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

JANUARY 26, 2018

Often, this all comes to a head at the end of every month or quarter when businesses must close the books. The cloud is hardly the only innovation disrupting the accounting space, however. And, according to close management software company FloQast , the technologies that are impacting the market are also continually evolving.

Innovation 119

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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.

Google 156

Google Mobile System Security 156

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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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

APRIL 6, 2018

He turned to the internet, but he couldn’t find a place to book spaces online. As a result, he came to understand the experience of booking meeting spaces offline: It’s hardly a hassle-free experience and can involve calling an individual property. That’s hardly the easiest or safest way to book a space for an event.

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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

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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Perficient

JUNE 30, 2020

We use the insights and measures we’ve collected to arrange the experiences and capabilities under consideration into six manageable groups and, finally, to balance the portfolio to fit your limited time and resources. . Or should we go the other way and invest in a risky but innovative direction? Innovating.

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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

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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Perficient

AUGUST 19, 2020

of OneStream XF this year, OneStream software continues innovating and enhancing MarketPlace solutions. During the last two months approximately, one new solution, Cloud Administration Tools “CAT”, and three updates: Account Reconciliations “RCM”, Task Manager “UTM” and Tax Provision “TXP” have been released.

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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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Payments Innovation Study System 197

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Consumers want more than a transactional relationship with the companies they do business with," Petco Chief Digital and Innovation Officer Darren MacDonald said in a Thursday (Dec. The tool takes into account a pet’s age and breed as well as special issues like sensitive digestion or weight management. 10) press release.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Wayne leaves the company in a great position to continue to innovate, create value for customers, and provide growth opportunities for employees,” said Park Durrett, Managing Director of Abrigo investor Accel-KKR, when asked about Wayne’s plan to retire.

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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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Lending Leadership Apple America 183

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.

Innovation 130

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 8, 2017

Betterment is the poster child for passive investment, recently booking $70 million in venture funding and has continued to enhance its services. Two distinct streams have surfaced in fintech: passive and active investment. But the active investment strategy for investors is far from dead in fintech.

Fintech 287

Fintech Strategy social media Operations 287

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.

Innovation 124

Innovation Digital Strategies Payments Tools 124

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.

Innovation 116

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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.

Groups 116

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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.

Cards 169

Cards Management Report Tools 169

Insights on Business

JUNE 27, 2018

IBM RegTech Innovations. Asset liability management (ALM) and liquidity risk (LR) are top of mind for banks as the pressure from today’s regulatory environment heats up. They have a critical need for technology that can provide insight into risks embedded in their banking books. The benefits of innovation.

Big Data 151

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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.

Cards 150

Cards Google Fraud Management 150

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.

Mobile 129

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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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Retail Innovation Course Trends 127

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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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Other features include Bank by Appointment, a feature that lets users book appointments with specialists, managers and notaries […].

America 170

America Mobile Cards Management 170

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

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.

Management 105

Management Analysis Meeting Customer Experience 105

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Unlike most of the other big-ticket purchases in a consumer’s life, where cutting-edge options for financing abound, innovations in the travel market have been far fewer. Uplift, a B2B payments platform, was created to fill that innovation gap. Managing The Road Ahead. The result, he said, is that the $1.4

Payments 151

Payments Innovation Hawaii Lending 151

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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Abrigo

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The wave of technological innovation that has swept the business world in the past several years has fundamentally altered how many industries do business. Perhaps no industry has been so disrupted by this wave of technological innovation as the banking industry. Manual data entry is, simply, a pain.

Software 150

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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.

Guidelines 141

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

The company says the infusion came during “explosive growth” for its payment operations and treasury management offerings that let firms immediately close their books with continuous accounting, handle payments and banking via one platform, and have full cash visibility.

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