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MAY 11, 2020

billion in April and brought in $920 million in additional liquidity via amendments to its co-brand credit card agreements in May. Marriott CEO and President Arne Sorenson said on a Monday (May 11) earnings call that, overall, “negative trends appear to have bottomed in most regions around the world.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

Popular for its branded green vehicles, in 2019, FlixMobility expanded into Ukraine. FlixMobility launched in the United States in 2018, challenging popular companies like Greyhound, and now operates with 100 destinations from coast to coast. FlixMobility is operating in 30 countries. billion people.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

In terms of regions, Mexico saw the most toy industry growth at 15 percent for the first half of the year. Brazil and the United States closely followed, with 11 percent and 7 percent growth respectively. And brands have helped to fuel that strong growth. Growth in the United States.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

“The inclusion of products from various mall tenants in the program will create a new stream of sales and customers for stores, as well as drive awareness and brand recognition,” said PREIT in a statement. Twenty-eight percent of PREIT’s portfolio consists of local and regional tenants.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

As coronavirus cases surge in the United States, some supermarket retailers are re-instituting buying restrictions on specific products such as toilet paper, USA Today reported. H-E-B, for its part, supervises over 400 retail locations, primarily in Texas. Pennsylvania-based The Giant Co.

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APRIL 15, 2019

In multiple large metropolitan areas of the United States, market share data indicates that Kroger is gaining traction. The grocer operates Kroger stores along with regional brands such as Fry’s, King Soopers and Harris Teeter, Cincinnati.com reported. billion in grocery sales last year in the region.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

British challenger bank Monzo is among those moving into new product segments following its recent launch into the United States, announcing a partnership with AXA partners to provide travel insurance to its users. Banks both new and old are looking to launch additional products aimed at keeping customers away from their competition.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

“Amazon is also one of the most trusted brands in the industry.” The company also allows for 70 different currencies from regions around the globe, including Brunei, Aruba, Hong Kong, Haiti and others. In Asia, the practice is much more common, with many users of Alipay and WeChat Pay.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Going a bit further, the United States saw 10 percent growth to $466 billion, outpaced by the rest of the world at 16 percent to just over $1 trillion. Within the United States, he said, spending and growth have held up “reasonably well” amid low unemployment and “still healthy” consumer confidence. The company had 2.5

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JULY 14, 2016

The enhanced functionality — including contactless payments for Android users in the United States — integrates payments and new services, such as paying with points and purchase alerts. In terms of the global rollout, the United States will be the first market, followed by Europe, the Middle East and Africa by the end of this year.

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JUNE 24, 2019

The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials. Together, Visa and Razer FinTech have the opportunity to transform the payments experience for not only the gaming community, but many of Southeast Asia’s unbanked and underserved consumers as well,” said Chris Clark, Visa’s regional president for Asia Pacific.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

9) that it will stop selling eCigarette components in the United States, Reuters reports. The incidences of injuries and deaths have, the newswire said, been linked to what are being termed “makeshift brands” other than the dominant market player, Juul Labs. Reuters reported the reports of the lung illnesses top 1,000 cases.

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APRIL 13, 2017

In a press release , the companies said the combined business will operate under the GSTV brand and deliver 3.3 billion annual impressions through more than 18,000 locations in all 50 states by year’s end. “We National and regional marketers across all industry sectors now have a way to reach valuable, attentive consumers.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

On a global stage, it will be worth watching the impact of the economic slowdown that is hitting several regions, especially China, where in the past growth in the United States has offset a slump in dual-branded card volume.

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JUNE 27, 2019

The United States has over 60 percent of the world’s cryptocurrency ATMs, followed by Canada with 12.4 s South West Regional Cyber Crime Unit (SW RCCU), in a joint operation with the Dutch police (Politie), Europol, Eurojust and the U.K.’s In other news, it was announced that the U.K.’s

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MARCH 11, 2020

We’ve seen consolidation within verticals, with software platforms coming together to create brands within, say, health and fitness, while maintaining the individual brand of the SaaS platform itself,” he told PYMNTS. We’re also seeing it for government platforms at the federal, state and municipal levels.”.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

India has overtaken the United States to become the world’s second largest smartphone market. According to news from a report by Canalys , smartphone shipments in India grew 23 percent year over year in Q3 2017 to reach just over 40 million units, making the country the world’s second largest smartphone market after China.

