PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

From startups to blockchain and financial institutions, there has been a myriad of investing related news announced late this week. Here are the numbers: $2 billion | Amount Snapchat is predicted to lose in 2017. million | Amount of funding announced by food delivery startup JoyRun. $7 subprime lender.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

KuCoin , a digital currency exchange based in Singapore, has rolled out support for the trading of the Ripple XRP cryptocurrency, Cryptovest reported. The exchange will reportedly open withdrawals for the digital currency on Wednesday (Dec. The exchange will reportedly open withdrawals for the digital currency on Wednesday (Dec.

Currencies 59

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

The five-year-old London-based startup, which has 4 million customers in the United Kingdom, has applied to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a banking license. Monzo is reportedly planning to open up a new office in San Francisco, and also to increase the number of employees it has in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

In other news, Tim Draper is eyeing the early digital currency space in India, Cointelegraph reported. The billionaire investor said per Inc42 , as cited by the Cointelegraph report, “I met several Bitcoin and crypto startups while I was in India last week. I hope to be able to fund a number of them.”.

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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. iBanFirst enables businesses to transfer money from their bank accounts to an iBanFirst account, and allows those funds to be transferred into and held in 28 different currencies.

Accounts Payable 77

Accounts Payable Foreign Exchange Currencies Startups 77

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In Venezuela, citizens reportedly now need to use the country’s new Petro digital currency to pay for passports, Coindesk reported. A new passport will now come at the cost of two Petros, which is equivalent to 7,200 of the country’s bolivar currency. telephone number management.”

Currencies 70

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It also helped that high-value currency notes were banned that year and fueled digital payments as Walmart Inc., Mahendra Nerurkar , head of Amazon Pay in India, told the news service that the company’s goal is to boost the number of Amazon Pay users. Today, he said, the company has signed up 4 million merchants.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

To ensure the security of transactions, Apple Pay does not store card numbers in any device or server. Each device is assigned a device account number that is encrypted and securely stored. startup in history to raise £4 million in crowdfunding on Crowdcube. Customers can also change accounts when shopping.

Banking 56

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

Horowitz, which has been a supporter of Facebook’s divisive Libra currency since its inception, is one of the first firms with a large fund dedicated to cryptocurrencies. 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

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.,

Startups 75

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

Here are the numbers for recent digital payment developments: 10 | Number of markets where Google’s Android Pay is now available. 12 | Mastercard-guided FinTech acceleration program Russian FinTech startups participating to promote digital currency exploration.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

McDonald’s has halted operations in a number of cities amid the outbreak. Central banks are teaming up to explore digital currencies, and now Vodafone becomes the latest company to leave the Libra Association. Retailers such as Gucci and Nike had released new advertising campaigns and merchandise in anticipation of a spending deluge.

Economics 52

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Current numbers put the price at $769.79 Ernst & Young clients will be able to settle auditing invoices and advisory services with the currency. In India, the stage may be getting set for the digital currency revolution Stalder spoke of. Only two days in, and December has already been good to bitcoin. today (Dec.

Currencies 64

Currencies Startups Auditing Invoicing 64

PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

No one knows just what Brexit will mean for commerce, for international trade, for currencies across the Continent. As we noted, Paris may see a boost in startup and FinTech capital flows (and thus, new companies taking flight). The only certainty is that the effects will be far-reaching. from other areas in Europe.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2017

Data has effectively become the currency in which today’s tech-infused world places high value on. Here are the numbers: 2 – 0 | FTC’s vote to approve fraud complaint of fraudsters posing as lawyers in debt collection scheme. $31 7 million | Blockchain startup CoinDash’s lost funds in data breach.

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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. I think those places are very interesting.” Harsh words.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

And as reported by sites such as American Banker and National Law Review , a bipartisan group of senators is working on a bill that may reform the Bank Secrecy Act, which in turn may raise the threshold for reporting currency transaction reports to $30,000, from the current levels of $10,000.

Currencies 69

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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.

Startups 88

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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

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. 135: the number of currencies supported by Payment Rails ‘ new API and white label payment platform.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

Bitpay , a processor of digital currency payments, claims that it has handled more than $1 billion in transactions in 2018, Coindesk reported. And Coinbase has scooped up a California startup called Blockspring , which helps companies make use of data from application programming interfaces (APIs), 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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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

MARCH 19, 2019

dollar token that’s fully backed by funds on deposit with a qualified SEC custodian, as well as other digital currencies, to facilitate settlement. The World Wire network will support more than 50 countries, with more than 20 currencies and more than 30 banking endpoints. “As

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

He added that there will be a number of tests completed before a final decision is made on whether the technology should be used in Serenity. Crypto brokerage startup Voyager has announced it is going public on Canada’s TSX Venture Exchange through a reverse merger, valued at $60 million.

Currencies 56

Currencies Startups Technology Retail 56

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Doing this correctly requires providers to note which currencies and purchasing instruments consumers in each market prefer to use with recurring expenses. Failing to provide convenient currency options will be detrimental to businesses’ bottom lines. Credit cards tend to be popular in the U.S., but won’t cut it in the U.K.,

Marketing 43

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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

JULY 12, 2018

(The group seeks to connect segments of the crypto ecosystem from startups, investors, tech companies, academia, legal firms, legislators and established enterprises.) For one, consumers may not feel as easily devalued or shortchanged by merchants when their rewards are not given in fiat currency.

Startups 41

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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

AUGUST 22, 2018

The use cases have been multiplying across any number of private and public use cases. What would blockchain be without a startup or two, maybe with a famous name in the mix? Blockchain, blockchain everywhere – and maybe this is where the road gets racy. This week was and is not all about established players, though.

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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.

Foreign Exchange 40

Foreign Exchange Currencies Startups Valuation 40

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

Future CFO

JULY 29, 2021

Finance relies heavily on the cloud for analytics and insights to balance numbers with strategy, generate the results stakeholders crave and ensure staff aren’t overwhelmed by the data. It’s easier to build a data strategy over infrastructure when you’re starting from scratch, i.e. younger startups. billion in 2020.

CFO 59

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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.

Currencies 79

Currencies Transportation Startups Securities 79

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.

Startups 45

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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.

Currencies 52

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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. By automating management of multi-currencies, multi-entities, global payments and foreign transaction fees, he said organizations can minimize the number of new hires they must make to expand.

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