PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2018

The exchange-traded fund, which was founded in 2014, notched staggering returns of 31 percent following the Equifax data breach in 2017, twice that of the S&P 500 return during that same time period. The ETFMG Prime Cyber Security ETF, for example, has risen 18 percent this year, CNBC reported.

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Fintech News

APRIL 3, 2024

Data from the World Bank’s Global Findex Database reveal that, in 2021, men were 6% points more likely than women to use digital payments, a gender gap that had remained consistent across developing economies since 2014 in part because of the broader gender gap in access to digital services.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

What’s more, Reuters noted that pinpointing the person or government behind the hack could be more difficult because multiple hacking groups may have been inside the Starwood reservation system since 2014. 30) that as many as 500 million guests’ data was accessed, tied to a breach of the Starwood hotel guest reservation database.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

An investigation then revealed that the unauthorized access had been happening since 2014. During that time, unauthorized parties had been able to copy and encrypt information that resided in the Starwood database, including around 25.55 million passport numbers, 5.25 million of which were stored in plain text. billion.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 31, 2018

Citi only added two fintech companies to its portfolio in 2017, focusing instead on investments in databases and security: last year the bank backed Kinetica , which is working on high-performance databases using GPU hardware, and co-invested with Goldman in Unbound , which helps enterprises with private key security management.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Marriott International , which announced last week it was the victim of a hack in which the bad guys accessed its reservation database for Starwood properties, could have stopped the breach years earlier. The hack could hurt Marriott’s reputation at a time when it’s fighting off the likes of Airbnb. It said it learned of it on Sept.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

60+ countries are included in Taulia's new International Payment Terms Database , the latest solution launched by the company. The database is a collection of information of local laws and policy around payment terms, enabling businesses to remain compliant and understand B2B payment term legislation in various markets. .

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Since 2014, news mentions of impact investing and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) investing have increased tenfold. Startups like Sigma Ratings (scoring and reporting for risk events) and TruValue Labs (an AI database for equity risk) are among this first layer of companies helping firms establish their “green data” credibility.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 22, 2024

The term Web3 was coined in 2014 by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood , and the idea gained interest in 2021 from cryptocurrency enthusiasts, large technology companies, and venture capital firms. I find it pretty insane that people try to compete on which database the information is stored on. Why is there so much hype about Web3?

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The Payments Association

MARCH 19, 2025

A modular polyglot architecture, where banks adopt a diverse ecosystem of technologies, for example, relational databases for transactions, NoSQL for real-time data, and distributed ledgers for auditability, offers strategic response. Yet, fate demands action now without delay.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

30) that as many as 500 million guests’ data was accessed, tied to a breach of the Starwood hotel guest reservation database. In what may be among the largest data breaches in history, Marriott International said Friday morning (Nov. The company also stated that credit card data may have been compromised even though it had been encrypted.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Using the CB Insights database, we mapped out the top-funded fintech startup in every US state. Our analysis looks at equity funding to private fintech startups that have raised at least $5M in equity funding and have had an equity deal in since 2014. Payments startup Klarna ($460M VC round). Please click to enlarge. . KEY TAKEAWAYS.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

global ransomware attack; the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh Bank in 2016; the 2014 attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment ; and numerous other attacks on the entertainment, financial services, defense, technology, and virtual currency industries, as well as academia and electric utilities.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

To that end, Visa said on Tuesday (June 23) that it has issued its one billionth token since the launch of Visa Token Service in 2014. As Johnson told Webster, merchants have databases of cards on file, and Visa’s token services help secure those cards, lowering fraud and breach risk while boosting authorization rates.

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Nanonets

JULY 10, 2024

An example of key-value pair extraction KVPs are the building blocks of many data structures and databases. Before the accuracy of deep learning meets the needs of the markets for such tasks, OCRs are performed with the following procedure: Database creation : First, we build a vast library of known characters and symbols.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 3, 2017

Likefolio , a website that uses social media connections to introduce investing concepts, recently began licensing its Brand Mapping Database. The database, which maps every publicly-owned brand and product, is aimed to help investors and financial research firms discover new insights.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The system is for workers in the state of Jharkhand, and it hasn’t been password protected since 2014. In another incident, a newspaper in India reported that people were illicitly selling access to the Aadhaar database. The existence of the database was ruled constitutional by India’s Supreme Court in September.

