PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

The dispute over the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ‘s (OCC’s) national bank charter, which became available to FinTech firms last year, has reportedly caused technology conglomerates to shy away from a tool that aims to provide nonbank firms with a more streamlined way to operate on a national level.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

News came over the past few days that Amazon may look to buy (not build) a presence in India’s mobile industry, through a reported $2 billion stake in Bharti Airtel, which is the third largest operator there. In terms of mechanics of the deal, if Amazon were to pony up those billions, it would garner a 5 percent stake in Bharti Airtel.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2016

There are just five more days until we can leave 2016 behind for good. As 2016 becomes history, we should take special care not to forget it — lest we have to hear about being doomed to repeat it (there’s always that one person). If there’s one thing that’s for certain, 2016 showed us that the gig economy is here to stay.

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BankUnderground

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

To ensure the availability and affordability of flood insurance to households in flood-prone areas, the UK Government introduced an innovative reinsurance scheme, Flood Re, in April 2016. In our regression, we interact this flood exposure with a binary variable capturing the time period when Flood Re was operating.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

Spain is a particularly attractive market for us, and we are excited to announce the opening of our office in Madrid,” said AFEX EMEA Sales Director Anthony Rea in a statement. According to AFEX, the nation saw a 4.7 AFEX already operates offices in other areas of Europe, as well as the U.S., Asia, Australia and Canada.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Together, Bitfinex and Tether manipulated a market that, by design, is supposed to be decentralized,” states the lawsuit. And the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced that they have signed an operational agreement on the BIS Innovation Hub Centre in Switzerland.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Two individuals were accused of being connected to the Lazarus Group cybercrime organization per an update of the “Specially Designated Nationals” (SDN) list from OFAC. The company reportedly applied for an operating license in the country in the past. JVCEA said Tokyo Hash and Digital Asset Markets Inc.

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Bitcoin Policies Groups California 177

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After the acquisition, ModCloth will continue to operate out of its current operational set up, with Go Global Retail investing in its digital capabilities including artificial intelligence and predictive analytics. Walmart acquired the assets and operations of ModCloth in March 2017 for an undisclosed amount.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2022

In our previous article ( HERE ), we reviewed the banking industry’s cost of funding earning assets (COF), and we compared how community banks’ COF behaves relative to national banks in a rising interest rate cycle. Second, the market has priced in interest rate risk, but it has not priced liquidity risk.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which operates the country’s popular UPI (Unified Payments Interface) system, said in a Thursday (Nov. Google and Walmart are currently the biggest players in the Indian mobile payments market, handling 80 percent of UPI transactions, according to TechCrunch.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Snapdeal has also been struggling to compete with eCommerce giants Flipkart and Amazon , and the deal could help the Gurgaon-based company add a customer base in Tier 3 and Tier 4 markets where ShopClues is active. The company receives about 40,000 orders per day — a deal with Snapdeal could bolster its operations to fulfill those orders.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

billion-strong, high-spending consumers and their willingness to adapt to new technologies, trends and products may represent the economy of the future for many banks and businesses, but it is notoriously difficult for firms to enter and compete in this market. Nearly four years later, that hasn’t changed. The law is still ambiguous.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

National Small Business Week is this week in the U.S., But analysts from Bank of America, Square, Navcom and the National Association for the Self-Employed warn that challenges for some SMBs have reached new heights, too. and global stock markets are also top concerns among entrepreneurs surveyed by the bank.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The nation continues to push against cash in favor of digital payments, while both the government and private sector continue to fuel FinTech innovation. It hasn’t been easy for the nation’s small businesses, however. “Where there were 15 workers before, now there are three. Soon, we might have to ask them to go home.”

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 10, 2016

Chase’s new online banking portal takes a page — or hundreds of pages, rather — from its mobile app, which is the nation’s most popular bank app with more than 22 million users. The site, developed over the course of 18 months, is being rolled out in stages throughout 2016, with Read More.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

National department store chain Kohl’s recently released its fourth-quarter financial earnings for 2016. While online order volumes were strong in Q4, slowing traffic to physical stores led to overall weak sales results for the end of 2016 to January 28, 2017. At the end of the year, Kohl’s operated 1,154 stores in 49 U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Some hourly help at chains like Shake Shack have had paid sick time off, with firms offering the benefit as an incentive to bring in staff in a constricted labor market. And Chipotle Mexican Grill started to provide three paid sick days beginning on day one of employment in 2016. The president of the coffee chain’s U.S.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2016

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. million, than it has in operating expense, at $95.0 Summit also operates an insurance subsidiary.

