PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Corporates across the Asia Pacific region are increasing their use of commercial card products, according to a new report from Citi. “As business operations become more complex, corporates want solutions that are simple and digital to optimize efficiencies.” Reports in The Asset on Thursday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

With the expansion, food retailers are feverously working to adapt their operations as they take on the jobs shoppers once did such as selecting groceries and bringing them to their houses. The project will be approximately 10,000 square feet and for an unidentified regional grocer. Fabric, a U.S.-Israeli during the quarter.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

After gaining a new license to operate as a financial institution in Latin America's largest economy of Brazil, MercadoLibre will work on expanding its portfolio of credit offerings, a report from BNAmericas says. Mercado Pago has been authorized since 2018 by Brazil's central bank to act as a payment institution.

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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. Since 2012, investments into the region have nearly tripled. Want the 12-page report for free? at the time.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

TuChequera.com operates a digital checkbook platform and, through its collaboration, will begin linking business customers to the Western Union Business Solutions payments platform, WU EDGE. “In 2018, we made important strategic process,” said Western Union CEO Hikmet Ersek when the earnings data was announced.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. There were 441 FinTechs operating in Mexico in 2019, a 14 percent increase from 2018.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

FlixMobility is operating in 30 countries. FlixMobility launched in the United States in 2018, challenging popular companies like Greyhound, and now operates with 100 destinations from coast to coast. It also acquired Turkey’s leading bus provider Kamil Koc and long-distance coach service Eurolines. billion people.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2018, after years of conducting tests with high-altitude helium balloons, it was spun off to become its own subsidiary. Astro Teller, "Captain of Moonshots" for X, said in a separate blog post that a small number of Loon staffers are staying on to wind down operations in a safe manner, including Loon’s pilot service in Kenya.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

. $172 billion: The value of peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers consumers made via their bank accounts in 2018. 10 : The number of countries in the region in which Grab operates. 67 percent: The share of Australian citizens expected to use real-time payments by 2023.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The deal would help to grow Uber’s operations in the region. Careem has upwards of one million drivers and operates in more than 100 cities in the region. billion in 2018. Ride-hailing and food delivery app Uber is reportedly in “advanced” talks to buy Careem, a Dubai-based rival, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

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. He noted that occupancy levels in the region are currently a bit more than 30 percent, which is higher from the lows of below 10 percent in mid-February.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Walmart is leaving Argentina, announcing a deal to sell its stores there to a regional grocery chain amid an economic crisis that is gripping the South American country. 6) it would sell its retail operations in Argentina to Grupo de Narváez, a top South American supermarket chain. Argentina faces trouble on two fronts.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Vickers, who previously worked at eBike rental company Jump, which Uber acquired in 2018 and has since sold, announced in a LinkedIn post that he would be moving to Amazon. and Canada this year alone, among them regional air hubs, sorting centers and delivery stations, to keep up with the rampant demand of the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2019

Motivate, which is owned by Lyft and operates the Ford GoBike bikeshare program in the city, is a docked program that offered — up until recently — electric and non-electric bikes. Lyft contends Uber was given an exemption under the contract because Motivate couldn’t deploy its own dockless option at the start of 2018.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

H owever, nothing is easy in life (your parents were right) and that nugget of wisdom served as a central theme of a recent PYMNTS discussion with Rakan Alhassan, operations and marketplace director at UReed. percent) while seasonal workers had lower usage throughout 2018, which dipped in Q4 2018. Among the main challenges?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The amount consumers spend at restaurants is also on the rise, according to research from First Data’s “2018 Payments and Commerce Mid-Year Review.” percent in Q2 2018, outpacing grocery store spending. According to First Data’s SpendTrend Report, ticket size has been on the rise in recent years, particularly in 2018.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

Founded in 2018 by former Santander and Atom Bank executives, the FinTech has applied for its banking license. The funding will be used to introduce B-North’s regional “Lending Pods” across Manchester in the second quarter of 2020. This latest funding adds to the €4.9 million B-North raised in previous rounds.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

Bezos owns The Washington Post, whose journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Arabia’s government, was murdered in October 2018. Bin Salman denied the claim, saying it was rogue operators who committed the crime. The CIA said the Crown Prince ordered the killing, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Latin America is becoming a new weak spot for Uber, showing a 2 percent growth, the lowest of any region for the ride-hailing company, Reuters reported on Monday (Nov. Increased competition in Latin America, mainly from the Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing, is being blamed for Uber’s growth slowdown in that region.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

technology by “any means necessary” and that there are about 1,000 related investigations currently ongoing in the country, through its 56 regional offices, according to a report by Reuters. . The men operated under a hacking group called “Advanced Persistent Threat 10,” or “APT10.” William Evanina, a senior U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

