the future, but it has yet to release a product. Now Citigroup‘s innovation unit has lost its CEO. USAA announced today that Citi Fintech CEO Heather Cox was joining the bank as chief technology and digital officer, a new Read More.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

According to the Credit Union Innovation Playbook , a PYMNTS and PSCU collaboration, trust is the driving factor in that choice. Yet, if one looks at FinTech innovators in the field, there are ways to work through that, and break up the process of onboarding to smooth the flow dramatically.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2017

It first arrived on the continent in 2015. The POS payment gateway provider has partnered with Ant Financial in order to integrate the AliPay service with European acquirers, the companies announced today. This marks an expansion for AliPay in Europe. With the partnership, AliPay will […].

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Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. These initiatives are definitely innovative, but is conflating the ideas of saving and driving commerce shaping the conversation around a fundamentally misaligned approach? There were a couple of overarching themes throughout the event.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 8, 2016

BofA announced last year that starting “early” March 2015 it will no longer support its mobile app on Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone 8.1, and Windows Phone 8 mobile devices, suggesting customers access their accounts online. The app Read More.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2017

Except that they can’t, because it’s not like they can buy a car online easily or reliably. software to let car buyers shop for a Ford or Lincoln car and secure a loan online through its dealers’ websites. in August to simplify the process of finding a vehicle and getting an auto loan online.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

But here’s the rub: The guilty verdict was made on the basis of A&P’s use of supply chain innovations to lower prices to consumers. By 2015, it had closed its doors. Its failure to keep innovating in the face of new players that did was A&P’s downfall. Lower prices. Regulators didn’t destroy A&P in the end.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

With the investment, Hippo will be able to keep expanding its online home insurance business across the U.S., with the goal “to reach 95 percent of the U.S. homeowners population in the next year, as well as providing additional capital for its insurance and reinsurance companies,” the release says.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend. 23-25, 2020.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Google appears to be losing steam in the ongoing race to dominate the online advertising market, and competitors Amazon and Facebook are taking advantage of the stumbles. Another issue is attached to this recent news: Searches – specifically, product searches, which help drive online commerce. YouTube Concerns.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2016

That means that plenty of grocery stores, pharmacies and other retailers continue to miss out on their share of the billions of dollars spent by consumers online every year. . Growth has slowed since the end of the 2015 shopping season, and the index scores have dropped slightly, across the board, each quarter after Q4 2015.

Retail 185

Retail Online Industry Data 185

Bank Innovation

JULY 7, 2016

This year to date has seen $161 million invested so far, while 2015 saw a total of Read More. As the summer heats up, blockchain hype may (finally) be cooling down. 2016 will likely see less investment in bitcoin and blockchain technology, but that is true for many other areas, as well.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In particular, the path to developing more online tools included the acquisition of digital financial planning company LearnVest in 2015 for $250 million. For Northwestern Mutual, digitization imperatives have forced it to think more like a tech company. It’s achieved this by way of internal reorganization and acquisition.

Tools 150

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

To provide consumers with less expensive and more flexible booking options, eCommerce innovators are taking new approaches to hotel reservations. They then can see a list of hotel results with prices (similar to other online booking experiences). The company launched into the market in 2018 after its founding in 2015.

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Online Innovation New York Marketing 100