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Perficient

MAY 27, 2022

Since 2014, New York has only allowed crypto companies to operate in the state if they obtain a BitLicense, and even then, licensed companies are limited in the types of digital assets they can sell. For instance, Coinbase can only offer about half the coins available on its platform to New York customers. dollars.

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cryptocurrency Regulation Management Bitcoin 332

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Walmart has a few eCommerce properties, like Jet.com, which it bought in 2016. Walmart has begun the process of letting go of some of those acquisitions, and earlier in the year it folded Jet.com into already existing operations. In 2017, the retail giant bought ModCloth and Moosejaw, and outdoor retail company.

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Online Retail Digital Strategies Branding 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In several markets around the world, biometric solutions are gaining ground among consumers, companies and government organizations. These solutions could shift the way national security agencies in several countries operate, or force employers to change how they authenticate and identify their employees. billion USD.

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Bobsguide

JULY 28, 2022

As of June 2022, over 1,600 companies listed on the Prime Market of the TSE participate in the Platform, representing 87% of the companies in that market or 98% by market capitalization. After almost 18 years, the Platform has become a key part of the infrastructure of Japan’s capital markets.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2017

The first proof of concept launched at National Highway Authority of India’s (NHAI) Manesar Toll Plaza on Monday (May 15). Here are the numbers: 400 | Number of toll plazas operated by NHAI. 10 trillion | Total value exchanged in the “push” payments market, according to a 2016 Visa press release. billion | Estimated U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2016

26) they seized around €1 million earlier in 2016 in connection with a operation that was being run on an online dark market. In a report by CoinDesk , a representative of Finland’s customs office said the online drug site was named Valhalla, which has been in operation since Oct.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

According to the new PYMNTS Order To Eat Tracker , the volume of mobile app orders rocketed 130 percent from 2016 to 2018, and the overall mobile order market value is set to reach $38 billion by 2020. Domino’s , for instance, keeps investing in technology to assist franchisees as well as operators. The projected share of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2017

As of now, the service is only operational in the city of Bangalore. India is one of the fastest-growing digital commerce hubs on the planet, which made the nation of some 1.3 The company introduced its Prime service to India in July 2016, where it has invested billions of dollars in developing a logistics network across India.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

What also sets Locality Bank apart from existing financial institutions in its market is that its board and management have a “first principles mindset, one where we set out to create the bank from the start to serve the needs of the local business community,” says Keith Costello, president, CEO and one of Locality Bank’s cofounders.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

Claroty , the cybersecurity company for industrial control networks, announced on Monday (June 11) that a syndicate of investors, including industrial operators and control system vendors, invested $60 million in a Series B round of fundraising. A perimeter defense to cybersecurity in today’s connected world is not enough.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The bank is planning to roll out a “national deposit gathering platform” in 2020 to reel in more attractive rates for its consumer business, Scott Powell, chief executive officer (CEO) of Santander in the U.S., The bank only operates physical branches in nine states, which limits its ability to attract deposits. told the FT.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A wide range of biometric solutions are being used to develop national identification systems around the world. The following Deep Dive examines the potential use cases for biometrics in national identification systems and the security pitfalls they could encounter. . A reported 3.6 Digitizing government services .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2017

The Germany-based company specializes in online receivables auctions, facilitating the selling of national and international trade receivables, reports said. Advancements in technology will significantly change the trade finance market,” said Deutsche Bank Head of Global Transaction Banking, Germany, Michael Spiegel in a statement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

mobile network operator. Three said the hackers accessed customer accounts, upgraded them and intercepted new phones to likely sell in the black market. The Telegraph noted Three said the National Crime Agency is looking into the hack and that three people were arrested.

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Data National Fraud Course 100

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

A number of prominent voices in Europe — among them Germany’s finance minister — have called for a parallel payments system that would operate, presumably, beyond the scope of U.S. They were reconnected in 2016. As has been reported in this space and elsewhere, tensions over payments infrastructure have been brewing since the summer.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2016

Mastercard is mulling an entrance into the China market and could get its application in during 2016 to become a payment provider in what is expected to be the largest market by 2020. based ones that for more than a decade have been trying to break into the China market. By opening up the market to U.S.

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Cyber Security Payments Cards Marketing 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In Mercado’s home nation of Brazil, he describes the last eight months as a “fundamental transformation” in a conversation with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster. We saw market research a couple of weeks ago that indicates the market evolved about 10 years in eight weeks in terms of increase in penetration. Ten years in eight weeks.

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Lending Data Marketing Regional 220

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s. Woe to any QSR operation that ignores that lesson. Customer Patience.

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Innovation Mobile Trends Operations 155

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

But outside of the government, the financial services market has, in many ways, been working to play its own part in helping small businesses gain access to funding. “It will transform the business funding market and is a real step [toward] change for small businesses.” As part of the U.K.

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