PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

To that end, news came earlier this week in the United States that a dozen community and regional banks have formed a group aimed at exploring the opportunities amid FinTech offerings. Here In The States. In the United States, sandboxes are grabbing a bit of headline space.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Going a bit further, the United States saw 10 percent growth to $466 billion, outpaced by the rest of the world at 16 percent to just over $1 trillion. Within the United States, he said, spending and growth have held up “reasonably well” amid low unemployment and “still healthy” consumer confidence. The company had 2.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Three regional players in the organic food retail business — where Whole Foods and parent Amazon rule — have declared bankruptcy over the past month. While regional players struggle, interlopers continue to strengthen. The number of supermarkets in the United States declined by 1.3 The number of U.S.

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MAY 2, 2017

For small businesses, expansion is key, and expansion needs capital. The company has said that it is the first bank in Puerto Rico to offer digital services, ranging from business credit cards to working capital loans to SBA loans.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

To lead strategic planning for the firm overall and in conjunction with its regional teams, Chris Newkirk is coming to Visa Inc. Newkirk has held multiple leadership roles at Capital One since 2008, most recently as president of Small Business, International & Walmart Partnership. as its new chief strategy officer. and New York.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Using data from quarterly Call Reports going back to 2013, analysts compared the performance of “energy-sensitive banks” with that of similar banks that aren’t located in energy-dependent regions. Lower energy prices have had only a modest effect on banks’ profitability and capital adequacy.” Possible causes Why might that be the case?

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2018

To make sure they can compete with the United States and China, France and Germany want an EU-wide initiative that will fund innovation and research in tech startup projects across the region. According to Reuters , Europe has lagged behind the United States in developing new technologies. billion euros ($1.75

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

In the United States and Germany, the tentative signs of easing growth momentum that were flagged in last month’s assessment have been confirmed,” the OECD said, according to The Wall Street Journal. This recent round of indicators — based on data from November — shows that while U.S. In fact, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2020

Yum said, according to the report, that it is “working with franchisees who need more access to capital and are in good standing with the company to provide assistance, including grace-periods for certain near-term payments where necessary.”. And the firm noted that the impact on sales is very different by region.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

In addition, Pakistan’s Telenor Microfinance Bank unveiled a cross-border remittance service based on Alipay’s blockchain technology, Indonesia’s KinerjaPay notched an investment of $200 million from a construction firm in the region and mobile payments are on the rise in China.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Founded in 2009, the San Francisco-based company has already received more than $400 million in total venture capital funding from investors including GV, Madrona Venture Group and actor Ashton Kutcher. In April, Getaround announced its acquisition of Drivy , a Paris-headquartered car sharing startup that operates in 170 European cities.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

have capitalized on a sea change in how we pay. based merchants sell across borders, but that percentage lags behind other nations such as Germany and the United Kingdom, where half of merchants that sell goods and services online do so across borders. In eCommerce, the readiness is all, to steal a line from Shakespeare.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2017

Small businesses across the United States have a sanguine view of near-term prospects, with plans to hire more staff in the face of an anticipated pickup in demand, Reuters reported, citing data from the New York Federal Reserve. That anticipation might lead to solid hiring trends across the next several months.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2020

Alternative lenders, major banks and newer FinTechs have added new ways for data sharing to expand access to capital for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), with industry collaboration at the center of many of these efforts. In the United States, U.S. iwoca Drives SMB Lending Ecosystem Connectivity.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Just this week, investors in Starwood Capital Group started to show signs of strain after the pandemic shuttered stores and wiped out emergency cash reserves, leading to default on a $700 million loan. And the United States is filled with other shopping options, particularly in the most desirable regions. “If

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Stripe aims to empower more companies from this region to export their creativity and ambition to the rest of the world.”. 5) the launch of Stripe Capital to simplify the way internet companies can access funds. It remains difficult for online businesses to get access to capital. It’s now available all over the United States.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

Arkansas managed to pull ahead of its general region, which had been among the fastest-growing subsets of the United States, with 4.1 But that was topped a bit by the state itself, which showed a little more zoom over the same period, at 4.2 By The Store Front Numbers .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Cross-border online sales in the United States as a share of total eCommerce surged by 40 percent in May compared to the same month in 2019, and the rate of growth was six times higher than in the previous month. The year-over-year increase in cross-border online sales was even more dramatic in other regions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

According to data from the latest Store Front Business Index TM (SFBI), a collaboration between CAN Capital and PYMNTS.com, these small businesses are growing faster than the U.S. Other highlights of the study include: In Q2 2015, specific improvement was driven regionally by 4.1% What we saw and heard might surprise you. .

