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JANUARY 27, 2020

grocery market at approximately 3.5 With the expansion, food retailers are feverously working to adapt their operations as they take on the jobs shoppers once did such as selecting groceries and bringing them to their houses. The project will be approximately 10,000 square feet and for an unidentified regional grocer.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

According to one recent estimate , consumers globally in the third quarter of 2018 downloaded 29 million apps from Apple and Google app stores, up 10 percent year over year. As reported by PYMNTS , in the third quarter of 2018, Apple ’s App Store came out on top in a big way, earning nearly 93 percent more app revenue than Google Play.

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JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. There were 441 FinTechs operating in Mexico in 2019, a 14 percent increase from 2018.

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MARCH 12, 2019

TuChequera.com operates a digital checkbook platform and, through its collaboration, will begin linking business customers to the Western Union Business Solutions payments platform, WU EDGE. “In 2018, we made important strategic process,” said Western Union CEO Hikmet Ersek when the earnings data was announced.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

But according to a new report from EY, it would be unfair to say that regulation is the only driving force behind large banks’ changing market strategies. In its Global Banking Outlook 2018 survey , EY assessed 221 financial institutions across 29 markets. Optimism Up.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Bezos owns The Washington Post, whose journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Arabia’s government, was murdered in October 2018. Bin Salman denied the claim, saying it was rogue operators who committed the crime. The CIA said the Crown Prince ordered the killing, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources.

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JULY 18, 2018

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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AUGUST 14, 2018

New research shows that Google gained ground on Amazon ’s global smart speaker share for the second quarter of 2018. The research shows that Amazon’s shipments fell to 41 percent in Q2 2018 from 44 percent in Q1, and from 76 percent in Q2 of last year. “However, its high price continues to hamper demand for the HomePod.

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DECEMBER 8, 2019

B-North wants to disrupt the £154 billion UK business lending market. Founded in 2018, B-North is looking to obtain its banking license in the first quarter of 2020. Mambu and nCino will themselves collaborate directly to integrate each other’s services for B-North, which the startup has called “a market first.”.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Imagine one big party of more than 1,000 larger bank acquirers, smaller bank potential sellers, salivating investment bankers, and pen-in-hand attorneys full of big grins and big plans for 2018. Prosperity is now $22 billion with an unbelievable $5 billion market cap. 2018 Strategies for Bank Execs. 3: Business Model.

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APRIL 24, 2019

He was also an executive sponsor of SWIFT ’s customer security program from 2016 to 2018, and helped lead SWIFT’s response to cyber challenges facing the payments industry. Pérez-Tasso previously served as chief marketing officer for the organization.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

H owever, nothing is easy in life (your parents were right) and that nugget of wisdom served as a central theme of a recent PYMNTS discussion with Rakan Alhassan, operations and marketplace director at UReed. The reliance on cash in many of the markets served by UReed, Alhassan said. Among the main challenges? Payment Lessons. “

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

Late last month the company announced it was expanding its partnership with Visa to include five new regions in 24 markets including Canada, Japan, Singapore and the U.S. bringing Revolut’s total global footprint to 56 markets. Revolut’s move for new funding isn’t a surprise. banking licence. banking licence.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

L’Occitane said the acquisition of the Elemis brand — which is popular with millennials and Generation X consumers — is intended to strengthen its global growth as it expands its market, particularly in Asia where high-end skincare is a rapidly growing area of interest and spend for consumers. billion-euro ($1.95 The firm reported 1.3

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JANUARY 2, 2020

Founded in 2018 by former Santander and Atom Bank executives, the FinTech has applied for its banking license. The funding will be used to introduce B-North’s regional “Lending Pods” across Manchester in the second quarter of 2020. This latest funding adds to the €4.9 million B-North raised in previous rounds.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Latin America is becoming a new weak spot for Uber, showing a 2 percent growth, the lowest of any region for the ride-hailing company, Reuters reported on Monday (Nov. Increased competition in Latin America, mainly from the Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing, is being blamed for Uber’s growth slowdown in that region.

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AUGUST 30, 2018

India-based eCommerce marketplace Paytm Mall wants to work more closely with regional retailers and team up with eCommerce grocery service BigBasket to compete with Flipkart and Amazon, according to recent Reuters reports. We are in the process of integrating BigBasket on our app,” said Amit Sinha, Paytm Mall’s chief operating officer.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The amount consumers spend at restaurants is also on the rise, according to research from First Data’s “2018 Payments and Commerce Mid-Year Review.” percent in Q2 2018, outpacing grocery store spending. According to First Data’s SpendTrend Report, ticket size has been on the rise in recent years, particularly in 2018.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

The app will be available on the App Store for iPhones in Q2 of 2020, and additional accessibility and regional availability will come in the future. Power 2018 U.S. And Snapchat operator Snap is doubling down on AR usage as they implement many features that allow users to experiment and play with the new technology.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Bitcoin investors may be losing money, but the companies that support this burgeoning market aren’t. Bitmain, a Chinese company that makes bitcoin mining hardware and operates a mining farm, raked in between $3 billion and $4 billion in profits last year. It also has a regional headquarters in Singapore, noted the report.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga said on the earnings call that growth was underpinned by a macro environment that remains unchanged, where consumer spending remains relatively strong “with some moderation vs. 2018.” Latin America offered a mixed picture, where some weakness was seen in Mexico and Argentina. What we are seeing is that U.S.

