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DECEMBER 24, 2020

If 2020 taught us anything about cryptocurrencies, it’s that they’ve reached a tipping point. If one measures success for digital currencies in buzz — and in price appreciation for many of the marquee names — then 2020 stands out as a banner year. Here are some of cryptos’ key developments for 2020: Bitcoin Goes Higher And Higher.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

The PYMNTS Weekender is here to catch you up on the latest news at the end of the last full work week before Christmas. BarkBox , the New York subscription upstart, is reportedly combining with Northern Star Acquisitions Corp., REPORT: Connected At Home: The Devices That Got Consumers Through 2020. Billion Valuation.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Live Nation Entertainment reached a deal with the government, resolving concerns that the company had violated a 2010 antitrust settlement. The agreement — which was set to expire in 2020 — bars Live Nation from forcing venues to use Ticketmaster when they want to book tours, as well as retaliating when a venue uses another ticketing service.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

India’s One Nation One Card will be test-piloted with Mumbai bus operator BEST in November, NFCWorld reported on Tuesday (Aug. The national transit card system uses a bank-issued card that will run on India’s RuPay payments network, the news outlet said.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have unfortunately found themselves at or near the top of COVID-19’s 2020 hit list. But that increased good feeling is largely reliant on the nation not undergoing yet another round of lockdowns. SMBs Are Highly Aware of the Vaccine News.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

percent higher in 2020 than in 2019, surprising even the National Retail Federation (NRF). The NRF said 2020 retail sales from Nov. The NRF said 2020 retail sales from Nov. billion in 2020, a 32 percent increase from 2019. Despite the ongoing pandemic, retail holiday sales were 8.3 percent jump was double the 3.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Risk management platform Feedzai announced a 44 percent increase in growth for the first half of the fiscal year for 2020, which a press release says was one of the company’s most successful so far. Comparing it favorably to the first half of 2019, Feedzai says it closed deals in the U.S., EMEA, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Consumers across the nation have instead hunkered down at home, working, socializing, shopping and paying online. This new, home-centric lifestyle has gone hand in hand with a broader shift in the types of connected devices consumers need to conduct transactions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

It’s not all good news. In this weird environment, where Dark Web desperados now “bundle” stolen records so that cybercrooks have a seamless (though utterly illicit) shopping experience, new methods are required. The launch of EMV chip cards in the U.S. That’s one of the happier stories in the turbulent digital identity wars.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 22, 2024

There is some good news, however. built an index around this, and it shows that since early 2023, the number of workers in these buildings has hovered between 60% and 70% of the level of activity seen before the pandemic in February 2020. On the good news front, the supply pipeline continues to decline.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Bitdefender said in its Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report 2020 that four out of 10 pandemic-themed emails in the first half of the year on average were tagged as spam. “As Attempts to infect users with ransomware in 2020 have not slowed down. Firms globally were advising or mandating that staffers work remotely.

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BankBazaar

DECEMBER 29, 2020

BankBazaar Studio is back with the top news updates in the world of Personal Finance. for around 6 crore subscribers by the end of December 2020. – Sale of petrol increased by 5% in November 2020 along with the demand for cooking gas by 4%. – EPFO may credit the interest of 8.5% EPFinterestrate #EPFOlogin.

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BankBazaar

JANUARY 31, 2020

Let’s take a look at the major highlights of Union Budget 2020: The budget had three main themes: Aspirational India. A total of 60 lakh new taxpayers and 105 crore e-way bills have been generated under GST. Check out the latest Income Tax slabs for your reference: Income Tax Slabs 2020-21. Income Tax Calculator 2020.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

Adyen reported its processed volume for the first quarter of 2020 rose by 38 percent year-on-year, with an extension of historical growth trends over the first two months of the year. In January, news surfaced that Adyen will help process payments for Subway, the quick-service restaurant (QSR) chain, in the United States and Canada.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

The world of payments has provided a new leader to the National Urban League. Murphy was elected to the post during the National Urban League’s Board of Trustees quarterly meeting in New York City. “He I’m honored to be a part of that mission,” Murphy said as part of the National Urban League’s announcement.

