BankBazaar

JANUARY 22, 2020

“TRAVEL MAKES ONE MODEST, YOU SEE WHAT A TINY PLACE YOU OCCUPY IN THE WORLD.” ~ GUSTAVE FLAUBERT. The internet and social media have certainly made the world a smaller place. It’s easier than ever before to read up about places you want to visit, refer to real-world reviews, and plan your entire vacation down to a T.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Michel Protti said that the company would be rolling out the changes in Libya, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Pakistan and Cambodia this month, and in the rest of the world in 2020. He added that, from now on, no one who signs up for Facebook will have their phone number connected to their friend suggestions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

“Mexico now has the best of our rare combination of physical and digital capabilities, with the option to receive global money transfers at more than 33,000 retail locations or into almost every Mexican bank from the United States, and the ability to send money effortlessly to almost every country in the world.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Welcome to the world of international trade finance and the business of smoothing over the 90-plus day payment lags and quality fears that trading partners often half a world apart must routinely contend with on a daily basis. Now imagine that same feeling, with thousands — or even millions — more dollars at stake.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

JT: My cofounder, Juan Pablo Montúfar, grew up on his family’s flower farm in Ecuador, and after a decade of working in the U.S. he moved back to Ecuador to run a flower farm. He quickly found that it was a tough business, and to combat some of the challenges, he built a direct-from-Ecuador supply chain.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

The 17-person company has to ensure that even farmers in very remote regions of the world — including the Amazon rainforest — can conveniently receive payments, and that it can handle transactions smoothly despite current market disruptions. For cocoa farmers around the world, this is really bad,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

Most conversations about soccer between American sports fans will include the comment: “It’s the most popular sport in the world — just not in the U.S.” “With the convergence of digital tools — Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp — there are no barriers to following any team or player around the world,” Berhalter said.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

DECEMBER 29, 2014

It is a mash up of some of the incredible work that my colleagues have been doing in the world of digital money and the vision of an under-rated Chancellor of the Exchequer. Thanks to the model of electronic money the Central Bank of Ecuador, most transactions are free and the rest will cost a few cents. From Google Translate ].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Getting flower commerce right in this world of thousands of other providers is not easy — especially when The Bouqs aims to stand out from that crowded field by offering sustainable products and a transparent supply chain. That is where the world is headed.”. The deliveries would come over and over again,” he said.

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TheGuardian

AUGUST 12, 2020

The headwaters of the Amazon in Ecuador and Peru are home to more than 500,000 indigenous people, including some who choose to live in voluntary isolation. The area, covering about 30m hectares (74m acres), hosts a diverse rainforest ecosystem, but it is threatened by the expansion of oil drilling.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

In the June Smarter Payments Tracker® , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of smarter payments, including new remittance-as-a-service platforms from providers such as Nium, the prob lems associated with correspondent banking, and how COVID-19 is negatively impacting the cross-border payments industry.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Hence the blockchain-based concept that backs The Other Bar, which is a chocolate bar built to do good for the world. The customer can then choose to either send the token to a farmer in Ecuador who produced the chocolate they are now eating, or they can apply it toward a discount on their next purchase.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2016

Summer used to be a slower time of the year, but in this fast-paced world called payments and commerce innovation, there’s no rest for the weary, at least not for those who don’t want to be irrelevant a few years from now. The SWIFT messaging system has not been hacked into from the outside.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In a sense she is transforming her digital transaction into something that looks more like a physical one in the real world, where ownership and scarcity of an asset is tangible and obvious. These nodes are distributed around the world. Such a ledger allows Alice to send a digital token to Bob without going through Dave.

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