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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

According to a late 2017 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , almost 40 percent of American adults and nearly 20 percent of adolescents are obese – the highest rates in U.S. The firm recently raised $10 million in Series A funding to push its sustainable lifestyle-changing app into the wider global market.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The companies are also encouraging other regional banks in Japan to participate as the country’s cross-border eCommerce volumes increase. trillion worth of B2C eCommerce with Japan by 2021, a 70 percent increase from 2017 volumes. Reports in the Nikkei Asian Review on Monday (Feb. via Amazon. Reports said the U.S.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

The final wave concerns the Asia Pacific region. Some smaller businesses might not have the resources or education to pull off seamless invoicing, according to Sandra Rowley, head of marketing for U.K. SAP and Google have had a partnership since 2017, the press release states, working to help companies digitize their processes.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Consumers have more retail modes than ever before, in more regions of the world – and a greater ability to expand and customize their commerce activities. Data: $13 billion: Projected worth of the self-service market by 2023. million: The number of smart vending machines forecast to be online in the Asia Pacific Region.

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MAY 11, 2017

In its seventh administering of this research, dubbed the “Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2017,” Startup Genome was able to uncover the current state of the globalization of startups and their ecosystems. The top 20 in Startup Genome’s 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking include the following cities: Silicon Valley. Los Angeles.

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MAY 30, 2018

Small businesses (SMBs) seeking loans decreased at the end of 2017, and companies felt the sting of financial challenges more acutely. That finding comes care of data gathered by 12 regional Federal Reserve banks in a survey conducted over the third and fourth quarter of 2017.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Consumers reportedly have downloaded one million mini programs since their launch in early 2017 — that’s just less than half the size of the Apple App Store. Mobile game apps, meanwhile, experienced a 16 percent decrease in use in 2017, with lifestyle apps going down 40 percent. Growth in Asia. and Brazil.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

With the completed integration, Robo.cash users can invest in the region and its development. This integration will significantly accelerate our development in the region. Around the world, the market reached a $54 billion value, compared to $9 billion in 2014. The country’s P2P market for lending reached $83.8

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CB Insights

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. deals and dollars to latin america hit a high in 2017. Since 2012, investments into the region have nearly tripled.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s another thing to walk the walk, especially when it comes to giving sellers the chance to gain new revenue via online marketplaces and new markets. Tsang told Webster that the firm had opened up shop in Vietnam, putting feet on the street in this emerging market for cross-border commerce. Other Markets.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

In 2017, there were 38 disclosed venture and seed rounds by automakers , up from 26 in 2016 — and astronomically higher than only six in 2015. In the rideshare arena, InMotion , Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm, invested $25 million in a $600 million funding round for Lyft in 2017. Ridesharing. Self-Driving Taxis. Car Financing.

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NCR

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As December draws to a close, it’s time to look back on the biggest headlines and defining themes of 2017 for the financial services industry. The humble ATM celebrated its 50 th birthday in June 2017. For many financial institutions (FIs), preparing for the EU’s PSD2 regulation has been priority number one in 2017.

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PYMNTS

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. North American banks are among the most optimistic, EY found.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

He was previously in charge of new markets for Google in the Middle East and North Africa. Uber’s acquisition of Careem , along with Amazon’s purchase of Souq.com in 2017, generated interest in the burgeoning tech field in the area. A unicorn refers to a privately held startup that is valued at over $1 billion.

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NCR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The transformation of the global payments market continues to gather pace, with the emergence of a growing number of technologies offering consumers more choice than ever when it comes to choosing how they pay for goods and services. Emerging markets set for non-cash payments boom. percent globally in 2014-15.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Technavio, the research firm, is forecasting the global mobile card reader market will grow at a CAGR of close to 54 percent from 2017 to 2021. According to a press release highlighting the new forecast, Technavio said the magnetic stripe technology was the most commonly used technology in 2016 with more than 53 percent market share.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

In looking ahead at the near-term emergence of FinTech markets, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration said in its “ 2016 Top Markets Report Financial Technology ” that Asia will hold sway over other regions. Payment services, with … 17.6 percent, insurance services at 7.7

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

So-called peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has certainly faced challenges in certain markets. Since launching its SME and P2P lending services — the latter involves investors found online who take part in the financing programs in hopes of healthy returns — the situation in the region has been, as Moore put it, challenging.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The company has teamed up with Regions Bank to provide the possibility of virtual loans to consumers in Texas, the South and the Midwest. . When someone goes to the auto center section of the Regions Bank website, they’ll be routed to a new, co-branded site from the two companies. . and Carvana has next-day delivery in 146 markets.

