PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

In the life of a startup, there’s no better news than growth, be it across new verticals, devices or geographies. As startups such as DadeSystems , FitPay and Jewel Paymentech expand across devices and functions, Tipalti , AvidXchange and Emailage announce new growth for their local, national and global footprints.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Singapore-based FinTech startup InstaReM , which enables banks and consumers to send money across borders , announced a partnership with First Data to assist businesses that issue corporate credit cards. The most recent round was led by Vertex Ventures’ global growth fund and Atinum Investment in South Korea. million.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This week, RPA startup Automation Anywhere made waves with its $300 million investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund, reports said Thursday (Nov. The investment now values Automation Anywhere at $2.6 The investment now values Automation Anywhere at $2.6 CEC Capital also participated, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

Andreessen Horowitz is aiming to start a new cryptocurrency investment fund and to get $450 million for that endeavor, even as the global pandemic spooks most investors into conservative standpoints for now. Horowitz boasted a $350 million haul raised in 2018 to go toward startups. The firm did not comment on that.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

In other news, digital currency startup DX.Exchange is intending to roll out a trading platform that will let clients buy tokens that represent shares of Nasdaq-listed tech firms, Coindesk reported. In order to buy the tokens, clients will reportedly be able to use fiat currencies and certain digital currencies.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

No one knows just what Brexit will mean for commerce, for international trade, for currencies across the Continent. The data compiled into the beginning of the fourth quarter, and as reported by London & Partners and Innovate Finance, showed that more than $ 2 billion had been invested across 114 deals for firms based in that city.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

That goal has a roadmap in place through Minister of Finance Paschal Donohoe, who debuted a multi-point plan to increase the number from the 44,000 currently employed within the financial sector. The company focuses on mobile payments and wearables, and has operations that span 25 countries and nearly two dozen currencies. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

In other news, “blockchain developer” is the number-one position in LinkedIn’s 2018 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced that two crypto startups failed to comply with securities laws. Emerging Jobs Report.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Today in PYMNTS data, blockchain and blockchain-adjacent startups are seeing record-breaking venture capital (VC) funding, Australia’s big banks are implementing faster payments, no-show customers are impacting industries everywhere, FinTech funding has spiked and new real-time, decision-making platforms are helping fight fraud.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

As detailed by NPR, though at least some verticals, such as grocery stores, accept card transactions (and thus see at some volume of contactless payments), a significant number of smaller businesses rely on cash to keep revenues coming in. Germany trailed at seventh place, with 100 FinTech startups and $3 billion in funding.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The regulatory framework for bitcoin is a mess in Mexico, as it is in most countries, but Bitso, a bitcoin exchange startup, sees a future in Mexico and Latin America. ” Bitso was founded in 2014, and the startup has just raised $2.5 Bitso Eyes The Latin Market. “We almost have no speculative players in our exchange.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

In the January PYMNTS.com B2B API Tracker , powered by FI.SPAN, the numbers present a picture of the B2B payments ecosystem embracing APIs to become faster, more agile, and more global. million: the value of investments for B2B eCommerce companies in 2017 , a seven-year high, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Despite the increasing number of competitors, it is indeed an industry of which Klook proudly considers itself the leader, he noted. There are also other startups with similar offerings, like Peek, Culture Trip and Headout. Booking.com added activity bookings recently, as did TripAdvisor and Airbnb.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 14, 2024

By carefully prioritizing their tasks and responsibilities, CFOs can effectively navigate their broad and varied role, ensuring that their time and efforts are invested in areas with the highest impact on the company’s success.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

At the onset of Industry 4.0 , the drive toward supply chain digitization is fueling massive investments in Internet of Things (IoT), smart sensors and connected devices. Digitization is a big trend, and data is the new currency. Retailers and logistics companies, they need a lot more data, and they want it in real time.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

Patent and Trademark Office last week, describes how a semi-private or private blockchain could be used to receive and store identity data, including a “name, a street address, tax identification number” and more. Last year, Mastercard announced that it will be opening up access to its blockchain technology through its developer’s API.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

And global payments platform Currencycloud has teamed up with Evarvest, a startup based in Lithuania, Currencycloud said in an announcement. Evarvest offers a way for users to invest in bonds, stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFS) “like a local” per the announcement. Mark Judd, managing director of CDS Global in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

He believes the People’s Bank of China merely wants to limit investor risk and not, as many fear, crack down hard or outright ban the digital currency. Despite its volatility, bitcoin continues to find itself gaining quick traction in new world markets, especially where national currency finds itself in a tough spot.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

