PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Enterprise spend management solution provider Coupa is expanding its offering with new features and a partnership with American Express, the companies said Wednesday (Nov. Coupa also announced the launch of Coupa Contract Lifecycle Management Advanced within its BSM platform, the result of its acquisition of Exari.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

PayPal said its full-stack processing platform, called PayPal for Partners, “allows Instagram to manage the end-to-end commerce experience for buyers and sellers,” according to a blog post from PayPal EVP and COO Bill Ready.

eCommerce 84

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Financial management is mission-critical to the health and vitality of small business (SMB), but it’s also one of the most difficult tasks for entrepreneurs and business owners that may have the skills to launch new products or services, but lack the accounting expertise to handle the numbers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In a press release , Visa, the exclusive payment technology partner of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, debuted three wearable payment devices, including NFC-enabled payment gloves, commemorative stickers and Olympic pins. “We The micro-tags can be attached to almost anything to make payments.

Retail 46

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

That is made possible by RFID tags on each item that alert the machine if the customer walked off with it. The seed round of funding was led by Spring Creek Investment Management and included participation by Bolt and Bessemer Venture Partners. There are many opportunities here to partner with various local food providers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Walmart has managed to survive and thrive through the pandemic mostly because it never lost its “essential” retail tag and because it finally made some real steps toward being an eCommerce company. Kroger has made progress on the online delivery front with Ocado and has a marketplace partner with Mirakl. Target has Shipt.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Inserts, packaging and leaflets can come with near-field communication (NFC) tags and quick-response (QR) codes to allow customers to sign as well as pay using their smartphones for their subscriptions. Mark Judd, managing director of CDS Global in the U.K. And, in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Businesses and financial institutions (FIs) are following suit, reordering their products and services for a new digital normal — but unfortunately, fraudsters are tagging along. Higher volumes of consumers are continuing to shop online even as brick-and-mortar stores reopen.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

The latest is global consulting firm McKinsey, whose new report has put a price tag on the potential of blockchain: $110 billion. Identify fraud and compliance management, like KYC and AML, are also high-value propositions for the tool. Only 6 percent have a fully implemented solution in place.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. The dreaded returns season has hit retail with a predictable but painful thud. But while the season is here, it doesn’t have to be a time of dread.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

Not only has its photo-processing software managed to endure the age of digital piracy, but a large part of Web and mobile entertainment options runs off its Flash product. As customers place items also equipped with RFID tags into the bag, those potential purchases are immediately registered to a central system.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

At the upper edge of the spectrum, students can be looking at a ~$330,000 total price tag for an education at an elite private college. And with price tags that large, there is going to be a generation of students who are by necessity going to be seeking private student loans. Lending-as-a-Service.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

In a press release , PayU said the price tag was undisclosed, but that the deal supports PayU’s expansion into high growth markets. The platform will include fraud management and real-time reporting. PayU had already been partners with ZOOZ — that gave PayU merchants access to 2.3

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Some of that money — supplied by investors such as Andreessen Horowitz , Nyca Partners and Max Levchin, founder and CEO of alternative lending startup Affirm — will go toward building an identity bureau, which will help lenders and financial firms verify identities. What It Is And How Much It Costs. Flavors Of Fraud.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

At Worldpay, our focus has always been on delivering more value to our clients and partners and making decisions that achieve our growth and performance objectives,” said Charles Drucker, executive chairman and CEO of Worldpay, in the same press release. merchant customers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

Adobe’s platform taps into a store’s existing customer relationship management (CRM) system and technology, such as beacons, radio-frequency identification (RFID) and Wi-Fi triangulation, among other options, Klein explained. Grocers also tend to have slim operating margins, making investment in new tech risky. If it costs $0.04

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Planful

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Spring20 expanded Dynamic Collaboration with threaded conversations and comments manager. They’re also partnering with FP&A and the business to turn what’s typically an organization’s biggest expense — the workforce — into a resilient and nimble strength.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Recruiting customers is hard to do — and comes with a big price tag. According to Grubhub, more offers on on the way in 2020 from restaurant partners like Shake Shack, Just Salad, honeygrow, Pokeworks, and Argo Tea. Many more subscription businesses have failed than have successfully overcome churn and managed mass adoption at scale.

Profit and Loss 52

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

One is we were securitizing the assets in the auto loan and selling them off to other asset managers because we weren’t able to buy them ourselves. Did you guys just say, we really want to be pure investment management? The requirements for asset managers to have a bank were such that it would inhibit us a bit.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

The French grocery co-op partnered with TBWA, the global ad agency behind recent campaigns by Apple, Evian and Absolut Vodka, to bring Fresh Stories to U’s 800 independent supermarkets and hypermarchés in France. When shoppers go to the fish counter, they’ll find Snapcode origin labels on the shelf tag accompanying each cut.