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MARCH 15, 2017

Still, AD has maintained a slow, shallow ascent since the beginning of 2017. percent from Monday’s close, but still up overall for the week with an estimated market cap over €26.1 Whole Food Market’s estimated market cap sat just a smidgen over $9 billion. per share with a market cap just over $26.64 billion ($27.8

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And while enthusiasm for expanding opportunities to access the Chinese market and its billion-plus consumers is as avid as it’s ever been — as evidenced by last week’s announcement of PayPal and UnionPay’s global payments partnership — the bigger commerce story has expanded beyond China in the last few years.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Volanty, an online Brazilian used car market startup, raised 70 million reais ($17.6 million reais ($630,000) in 2017, Reuters said. Launched in 2017, Volanty digitally connects second-hand car buyers and sellers. million) in funding, led by Japan’s SoftBank and Argentina’s Kaszek, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Aug.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

This collaboration will expand UnionPay’s market penetration and further a Chinese government initiative for same-sector partnership. Regional rival Alipay interacts with its customers with a similar, but not integrated software system. The collaboration also increases options for consumers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Making cross-border payments in the EU therefore requires interconnectivity between the regions’ various real-time payments rails. SCT Inst was developed in 2017 to establish operational guidelines by which all real-time payment rails in the EU are required to comply. Official guidelines and regulations can only go so far, however.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

The website is a re-branding of Middle Eastern eCommerce site Souq.com , which was acquired by Amazon in 2017, PYMNTS reported. Amazon’s moves in the Middle East have been said to solidify the company’s presence in the region and bolster its worldwide sales after a slump in the beginning of 2019.

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William Mills

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Major trade shows occur throughout the year, and it can be overwhelming to keep track of them all, which is why William Mills Agency has compiled its 2017 Trade Show Directory, which can be downloaded here. One is the 6th annual Bank Innovation 2017 , March 6-7 in San Jose, Calif., But don’t always focus on the biggest trade events.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Over the last two months, we have audited every driver in London,” Jamie Heywood, Uber’s regional general manager for Northern and Eastern Europe, told Reuters. “We The company’s license was pulled for the first time in London over safety concerns in September of 2017. This isn’t the first time has Uber lost its London license.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2017

What’s more, the trade group said the size of the market globally was $27.4 The global card industry continues to provide growth opportunities in several geographic regional and vertical markets,” Al Vrancart, ICMA founder emeritus and industry advisor, said in the press release. billion in 2016, resulting in 35.4

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Also in Europe, the European financial markets regulator has said that it wants to spend one million euros to promote market stability in the region as pertains to cryptocurrencies and FinTechs. That document focuses on budgets and regulatory efforts across the region. billion over the corresponding period.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

Global Wireless POS Market Growth. The global wireless POS terminals market is expected to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13 percent from 2017 to 2023. As a result, the region can be an “early adopter” of the technology. However, the company said that Asia-Pacific may see the fastest market growth.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

They also managed to surprise those analysts, since Apple was widely expected to post lackluster iPhone sales due to the somewhat unusual 2017 device rollout schedule. This year, the new iPhone 8 , which has been on the market since Sept. “We’re getting similar reports across that region.” currently underway.

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MAY 15, 2017

For the first quarter of 2017, JCPenney reported diluted EPS of $0.06 per share in Q1 2017. “We By division, JCPenney reported that Home, Sephora, Fine Jewelry and Salon comped positively in Q1 2017. By region, the retailer’s best performing markets were in the Southwest and Southeast U.S. and sales of $12.33

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APRIL 3, 2020

At its most recent funding round of $1 billion in September 2017, Airbnb had a valuation of $31 billion, the source said. Bookings were off up to 90 percent in particularly hard-hit regions, data from independent monitoring firm AirDNA indicated.

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JULY 17, 2019

Go-Jek’s Go-Pay is Indonesia’s market leader in mobile on-demand services and payments platform and wants to accelerate services across the 640 million underserved and unbanked consumers of Southeast Asia. Go-Jek’s Go-Pay payment system rolled out in 2017, accounting for over half of the startup’s transactions.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

GoPay , Gojek’s app-based digital payments platform, acquired Indonesian group-saving network Mapan in 2017. Also in 2017, Gojek acquired two FinTech firms in Indonesia — Kartuku, the country’s largest offline payments-processing company; and Midtrans, a top online-payment gateway. The company said it has 7.1

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

HSBC’s PayMe digital wallet has been available to individuals since the early part of 2017, but now it is targeting startups and small business owners. The bank has received thousands of applications since launching PayMe in April, according to Stuart Tait, the regional head of commercial banking for HSBC in Asia. “We

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

As PayPal reaches saturation points in Western markets, it wants to continue to expand internationally, especially in India, where the country’s 450 million mobile users make it an attractive target for retailers. We look at regions and then there are countries of importance?…?India India is a big market.

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