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SMB Challenger Banks A Hot Spot With VCs

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The largest round of the week went to OakNorth , but other significant investments landed at supply chain management, corporate accounting and small business finance players, totaling more than $821 million in total VC funding. PYMNTS breaks down all the latest B2B funding rounds below. Chainalysis.

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Seattle Warns NY About Amazon Effect Of HQ2

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7) at the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, an organization that has been backing efforts to organize workers at a Staten Island Amazon fulfillment center. “This isn’t about being anti-growth or anti-corporation. . “This isn’t about being anti-growth or anti-corporation.

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UK Financial Watchdog Ramps Up Auditor Oversight

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financial watchdogs have stepped up their oversight of the accounting and auditing industry amid a string of corporate accounting scandals, collapses and questions over the dominance of the Big Four auditing firms. The FRC has already increased the number of audit quality reviews from 126 in 2014 to 160 in fiscal year 2018.

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Starling Announces Plans For Business Banking Solution

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challenger bank, has positioned itself to disrupt retail banking. Now, the company is hoping to do the same for corporate banking. 4) that Starling is launching a business banking service early next year, just months after the company rolled out its app-only current account service for consumers. “It Starling Bank, a U.K.

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Is Amazon After An Office Depot Supply Deal?

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The eCommerce powerhouse is rumored to be considering taking a stake in the deal, and its investment may be the magic ingredient the deal needs to pass muster with the FTC and launch an entry into corporate office supplies for the online retail giant. How exactly would this help the merger?

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SWIFT Warns India Of ‘Unprecedented’ Rise In Corporate Loan Defaults

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In a statement at the time, the FI’s CEO, Rana Kapoor, said the B2B payment landscape was in the midst of a “tectonic shift with the influx of new financial technologies revolutionizing the way banking services are offered to corporate and retail customers.” ” Banks Need to Multitask.

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Passwords Are Failing For The Enterprise, But Alternatives Aren’t Much Better, Research Finds

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According to the data released last week, a whopping 86 percent of system administrators (sysadmins) use only basic username and password authentication measures to protect corporate accounts. It’s important to note that the sample set was small — just 84 survey respondents across organizations with at least 1,000 employees in the U.K.