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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

BlackBerry, the once-maker of the BlackBerry mobile phone, has filed a lawsuit against Twitter contending the social media platform operator engaged in patent infringement. According to a report in Reuters citing the lawsuit, BlackBerry contends Twitter infringed on patents covering its technology in its mobile message apps.

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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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or largely focused on the domestic banking market. Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers 8. In many cases, the podcasts or hosts have sizable social media followings, and all release a new episode at least once per month so you can stay up to date with the latest trends in the finance world. BankTalk 3.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

It is the smallest of firms, the stores that dot Main Street, that are struggling the most with the great digital shift. That means digitizing all aspects of their businesses from marketing to all facets of daily operations, from consumer-facing outreach to payments in the back office in order to stay connected to consumers and communities.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

“Across our business, we strive to facilitate greater financial inclusion in emerging markets, and identity is a central component,” said EmTech’s Chief Commercial Officer Mitch Davis. Biometric data is then recorded and matched with a photo ID, public records or social media to verify the person’s identity.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Yet many firms struggle to gain access to the capital that helps them launch or sustain operations. In an interview with PYMNTS, CEO Johannes Brouwer said that for smaller firms seeking access to financing as they look to grow operations, the process has typically been time-consuming and expensive.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Here’s the news: Beijing-based Babytree, which was founded in 2007 and “operates an online platform for parents to exchange know-how, shop for baby goods and purchase early education services,” recently launched its IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. . News reports blame a weak market for the less-than-expected IPO success.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

In other markets, the rise of marketplaces is giving old organizations new perspective. Tech-savvy millennials and Gen Z consumers want a shopping experience that offers visual search to enhance product discoverability, harkening to social media apps such as Instagram and Pinterest.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

With the recent global explosion in skincare and wellness products, there are all kinds of stories of how various entrepreneurs wound their way into the market. Today, the brand is very different than the soap-making operation that was formerly run out of its founders’ kitchen. The brand they created was called Herbivore Botanicals.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

21), the latest commerce operator to be on the verge of extinction in this age of digital and mobile. though they also operate under such brands as Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod stores. The move comes amid growth in the larger maternity market, however, with sales of that apparel expected to reach $7.7 Larger Trends.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Macy’s is going to China — digitally speaking — with the 2017 launch of a Chinese eCommerce portal in the largest eCommerce market in the world. Macy’s announced the planned move last week at an event in Shanghai. Macy’s launched on Tmall last November.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

According to Flow CEO Rob Keve, advances in social media and the way things are marketed throughout platforms have made it easier for direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands to reach customers. Solving that problem is among the main tasks of cross-border retail innovation and disruption in this brand new decade. Amazon’s Role.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

million during its first year of operations. While 2018 was a challenging year for the industry, I am pleased with the ways in which our team navigated difficult market dynamics, and believe we are well-positioned to scale our business strategically over time,” Novogratz said in a press release. The decrease was mainly due to $48.7

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AUGUST 4, 2020

but in all eight of the markets in which we did the research.”. He added that small shopkeepers had to figure out almost overnight how to move their businesses online and digitize even their physical operations so they could keep the customer relationships they already had. That was very evident in the study — and not just in the U.S.

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MARCH 12, 2020

The uncertainty injected into the market, as Ning Wang, co-founder and chief business officer at PingPong , told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, is having undeniable effects worldwide – which are not likely to wear off anytime soon. The weak ones that move slowly will probably suffer tremendously.”.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Paytm reportedly had the most Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in January in India, Nets is teaming up with payment service provider Przelewy24 for a strategic alliance to serve the market in Poland, and Sri Lanka ’s Mobitel introduced mCashQR to its mobile app.

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MAY 31, 2018

These are busy times for the intersection of digital and automotive, with a variety of players trying to get a piece of the market. The social media operator said last year that it is expanding the number of cars for sale, which users can view via its marketplace, teaming up with leaders in the auto industry.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Netflix also said it would not add advertising to its platform to boost revenue, despite seeing continued weakness in the United States market. Attorney General Letitia James said her office won more than $16 million in restitution and penalties for 68,000 victims and shuttered the scammers’ New York and Oregon operations.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

There may come a day, a generation or two from now, when stories about the data breaches and other hacking threats faced by payments and commerce operators in 2018 seem quaint — or, at the least, like relatively primitive foreshadowing of a new type of digital criminality. The main areas of security risk? Security Vulnerabilities.

