PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

According to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , 85 percent believe they need to innovate to stay competitive. And among large retailers, 82 percent said innovation is necessary for continued success. Books and music stores had an average index score of 18.9.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing has received $500 million in funding from Booking Holdings. dollars on its balance sheet after it raised $4 billion in new capital late last year. In addition, Didi customers can book hotels through Booking.com and its sister site Agoda.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 23, 2019

Metro Bank Plc fell the most since going public after applying an incorrectly low-risk weighting to parts of its loan book, with the British lender’s chief saying he doesn’t know how long the mortgages in question had been wrongly classified. The shares plunged as much as 34 percent Wednesday and the bank’s bonds also fell […].

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

That option is not always available with the traditional suspects for business travel booking, like travel agents or online travel agencies (OTAs). As a result, Avi Meir sought to build a better business travel booking experience when he helped found Travelperk. “We That process is often slow and time-consuming.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

million in fresh funding, capital that will go toward “a B2B offering (that allows) individual travel agents at large online travel management companies and tour operators to offer a ‘seamless travel experience’ to their end customers, making the booking experience simpler, faster and cheaper.”.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 4, 2025

5S Framework Overview for Solving Strategic Challenges The “4S” problem-solving framework is largely attributed to authors Garrette, Phelps, and Sibony in the top-selling book Cracked It (worth a read in itself) and then made famous by McKinsey & Company. Will capital, for instance, become more expensive or cheaper?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

However, it was a B2B software procurement platform that raised the most money — $55 million — in this week’s B2B venture capital roundup. Energy Innovation Capital and Chevron Technology Ventures led the funding, while R/GA Ventures and Macquarie Capital also came on board as new investors.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

They grilled execs from Google, Amazon and Facebook over claims of their size and power, which is said to be driving smaller companies out of business, reducing opportunities for new innovators to emerge and tilting the competitive playing field too far in their direction. That’s what teenagers did 34 years ago for fun.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Innovation in the accounts payable (AP) space continues to expand, with FinTechs looking to capture their piece of a growing market driven by businesses’ desire to digitize their operations. Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest examples of how AP innovators pull suppliers’ accounts receivable processes into the fold. billion valuation.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Meanwhile, new competitors are entering the market and tearing up the traditional banking rule book. Reengineering core banking systems that have been developed over decades while innovating fast enough to stay competitive would be like trying to change your tires while speeding down the freeway. Embracing change. Ready for anything.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This transformation has been accelerated by a confluence of shifting client demographics and expectations along with mounting competitive pressure from emerging tech-driven players, financial product innovation, and industry consolidation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The “startup nation” is recognized for not just brimming with tech innovation, but also harboring more high-tech startups and a larger venture capital industry per capita than any other place in the world. companies partner with innovation from Israel that will give them a global competitive edge,” Mavor explained.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk. Flutterwave.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Payment operations software company Modern Treasury raised $38 million through an Altimeter Capital-led Series B funding round, according to a Tuesday (Jan. In terms of payment innovation, the company notes that real-time payments (RTP) account for over 6 percent of its volume. 12) announcement. The company says that over $18.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

In today’s top digital-first banking news, Goldman Sachs has selected FinTech startup Marqeta to power digital checking accounts for Marcus, while California credit card startup X1 notched $12 million in a funding round headed up by Spark Capital. Plus, the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book report noted that the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

banking-as-a-service (BaaS) Startup Railsbank closed a $37 million funding deal co-led by MiddleGame Ventures and Ventura Capital. as well as 21 European Union (EU) countries — sent a letter to antitrust regulators asking that they throw the book at Google as fast as possible. Afterpay Rolls Out BNPL Cross-Border Pay For Merchants.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

As more financial service providers explore how to capitalize on corporates’ growing adoption of commercial cards, firms are looking at the card as a way to round out their products and services with a more holistic offering. Below, PYMNTS takes a look at the latest in commercial card innovation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

JetBlue is an innovative and exciting brand and Brex is thrilled to offer access to their valuable TrueBlue loyalty program within the Brex Rewards platform,” said Brex Co-Founder and Co-CEO Henrique Dubugras. The program reinforces Brex’s airline transfer platform, which is offered alongside travel booking and statement credit. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

While 2020 has been a monumental year for B2B payments digitization and innovation, plenty of friction still exists in the way corporate buyers pay their suppliers. Solutions like commercial and virtual card products, for instance, assure buyers the ability to extend capital float while accelerating payment to vendors.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

As the travel industry shifts into higher digital gear, and increasingly responds to the needs and desires of new consumer groups — millennials and Gen Z among them — some players are getting left behind and making their way into the history books. That’s the general case with travel search startup Hipmunk.