Manufacturing 40

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2017

The Bikyni innovation pares down to simple, stylish bathing suits without pumped up price tags. ” The only thing the company doesn’t own is its factory, but it is within driving distance of the Bikyni office and managed with a “very people-driven process.”

Advertising 43

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2016

An even bigger hit came from Amazon’s sprawling network of fulfillment centers around the world, which tagged the retailer for $3.68 Spending on shipping clocked in at $3.27 billion to the $1.8 billion of revenue for a $1.4 billion loss — about 6.8 percent of overall merchandise sales. A report from real estate brokerage firm CBRE Inc.

Retail 40

Retail Sales eCommerce Marketing 40

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

RedKix has an idea somewhat comparable to Slacks insofar as it hopes to innovate the way workers manage their tasks by creating a better way to merge email and chat functions. The biggest deal of the week came as KKR agreed to buy Epicor Software from Apax Partners. That funding round was led by IIFL Asset Management.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Amazon is set to become the eCommerce leader in India, and bitcoin companies are keen to tag along for the ride. The two are partnering to offer consumers discounts when shopping on Amazon. A partnership that might influence bitcoin’s adoption is between Purse, a bitcoin eCommerce startup, and Unocoin, an Indian bitcoin exchange.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2017

Also, Muzak garnered a $345 million price tag for a reason – which is that Muzak got very good at matching the background music to the commerce experience. Then there are artists that don’t quite have the extra-ordinary highs or lows – but manage to generate general enthusiasm.

Retail 48

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2018

Don’t get us wrong: There are many, many smart connected devices – speakers, cars, appliances, watches – that are all very useful because they make buying something easier, houses more secure, financial management less tedious or commuting to work more productive. The brush is designed to be its owner’s partner in haircare.

Technology 64

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, what can I say, I have yet another extra special guest, Albert Wenger, managing partner at Union Square Ventures. ALBERT WENGER, MANAGING DIRECTOR, UNION SQUARE VENTURES: Well, I fell in love with computers very early on when I was a young teenager.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Treasury or cash management services that used to be fast enough may therefore no longer be adequate as businesses fight to stay afloat during the economic downturn. Checks are cumbersome and costly for businesses and FIs, with a price tag of about $8 to $10 per processed check, and they can take up to 15 days to process.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2017

Google is issuing platform fee refunds after discovering that the advertising tool DoubleClick Bid Manager had placed campaigns by hundreds of its marketers and ad agency partners on websites with fake traffic. JPMorgan Chase, for example, lost control of its ad tag, and the tag got passed around and ran on unapproved sites.

Advertising 61

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Using the digital identity system, consumers can print their own bag tags and use a scanner and match tablet within the airport to move touchless through the system. From there, the app is designed to be passed to CLEAR’s merchant partners to give them the data to know if they should accept or redirect the customer.

Technology 123

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

Transparency is one theme: 40 percent of participants in the study noted they do not fully trust their partner to manage their combined finances. More than a third said they were mostly unaware of their partner’s debts. “It’s hard to save money if your life partner isn’t on the same page,” Park says.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Whether going on the trip of a lifetime or faced with emergency travel, the sticker shock of the journey’s price tag can leave consumers scrambling to minimize costs by flying in the middle of the night, or packing all their clothes into a carry-on to avoid baggage fees. Often, it means the trip can’t happen at all. “But

Finance 52

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

FinTech innovation has opened the floodgates for a stream of new platforms and products designed to help small businesses and corporates more efficiently manage money and make payments. Delivering a ubiquitous payments experience comes with a price tag that most businesses cannot quantify. Bridging the Payments Divide.

Accounting 56

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

The company has already partnered with Samsung’s U.S. And though that is the chart topper, the average “high-end” TV drama can cost anywhere from $5 million to $7 million per episode, with the least expensive shows all having a price tag north of $1 million. They have signed a lot of eye-catching partnerships, and managed to nab $2.5

Advertising 71

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Tricentis secured the Series B funding from Insight Venture Partners and occurred about a week before reports first surfaced of the investment round. Jubilee Capital Management, based in Singapore, led the funding. Alternative Lending. From Australia, Spotcap, which provides digital SME lending solutions, announced Tuesday (Jan.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. BRYANT: Yes, yes, Operation HOPE is the official kids accounts manager for the Atlanta Public School System and the Atlanta City Council funded us a few million dollars to open kindergarten accounts.

Economics 56

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The shift in consumer preference is not surprising, LG Electronics Senior Manager Angel Grant told PYMNTS in a conversation, because of how advanced smartphone technology has become. The firm stopped formally breaking out the iPhone’s sales figures as of Q4 2018 – and according to estimates, shipments declined 11.8

Technology 59

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