August 28, 2023
BMO Debuts Virtual Card Mobile Wallets With Mastercard and Extend
BMO has teamed with Extend and Mastercard to offer clients new virtual card creation capabilities. The collaboration, announced Monday (Aug. 28), lets BMO (Bank of Montreal) commercial bank customers in the U.S. and Canada create...
August 28, 2023
How Instacart is Shaping The Next Generation of Grocery Shopper
Instacart filed its S-1 on Friday, August 25 — and with it came a glimmer of hope that the 18-month tech IPO drought may be ending. EquityZen’s head of market...
August 28, 2023
CE 100 Index Gains 0.5%, Led by Affirm’s Post-Earnings Surge
The CE 100 Index gained 0.5% in a week that reversed what felt like a long-standing trend — where all pillars lost ground, time and again. The Enablers segment gained...
August 25, 2023
Report: Amazon and Disney Discussing Collaboration for ESPN Streaming
Amazon is reportedly in talks with The Walt Disney Co. to develop a streaming version of sports network ESPN. In addition, the two companies are discussing Amazon taking a minority stake in the network,...
August 25, 2023
Partners Coffee: Shifting Social Media Landscape Demands New D2C Strategies
Amid rapid changes in social media, Partners Coffee noted that, for smaller, direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, marketing on these platforms is becoming less and less worthwhile compared to more direct communication. In an...
August 25, 2023
FinTech IPO Index Dips 0.1% as Earnings Season Wanes
The FinTech IPO Index barely budged this past week, giving up a slight 0.1% through the past five sessions. A bit less than three months from now, earnings season will...
August 24, 2023
Pret to Expand Coffee Subscription Service to US and France
British sandwich and coffee chain Pret A Manger is set to expand its monthly coffee subscription service to the United States and France, according to a Thursday (Aug. 24) press release...
August 24, 2023
Merchants Buck Discretionary Spending Pressures by Making Subscriptions ‘Essential’
Subscription firms face pressures they wouldn’t have expected just a few months ago. Brian Bogosian, CEO of sticky.io, told Karen Webster in an interview that the success of recurring subscriptions —...
August 23, 2023
Singapore’s Grab Looks to ‘Affordability Initiatives’ to Cement Super App...
Southeast Asian super app provider Grab remains optimistic on longer-term growth prospects, company executives said on a Wednesday (Aug. 23) second-quarter 2023 earnings call, highlighting how “affordability initiatives” and strengthening engagement...