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JULY 23, 2019

In terms of individual regions, the company saw the highest credit and debit activity in constant dollar volume at 8.9 In reference to other FinTech deals, Kelly stated that Visa exists as a “natural partner” due to scale. Total transactions were up 10 percent to 51.6 billion, processed transactions gained 12 percent to 35.4

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JANUARY 29, 2019

The privately-held appliances brand sells vacuum cleaners under the Shark logo, while its line of food processors, coffee makers, pressure cookers and blenders are sold under the Ninja branding. In the United States, Shark vacuums run the market — it’s the top selling upright brand and owns 35 percent of the market.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

trillion, where the United States saw those transactions up by 12 percent to a total of $494 billion and the rest of the world saw 16 percent growth to the remaining $1.1 CFO Sachin Mehra said the cross-border volume growth was in line with expectations and was driven by double-digit growth across most regions.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Visa said it is expanding its partnership with London-based FinTech Revolut to include five new regions reaching 24 markets — bringing Revolut’s total global footprint to 56 markets. As part of the newly expanded partnership, Revolut will primarily issue Visa-branded cards in the global expansion. So today (Sept.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In some ways, Belk department store is the last of a dying breed — and not just because it is a department store in the United States in the year 2017. Small and regional — outside of the Southeastern United States, most people haven’t heard of it. Most brands can’t do exactly what Belk has done.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Outside the southeastern United States, Publix is neither a household name, nor an everyday experience. A highly regional grocery store chain, it’s only known in the six states where it actually operates. It’s not a new brand experience — Publix offers GreenWise produce, meats and non-food items, like tissues.

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MAY 1, 2019

Drilling down into the gross dollar volumes, the company said United States volume was up 8 percent to $451 billion, outpaced by international growth, which was up 13 percent to $1 trillion. Brazil in particular is converting 7 million private cards to Mastercard contactless co-branded cards. trillion transactions.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

The final phase is in regards to the Asia Pacific region. NEW DATA: The Six Reasons Why More Consumers Are Buying Directly From Brands. Walmart has arrived at a partnership with Instacart to provide same-day delivery throughout a couple of select markets in the United States geared toward four pilots in California and Oklahoma.

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JUNE 19, 2019

Details were scarce about the company’s new offerings, or how it views this particular brand of travel-industry disruption. He said POS financing will not displace other forms of payment, but should lead to accelerated activity in the coming years across corridors, such as Central and South America, the United States and Canada.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

-based merchants sell across borders, but that percentage lags behind other nations such as Germany and the United Kingdom, where half of merchants that sell goods and services online do so across borders. To capitalize on that aforementioned eCommerce growth in emerging markets and log sales in those regions, U.S.

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JULY 5, 2017

Think of it as an extension of brand and payment types and technology, and to some minds it is a natural fit. For Vantiv there is value in going beyond the United States, boosting footprint and gaining scale. attention on Europe, with the desire to gain a post, or perhaps outpost, in payments processing in the region.

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MARCH 19, 2020

The tool also connects third-party platforms, including eCommerce, ride-hailing and social media portals, with the ability to offer their own customers access to Standard Chartered loans, credit cards and savings accounts under their own brand names. In the United States, U.S. Bank Taps Fiserv For Data Transfers.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

as well as Canada, is looking to shutter 250 stores at a minimum in the United States. With the store closings, which are said to involve its Chico’s, Soma and White House Black Market brands, the company hopes to benefit from lease expirations as well as return on capital and better profitability.

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MAY 4, 2017

In the latest webinar series, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster jumped into the findings of the Global Cash Index, gaining a sense of the story behind the numbers in the United States and the Americas in general. Keep a lid on the casket talk. Turning to the Americas — defined as the U.S., percent over that time frame.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Interest rates are going negative in at least some regions in Europe. And of course, the global economy is slowing … and you might have heard that a trade war between the United States and China remains as a headwind to growth. Tapestry owns brands like Kate Spade and management has termed the current environment challenging.

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APRIL 14, 2017

After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. Now that cannabis is recreationally legal in eight states and medically legal in another 19 states, it may not be too much longer until it’s legal through the entire United States.

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Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

The easiest possible summary is that in a post-apocalyptic future, the United States has become the Kingdom of Panem, which consists of a rich, technologically vibrant capital city ringed by 12 impoverished agrarian or industrial districts that are exploited for their resources by wealthy residents of the capitol. District 2: Walmart.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

To that end, the platform has tens of thousands of campgrounds listed on its platform through the United States, with a combination of federal campgrounds, state parks, national parks, BLM land, private campgrounds and private landowners. The more content there is on a site, then, the more people on can help.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The conversation came across a backdrop of more than 50 real-time payment systems currently live around the world, although largely domestic and regional in nature. In the United States alone, for example, The Clearing House’s RTP network serves 70 percent of all DDAs. Awareness of those differences is key.

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