PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

51job and existing investors Origin Ventures, Uncork Capital and others also participated in the round. Founded in 2015, Fountain processes more than 1 million applications to fill 150,000 hourly and gig positions every month for its customers, which include Golden Gate Bell, Chick-fil-A, Lime, Safeway and more. .” ”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2017

the company also pointed to research it conducted that found a third of cash advances provided to U.K. is a sizable portion of the more than $3 billion in overall loan originations by PayPal Working Capital (October 2015 stats pegged loan originations at $1 billion). The $500 million provided to SMBs in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Fraudsters’ attempts to access systems and steal valuable information are becoming more innovative, and research suggests they are also increasingly successful. One notable phishing attack occurred in 2015, when healthcare giant Anthem suffered a breach that compromised more than 80 million patient records. million in 2019 — a 1.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

As reported by Threatpost , earlier this month, researchers in London identified a cybersecurity gang that has evolved markedly in scale. The group has evolved from a “one-man shop” that originally scammed victims on Craigslist , and now has dozens of fraudsters targeting smaller firms through BEC — with an emphasis on U.S.

Business Email Compromise 51

Business Email Compromise Scams Romance Scams Counterfeit Check 51

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

To try to increase its market share, A&P came up with a novel way to sell groceries: It decided to sell its most popular items in their original wholesale bulk packaging — for a much cheaper price. The company advertised the concept on TV, producing a spot with Mickey Rooney. Incidentally, this limited selection boosts sales.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

But there is no better way to describe the more than $3 billion in funding raised by Finovate alums in 2015. We previewed our alum funding for 2015 a few weeks ago with a look at investment in European-based alums. Highlights from 2015: Worldwide, 116 Finovate alums raised $3.1 Email us at research@finovate.com.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

Microsoft, Facebook and Snapchat are all investing in both AR and virtual reality (VR) research and development. billion in 2015 to $162 billion in 2020 as the technologies rapidly improve and become less expensive to produce and distribute. The majority of Android phones aren’t enabled to handle Tango’s AR.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

billion in 2015, according to Zion Market Research. The software laid out in the patent, which was originally filed in 2016 but was extended earlier this year, could produce product and purchasing information by looking at the product on a shelf in a store. Other AR Moves.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

million) worth of loan originations in the month of June alone. percent growth from June 2015, the third-largest monthly growth spurt recorded on the index. Research published by the British Chambers of Commerce and Bibby Financial Services this week said that awareness of all the options to fulfill that appetite is lagging.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

The firm has also recently been on a mainstream retail hiring spree, a move that was originally made to support a brick-and-mortar expansion and an eventual IPO. VC investment fell significantly in Q4 2015, dropping 30 percent to $27.2 The firm has raised $71.9 But actually making that service profitable has thus far proved elusive.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2018

Research from Clutch published last year found nearly three-quarters of small businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. There are purchase orders, invoices, sales orders, certification of origination — a lot of documents are exchanged.”. have a website, and for those that don’t, nearly all plan to have a website by the end of this year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Singapore sovereign fund GIC recently led a $220 million funding round for Chinese alternative lending platform Dianrong as the company looks to focus on research and development in China. It acquired the asset origination operations under Quark Finance last month, adding 71 branches under the Dianrong name.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Coverage this week includes a new Amex financial service, deep looks at real-time payments and the woes at WeWork, advances in voice retail and payments, a potential new opportunity for financial institutions, and original PYMNTS research into use case for artificial intelligence. Amex Launches Pay By Bank.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2017

Segregated Witness is a soft fork , meaning the current chain is being developed in a secondary direction that will still be compatible with and considered valid by the original chain. Segregated Witness removes data related to signatures from bitcoin transactions, making them smaller in size so that more transactions can fit in a block.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

As smaller digital media startups focus on short-form video, the big 4 subscription streaming services — Amazon, HBO, Hulu, and Netflix — are competing for market share by doubling down on long-form original content. Apple has reportedly set a budget of roughly $1B for investment into original video programming over the next year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2016

In a move that continues its ongoing effort to move its online sales from its outsourced origins to an internal operation, Toys”R”Us has hired a new chief information officer to guide the initiative.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

But what happens when the sensors and other data-collecting and data-transmitting technology installed by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) play a part in insurance costs? New technologies are also playing a role in the larger world of insurance, as PYMNTS research demonstrates.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Apple Pay caught up in 2014; in 2015, the wearables market made everyone aware of the tap’s potential. In 2015, many merchants switched to NFC-enabled terminals; by 2019, most banks were issuing contactless cards. But the benefits made known during that time were more aligned with the original reason for its development.