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MAY 8, 2020

The National Football League’s 101st season begins in prime time on Sept. He added the league is prepared to make adjustments as it did during the off-season in safely and efficiently conducting key activities such as free agency, the virtual off-season program, and the 2020 NFL Draft. Are you ready for some football? Or will it? “In

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

The announcement, first published on the Ministry’s website in December, is reportedly a move to fight corruption, according CoinDesk, citing Russian news site Forklog. Officials have until April 1 to divest from any foreign cryptocurrencies, although they won’t be required to report any crypto holdings for the year 2020, the report stated.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The PYMNTS Weekender is here to catch you up on the latest news at the end of another busy work week. General Electric operates in over 100 nations in segments that encompass energy production, aviation and healthcare. Holiday 2020: Consumers Will Spend Less Overall, Spend More Time Online. Morgan Chase’s QuickAccept.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

There are many forms of nationalism. Ethnic nationalism. Cultural nationalism. Now comes cryptocurrency nationalism? Coindesk reported this week that, in the Netherlands, cryptocurrency firms based outside of Europe may “get the boot” amid new regulations. 10, 2020 if they wish to continue to operate there.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden was presumed the winner of the 2020 U.S. There is not a moment to waste in the battle against the pandemic and for the recovery and healing of our nation to begin.”. presidential election on Nov.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We are delighted to share the news that Ballard Spahr has been named a finalist for the 2020 LendIt Fintech Top Law Firm Industry Award. Also this year, our Consumer Financial Services Group once again received the highest national ranking from Chambers USA : America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The PYMNTS Weekender is here to catch you up on the latest news at the end of another busy work week. Apple is still the most valuable company in the nation, but it’s worth $430 billion less than it was two months ago – primarily, analysts say, because of concerns that the new iPhones arrived too late, per news on Nov.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2020

It’s been 129 days since the NBA officially announced its shutdown and played its last regular-season game of 2020. And for those players, it really will be a small world after all – as players, coaches, team staff and anyone actively participating in the remainder of the 2020 season will be quarantined together.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The Digital Commodity Exchange Act of 2020, which was proposed by a U.S. 24), could put digital currency exchanges under one national structure, CoinDesk reported. The legislation describes a new structure for cryptocurrencies, which would provide them with a treatment like those of commodities with the Commodities Exchange Act.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2020

Fauci, for example, has been surprised to learn there is a massive write-in campaign across social media platforms to have him declared People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2020. And it’s not just Faucimania sweeping the nation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The National Restaurant Association ’s initial 2020 outlook was bright, as it projected sales just shy of $900 billion. The Fraud Threats Of 2020. The past year has been — by almost any measure — one of the hardest ever for the restaurant industry, with the ongoing pandemic hurting few sectors more than hospitality and dining.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

that are more modern, but urged lawmakers to approach the issue nationally. According to a report in Reuters , citing The Internet Association, the trade group wants the rules to preempt a new regulation on the books in California that comes into effect in 2020. 11) that it supports data privacy rules in the U.S.

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TheGuardian

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

UK Finance said fraudsters had capitalised on the coronavirus pandemic, with criminals targeting children as young as 14 via social media to become money mules.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

But before you really sink into your fun and relaxation, allow the latest edition of the PYMNTS Weekender to catch you up on the all the big news from the past seven days. There is that and much more in this new PYMNTS Weekender. Fiserv: What The 2019 Holiday Shopping Data Says About 2020 Spend.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Call it a crisis that crosses the pond, will last into 2020 and, likely, beyond. Looking past the cheerful numbers tied to holiday shopping and the tens of billions of dollars spent on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and into Christmas, the decline of retail, at least the traditional retail model, continues into the new year, and across oceans.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. What A 90-Year-Old Essay Tells Us About 2020’s Great Digital Shift . New Report: Mercado Pago On How Mobile Bridges The LatAm Banking Gap.

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JULY 2, 2020

The federal agency that provides budget and economic information to Congress predicted as the nation tries to rebound from the worst devastation since World War II, the economy will grow during the third quarter, July through September. For the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the glass is half full. million jobs from May to June.

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MAY 30, 2020

And while it may initially seem that the strangest choices in fashion history were made by our forebears in the long-ago past, one need only glance briefly back at the early 2000s to witness the explosion of Von Dutch trucker hats and UGG boots, which passed as an icon of style among the nation’s young, rich and well-connected. A face mask.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

When it comes time for payments, there may be a reluctance to transmit sensitive patient information (Edwards said HIPAA’s national standard that protects personal health data can be likened to PCI DSS standards) across RTPs or emails. I believe the time has arrived for healthcare RFPs in 2020.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

As it stands, roughly 30 percent of the transaction volume of RippleNet goes through the cloud, which marks a 100 percent jump since the beginning of 2020. More than eight in 10 — or 81 percent — of new RippleNet clients chose cloud deployment in the first quarter of this year.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Daniel Gouldman, CEO of crypto banking platform operator Ternio, told Karen Webster that even Grandma can now access a new way to interact with currency. NEW DATA: Black Friday 2020: COVID-19 Steepens Physical Retail’s Long Slide. A PYMNTS survey of a national sample of 2,147 U.S. The Weekender can catch you up.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Margrethe Vestager , the EU’s commissioner for competition, said that “if no effective agreement can be reached by the end of 2020, the EU should be willing to act alone.”. Since mid-2020, Indonesia has been collecting a 10 percent value-added tax (VAT) on digital products and services from internet-based firms. Indonesia .

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