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.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Another California cybersecurity startup, Contrast Security, announced $65 million in Series D funding this week. Contrast Security.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Current numbers put the price at $769.79 Mitsui Sumitomo, a Japanese insurance provider, announced plans last week to offer a new product exclusively for cryptocurrency. Ernst & Young clients will be able to settle auditing invoices and advisory services with the currency. today (Dec. at the time of writing.

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Currencies Startups Auditing Invoicing 64

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 4, 2019

Elliptic collaborated with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the data set, which was taken from 200,000 bitcoin transactions worth $6 billion — the largest set of labeled transaction data publicly available in any digital currency in the world. A big problem with compliance, in general, is false positives.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

The company had been planning to sell its flagship eCommerce business by the end of February, using the funds from the sale towards its blockchain projects. dollar token that’s fully backed by funds on deposit with a qualified SEC custodian, as well as other digital currencies, to facilitate settlement.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 14, 2024

They play a crucial role in strategic planning, risk management, and driving innovation, extending their influence far beyond the finance department. This proactive approach to risk management supports more resilient business planning and strategy formulation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

Here’s what some of the biggest names in payments and commerce are planning with this burgeoning technology. However, CEO Andy Jassy said at November’s re:Invent conference that AWS did not have any plans to dive into the blockchain pool “just because we think it’s cool.” In 2016, Rakuten acquired a bitcoin wallet startup, Bitnet.

Currencies 47

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

” That’s the philosophy of Shake, a new startup in the bitcoin world that is (unsurprisingly) trying to pitch a payment method that doesn’t involve banks, governments or regulators. Instead, its latest product rollout is all about making bitcoin and digital currency payments easier to make. So, how does Shake work ?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

As startup Tipalti looks ahead to its global expansion, these were the questions on leadership’s mind, so the company conducted a study to find out. Adapting back-office operations around international realities and planning for a larger footprint were other common strategies, along with hiring enough help to support international growth.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

But apart from the poll results, the numbers flooding out of news stories on the Brexit paint a picture of confusion, uncertainty and debate. A 500 percent increase in currency transfers by U.K. dollar marked the steepest decline for the currency in more than three decades, analysts said. 1,500 F inTech startups 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.

Currencies 41

Currencies Economics Banking Finance 41

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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Currencies Transportation Startups Securities 79

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In this week’s Bitcoin Tracker, bitcoin soars, then settles down and plans for its yearly sale abound. Switzerland gives bitcoin a hand by way of rail ticket machine sales, an Australian startup banks on the aptly named Dash and Zcash fervor fades. But as markets saw their prices fall, bitcoin’s numbers went up.

Math 76

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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. The service will first come to the facilities of Dorak Holding, which is a firm that manages a number of merchants in Turkey and plans tourist activities.

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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?

CFO 52

CFO Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Leadership Finance 52

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

In a recent interview with PYMNTS, Brisker – Mezu’s co-founder and CEO – shared the challenges the startup has had to surmount, what lies ahead and his ultimate vision for creating a worldwide digital replacement for cash. where the startup is based. Why Cash Still Reigns. Around the world, $8.1 Growth Trajectory. First stop?

Startups 47

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Each user starts with a base number of points to invite people — ones they do or don’t know yet — to their events. The user is rewarded with points when they organize events — lunches and dinners — and the number of reward points is based on how many seats there are at the table. PYMNTS: Every startup has bumps and hurdles.

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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.

Currencies 43

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

According to news from Cointelegraph , venture capital funding for blockchain and blockchain-adjacent startups (which use technologies like bitcoin, Ethereum and other virtual currencies) this year is on track to exceed 2017 funding in this industry.

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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

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. Some Things You Probably Didn’t Need To Know About Kool-Aid (Including Its Prison Currency). For example, as hair dye.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

The shopping startup has gained some strong traction so far — ranking as number one among U.S. The firm’s plan is to use cash-back rewards to disrupt the traditional advertising industry. Dosh at this point is a purely physical retail targeted concept — and as of now Dosh has no plans to enter into eCommerce. .

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Advertising Entertainment Startups Accounting 60

Onplan

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Finance professionals and teams today have numerous solutions available to help them plan, budget, forecast, and analyze financial information. In this buyer’s guide to the best FP&A software, we’ll provide an overview of the top financial planning and analysis tools to consider. However, not all FP&A tools are created equal.

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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. This time of uncertainty has left many unable to really plan a next move. With the U.K. With the U.K.

Currencies 41

Currencies Benchmarking eCommerce Valuation 41

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. startup focused on communications offerings for businesses, has signaled its intent to open its first London office this year. One reason for the exodus is simply financial.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

18), a San Francisco startup launched by sending roughly 60,000 credit cards to consumers living in northern California. This startup was a bank, and its innovation was a single card that could be used by consumers to purchase things on credit from many different merchants. The startup was Visa , of course. Today, Visa counts 3.3

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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. In 2011, Buffett made a $10 billion investment in the company in support of then-new CEO Ginni Rometty’s turnaround plans.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

Those weaknesses have been officially explained in-house — but also by analysts — as the culminating effects of consumers less inclined toward big-ticket items, currency headwinds and a less than totally well-timed weakening in Blue Nile’s core product: engagement jewelry. metro Area and one in Portland.

Retail 40

Retail Sales Forecasting Currencies 40

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

All investors have their own vetting criteria when assessing the potential of a startup and run wannabe unicorns through their paces using that criteria when they come calling. What’s The Ignition Plan? Webster also raised the issue of time, an important currency in getting a matchmaker up and running and on its way to critical mass.

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The Finance Weekly

APRIL 13, 2024

The finance industry employs a multitude of software solutions to facilitate budget creation, and financial reporting, and to assist financial analysts and investors with financial planning and forecasting. This allows finance teams to execute planning, analysis, and collaboration activities with exceptional rapidity and assurance.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

And to make sure that everyone starts off 2016, Part II on the same footing, we thought we would bring you a few of the top trending stories, as well as hot data/research topics, that will give you a head start on that all-important planning for 2016 and beyond. These businesses — we call them Store Fronts — number 3.8 Digital Banking.

Retail 41

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

Say hello to the payments industry’s 83-year-old startup. That would be UATP (Universal Air Travel Plan), the oldest payment scheme in the world, founded by American Airlines in 1936. An 83-year-old that Kaiser said can be nimble, flexible and make changes quickly — on the fly, as it were.

Startups 42

Startups B2B Marketing Sales 42

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

But highly specialized startups aren’t the only ones playing around with distributed ledger technology (DLT). The third bill calls for the creation of a blockchain task force by the state government, and the fourth aims to create a digital currency task force, reports said.

Currencies 50

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In terms of headline numbers, the company logged $10.7 International Payments: Strong growth lies ahead for payments across borders as Bill.com reports that it now facilitates international payments across 106 currencies and 137 countries. The firm’s latest earnings illustrate the sizzle of its strategy.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

While there didn’t seem to be an apparent reason for the gains, the currency climbed close to $1,000 over 24 hours on Coinbase. As digital currencies – such as bitcoin – become more popular, a growing number of lawyers are encountering the currency in separations. are already accepting digital currencies.

Currencies 41

Currencies Startups Banking Economics 41

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Though it may seem that China has dominated patent filing activity in recent weeks, a number of firms (not Alibaba ) have been making their own way across the patent landscape. The number of transactions/settlements is on the rise, though, and there is strain on current infrastructure. Carrying Blockchain Into The Carrier Space.

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