PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

With $68 million in combined venture capital funding, this week’s B2B FinTech investments are certainly not the highest they’ve been, but considering the current market, the latest rounds remain impressive nonetheless. Wise didn’t reveal exactly what it plans to do with the funding. and Mexico. and Mexico.

Banking 66

Banking B2B Accounts Payable eCommerce 66

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Millions of users across Southeast Asia use the Gojek platform for payments, food delivery, transportation and logistics. Gojek and Telkomsel have worked together for more than two years and plan to leverage their combined scale to reach millions of people across Indonesia. .

Transportation 52

Transportation Advertising Leverage Investments 52

Future CFO

JULY 13, 2020

The on-going COVID-19 pandemic has irrevocably disrupted the global economy at an unprecedented scale – forcing manufacturing facilities to shut down, grounding thousands of land, air and sea transportation, and compelling companies to adapt work-from-home arrangement when authorities put quarantine measures in place.

Planning 52

Planning Finance Manufacturing Advertising 52

CFO Share

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While most businesses bemoan the impact of high inflation, savvy Entrepreneurs can leverage the environment to reduce risk and seize the opportunities, boosting long-term profits and gaining market share. Invest in automation. Inflationary periods are great times to take out loans and invest in automation.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Transportation Economics Budgeting 52

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Satyan Merchant, senior vice president and automotive business leader at TransUnion, said that “while the overall percentage of auto accounts leveraging financial accommodation programs has been declining, there were approximately 3.8 More consumers have sought to buy cars as a result of urban flight or to avoid public transportation.

Sales 85

Sales Banking Manufacturing Finance 85

PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Whether it's wardrobe, diet, transportation, communications, office space, work hours or more, it’s widely acknowledged that work is going to a mix of the old and the new. At the same time, companies like REI , Zillow , Square and Twitter have announced plans to extend remote work either indefinitely or permanently.

Transportation 113

Transportation Retail Communication Planning 113

CFO Thought Leader

MAY 23, 2023

I had this very detailed pitch planned, but when we sat down, the client said to me, ‘There’s absolutely no chance that you’re ever going to do one of my projects,’” remembers Healy, who adds that for the next 30 minutes, the client listed all of the specific terms that he would expect in a purchase agreement. Think about this: 8%!

CFO 52

CFO Manufacturing Finance Transportation 52

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

Other capital expenditures went to fulfillment, transportation and investments in Amazon Web Services (AWS). What that means is that we can flex into space normally used for second-half peak demand, despite the strong operating leverage in Q2. In other words: Amazon says it can do better. stores by consolidating divisions.

Transportation 57

Transportation eCommerce Retail CFO 57

PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2018

The most recent support came from Temasek, a global-investment powerhouse backed by the Singaporean government, and Sailing Capital, a state-owned Chinese investment fund. According to TechCrunch , this trickle-down approach to scale was the plan from the beginning – and it worked for Tesla, so why not for burgers?

Transportation 40

Transportation Manufacturing CFO Leverage 40

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

It plans to use this new funding to expands its general team, as well as the management team. The service works by leveraging excess space in storage facilities, convenience stores or malls, allowing them to act as fulfillment centers via smartphone. This latest round brings Darkstore’s total raise to more than $30 million.

eCommerce 43

eCommerce Transportation Leverage Startups 43

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

To borrow an old investment maxim, when it comes to pricing any holding, there’s a difference between those who vote and those who weigh. Well, merchants and all manner of enterprises need to be willing to accept bitcoin as both a store of value and a fluid mechanism of transporting that value between parties in a transaction.

Currencies 75

Currencies Transportation Investments Leverage 75

PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Jiobit hopes to change that with its flagship tracker by leveraging wireless technology and machine learning that adapts to a child’s daily behavior. The next wave of innovation, whether it’s in transportation, health or at home, will come from great teams at the intersection of both.

