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AUGUST 21, 2018

Having $1 billion in bookings and more than 200 destinations globally – those are big numbers, to be sure, but these are not stats gleaned from an airline. As for Klook itself, the company operates with an effort to streamline the process of booking travel activities that can span visits to attractions, hotels and restaurants.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Regulators want to have a greater stake in the way sharing platforms operate. As data security and transparency become greater concerns across a number of markets, some services are already working to confront the challenges. For more on this and other developments, take a look at the Playbook’s News and Trends section.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Uber is testing out a service through Uber Eats that will allow customers to book culinary classes, Forbes reported. The rideshare giant introduced the experiment — called Uber Moments — in an email sent to its San Francisco customers, explaining that they can book an experience for the next month, scheduled until Nov.17.

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JULY 1, 2019

Less than a year after the ride-hailing company rolled out in Sudan, Careem has concluded its operations in the country, with a planned takeover by Uber on the horizon. The firm started its Sudan operations in September 2018 following the lifting of economic sanctions by the United States in 2017, Reuters reported. ” In a U.S.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Everybody wants to know what the future of corporate travel will look like in a post-pandemic market. There are several key pain points for SMBs when it comes to booking and paying for business travel that have existed long before the pandemic hit. Keeping Spend In Check. The first, said Sikora, is in SMBs’ lack of buying power.

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MAY 20, 2020

Travala.com CEO Juan Otero said in the announcement, “We couldn’t be more excited to join forces with TravelbyBit, which is backed by Binance and have constantly been achieving and pushing crypto adoption by providing blockchain-based online travel booking services.” Meanwhile, Luno, a digital currency platform backed by Naspers Ltd.,

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MARCH 9, 2017

In Seattle, Amazon is reportedly opening its tenth bookstore operation. “We We are excited to be bringing Amazon Books to Bellevue Square in 2017, and we are currently hiring store managers and associates,” an Amazon spokesperson told Recode. The bookstores also act as marketing tools for Amazon Prime memberships.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

Uber may be exiting some international markets — but when it comes to India, the ride-hailing company is staying put. Citing an email penned by Uber’s India head Pradeep Parameswaran, CNBC reported he told executives — including chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi and CFO Nelson Chai — that Uber India had an annualized bookings rate of $1.64

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MAY 4, 2020

In eight countries, it appears that the parent company has decided Uber Eats fails to deliver the desired market clout. The company said its goal was to become one of the top two operators in those countries, according to Reuters , but it does not see that happening. Careem is an Uber subsidiary focused primarily on the Middle East.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Uber is testing out a service through Uber Eats that will allow customers to book culinary classes, Forbes reported. The rideshare giant introduced the experiment — called Uber Moments — in an email sent to its San Francisco customers, explaining that they can book an experience for the next month, scheduled until Nov.17.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 17, 2024

The takeaway is that banks interested in increasing their market-to-book ratio should consider allocating more resources and capital to deposit products and deposit marketing. Loans, by contrast, usually drive 75% of total asset productivity but only impact market-to-book changes by 8%. The answer is – most likely.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Not every product launches smoothly (RIP Fire Phone ), not every new endeavor delivers (Amazon’s flirtations with offering a travel platform ended abruptly) and not every new market immediately yields. Amazon still has mountains to climb, even as the market is softening toward them. Amazon is the biggest winner.”.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

There is a myriad of manual processes that take place everyday in banking driving up unit economics and causing the average bank to operate with a 77+% efficiency ratio. To be competitive in the future, banks need to be operating at an efficiency ratio of below 40%. return on asset figure.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As open banking frameworks take root in more markets around the globe, the model of data integration continues to also take shape in the business financial services market, particularly impacting micro- and small businesses (and the FinTechs that service them). “FX is a complicated area,” added Cran.

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MAY 23, 2018

made an impressive stock market debut on Wednesday (May 23), with share prices up as much as 26 percent after the company began trading on NASDAQ. Barclays, Cowen Group, Goldman Sachs, PKO BP Securities, Regions Securities and William Blair are also acting as book-running managers for the proposed offering. EVO Payments Inc.

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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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BankUnderground

JUNE 16, 2021

Galbraith (1990) : ‘the extreme brevity of the financial memory’ makes financial markets susceptible to unstable euphoria. Greenspan (1997) : ‘regrettably, history is strewn with visions of such ‘new eras’ that, in the end, have proven to be a mirage. But it was not completely new.