Contactless Payments 88

Contactless Payments Push-to-Card Encryption Online and Mobile Banking 88

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Apparel and electronics stores account for nearly half of this year’s store closures, according to JLL research. Summary: Nebraska-based Gordman’s struggled to adapt to e-commerce (it launched an online site in 2015) and experienced declining sales since 2012. The List (2015). Date: November 2015. The List (2017).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

percent increase in SMB lending among large banks (FIs with more than $10 billion in assets) between 2015 and 2016 — and also by the fact that previous years saw community banks with higher loan origination volumes than large banks, researchers noted. percent in 2015 to 15.9 That decline is contrasted by the 5.1

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CB Insights

JULY 21, 2017

With Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin making headlines, space tech has seen an increase in both media attention and investment activity: total funding ballooned to more than $2B in 2015, and last year deals hit a record high of 49. Using CB Insights data, we examined funding trends to startups working in space tech.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Coverage includes a story about how bamboo straws signal a new phase in global commerce, a new mobile payment network and Amazon’s latest push into biometrics, among many other topics and original PYMNTS research. million merchants, whereas in September of 2015 that number was only 392,000. That’s an 825 percent increase.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In 2015 alone, the activewear segment of retail fashion accounted for $44 billion in total sales in the U.S. alone, according to The NPD Group, a leading market research company. And wear those clothes outside the gym women certainly began to do.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

In Chicago, the warmer weather means the return of big outdoor music events and smaller neighborhood summer street festivals, both of which in the past have been places where scooter companies and others involved in the sharing economy have promoted their services and products – and places where controversy has originated in the past.

Economy 54

Economy Payments Origination Facilitators 54

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Earlier this year, researchers at the Association for Financial Professionals found that instances of check fraud and Business Email Compromise scams increased between 2015 and 2017, with fraud originating both within and outside the enterprise. One of the easiest areas for internal fraud to occur is in employee expensing.

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CB Insights

JULY 31, 2017

Since 2007, the company has made 77 acquisitions, including 8 last year and 7 in 2015. Original video content. Original video content — Musical.ly Recently, the company announced it was partnering with media giants Hearst, NBCUniversal, and Viacom to offer short original series on its social platform. Computer vision.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

2015 and are now in the process of trying to make the company’s “return bars” as ubiquitous in shopping malls as food courts and bathrooms. sales lost in 2015, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF). So, the pair founded Happy Returns in Sept. The online shopping experience gets better every day. Until now.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

On the contrary, a new research report fro m subscription management firm Recurly broke down all the ways retailers are finding their ways in the wide world of subscription retail. To reach its findings, Rec urly examined a sample set of 25 million transactions that occurred in 2015. Of these, 24.1

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2017

That was a 61 percent increase in the money lost to fraudsters using the method compared to 2015, while there was a 31 percent increase in the amount of account takeover incidents compared to 2015. Account takeovers accounted for more than $2.3 billion in losses last year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2016

That figure is down by 7 percent since 2015. One-in-five consumers are considering using wearables or smart devices to pay, which has increased by 2 and 3 percent, respectively, from 2015. according to research by Parks Associates and by quite a margin. use cash at least weekly to make a purchase. PayPal Faces Rejection.

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Payment APIs and Integration Online and Mobile Banking EMV Chip Cards 65

PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

Amazon released its one-click, one-purchase Dash Buttons and its voice-activated Echo just months apart in 2015, but the latter has emerged as not only the media darling of the two but the vastly more versatile form of in-home commerce for the online giant. It’s a one-way street that has brands often groping in the dark for answers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2016

” We are not talking about Blue Origin, the Bezos-backed space exploration outfit inspired by his childhood love of “Star Trek.” million units sold in the second quarter of 2015 to 3.5 million in the same quarter of 2015. Or at least, that would have been the upshot version until this week.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Ahead of the app’s launch, he said, the company conducted research into members’ preferences for mobile experience. BECU and MX designed the new app in 2015 based on the research, offering additional financial services such as personal finance management and aggregation tools which went beyond checking balances and making transfers.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 25, 2016

The goal is to make it easier for financial institutions to acquire new customers, originate loans, and onboard customers. The company added former Emotient SVP of engineering and research Stephen Ritter at its new CTO in March , and announced a partnership with Harland Clarke to improve remote deposit capture security in January.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Even Apple founder Steve Jobs voiced hesitations about variations on the original iPhone, arguing that phones with larger screens would never catch on: “You can’t get your hand around it,” Jobs said when Samsung and Google came out with phones larger than the 3.5” original iPhone. “No No one’s going to buy that.”.

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Bitcoin Online and Mobile Banking Advisors Origination 78

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Since its founding in 2015, Qüero has turned to brick-and-mortar pop-up shops to do just that — and now, the company is hoping advanced technology can allow it to reach customers in new ways. But, if she ordered that original pair and was disappointed, she probably never would have bought from us again. Attracting Customers, #IRL. “She

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

D Analytics, a consumer risk management company, released research last week that indicates six out of ten millennials declined for credit are not seen applying again for at least 12 months. They are the original “get big, worry about profit later” web tech firm. percent in the 12 months ended in October 2015.

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