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Insights on Business

MARCH 12, 2019

review of the capital requirements for market risk regulations, namely the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). It becomes effective in 2022, but banks should now, more than ever, implement the proposed changes in order to meet the deadline for reporting their Pillar I capital under the new methodologies.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

Mobile devices, fast cellular networks, the cloud, data and new tech – along with investors with capital and incumbents with an appetite for innovation – gave innovators the tools, ideas and capital to disrupt the then-analog sacred cows. The Connected Economy’s Potential. Pay : How people are paid and pay others.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 5, 2016

American Express is taking a page from Square’s book and launching an online platform for small business loans of up to $750,000 — but its main target may be banks. The news came today via Bloomberg, which reported funds could be available as soon as two days after loan approval. Read More.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

At the broader level, commercial card innovators — both within the T&E arena and elsewhere — are pressing further into the spend management space, heightening the ability for businesses to control and analyze expenses as more companies tighten their belts and focus on recovery. Expensify Links Cards To Booking.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

However, the Journal cited unnamed sources as saying that the London-based Barclays is also bidding for GM’s card business, while current issuer Capital One is unlikely to let the account go without a fight. The GM card has about $3 billion in outstanding balances, making it an attractive target. country manager, said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

The company recently announced new venture capital, and while it didn’t disclose how much it raised, the investor is quite noteworthy. PayStand is one of two startups chosen by new venture capital fund LEAP Partners I, run by LEAP Global Partners, for its first investments. Innoviti Payments Solutions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In general, venture capitalists are boosting their investments in Latin America, with funding reaching $594 million in 2015, a stark increase from $387 million in 2012, the Latin America Venture Capital Association confirmed.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

But many luxury trips can run aground without effective and innovative payment solutions to help travelers meet and manage associated costs. And a significant share of luxury travelers express high levels of interest in using innovative payment solutions to fund their future vacations. trillion on their vacations last year.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

In the digital age, booking travel is pretty easy for consumers when it comes to getting to a destination or finding a place to stay. In fact, options and innovations abound, with plenty of ways to customize the trip. Booking.com added activity bookings recently, as did TripAdvisor and Airbnb.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

As the second decade of the 21 st century is drawing to a close, it is almost unimaginable that booking a flight or finding the right hotel room would present as a challenge. They effectively created ways in which they booked tickets that effectively captured the consumer experience,” he said. Moreover, travel is full of risk.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2017

BAM Worldwide, a provider of cash management and working capital, e payment solutions to the transportation industry , announced Tuesday (June 6) that it has completed a $10-million investment led by Millstone Capital Partners. BAM provides technology, payments processing and working capital loans to the U.S. trucking industry.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

still manage their bookings with pen and paper,” Shedul co-founder and CEO William Zeqiri said in an interview. But Shedul is actively trying to solve that particular friction but offering a “totally subscription-free platform” that allows users from any device connected to the internet to find and book a salon or spa appointment.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

The project will create 3,000 new jobs and more than $75 million in capital investment. “I Our unrivaled workforce and business-friendly environment makes Texas the perfect home for innovative companies like Uber.”. Greg Abbott announced that Uber will receive $24 million from the state to establish a new U.S. billion from $2.76

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The innovation touted 10 years ago, that has garnered billions of dollars of venture capital (VC) funding, hasn’t turned out to be the “internet of money” as advertised. In those pieces, I acknowledged bitcoin as an interesting, even fascinating, innovation. Innovation By Any Other Name. It isn’t because it won’t.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

Speaking with PYMNTS, PayParc Global Solutions Founder Taylan Taspinar discussed the sector’s dire need to upgrade its B2B payments strategy after a yearslong lag in innovation — and why not just data, but industry-specific data, is essential to combatting friction. A World Of Pain Points. ”

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 21, 2019

The San Francisco-based fintech startup also announced it has surpassed $1 billion in bookings through its platform, which enables small businesses and freelancers to streamline processes from capturing leads and delivering proposals to sending invoices and […].

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