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APRIL 26, 2016

Through the PYMNTS/CAN Capital Store Front Business Index , we’ve been tracking the data on business health and growth in each state and then stacking those results against the regional and national picture. at large or the region. percent and were the highest-scoring metric, at least for the state.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Since 2012, investments into the region have nearly tripled. GIC, Tiger Global Management, ICONIQ Capital.

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MAY 1, 2019

at Export Development Canada (EDC), said that before products like trade finance , bank capital and trade credit insurance come into play, supporting SMBs’ ability to find and choose the right customers and markets across borders is key. often lands in a neighboring state. Robert Pelletier, who is the chief representative, U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2018

In terms of regions, Mexico saw the most toy industry growth at 15 percent for the first half of the year. Brazil and the United States closely followed, with 11 percent and 7 percent growth respectively. In terms of regions, North America – driven by the United States – is the largest part of the world for toy sales.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

In the United States, those transactions were $507 billion, compared with $465 billion last year, representing 9 percent growth. He called out renewals with Citibank and said Mastercard is also expecting to announce a renewal/extension with Capital One. The headline numbers show that Mastercard’s adjusted earnings of $1.96

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Founded in 2002, simPRO secured $31 million in growth capital in 2016 as part of an aggressive product innovation and expansion strategy. “By partnering with Square’s trusted payment platform, we are simplifying the billing and invoicing process for our customers.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

In the wake of the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement (the framework that outlines trade tariffs between the U.S., Mexico and Canada), analysts predict long-term impacts to supply chains as organizations adjust to shifting profit flows and supplier agreements.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

This region has the kind of energy that draws people to a place and helps them and their businesses thrive. That year, installations further south, in the region that includes Brownsville and Corpus Christi, supported an estimated 41,000 jobs and contributed about $4.6 billion to the state’s output. By Mindy Charski.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2017

With 30 percent of the app-driven ridesharing trips taken in the United States, a decade into its journey, Lyft is proving to be a formidable Uber competitor. That comes amid some anti-Uber backlash, but also as Lyft has put force in the form of capital in fundraising and marketing efforts. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

With the selldown of the Africa business – in a business that serves a region where the company has been for more than a century – minority ownership will effectively take the business off of Barclays’ books.

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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.”. based startup called Duffel. Payments Cost.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The United States is vast, with market fluctuations across state lines. Union Bank decided to examine the state of small businesses in the country but with a focus on the West Coast. On Thursday (Feb. 25), Union Bank released the results of that analysis.

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JULY 4, 2016

Today the United States celebrates Independence Day, with cookouts and fireworks and no dearth of parades. However, the unity that has marked cross-border money movement in that region may be enjoying numbered days. . That’s why an exit from Brexit might be in the cards – especially if capital flows slowly between the U.K.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

That’s the amount that Klook — a startup based in Hong Kong, which focuses on the travel industry — raised in funding earlier this month, eyeing a continued push into the United States and Europe. The users themselves come from more than 80 countries and regions, he said. There are macro tailwinds in place, he told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2016

. “PacNet, an international payments processor and money services business, has a lengthy history of money laundering by knowingly processing payments on behalf of a wide range of mail fraud schemes that target victims in the United States and throughout the world,” the Treasury wrote.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In some ways, Belk department store is the last of a dying breed — and not just because it is a department store in the United States in the year 2017. Small and regional — outside of the Southeastern United States, most people haven’t heard of it.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. Now that cannabis is recreationally legal in eight states and medically legal in another 19 states, it may not be too much longer until it’s legal through the entire United States.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Kirk has a decade of experience running treasury and capital markets for large fleet companies, and is well known on the capital markets side. Its Getaround Connect device now operates in the United States, as well as in seven European countries: Norway, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Belgium and the U.K.

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