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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

based online grocery, is heightening its automation drive by acquiring two robotics companies. Owning Kindred Systems of San Francisco and Haddington Dynamics of Las Vegas will help Ocado tackle “one of the world’s hardest challenges in robotics, the picking and packing of groceries,” the company said in a press release on Monday (Nov.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

“As we respond to the urgent challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and look forward to our economic recovery, we can’t lose sight of our long-term financial situation,” said San Francisco Mayor London Breed in a press release. The New York Times reported that remote work has meant many San Franciscans have fled the Bay area.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

Instacart now delivers from Walmart locations in three California markets — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — as well as Tulsa, Oklahoma,” Instacart said in a statement. Amazon, for its part, said online grocery sales tripled in its latest quarter. percent.

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APRIL 30, 2020

The startup Flutterwave , which picked up $35 million last year in venture funding, has launched an online portal that will enable African businesses to set up online shops. The company told TechCrunch that its newly launched product, called Flutterwave Store, is not a shift away from the company’s core online payments business.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Citizens Bank is generating one-third of its mortgage applications online, thanks to a suite of tools the company rolled early this year and a partnership with San Francisco-based fintech firm Blend.

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MAY 2, 2019

s downtown San Francisco headquarters once featured many of the lavish perks booming tech companies use to attract workers and keep them happy once they’re hired: kitchens stocked with snacks, mini-golf, a Foosball table, an in-house spa. Now the online-lending pioneer is cutting back on the amenities, and the workforce too.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— Shares of San Francisco-based online lender, LendingClub, fell as much as 11% yesterday after the company missed profit estimates and more than doubled its losses in its fourth quarter. The lender also grew its originations from last year, though its growth in that area remained flat from 3Q17.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Power research shows that the number of customers doing their credit applications online has kicked into high gear. Consumers and Banks Both Like Online Auto Loans. Consumers are apparently so glad to dump the back-office haggle between dealer and bank that roughly one-third of car buyers are now doing the loan process online, J.D.

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JUNE 18, 2019

San Francisco-based corporate card startup Brex today launched a corporate card specifically tailored to companies in the life sciences industry.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For Aura, an online lending platform for low-income families, reaching underbanked borrowers means going beyond the bank setting and working with retailers to reach customers who may be overlooked by traditional lenders.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – When the co-founders of FitPay, a contactless payment technology provider, agreed to be acquired by security tech company NXT-ID back in May, the primary goal behind the deal was to enable growth for the San Francisco-based startup. And grow it did.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

More than 20 online eCigarette retailers are being sued by New York City for allegedly selling to children. 9) stop 22 online sellers from being allowed to either market or offer eCigarettes to anyone younger than 21. . The company is a defendant in a litany of lawsuits consolidated in San Francisco and awaiting pre-trial actions.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

After a tumultuous few weeks, online student lender Social Finance, or SoFi as it is better known, is withdrawing its bank license application. A few weeks […].

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JULY 16, 2020

Online learning is likely to become even more prevalent in the months ahead, with many summer camps canceled and questions remaining about how schools will reopen in the fall. The global market for online learning services was projected to grow 28.6 It is now pegging its near-term future on online classes.

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MARCH 7, 2018

This is according to a panel on the subject during Bank Innovation 2018, which wrapped up yesterday in San Francisco. EXCLUSIVE–The potential use cases of blockchain technology in banking continue to captivate bankers, but topics like cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, may be losing a bit of their edge.

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MARCH 9, 2018

EXCLUSIVE - On March 6 in San Francisco, 12 impressive startups demoed their latest in fintech technology at INV Fitnech's 2nd annual demo day. INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, is partnered with Fiserv and eight banking partners with over $3 trillion dollars in assets.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

A battle royale will take place in San Francisco next week that could change the way that gig , online and ride-sharing entities do business, according to Bloomberg. The fees that sharing-economy firms charge online are under attack. San Francisco has a housing crisis. Communications Decency Act.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

San Francisco-based Chipper got its start building a base in the P2P payments sector in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda and Ghana. The startup has since expanded into eCommerce with a service targeted at retailers and other online merchants, Chipper Checkout. Ribbit Capital, a VC firm in the U.S.

