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How Robots Are Shaking Up The Grocery Industry

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It has gained speed in 2018, showing how fulfillment — in many cases, following the lead of Amazon — is relying less on human participation as eCommerce buyers continue to change their shopping habits and expectations. online supermarket operator that earlier inked a deal with Kroger for entry into the U.S. Ocado Robots.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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In the same way that Square built a payment-centric ecosystem for brick-and-mortar SMBs and micro-merchants, Stripe has reinvented online payment acceptance. Stripe continues to grow payments volume year over year. Michelle Wilson, formerly General Counsel at Amazon (2018). David Singleton , who joined Stripe in 2018 as the CTO.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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Continue to reduce any buying/selling friction. In December 2018, Reuters reported that Amazon was looking at airports as a potential Amazon Go partner. In March 2018, Greenlight Financial announced crossing 100,000 customers, growing its customer base 300% since the investment. That scale would make Amazon Go a $4.5B

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1M Users & Growing: 20+ Fintech Startups That Have Crossed The 1 Million Account Mark — And How They Got There

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Challenger banks are cropping up globally and we anticipate this vertical will continue to see more growth and more startups cross the 1M+ account mark. ( Cryptocurrency has been the most viral product that any of these companies have leveraged to launch their entry into the consumer fintech space. cbi_cta id=70404. Cryptocurrencies.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

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A 2018 survey by Bank of America shows that millennials’ top financial priorities were saving for emergency funds (64%), saving for retirement (49%), and saving to buy a house (33%) — not much different from the concerns their baby boomer parents had 30 years ago. Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry.

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13 Southeast Asian Fintechs Among CNBC’s Global Top 250 List

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Founded in 2018, Aspire has raised more than US$300 million from world-class investors, included Sequoia, Lightspeed, Y-Combinator, Tencent and Paypal. It said it would use the proceeds to enhance its product offering further and expand its regional presence, while increasing its team to continue to innovate in the space.

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How Blockchain Tech Could Disrupt Real Estate

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ChromaWay announced that it had completed a full transaction on the platform in June 2018. Bank of China Hong Kong (BOCHK), for example, stated in mid-2018 that it processes 85% of real estate appraisals using its own private blockchain. It is likely this trend will continue to spread across the US and the world.