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Indonesia Likely To Implement Flat Rates For Digital Wallet Payments

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By way of comparison, fees at Visa and Mastercard are roughly 2 percent to 3 percent, the article indicated. In addition, the proposed changes would divide the transaction fees equally among the eWallet companies, middle-men payment processors and the Indonesian lender consortium (the National Electronic Transaction Settlement).

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New US 'Cryptocurrency Enforcement Network' Takes Aim At Bitcoin Scammers

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Attorney General William Barr said that while cryptocurrency could fundamentally transform how human beings interact and how we organize society, “ensuring that use of this technology is safe and does not imperil our public safety or our national security is vitally important to America and its allies.”. Lagging Consumer Use Cases.

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Back-To-School Predictions Go Off The Charts

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On the positive side is the retailing trade group the National Retail Federation ( NRF ). There are two wild cards. The NRF is also basing some of its projections on higher ticket prices from shopping online and a lack of comparison shopping for bargains. It’s going to be a difficult back-to-school season,” Saunders said.

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How Mom-And-Pop Pizzerias Can Tap Into Digital Orders

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Through platforms such as Slice , small pizzerias can tap into technology that allows their customers to order pizza online for pickup or delivery — just like the larger national chains. By comparison, Sela said 60 percent of the big pizza chains’ business is digital, leaving room for small pizzerias to grow their digital order base.

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Consumers Don’t Like Shopping In Physical Stores — Here’s Why

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Three out of every four consumers who shopped for their holiday purchases on Black Friday this year made at least one of those purchases online, and three in 10 exclusively shopped online, according to exclusive PYMNTS Black Friday data. That includes features such as the option to purchase online and pick up curbside (34.2

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How Connected Consumers Order Ahead During Their Commutes

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From SPOT to Starbucks , online platforms and retailers are providing consumers with new ways to place orders or make purchases from the car. By comparison, mobile ordering and payment accounted for 9 percent of those transactions in the fiscal third quarter of 2017. And that figure marks an increase from the almost two-thirds – or 66.4

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Target Invites Third-Party Sellers To Its Website

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The retailer is inviting specialty and national brands alike to offer items online, CNBC reported. By comparison, the hurdles to become a third-party seller are lower on Amazon and Walmart; on those sites, sellers ask for approval to sell through an application.

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