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MAY 18, 2018

The San Francisco-based challenger bank just crossed the one-million accounts mark, Britt told Bank Innovation, over a span of less than […]. Neobanks, better established across the Atlantic in Europe, are starting to grow up in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

CoverHound, the online property and casualty insurance platform operator, announced Tuesday (Feb. In a press release , the San Francisco startup that has sold more than 200,000 policies online said the Series D funding round was led by global insurer Hiscox and included participation from Chubb, Aflac Ventures, MS&AD of Japan.

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MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

More than 20 online eCigarette retailers are being sued by New York City for allegedly selling to children. 9) stop 22 online sellers from being allowed to either market or offer eCigarettes to anyone younger than 21. . The company is a defendant in a litany of lawsuits consolidated in San Francisco and awaiting pre-trial actions.

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APRIL 22, 2020

In a post on Amazon’s blog on Wednesday (April 22), Barbara Abbott, vice president of supply chain at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, said that in addition to San Francisco, the initiative has launched in Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, Orlando, Seattle and Washington, D.C.,

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APRIL 7, 2017

LendingClub’s former CEO, Renaud Laplanche, who stepped down in May, sending shockwaves throughout the online lending industry, is gearing up to launch a new lender online called Upgrade. According to a report in Fortune , Upgrade of San Francisco, Calif., Laplanche acknowledged loan missteps at LendingClub when he left.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

The San Francisco-based bank disclosed the plan in a job posting today. Wells Fargo & Co. will add additional enterprise-level digital capabilities, APIs, and SDKs to its Home Lending platform. The additional APIs and SDKs should allow more integrations with other technology services and applications.

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MARCH 28, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— San Francisco-based startup Denizen wants to create a new way of banking, by providing users with a “borderless” bank account that doesn’t come with all of the hassle and pain points of international finance, co-founder and CEO Joaquin Ayuso de Paul told Bank Innovation.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This makes sense, since the San Francisco-based digital bank’s mobile app is currently only available on iOS. EXCLUSIVE- SME banking app, Seed, is gearing up to roll out a tool that supports Apple iPhone X’s new Face ID feature, Bank Innovation learned.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

The San Francisco-based fintech used to charge its customers $9 per month, but after conducting a survey, CEO Brian Merritt told Bank Innovation that he realized Seed could serve customers better by being free. EXLUSIVE – SME-focused digital bank Seed is nixing its monthly fee and will now be free for customers.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Aura, a San Francisco-based fintech offering affordable loans to low to moderate-income households, wants to partner with banks to offer those loans to consumers who have traditionally been unable to secure them from larger institutions.

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MARCH 2, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – Anand Talwar, deposits and consumer strategy executive at Ally Bank has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2018, taking place next week March 5 to 6 in San Francisco. He also is responsible for.Read More.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The new capability works through an integration with TD Ameritrade Institutional’s Self-Directed Plan Services platform, which should expand the long-term value of the San Francisco- based Lively’s HSA offering. Healthcare Savings Account provider Lively Inc. has raised $4.2 The feature […].

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JANUARY 31, 2021

The release stated, in part: “The acquisition provides FLEETCOR with a proven, modern automation platform for B2B online bill payment. Roger was founded by two Danes and has offices in Copenhagen and San Francisco. FLEETCOR is based in Atlanta.

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APRIL 12, 2016

Paymentwall, a San Francisco online payments company, announced today that it has integrated its payment services into the Shetab, which is Iran’s “unified, electronic clearance system for the entire Iranian banking operations that allows it to facilitate transactions from Read More.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Adyen , a FinTech whose payments platform is used by merchants and retailers around the world, is teaming up with San Francisco-based installment payment company Affirm in a new partnership, the companies announced on Tuesday (Nov. This can be done either online or in-store using a QR code, the companies said.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

But consolidation looms, according to some observers, and online food delivery services will eventually have to shift more focus away from consumers and toward restaurant operators in order to thrive in a crowded marketplace. Testing was set for early 2019 in the San Francisco area. Postmates Funding. Food Delivery Pivot?

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AUGUST 16, 2017

Alipay, the Chinese digital payment arm of Alibaba, announced news that it has teamed up with online review website Yelp to bring Yelp’s local content to millions of Chinese travelers directly within Alipay’s mobile lifestyle and payment app. Additional cities and countries will be added in 2017, Alipay said in the release.

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JUNE 22, 2016

San Francisco-based Ripple announced that seven global banks have joined its network to improve their cross-border payments experience. Real-time international payments are not far over the horizon anymore. Among the banks are Santander, UniCredit, UBS, ReiseBank, CIBC, National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), and ATB Financial.

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