PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

We have a deep dive into spend management in addition to news involving the Sprint and T-Mobile merger, as well as data on state tax laws. . The country’s Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) reportedly said Uber went against market rules. A ‘Diaper’ By Any Other Tax Code: The Complexities Of Selling Across State Tax Laws.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

A surge cap in Chinese stocks, fueled by the stimulus package from the government to combat the virus-riddled economy, has brought about fears of a repeat of the 2015 market crash, according to Reuters on Wednesday (Feb. ChiNext is trading at roughly 59 times last year’s earnings, up from around 30 a year ago and 47 at the end of 2019.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Amid London’s sluggish home sales market, billionaire Henry Cheng Kar-Shun’s firm intends to create its inaugural rental homes at an East London development. Companies with developments in progress have moved toward making mass sales to investors in the rental space in lieu of marketing individual units.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Luxury retail is being revised — and in some cases, reinvented — and those trends are worth attention as the 2019 holiday shopping season approaches. Not only that, but the luxury online consignment retailer opened a brick-and-mortar store on New York City’s famed Madison Avenue. Indeed, in its recent U.S. Barneys Woes.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The legal cannabis industry is large as of the start of 2019 – and, according to most experts, it’s on track to get even larger. Worldwide legal cannabis products represented a $55 billion market in 2018, and most analysts estimate that it will have nearly tripled to reach $147 billion by 2025. Here in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

While entrepreneurs continue to reflect record-level optimism, their top concerns are increasingly including the tight labor market and the importance of retaining staff in such a climate. “And that’s the way the market economy works, for better or worse.” How did small businesses fare in job growth last month?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2018

retailers (or any foreign players) to establish a strong presence in the Chinese market. For China, the tax hikes target everything from soybeans to aircrafts. Historically speaking, it has not been easy for U.S. There, too, some progress is being made. For the U.S., The country has also increased tariffs on many imported U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The filing will allow the retailer to continue operating while it attempts to reorganize the business and return to profitability. The used-fashion market in the U.S. is expected to reach $64 billion by 2028, according to the retail analytics firm GlobalData , CNBC reported. as well as almost all locations in Europe and Asia.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Italian consumers are embracing a new government program aimed at boosting retail sales while tamping down on tax evasion that allows buyers to receive a 10% refund on card payments made in stores. By offering the incentive, they hope to cut down on black market deals and fraud, according to The Financial Times.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In addition, taxes generated by the industry grew by nearly 8 percent last year. And the state’s marijuana taxes, including licenses and fees from dispensaries, were more than $266.5 To date, marijuana tax, license and fee revenue totals for Colorado are over $927 million. billion the previous year.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission’s latest round of warning letters to companies selling products containing cannabidiol (CBD) is a reminder to financial institutions to tread carefully as they look into the possibility of providing banking services to cannabis-related retailers and other cannabis-related businesses (CRBs).

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

consumers more frugal, but other individuals are still turning to retail therapy to cope with stresses. The importance of fast, secure disbursements might hold a different weight now that players are betting online more often and more readily looking for the speeds they experience with typical retail transactions. Betting service 888.com

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

billion merger deal with Switzerland’s tourism shopping tax refund company Global Blue , earning it a listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the companies announced Thursday (Jan. Global Blue runs airport kiosks and storefronts that enable shoppers to get sales tax refunds when they return home.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Avoka CMO Don Bergal told PYMNTS what global markets can expect in 2019 in terms of bank KYC happenings. ” Banks’ 2019 KYC Challenges. “ In 2019, banks will begin to shift the focus of their digital transformation strategy from purely focusing on retail banking to business banking. ” .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Digital Black Friday sales this year hit $9 billion, a 22 percent increase from 2019 figures, according to recent Adobe research. Small businesses face similar challenges that big retailers face when they transact online, because through marketplaces, they are able to reach out to millions of consumers," he told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

With all the bright spots, wage growth “remains the one aspect of the job market that hasn’t fully recovered during the decade since the Great Recession ,” he said. Some of the large growth in retail jobs can be attributed to the holiday shopping season. in 2018, putting 2019 in eighth place over the last decade.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

The retailer said that it marked a goodwill impairment charge of $2.73 In 2015, the retailer bought the Family Dollar chain for almost $9 billion in stock as well as cash. The retailer also plans to revamp 1,000 Family Dollar stores at a minimum in 2019. And the retailer had a $2.31

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The Chinese retail economy is on the comeback trail, lending optimism to the thinking that the U.S. Earlier this week the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics announced that August retail sales rose for the first time this year by 0.5 percent from 2019, while industrial production expanded 5.6 percent against a forecast of 5.1

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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 14, 2019

The CFPB’s Winter 2019 Supervisory Highlights discusses the Bureau’s examination findings in the areas of automobile loan servicing, deposits, mortgage loan servicing, and remittances. However, the servicer charged late fees based on a percentage of the full periodic payment of principal, interest, taxes, and insurance.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