Startups 40

Startups Math Transportation Leverage 40

Future CFO

MARCH 15, 2020

activating governance plans for emerging tech. powering innovation by leveraging data and being agile. Among the large corporate respondents, Europe leads the way in transformation, with 53% of corporates in the region stating they are making good progress on transformation plans, followed by Asia-Pacific (47%) and the Americas (35%).

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Startups Transportation Leadership 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

Said CFO Vasant Prabhu on the call: “So we are leveraging distributed ledgers already in the B2B space and B2B Connect is now ready for launch. So this is clearly a central element of our future growth plans.”. Postmates: Delivering on its expansion plans to keep, well, delivering, the company has said it is entering 1,000 more cities.

B2B 49

B2B Reconciliations CFO Transportation 49

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Before starting a company that leverages existing food delivery platforms to sell snacks and candy, a Canadian entrepreneur noticed an interesting trend: There were delivery-only “restaurants” coming onto the scene that only served customers who ordered from Uber Eats. “In The initial investment was low, which lowered the risk of the venture.

Transportation 46

Transportation Leverage Startups Investments 46

PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

Apple flipped a long-held policy in opening up the iPhone’s NFC chip to developers, Chase decided that it can afford to make its premier rewards card a bit less rewarding and Uber took a pass on an investment from Warren Buffet. Some hotel rooms can already be opened by iPhones, but that is leveraging Bluetooth technology, not NFC.).

Valuation 40

Valuation Leverage Investments Transportation 40

PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

Any company planning a new promotion wants that campaign to connect with the right customers, specifically those who are most likely to take advantage of it. Hundreds of customers walk through grocery stores’ doors every week, each with different purchasing plans and shopping habits. Zeroing In On Shopper Segments.

Sales 52

Sales Retail Leverage Data Analysis 52

PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2017

Department of Transportation’s national count in 2016, there were 3,378 bike-share docking stations across 104 U.S. The company’s vision, he noted, is simply a natural fit with the development and direction of urban planning globally these days. That is a concern, Bohnert noted, though one that Mobike has three ways of solving.

Transportation 48

Transportation Startups Concentration Leverage 48

PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

The investment that needs to be made here isn’t just in choice, but also in presenting choices to consumers in an appealing way.”. Which means, he noted, marketplaces need to invest in artificial intelligence (AI). Sometimes things don’t go quite as planned on a trip, causing a consumer to initiate one.

Investments 42

Investments Transportation Leverage Retail 42

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The skill will most likely leverage Alexa’s expanding voice recognition capabilities. The eCommerce giant had previously indicated its plans for the Land Down Under but had not set a specific launch date. However, a search feature that let users track investments will be eliminated. Finally, while the U.S. on Thursday forward.

Nonprofit 46

Nonprofit Invoicing Construction Transportation 46

PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

We’re pleased with how customers are responding to the way we’re leveraging stores and eCommerce to make shopping faster and more convenient. All of which is good, he remarked, but raises concerns that Walmart is investing a lot to enable this growth and taking a big bite out of the firm’s profitability.

Profit and Loss 40

Profit and Loss eCommerce Sales Forecasting 40

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

Moreover, as Amazon is continually increasing its investment in delivery logistics, they are appearing as more a competitor on the horizon than a collaborator. The firm is also investing $1.5 The company has leased 40 cargo planes and plans to add 10 planes to its roster in the next few years. Amazon led that round.

eCommerce 40

eCommerce Retail Leverage Startups 40

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Those innovations did more than just leverage digital and connected devices to make it easier for consumers and businesses to interact and to effectively blend the online and offline worlds. In 2009, the Uber app introduced consumers to a whole new way of getting transportation and a way for black-car drivers with the capacity to serve them.

Transportation 89

Transportation Accounting B2B Securities 89

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But if you don’t, if you grew up in a market, where there’s not an investment bank, there’s nothing other than a branch bank for one of the multi-dimensional financials, then you’re not really going to have an understanding of what that career looks like at a young age. Kids that have an interest in investing.