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Perficient

JULY 6, 2020

And this doesn’t take into account booking the surgery in the first place, or scheduling the post-operative check-up. It took about 20 phone calls and some insider knowledge to book my surgery, and about a week of calls to schedule the post-op. There’s one single person who books appointments for my surgeon.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 25, 2020

The inability to connect Marketing activities to the bottom line is what I frequently hear from bankers that think the Marketing Department is a cost center. Yet Marketing is frequently held to account for the ROI of the checking or home equity campaign. Which leads me to my second way to hold Marketing accountable.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

I call that the internet of value, and is covered in depth in my last book, ValueWeb. This is based upon apps, APIs and analytics, with banks having the opportunity to be better positioned to be the digital platform that allows open marketplaces to operate using these technologies. … The post web 3.0,

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Perficient

JULY 13, 2022

We highlighted the risks to auto lenders who financed vehicles at elevated prices and would inevitably find themselves underwater as the chip shortage eased, expanding the pool of vehicles to choose from and lowering transaction prices as the market returned to some semblance of normal. But people were still buying cars.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

The company’s shares come to market at $68 a share. Airbnb, of course, comes to market after the pandemic hit operations earlier this year — and then things snapped back. billion year over year, while operating losses grew from $173 million to $489 million over the same period. As noted in this space previously, on Sept.

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MAY 14, 2018

Taking a page from Goldman Sachs’ book, Morgan Stanley is beginning to lend to FinTech startups in Brazil as it seeks more of a return on its investments. Morgan Stanley’s move comes at a time when the Brazil FinTech market is exploding.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Consumers are beginning to express more preferences regarding their buying and selling experiences on online marketplaces, which are seeing an increased amount of competition in the market as they attempt to hold onto their customer bases. About The Playbook.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Lyric is not a firm looking to ask for forgiveness rather than permission when it comes to entering new markets in the way Uber and the various firms it inspired have. “We The startup is fully compliant in all 13 cities it operates in, he said. “We But the persuasive route has been a winner — if not a speedy one — for the firm.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

“We had our drop-off in April, and then come May we saw a very quick rebound, Bryan Petro , chief operating officer of boat rental and charter marketplace GetMyBoat , told PYMNTS. How does a travel company increase bookings almost 4,000 percent in just four months in the middle of a global pandemic? Owners will list with us.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

Gett purports to bring together the worlds of ride-hailing companies and corporate fleets, incorporating needs for booking, riding, invoicing, analytics and more so companies can order ride-hailing services. Gett is disrupting and transforming a fragmented market delivering ever-critical cost optimization and client satisfaction.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2017

to research the market. has reportedly performed a competitive analysis of Craigslist, which currently dominates the rental market in many cities. Airbnb had no comment on this specific matter, but a spokesperson noted that “examining different parts of the market is standard operating procedure.”. McKinsey & Co.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Perry, and new fund Bramalea Partners, launched by Andrew Boyd, former head of global equity capital markets at Fidelity Investments. Along with growing revenue, Loadsmart, in turn, said it has managed to keep a lid on operational expenses, which it says it has kept at 2019 levels. Chromo Capital co-led the deal.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Many enjoyed huge first-day price pops, heating up the IPO market even more — and 2021 seems poised to only continue the fireworks. Popular stock-trading app Robinhood Markets reportedly recently hired Goldman Sachs to lead a possible 2021 IPO that would value the company at more than $20 billion. Then shares soared 85.8

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In 2016, Jon joined fan and light maker Big Ass Fans as its first chief operating officer. Following the sale, Jon sought a new challenge and joined with Global Marketing Director Alex Reed to found Truman’s, which aims to upend the staid cleaning industry with the belief that cleaning should be simple, convenient and sustainable.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“This partnership will help us bolster our payments and ticketing technology solutions for bus operators and enable us to provide a more seamless booking and post-booking experience to our growing base of online bus ticketing customers.”. million to expand its travel sector.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The eNett report — the research of which was conducted by Edgar, Dunn & Company — found fraud in the B2B travel market led to $6 billion in direct losses and $15 billion in indirect costs like damage to company reputation and increased operational costs.

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JULY 10, 2020

Achieving these commitments will require clinical, marketing, and operations teams partnering more closely together and in a way they never have before. COVID exposed the fragility of many systems’ operating models: an over-reliance on a small number of services to fund expenses across the enterprise. The $200B question.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Whatever else gets written about 2020 in the history books, we suspect the adjective “boring” will not make the final cut. After an earnings performance that, despite showing growth across the board, was a disappointment to investors and analysts, Walmart is entering 2020 in redesign mode — particularly when it comes to digital operations.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Uber, the ride-hailing company, plans to pour its profits into expanding its products and investing in technology in emerging markets. BGR , citing an email penned by Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, reported the company will reinvest profits in emerging markets, including India, so it can beef up Uber Eats and JUMP.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

That story , repeated in at least two books about Escobar, may or may not be exaggerated. The story goes something like this: During the reign of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar — estimated to have supplied up to 80 percent of the cocaine to the U.S. Cash Endurance. That said, cash still remains popular with drug traffickers.

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