Bobsguide

MAY 26, 2022

Generation Life – a leading life insurance company that’s been providing Australians with tax-effective investment solutions for over 18 years – has launched its innovative new lifetime income solution, known as Generation Life LifeIncome, on GBST’s cloud-based wealth administration platform, Composer.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

FlitWays, a B2B company that helps businesses book ground travel and streamline expense management processes, has enhanced its services and added new features, the company said Monday (July 10). We provide ease of booking for travel managers, employee preferences and many more.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Google and Intuit are pairing up to help Australian small businesses (SMBs) get a better grip on cash management. I’m delighted this collaboration between Intuit and Google will deliver huge benefits for small businesses across Australia,” said Intuit Australia Vice President and Country Manager Nicolette Maury in a statement.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Google Assistant can now help users book a car from Uber , Lyft , Ola , Grab , GO-JEK and other ridesharing services. Once you decide which company to go with, Google Assistant will then transfer you to that rideshare’s mobile app to complete the booking.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

Hong Kong’s travel and leisure booking platform Klook has closed a $200 million Series E funding round led by Aspex Management , with participation by Sequoia Capital China , SoftBank Vision Fund, Matrix Partners China and Boyu Capital , according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

For purposes of this analogy, the “basement” into which bad mice are creeping is most likely your legacy payroll/expense management software and its possibly compromised connections. While technological advancements have revolutionized many aspects of operations, payroll and expense management are not [among] them. Fishing For BaaS.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Adherence to corporate travel booking policies is slipping. At the same time, a younger workforce is advancing, while technology is enabling the sharing economy to proliferate – and enabling travelers to book itineraries across devices and platforms. “More millennials are coming into the workforce and are self-sufficient.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 21, 2019

Citi Ventures led a $28 million Series C equity round for client management platform HoneyBook, the company announced today.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

The image stems from about two or three centuries ago, when medieval superstitions were being seriously challenged by empirical thought, and the view has been reinforced countless times — even into the early 21st century if you look hard enough — by books, movies, TV shows and other methods of cultural communication. FinTech Partnerships. “The

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

And managing that relationship, according to Boulevard Chief Financial Officer Greg Wookey , has the potential to be heavily impacted — positively or negatively — by a salon’s back-office processes. That means sitting seamlessly within the customer interaction from booking, through to payment and repeat booking.

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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

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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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Consumers are turning to their smartphones for everything from retail purchases to booking air travel and hotels to requesting refunds and other disbursements from online merchants. B2B Payment Innovation Struggles. The Mobile Disbursements Landscape. consumers now use mobile payment apps.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Jason Traff, president and co-founder of freight trucking company Shipwell , says these characteristics have created a highly fragmented market that, while large and lucrative, has seen little innovation. Freightos analysis found earlier this year that 50 percent of SMBs still rely on spreadsheets to manage their shipments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

The idea that people could share valuable items — like cars — was borderline crazy then, Car Next Door Communications Manager Kate Trumbull told PYMNTS in an interview last March. million listings were on Booking as of October 2018. In addition, Didi customers were to book hotels through Booking.com and Agoda , its sister site.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Airbnb managed to undercut a hotel industry that had been entrenched in global society for decades upon decades based on one simple principle: better lodgings at lower prices. That ethos still holds sway throughout much of Airbnb’s global operations , but for a few weeks in Rio, that book has been shotputted out of the window.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Enterprise spend management solution provider Coupa is expanding its offering with new features and a partnership with American Express, the companies said Wednesday (Nov. Coupa also announced the launch of Coupa Contract Lifecycle Management Advanced within its BSM platform, the result of its acquisition of Exari.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

As PYMNTS had previous covered, way back in 2017, cloud-based travel and expense report management solution Certify bought nuTravel in a deal designed to enable Certify to launch a new solution using nuTravel technology. Bigger Trends. Another example of striving toward that ideal came earlier this January. Other Areas of Change.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 23, 2020

For example, understanding what it’s like for a construction manager to order supplies from the job site for the next day is a head start on audience and persona definition. Understanding the needs of both a patient and the provider when finding a doctor and booking an appointment is a head start on task and user story development.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Marketing expense is increased due to more efficient digital marketing and as a result incentive compensation is lower as fewer bankers are needed mto handle applications, credit and origination management. You can’t manage what you cannot measure. This applies to both origination and portfolio management.