There was lots to watch in the world of payments and commerce last week, with red flags flown in physical retail, international commerce and crypto. Physical Retail Stumbles Into 2020 . The year got off to something of a rocky start for physical retailers, as the recent spike in store closures carried on and even picked up strength.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2020

It has a nice ring for retailers battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. As the rest of the world remains in lockdown, Chinese consumers, who traditionally spend a lot shopping abroad, will likely focus on the local market, a trend amplified by lower import duties and taxes.”. Retail sales in January and February dropped 20.5

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 27, 2019

Never Satisfied The markets never seem to be satisfied. The Federal Reserve recently took heed of market and economic messages, ending its tightening campaign and beginning its “patience” campaign. The markets hardly seemed satisfied with these two moves as they began building in rate cuts. The impact of the tax cuts has faded.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. In August 2019, the company closed out its Series F funding round from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and General Catalyst at a $35B valuation. Market opportunity.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

million pre-tax loss for the first half of this year. After acquiring the pan-Asian restaurant Wagamama , earnings took a dive, in part due to a £102 million impairment charge for its leisure businesses, located in cinemas, retail parks and shopping centers. Another seven Wagamama locations are planned for 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

Jason West, a Credit Suisse analyst, said in a note that the stock has lost about 12 percent of its value from recent highs (as quoted by CNBC.com ), and yet forward earnings should get a boost, in part, from tax cuts. In addition, “near-term concerns around competition” are already priced in. million, and same-store sales were up 8.4

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The move will enable the company to focus on producing shareholder returns and cash from its United Kingdom, Central Europe and Ireland markets, The Wall Street Journal reported. At the tail end of 2019, Tesco had begun looking at options for its Malaysia and Thailand businesses, including the potential for sales.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Late payments are a reflection of a broader challenge in B2B payments: Large corporate buyers can wield their market power with small suppliers that lack leverage to negotiate faster payment terms. The watchdog gave the retailer 60 days to review its supplier agreements. Conducted by takepayments Ltd.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Trade wars or not, cross-border commerce is among the hottest and most important trends in payments and retail, and that was underscored this week by China-based Alibaba’s announcement that it will buy NetEase ’s cross-border retail platform Kaola for $2 billion. percent share of the market, while Kaola had about 24.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In the 2019 Disbursement Satisfaction Report , PYMNTS surveyed more than 5,000 U.S. percent of disbursement recipients were paid via instant payments in 2019, but 51.6 Government disbursements cover tax refunds, among other payments. Traditionally, even early tax filers must wait months to gain access to their tax refunds.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Robotics and automation were areas of focus for both retailers this week as they seek to upgrade their operations in an effort to capture more consumer spend. The move comes as cities and states are passing bans on cashless retail establishments, on the argument that such retail discriminates against unbanked consumers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

More than 42 percent of consumers received at least one instant payment in 2019, but such disbursements have a way to go before they are as common as many would like. Faster payments may not be the most popular disbursement method, but markets are regularly adopting them for consumer payouts.

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 18, 2021

The sample includes investors purchasing the 1917 loan in secondary markets in the post-war years 1919-32. This included France, which had a large and deep, centuries-old capital market of its own. Secondary market trading 1919-32 73.5 New research looks at a representative sample of investors 1914-32. These investors did well.

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Capital Retail Taxes Industry 145

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Other reports indicated that Black Friday physical foot traffic plummeted by 50 percent in 2020, while data from Adobe analytics indicates that digital sales soared, up 22 percent over 2019 to hit $9 billion. But while the pandemic may be the obvious and easy answer to the Black Friday digital shift, it’s not the whole explanation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

Global investment firm RBC Capital Markets sent out a note on Sunday (Jan. “We think investors are better off remaining positive here, given attractive valuation and high probability for services to re-accelerate later in 2019 via new offerings,” RBC said. RBC made a list of the reasons for the drop in revenue.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

In terms of operations, Global Blue has said that its tax-free shopping technology solutions – which help shoppers claim VAT refunds across 43 countries – serves 13 million international shoppers and 300,000 merchant stores. The move into cross-border can be both an opportunity and a challenge for cross-border companies.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The secret sauce, according to then-CEO Tina Sharky when PYMNTS spoke to her in 2017, was its elimination of what she called “the brand tax,” which typically pushes up prices on brand-name beauty products and household goods by as much as 30 percent. So what went wrong? The goal was profitability by 2023.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

The core eCommerce business showed robust growth, while the company still seeks diversification away from that line, which includes online retail sites Tmall and Taobao. In terms of the fiscal first quarter (2019) tallies of the top and bottom lines: The company posted sales of 80.9 billion RMB, which slightly bested the consensus.

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