PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

China’s largest ridehailing app Didi Chuxing is breaking into the hotel booking business. And according to reports, Booking — formerly known as Priceline — will offer Didi’s on-demand car services through its Booking.com apps via an integration. In addition, Didi customers can book hotels through Booking.com and its sister site Agoda.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Amazon is facing backlash from hundreds of antiquarian book dealers across 24 countries who are vowing to pull books off a website owned by Amazon for a week in protest of a move by the website to ban sellers from specific countries around the globe. The booksellers, however, were angry — and out of the anger, the protest was born.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To prevent so-called “party house” violence, Airbnb has begun restricting some bookings in Canada from renters under the age of 25. The move comes after several bookings off the popular rental service have ended in violence; the most recent incident was last week in Toronto that left three dead.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing has received $500 million in funding from Booking Holdings. Instead, according to reports , Booking — formerly known as Priceline — will offer Didi’s on-demand car services through its Booking.com apps via an integration.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Online travel firm Booking Holdings is the latest Libra Association member to jump ship on the cryptocurrency project proposed by Facebook, Bloomberg reported on Monday (Oct. The Geneva meeting comes on the heels of a bad day on Friday (Oct. 11) that saw a mass exodus of Libra members, with five firms dropping out.

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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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PYMNTS

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. That’s not all. For those who are not Prime members, they pay the list price at the bookstore.

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PYMNTS

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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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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PYMNTS

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.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Travala.com , the Binance-backed online trading agency, will be allowing travel bookings through Expedia paid for in cryptocurrency for the first time since 2018, according to CoinDesk. has now been approved to operate its derivatives platform, CoinDesk reported. In other news, a subsidiary of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Goldman Sachs booked a 4 percent year-over-year revenue increase for the third quarter of 2018, with that growth powered in part by increased lending through its Marcus by Goldman Sachs online consumer savings and lending platform. earnings per share booked for the third quarter of 2018. Q3 revenue for the investment bank hit $8.65

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

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 billion in the third quarter. India represents the last country in Asia where Uber remains a player.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal , the discounts can be as high as 25 percent, granted the loyalty members book their stays through the hotel website instead of an online travel operator like Expedia or Priceline. Take Hilton, for example.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

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. Bloomberg is reporting that, based on an index of Airbnb booking prices around the globe, lodgings in Rio de Janeiro have overtaken those in every other city around the globe.

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Bobsguide

MAY 22, 2017

Although many firms may not realise the direct link between efficient operations and portfolio growth, the relationship and opportunity is clear. An integrated platform based on a single source of truth, or an Investment Book of Record (IBOR), provides. Marc Mallett, VP Product Management, SimCorp.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

Chinese bike sharing company Mobike, which once attracted billions from big-name investors, said it is closing down all of its operations around the world, to focus solely on China. Competitor Ofo was suffering financially and had to pull out of operations overseas. When Meituan first bought Mobike, things looked better.

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Bobsguide

APRIL 3, 2018

In a recent bobsguide article we discussed the changing role of the buy-side middle office. An increasingly critical middle office function is delivering accurate and timely position data to the front office and ensuring redundancy with outsourced back-office services. This article discusses the.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Most of these chargebacks are legitimate requests — especially in the travel industry, where the pandemic canceled an untold number of travel plans — but some consumers might come up with elaborate excuses to avoid paying for something, like claiming fraudsters used their credit cards to book plane tickets when they just want to score free flights.

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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%. increase in M/B. The answer is – most likely.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2016

A key part of business life is getting the books closed on time, with clean financial reporting that allows a high-level and granular view of what needs to be done next. Data accuracy — especially data flow between departments or far-flung operations — the survey found, remains among top concerns.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 24, 2021

The company offers a 5-day free trial to potential clients so that they can experience the workspace and its facilities prior to finalizing a booking. JustCo has operations in Singapore, Japan, Australia, China, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. Become a CB Insights customer.

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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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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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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

The startup is fully compliant in all 13 cities it operates in, he said. “We As of today Lyric has short-term rental permits in Austin and Nashville, is the only company licensed to operate short-term rentals in Orlando and has partnerships with 20 of America’s top real estate firms, Kitchell said.

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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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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Let’s see the below example, Add Book details in the record using POST method. Retrieve Book details under author name using GET method. To add book details in the Record. To get Book with author-name. For Adding Book using POST method*/. Demonstrate API calls validation using Singleton Design Pattern. URL Format.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

The decision to pare back operations in Africa — where the company will sell off much of its 62 percent ownership in publicly traded Barclays Africa — represents what The New York Times said was a step back from one of the key pillars of Barclays’ long-term strategy, right in lockstep with credit cards and investment banking.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

31 closing of would-be rival Snapcash, the peer-to-peer payment service operated by Snapchat. Zelle began operations just more than a year ago, and has since processed 320 million transactions worth $94 billion. Venmo will have an estimated 22.9 million U.S. users by year’s end, behind Zelle’s 27.4 NACHA P2P Figures.

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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? Making Fraudsters Walk The Plank.

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Perficient

JANUARY 19, 2021

There are seven phases in total, but we will only consider the following five: Starting with a booked order, any change will need to be documented. Changes are only possible when the Order is in the “booked” phase. You can also reset the order to the “Booked” phase once it has been Picked or Staged.

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PYMNTS

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.

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TheGuardian

JUNE 15, 2024

With spotlight on investments behind banks, we ask whether three top providers still offer a good deal Protests outside Barclays branches and the recent arguments over Baillie Gifford’s sponsorship of book festivals have put the spotlight on the investments behind big banking institutions. The consumer group Which?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Some consumers may wish to travel with their pets or book a room that accommodates their disabilities, for example, while others may want to ensure that the homeshares they are renting are LGBTQ-friendly before finalizing their itineraries. Developing trust between renters and hosts means successfully overcoming familiar challenges.

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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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