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CB Insights

MARCH 2, 2018

Facebook’s $2B acquisition of VR headset maker Oculus VR in 2014 ranks second. Using the CB Insights database, we compiled the ten largest exits of LA-based VC-backed tech startups since 2009. The largest LA exit of all time went to Snap : the mobile social media company went public for $3.4B Valuation ($B). Acquirer/IPO.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Corporations increased the number of times they mentioned cybersecurity on earnings calls nearly three-fold since 2014, according to CB Insights data. Keeping enterprise data secure is one of the biggest challenges corporations now face.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Finally, we highlighted the most active CVCs in 2014 with a focus on US-based investments. In 2014, Google Ventures was the most active CVC investor in US-based companies. The Most Active Corporate VCs of 2014. Below are the top 100+ most active CVC investors in US-based companies in 2014. CVC Investor. Google Ventures.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

billion every year in what would have been government revenue between 2010 and 2014. To calculate its figures, the GFI examined statistics from the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to available data from the United Nations Comtrade Database to pinpoint discrepancies in export and import data. billion, and over-invoicing at $9.8

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

These tourists, business travelers and others entrusted the Starwood hotel guest reservation database with details about their payment cards; home, work and email addresses; passport numbers and images; reward accounts and general travel habits. Good for them! Well, not really.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 29, 2017

AMD Ventures’ sole bet since 2015 was a follow-on to virtual real estate showing platform Matterport , which it had previously backed in 2014 (coinvesting with Qualcomm Ventures). Samsung and Qualcomm Ventures both invested in NoSQL database company ScyllaDB.

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Finovate

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Backbase’s Engagement Banking Platform, integrated with Middesk, will give financial institutions access to real-time verification data sourced from multiple databases including the offices of all fifty Secretaries of State, the IRS, the USPS, OFAC, and more. Vision Bank launched its digital banking app in Saudi Arabia.

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Innovation AI Payment APIs and Integration Online and Mobile Banking 64

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

global ransomware attack and the 2014 attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. Initial efforts stretching back to 2014 involved “reconnaissance” of the banks and spear-phishing messages using Gmail accounts, where the hackers acted as individuals seeking job interviews with emails containing links to malware.

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CB Insights

MARCH 20, 2018

Media reports suggest that intelligence collected from the video footage may eventually power China’s Social Credit System, a government plan announced in 2014 to rate the “trustworthiness” of its citizens. A simple keyword search on worldwide patent database Espacenet shows how much emphsais China has put on surveillance.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Since debuting the Apple Watch in 2014, Apple has aggressively marketed the product as a fitness-focused device. Feature enhancements have made the Apple Watch more useful for on-the-go athletes ever since. Research Briefing: Apple Strategy Teardown.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In 2014, the company shifted its focus toward the growing digital landscape. Today, we house 170 million unique guests and their demographic information in our database,” Kiran said. Say we have a client with 7 million loyal guests in their database, for example, to whom they send emails, SMSs,” he said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The appeal, according to Chain Store Age , is not only the brand but the customer databases, for which Boohoo is bidding $20 million. Boohoo.com has eyes on California-based Nasty Gal, which filed for bankruptcy protection last month.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2016

In 2014, businesses waited 60 days to get paid and just 46 days in 2011. The data was provided by Chinese financial database Wind Information, said reports. But, according to reports, the issue is becoming a lofty problem to tackle in China and is amplifying economic woes.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

To better understand auto suppliers’ moves, we identified the 5 automotive suppliers most active in private markets since 2014 and used our social graph tool to analyze this cohort’s bets through 2017 to date (10/31/2017). Auto Tech Trends.

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Cybersecurity Acquirers Database Automation 40

PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

According to a report in Bloomberg , financial inclusion in the African country has declined close to 4 percentage points from 2014 to 2017, now standing at 39 percent at the same time that the Sub-Saharan African average of banked people increased more than 8 percentage points to 43 percent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2017

Both the number of incidences of account takeover and the amount of money lost to fraudsters using the method hit a low point in 2014. She pointed out that there are a range of approaches IT security professionals can use to identify these active bots in their database, alerting them to a security breach before the credentials are stolen.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Mink first introduced the concept of printed makeup in 2014, and it says it has refined the process and technology in its newest product. Users can upload any picture into the printer’s database, and then insert a blank makeup printing sheet. The machine will print out the image in 3D wearable makeup.

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Database On-Demand Rules Consumer 42

FICO

JUNE 20, 2016

European data privacy became global news in 2014, when a man in Spain sued Google for “the right to be forgotten,” or RTBF. Today, companies often treat data almost casually, as a commodity to move back and forth between databases and data lakes, to chop up, aggregate, analyze, create derivative data, and import and export out of Hadoop.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2015

The Aerospike high performance NoSQL database is a key value store written explicitly to run in RAM and Flash to deliver speed at scale. Gartner named Aerospike a visionary in 2014 Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. Leading innovators in financial services trust Aerospike to power web-scale workloads.

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Fraud Detection Database Innovation Transactions 25

CB Insights

JULY 1, 2018

In honor of Canada Day this weekend, we used CB Insights’ database to compile 150 notable tech companies, most active venture capital and corporate investors, and top exits of Canada’s private company tech scene into a periodic table. Download the CB Insights and PwC MoneyTree Report to see more.

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