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JUNE 17, 2020

upheld a 2018 ruling by a lower court, the Court of Appeal, that payments firms Visa and Mastercard had restricted competition for retailers by levying fees on transactions, known as multilateral interchange fees (MIF). MIFs can also vary according to whether acquirers and issuers are based in different regions or states.

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JUNE 29, 2020

SMBs and merchants operating in the EU must comply with strong customer authentication (SCA), which mandates stricter authentication requirements for online and contactless purchases above a certain value. Banco de España, Spain’s central bank, granted the license, which enables RevoluPAY to operate within all 27 EU member countries.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Latin America showed the strongest growth and offset declines in the Asia Pacific region and in the U.S. domestic market. We remain on track to deliver on our 2019 outlook, excluding the costs related to the operating model changes we announced today,” President and CEO Hikmet Ersek said of the result. to $2.57.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

As it stands, the company operates two distribution centers in the Sao Paulo area and will bring facilities to other regions to offer faster delivery in a country that is bigger than the continental U.S. Early outlay guidance for 2020 comes after investments of 2 billion reais in Brazil in 2018 and 3 billion reais in 2019.

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JULY 21, 2020

Open banking is appealing to financial institutions (FIs) and regulators in many markets, even as the pandemic sweeps across the world. Regulators in other regions, including Latin America, are also shaping and announcing plans to enable open banking and better support digital financial systems.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The hearing itself was a small victory for proponents who wish to open up the banking system to legal pot operators. That’s because it marked the first hearing dedicated to a proposed bill in Congress that would offer financial institutions protections against federal regulators when dealing with legal cannabis operations.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Amazon had record sales on Cyber Monday orders, but had to contend with regional winter storms. The holidays are a critical time for deliveries, with merchants aggressively pursuing faster options, but the season is also a test for Amazon’s in-house delivery operations. ShipMatrix said that 93.7

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Drilling down into the particular verticals of the relatively young, tech-savvy firms that drew investor dollars, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and platform-focused companies announced investments, as well as intent to expand operations. Starling Bank said the funding will be used to expand operations and award shares to its employees.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Regulatory efforts to promote FinTech innovation, a bustling climate for blockchain and interest from other markets eyeing the region for expansion have all led to Southeast Asia’s impressive standing in this space.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

By being more transparent with in-store technology, brands can help dispel some of the negative connotations around ‘push marketing.’ Beacons are small, battery-operated wireless devices that transmit Bluetooth signals to nearby smartphones,” explains another recent report. “In The market is growing and will reach some $10.2

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Investors were eager to see if the brand’s efforts to streamline its special offerings, and efforts for holiday 2018, had brewed up a merrier picture. There were areas of investor concern, though, particularly the slowing growth in the Chinese market. By the numbers, Starbucks delivered. Earnings came in at $.68

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MAY 1, 2020

these programs appear to have remained the same in most markets. The EU’s PSD2 and GDPR regulations were passed in 2018 and designed with a primary focus on interoperability between open banking systems around the world. FIs have long been the dominant players in the financial market. Similar to the U.K.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The fourth quarter of 2018 was kind to Venmo and Zelle , the two big peer-to-peer (P2P) services that are battling for consumer loyalty and market supremacy — a fight that pits PayPal , the owner of Venmo, against the banks that operate Zelle. 31, 2018, with a year-end goal of 300 million.) P2P Numbers. million U.S.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As reported last week, Bear Down Logistics is no longer working with Amazon, with the firm cutting hundreds of jobs in the wake of that severance, and effectively ceasing operations across five states. Consider the fact that Amazon started its program in 2018 to work with smaller firms to get packages where they needed to go.

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MAY 6, 2019

Bigbasket, the Indian online grocery store operator, raised $150 million in a fresh round of venture funding, valuing the company at more than $1 billion. Alibaba is currently Bigbasket’s largest shareholder, leading a $300 million round of funding in 2018. CDC, the U.K.’s billion when it was complete.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Payment processors expanding their operations into new industries and markets have their work cut out for them, however. Using the large data flows that international payment processing sees can give you great local and regional and international forewarning of behaviors. Attuning To New Markets .

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