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MAY 29, 2018

The financial services company recently debuted a new partnership with Russian phone operator and telecom provider MegaFon. The developer community within the report is separated into three categories: shopping and payments, operations and marketing. Around the Omni Developer World.

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Its market clearing engine, which is the heart of the solution, computes the activated bids and demands and relies on FICO Xpress. The TERRE market platform replaces a fragmented process, mainly managed at the national level, which was composed of several local mostly non-optimized sub-systems.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

A recent report from UBS, in fact, estimated that the global online food ordering market will increase 20 percent annually until 2030, reaching $365 billion. Cheaper deliveries and adults who cook less than previous generations are among the main factors behind that growth. That said, online food delivery is having its moment.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The company outlined plans in July to build 1,500 restaurants in China in the coming decade, becoming the last of Toronto-based Restaurant Brands International Inc’s main brands to enter the country.”. Similar to apparel retailers, Starbucks sees China as a market for its coffee shops. Popeyes’ Path.

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MAY 25, 2017

The May Payments-as-a-Service Tracker™ examines the ways new payment solutions and tools are helping merchants with their business operations and improving relationships with the customers and clients. Reinventing the Recreation Market. News from the Payments-as-a-Service Landscape.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

It was the main question put to a panel of payments and customer-facing professionals who told Karen Webster that the “old” ways of doling out rewards, on a merchant-by-merchant, point-by-point basis — even with thresholds in place before redemption — no longer applies. “We It’s important to make sure that redemption is easy and flexible.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

The eCommerce operator plans to print a holiday catalog , reportedly for distribution at Whole Foods and via mail. According to the Data & Marketing Association , 9.8 As consumers and retailers further embrace digital marketing, a paper catalog that arrives in the mailbox can stand out. billion catalogs were sent to U.S.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

And like retail, the restaurant industry is struggling to find the balance between teaming up with aggregators that provide reach, distribution and marketing efficiencies with the economics of paying as much as a third of the order value to these aggregators to market, deliver and process orders for customers. billion on Jan.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

The California-based social media giant recently filed a patent describing a messenger bot that enables users to pay for items, and can understand and reply to users’ requests, according to reports. We’re excited to see Zillow enter our market,” Zahnd said. There’s room in the market for multiple successes.”.

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JUNE 26, 2018

Perhaps the main challenge for payment processors serving the freelance and gig economy remains staying “relevant,” Shore said. For the markets served by Workana, which Bracciaforte said has more than 1.3 That includes data science, digital marketing and social media operations.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

La Ligne is often described as one of the quieter players in the space – though recently they’ve raised an undisclosed sum in their second round of fundraising in two-and-a-half years, and for the first time is looking to make a larger investment in marketing and social media penetration.

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AUGUST 24, 2019

According to Zach Hensley, vice president of operations and guest experiences for the Seahawks and CenturyLink Field, these services are changing how fans experience live games and boosting their overall enjoyment. CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks , was the first NFL stadium to adopt the technology.

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This requires executive managers to see the wider picture and appreciate the learnings from the market responses. The primary lesson from financial companies’ response to COVID-19 market trends is that financial challenges cannot be tackled in isolation. Let’s focus on five things we value more today in financial services: 1.

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MAY 4, 2019

The drive-thru window, for example, first met the market in 1947 when it was introduced to the world by Sheldon “Red” Chaney, operator of Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri. The concept was invented by a Guatemalan McDonald’s franchise operator, Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño, in the mid-70s.

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Gentle Monster Background Founded in 2011 by Kim, Gentle Monster initially struggled to break through against large brands like Luxottica which controls an estimated 30% of the US market, and is behind almost every single designer eyeglass brand you can think of, including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Armani, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Prada and many more.

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JUNE 17, 2016

market do not have: the need for offline authorization. Main Street Businesses. We were thrilled to report that the health of those businesses that line the side streets and main streets of Any Town, USA are not only healthy and growing but making the local economies in which they operate healthy, too.

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JUNE 28, 2019

Both firms also plan to expand illimity’s cross-border deposit accounts to the broader EU market. While companies work to overhaul existing payment infrastructures, the latest venture by social media giant Facebook will require new infrastructures to be created from scratch. To get the full story, download the Tracker.

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