December 26, 2019
Aye Finance Raises $14M To Bolster SMB Loan Portfolio
India-based Aye Finance has raised INR 1 billion (more than $14 million) in debt funding from BlueOrchard, reports said Thursday (Dec. 26). Aye Finance said it will deploy the investment...
December 26, 2019
Central Retail Group Eyes $2.7B IPO
In what would be Thailand’s biggest initial public offering (IPO), Central Retail Corporation, the country’s largest retailer, is looking to raise up to 81.1 billion baht or approximately $2.7 billion....
December 24, 2019
What’s Under The Millennial Christmas Tree This Year?
All that’s left now, more or less, is the rush of returns that will all but overwhelm some retailers. Christmas Eve is upon us, and the last gifts are making...
December 23, 2019
Crowdfunding Turning Stale For Eatery Investors
A Mexican food chain in the U.K. called Chilango turned to an unlikely source to fund expansion recently: its customers. The chain promised returns of 8 percent a year and...
December 23, 2019
Mastercard Acquires RiskRecon To Boost Cybersecurity
Mastercard is purchasing artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics startup RiskRecon to accelerate the development of cybersecurity solutions, Mastercard announced on Tuesday (Dec. 23). Cyberattacks have become a critical issue for...
December 23, 2019
Japanese Lenders Hinder Softbank’s WeWork Bailout
SoftBank’s negotiations with Japan’s three dominant lenders to procure $3 billion as part of a $9.5 billion WeWork bailout have been hindered by lending limits, Reuters reported on Monday (Dec....
December 23, 2019
The Best Of The Monday Conversation: Everything We Learned In...
Something remarkable happened about halfway through the 2010s or at least something that ought to have been. Except as it turned out, due to the nature of what it was,...
December 23, 2019
Gulf Winds’ Data Driven Approach To Member Retention
Credit unions remain strong, despite the many challenges they face. The G.19 Statistical Release, “Consumer Credit,” recently found that CUs hold $64.4 billion in credit card debt and $382.9 billion...
December 20, 2019
Giving Layaway A Digital Reboot
In the 1930s, in the era of the Great Depression, when consumers had little extra cash, retailers nationwide came up with an innovation to make it easier for people to...
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