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Perficient

JANUARY 12, 2021

Smaller financial institutions will have to be more innovative and rely on third parties and as-a-service based solutions to specifically address the needs of the niche market they are servicing. Small Business Innovation. The top banks have the funds, technology, and development teams to make this happen. reached 31.7 businesses.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

Mobile and cloud tech provider Deem , which works with travel companies, announced a new search engine with better speed and more functionality, a press release says, with an eye toward improving booking and the overall travel experience. Rizzo said the focus was on innovation. Deem chief executive John F.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Sports are big business around the globe, so it comes as no surprise that retail innovation constantly takes place within that industry, and in combination with payments. The company assigns a manager to oversee operations at each site as well as food runners if the venue’s staff cannot handle delivery. Working from the Bottom Up.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

podcast , we interview Jon Bostock, best-selling author, innovator, co-founder and CEO of Truman’s and learn how brands that innovate will win in a rapidly changing digital-first economy. He implemented a metric-driven management system that saw revenue rise 15 percent and profitability quadruple in his first year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In India, Shell, for example, has introducing a new fleet card as part of a wider fleet management and payments service. TripActions, meanwhile, is introducing a card solution to provide an end-to-end corporate travel management and payments offering. Below, PYMNTS takes a look at the latest in commercial card innovation.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

College is also a notable location for the rise of other retail innovation — including technology that is changing the quick-service restaurant (QSR) word, mobile order-ahead. What’s more, Amazon Prime Student members will get special perks when they use the store. That leaves an opening for subscription commerce.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Mobile Innovation. College is also a notable location for the rise of other retail innovation — including technology that is changing the QSR word, mobile order-ahead. What’s more, Amazon Prime Student members will get special perks when they use the store. Subscription Rising. That leaves an opening for subscription commerce.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Some entertainment innovators are also rolling out new subscription services. And retailers are offering innovative subscriptions for all sorts of products. And digital innovators are providing subscriptions as a means of discovery for consumers. Disney’s anticipated Disney+ , for instance, will reportedly launch on Nov.

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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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BankUnderground

JUNE 16, 2021

In part this reversal responded to another historical lesson drawn from Reinhart and Rogoff’s 2009 book This Time is Different about the threshold of debt/GDP beyond which risks of further financial instability increased. This shows that history can deliver contradictory advice; the academic debate about this threshold continues.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2016

Receivables management can be as much art as science. For banks, according to an e-book by payments processing firm FTNI, receivables management is a constant juggling act across corporate customers, and their own internal daily ebb and flow of cash flow. contact-form-7].

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The latest example of the power of those digitally-enabled innovative efforts comes from online freight marketplace operator Convoy. 13), the company has raised $400 million in funding round led by Generation Investment Management LLP and previous investor T. As The Wall Street Journal reported this week (Nov. Rowe Price Associates.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

The services include wealth management tools, credit, lending and crowdfunding for serious illnesses. The company received $500 million in funding from Booking Holdings, with a plan to expand globally. Booking also owns KAYAK, Priceline.com, Rentalcars.com and OpenTable , sites that can also help Didi expand.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Travel companies know that payments innovation is mission-critical when it comes to acquiring and retaining consumers all over the world. It’s a clear fact in the data — 81 percent of travel firms indicated that payments innovation is on the menu for the next three years, according to the PYMNTS/ Amadeus IT Group Travel Payments Study.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 8, 2022

In 2022, national banks are especially active in managing interest rate risk by booking floating rate loans and mandating that borrowers fix their rates through a loan hedging program. National Bank Strategies For Interest Rate Risk Management.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

Bacarai is working on an airline marketplace in which customers can buy trips and manage them through an online interface. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform Hotailers allows businesses transparency when it comes to contingent worker travel and making sure bookings meet regulations, expense limits and safety guidelines.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

It was a “Name That Tune”-style game called “Beat The Intro” that, while it isn’t a big hit these days, managed to put Amazon over the top. A year ago we were talking about the amazing milestone Alexa had passed: 10,000 skills. Today, that number of skills has more than doubled to north of 25,000.

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