New research shows that Google gained ground on Amazon ’s global smart speaker share for the second quarter of 2018. The research shows that Amazon’s shipments fell to 41 percent in Q2 2018 from 44 percent in Q1, and from 76 percent in Q2 of last year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

Cao has served as senior vice president in charge of store operations and customer service since 2018. Before joining Luckin, he had more than 23 years of experience at McDonald’s China and served in various positions, including vice president and North regional manager.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Founded in 2018, B-North is looking to obtain its banking license in the first quarter of 2020. In September, the company announced that it was working with Banking-as-a-Service firm Mambu and cloud-based loan and deposit origination platform provider nCino to power its small business lending and banking operations.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

He was also an executive sponsor of SWIFT ’s customer security program from 2016 to 2018, and helped lead SWIFT’s response to cyber challenges facing the payments industry. Pérez-Tasso has been part of SWIFT’s executive team for seven years, and he is currently the company’s chief executive of the Americas and U.K.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Founded in 2015, Colombian startup Rappi employs bike-riding couriers to deliver everything from grocery orders to diapers all around the region. addition to Colombia, the app also operates in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay and Costa Rica.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

Sweden’s oldest retail bank will face a hefty $386 million fine for a scandal that erupted last year over the bank’s poor handling of money laundering issues in the Baltic region, according to Reuters Thursday (March 19). The scandal, which was revealed at the end of 2018, also involved Danske Bank, a peer of Swedbank’s.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

L’Occitane originated in the French region of Provence — though today it is headquartered in Luxembourg and Switzerland — and currently operates locations in 90 countries with 3,285 retail outlets. billion euros in net sales ($148 billion) and 142 million euros ($161 billion) in operating profit last fiscal year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Late last month the company announced it was expanding its partnership with Visa to include five new regions in 24 markets including Canada, Japan, Singapore and the U.S. In fact, it recently reported a pre-tax loss of £33 million for 2018, which is double the amount of the previous year. banking licence. banking licence.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

India-based eCommerce marketplace Paytm Mall wants to work more closely with regional retailers and team up with eCommerce grocery service BigBasket to compete with Flipkart and Amazon, according to recent Reuters reports. We are in the process of integrating BigBasket on our app,” said Amit Sinha, Paytm Mall’s chief operating officer.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

Banks across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region expect real-time payments to come with some major benefits to their businesses, according to new analysis from ACI Worldwide and Ovum. However, the report did find that banks in the region are less clear about exactly how they will create APIs for third-party use.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Amazon Logistics is the company’s in-house shipping and logistics operation. We see more of this going forward as our new bottom-up US package model assumes Amazon Logistics US packages grow at a 68 percent [compound annual growth rate from 2018 to 2022],” Morgan Stanley said. Amazon is now shipping packages at a rate of 2.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The fourth quarter of 2018 was kind to Venmo and Zelle , the two big peer-to-peer (P2P) services that are battling for consumer loyalty and market supremacy — a fight that pits PayPal , the owner of Venmo, against the banks that operate Zelle. 31, 2018, with a year-end goal of 300 million.) P2P Numbers. million U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Amazon Logistics is the company’s in-house shipping and logistics operation. We see more of this going forward as our new bottom-up US package model assumes Amazon Logistics US packages grow at a 68 percent [compound annual growth rate from 2018 to 2022],” Morgan Stanley said. Amazon is now shipping packages at a rate of 2.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

Latin America showed the strongest growth and offset declines in the Asia Pacific region and in the U.S. We remain on track to deliver on our 2019 outlook, excluding the costs related to the operating model changes we announced today,” President and CEO Hikmet Ersek said of the result. domestic market. to $2.57.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

The EU enacted open banking rules in 2018, inspiring regulators worldwide to reconsider how they were transacting funds or transmitting data. This growth in digital payment volume is testing the open banking networks proposed by regulators in multiple regions, including the U.K. and the EU. Australia and Canada. 1, for instance.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The company, which launched in October of 2018, will set up shop in Lagos. Alicia Levine, who works at BRCK, an internet hardware and service startup, will become the company’s chief operating officer. Abiodun Animashaun, the co-founder of the Lagos-based ride-hailing startup Gokada, will serve as country manager.

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