Investments 56

Investments Finance Education Numbers 56

Bramasol

JANUARY 13, 2023

DSE in Transportation. The lines between content delivery and content creation have been blurred by telecom companies, such as AT&T, investing in studios or building internal creative divisions, followed by subsequent divestitures and retrenching to focus primarily on content delivery via telecom services. DSE in the Energy Sector.

SAP 90

SAP Compliance Leverage Entertainment 90

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Where the Investment Tracker logged anemic activity barely above the triple-digit level two weeks ago, in this past week PYMNTS saw a relatively staggering volume of fund flows. billion, was tied to a single deal, as SoftBank spent that amount to acquire Fortress Investment Group. What a difference a week makes. billion in total.

Investments 49

Investments Transportation Manufacturing Leverage 49

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Emily is the Senior Financial Planner for Archer Investment Management, a virtual Independent RIA based in Austin, Texas, that oversees $170 million of assets under management for nearly 170 families. Welcome back to the 312th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today’s podcast is Emily Rassam. Team Kitces.

Education 130

Education Planning Numbers Securities 130

Bramasol

APRIL 26, 2023

In this ongoing series about the Digital Solutions Economy™ (DSE) previous episodes have focused on DSE for specific industry segments such as DSE in telecom , media , electronics , medical devices , software/SaaS , semiconductors , transportation , energy , and utilities.

SAP 86

SAP Corporate Finance Compliance Invoicing 86

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cathy Marcus is co CEO and global COO of p GM Real Estate, a $208 billion investor in real estate, part of the giant real estate investment firm, PIM. There are few people in the world better situated to discuss commercial real estate investing from every perspective. I like the idea of kind of urban planning.

Investments 103

Investments Marketing Transportation Finance 103

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Target has invested in technology and acquisitions to keep its digital assets in-house. Walmart has relied on its massive ground and air transportation network to feed its eCommerce effort, most of which is fed through its distribution centers instead of stores. Q3 increase in eCommerce sales: Walmart, 79 percent; Target, 154 percent.

eCommerce 66

eCommerce Nonprofit Retail Transportation 66

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

All it took were three clicks of her ruby-red slippers and those five words to transport Dorothy back to Kansas and her beloved Auntie Em and Uncle Henry after she, her dog Toto and her farmhouse were uprooted and transported to the Land of Oz in a tornado. Apple is investing heavily to make sure they stay on that list.

Transportation 65

Transportation Sales Numbers Forecasting 65

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Over the years, its product mix expanded as data about consumer spending behaviors on and off Amazon was examined — and actioned by the Amazon team — leveraging the assets Amazon had built and the trust consumers placed in it as a trusted commerce go-to. percent) and transportation (1.9 Music followed for that same reason.

Healthcare 79

Healthcare Retail Sales eCommerce 79

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

It’s what Grab and Gojek are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to become in South Asia. They use investment apps to manage their money, and payment apps and digital wallets to store balances and pay for the things they want to buy. It’s what WeChat and Alipay already are in China, and what LINE is in Japan.

Banking 64

Banking Transportation Investments Advertising 64

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 60

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 60

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

So, if you are remotely interested in passive investing, ETFs, indexing, or Vanguard and Jack Bogle, you will find this to be an absolutely fascinating conversation. How did the expertise in ETFs and passive investing come about? I mean, he changed the whole investing world with that concept, but you’re right. BALCHUNAS: Sure.

Profit and Loss 64

Profit and Loss Marketing Investments Benchmarking 64

PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

No one is going to die over this (probably), but billions are going to be invested – and at the end, at least some of the districts may well be totally obliterated. Granted, it’s still a tiny sub-5 percent share, but it’s growing, and Amazon is the lead horse with lots of digital savvy and logistics to leverage. and with more planned.

Retail 40

Retail Sales Marketing Investments 40

PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

As part of an attempt to lower transportation costs, over the past year, Walmart has replaced dedicated contract carriers at distribution centers in Lewiston, Maine; Gas City, Indiana; and, most recently, in Washington Court House, Ohio, displacing fleets operated by Prime Inc., US Xpress Inc. and Schneider National Inc., respectively.

Retail 40

Retail Advertising eCommerce Sales 40