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Standard Chartered, Amazon To Offer Installment Payments In UAE

PYMNTS

Payfort , an Amazon company set up in 2013 to help with payments throughout the Arab world, will be offering the new option through its online payment gateway, according to the report. Payfort managing director Omar Soudodi said the offering would help to bolster financial choice.

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Bank Earnings Call Questions – Get Ready for These

South State Correspondent

To do that, we wrote a Python script to analyze a representative sample of earnings call transcripts for regional and mid-sized banks over the past several years. Earnings Call Timing In a confirmation of a Havard Business School study published in 2013 ( HERE ), we also ran sentiment analysis on bank earning call transcripts.

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Latin America Tech Booms As Brazil Dominates And Regional Investors Grow

CB Insights

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Since 2012, investments into the region have nearly tripled. Want the 12-page report for free? at the time.

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Google Buys North Smart Glasses Maker For A Reported $180M

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We are looking forward to remaining in the region with Google.”. When Google Glass launched in 2013, the expensive device was glitchy, had a short battery life and was described by some as “dorky looking.” A source told them it was unlikely that the company sold more than 1,000 pairs since its launch in late 2018. .

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Auto lending up more than 30 percent at credit unions since 2012

Abrigo

The auto industry had a substantial year in 2014, selling nearly one million more vehicles than in 2013. Credit unions reached nearly $225 billion in auto loans (this figure includes both new and used vehicle loans) for the quarter ending September 30, 2014, up from nearly $193 billion for the same period in 2013. Blog Credit Union'

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Spotlight on lending: Preparing for Q3 bank reports

Abrigo

As American Banker reported last week, nearly a dozen regional banks saw scattered growth in their loan portfolios as part of the Q3 filings. By the end of the first quarter of 2013, total loans and leases across all U.S. That high slipped in both the second and third quarters of 2013, before seeing another notable spike to $7.8

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UK Losing Foreign Exchange Market To Asia

PYMNTS

China’s presence in global trade — and that of the Asia region overall — is palpable, and the use of China’s renminbi as a recognized international currency is growing. 517 billion | The amount of FX and over-the-counter derivatives that Singapore handled in April — an increase of 35 percent since 2013. 37.1% | The U.K.’s

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