While mint chocolate chip ice-cream might be the way to a foodie’s heart, MintChip digital currency is not the way to a millennial’s mobile wallet, apparently — at least not in Liberty Village, Toronto. The statistics get even better as the daily average number of mobile payments increased almost 83 percent to 810,000.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Management pointed to currency headwinds and at least some reclassifications of YouTube and other offerings. Mastercard’s results show the traction that tech-driven efforts to get money across time zones and currencies is gaining: The firm said cross-border volumes were up in the mid-teen growth rates and will stay that way through the year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

It’s all about options, and — from choosing a preferred airline, travel time, number of stops and hotel chain, to deciding between more leg room or no leg room — travelers have lots of choices. But, as it turns out, it isn’t just currencies. Once the itinerary is chosen, though, the payment options aren’t necessarily as plentiful.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

Zooz pulls data from all of a merchant’s financial solutions and third-party integrations into one central, easily visible portal, which has a number of benefits. It helps optimize transaction acceptance rates by showing which card types or currencies are most likely to be declined. million in four investment rounds.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Teoh shared with us her thoughts on some of the gender-related challenges at work and how to overcome them, advice on how to deal with the new normal as a finance executive, and how she reimagines borderless digital currencies as a “point junkie”. Sereen Teoh, CFO, BIG Loyalty. FutureCFO: Can you share with me your finance career journey?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

The analytics tool is designed for SMBs and startups without access to financial analytics platforms. Sigma is also a great option for companies that aren’t ready to invest in developing custom analytics applications – either because of budget constraints or size.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

alone, the number of accelerators grew from 16 programs to 27 in 2009, to 49 in 2010, before eventually reaching 170 programs in 2014. And across the globe, there are 387 accelerators and counting, which have invested nearly $192 million in startups and up-and-coming businesses. In the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

After all, money on hand can be used immediately to pay bills, invest or make purchases — to grow a business or put a family on firmer financial standing. Additionally, an account-to-account transaction can become seriously derailed by an error like an incorrect bank account number. Payment speed can be dragged down in many ways.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. And in 2017, those investments were off-the-charts nuts. Consider the money being poured into it.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

AS: There are a host of benefits for insurers to switch to smart contracts and digital currencies. There are a growing number of sectors that are finding relevant solutions: healthcare, automotive, retail and, of course, finance and insurance. Also, adapting digital currencies can allow new methods of transferring payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

The latest data on blockchain investments and adoption offer more concrete evidence of this trend. Many customers shop online for various reasons [including] ease of shopping, comfort of shopping, to save time and any number of other reasons that customers have for shopping online,” Walmart said in its filing.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2017

In fact, the most common Kool-Aid idioms involve not drinking it – something for which we at PYMNTS have been proud flag bearers on a number of fronts, often years before the “Kool-Aid” stopped being drunk. Hey, we warned you guys: Don’t drink [that Kool-Aid] and drive or make investment or strategy decisions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Data Point Number One: 55 Percent. Think of the logistics behind “one-to-many” or “many-to-many” transactions, which can number in the thousands. And as Laven stated, in his own firm’s purview, APIs focus on cross-currency payments. Data Point Number Two: 64 Percent. Data Point Number 3: $36 billion. B2B payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2017

The currency is a casualty of last year’s vote and is down 13 percent in the past year, as measured against the euro, and as measured post-vote. The trade industry entity known as Innovate Finance estimated earlier this year that investment in the U.K.’s One reason for the exodus is simply financial. holds less appeal post-Brexit.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Tricentis just scored one of the biggest funding rounds for a B2B startup in a while — raising $165 million — for its software testing solution. According to Sandeep Johri, CEO of Tricentis , the investment reflects just how large the software testing industry is and how much enterprises are willing to spend on automated solutions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The new version of the App Store was crafted to drive more app discovery and downloads through the separation of apps and games, increased investment in editorial content and features like “App of the Day,” which gives exposure to different developers daily. Third Party. What about all that malicious software?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

But with London itself being one of the world’s biggest FinTech centers, the real question that’s yet to be answered is how the Brexit fallout will impact the various merchants, startups and VCs that call the city home. There’s also increased concerns about shipping physical goods with the potential for crazy currency swings.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

In this week’s edition of PYMNTS’ Weekly Tech Center Roundup , we head back to Europe to explore Germany’s “startup capital” and learn about the thriving ecosystem where a new startup is born every 20 minutes. . In 2015, Deutsche Startup Monitor found that a third of startups in Germany reside in Berlin.

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The Finance Weekly

APRIL 13, 2024

These tools offer capabilities ranging from spending tracking and improved budgeting to making informed investment choices. This type of software assists users in closely monitoring their expenditures and crafting efficient budgets, as well as guiding them through the nuances of investment decisions. Streamline manual data.

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