Abrigo

JANUARY 3, 2024

While many think of trade, commerce, and cultural exchange when considering this region, ignoring the undertow of illicit activities is impossible—the border remains a hotspot for drug trafficking, illegal arms trade, human trafficking, and smuggling operations, necessitating vigilant scrutiny and transaction monitoring within the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The move comes as part of a larger targeting of Southeast Asian markets, according to TechCrunch , starting with beginning selected regional services in Singapore in the first quarter of 2017. Southeast Asia certainly has the population Amazon seeks in its international investments: The region is home to over 600 million consumers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

The redevelopment is expected to begin in Q2 2020, with an opening projected for the latter half of the year. and to create “The Simon Cup,” a national, amateur esports tournament featuring both online competition and in-person events. Allied Esports and Simon are expected to announce plans for the 2020 Simon Cup soon.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Kaspersky revealed that the malware, known as FinSpy or FinFisher, is a product usually sold to nation states and law enforcement agencies for surveillance. It appears that the hackers are targeting Middle Eastern politicians and United Nations officials in the region, opposition bloggers and activists, and regional news correspondents.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have worked to keep up with this migration. Consumers’ changing views are prompting MENA financial authorities to reexamine how their present regulations handle online privacy.

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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. Growing interest in open banking typically coincides with the expanding use of online financial platforms and tools.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 22, 2019

Due to the heightened knowledge and expertise required for BSA officers, their training requires resources beyond reading periodicals and online articles and/or completing general staff training,” the Minneapolis Fed’s newsletter said. One option that makes it easy for BSA officers to complete required training is to attend regional meetings.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

And yet, overall spending across the luxury industry could shrink by as much as 45 percent through 2020, as other regions and countries – Europe and the U.S. Online sales were up a bit more than 13 percent, which is a slower pace than the almost 19 percent growth in this metric that was seen in July.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Cambrian CU will start offering Google Pay later this month and additional credit unions will be added in 2020, the CCUA said. CCUA was the first national, CU-governed organization in Canada. The seven CUs are Access, Affinity, Assiniboine, Innovation, Prospera, Servus and Steinbach.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

He said that while small banks, credit unions (CUs) and regional players deeply fear being swept aside by the great digitalization wave that the pandemic has set off, their concerns aren’t actually unique to the financial industry’s smaller end. Instead, FIs must go digital in the ways consumers are seeking.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

It only seems fitting that a global pandemic would catalyze a global shift toward online shopping. Despite their shared currency, European eCommerce is as diverse as its member nations, where language, culture, customs and cross-border shipping all pose unique challenges for this massive and wealthy part of the world. Asia and China.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Visa , which is the official payment technology partner of the National Football League (NFL), will provide small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with a one-day offer that will waive some of the costs connected with getting online and taking digital payments on Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 7), according to a Tuesday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

To that end, in Southeast Asia, a number of countries, including Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, are looking to regulatory actions that will levy more taxes on marquee tech names, such as Google, as they do business in that region. David Marcus , the Facebook exec overseeing the project, said 2020 is still the target date.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For retailers, the fourth quarter of 2020 is likely to see a media blitz that will make other years pale in comparison. With so many companies giving their employees Election Day off, it could be an opportunity for a one-day sales event both online and in-store. 28), which is supported by American Express nationally.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

UFI, the global association of the exhibition industry, estimated earlier this year that globally, revenues for the first half of 2020 represented a third of the revenues produced for the same period last year. New models are emerging, which combine limited physical presence and online gatherings. consumers conducted on Nov.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2016

As part of its Vision 2020 initiative, Rwanda is promoting moving toward a cashless economy, which is where MasterCard’s aid comes into the mix. Rwanda’s Vision 2020 has set a goal for 70 percent of its citizens to be financially included by 2017, and 90 percent by 2020.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Physical Retail Stumbles Into 2020 . In fact, some experts are looking at the picture in 2020 to get a bit darker before it gets light. The early days of 2020 have seen foot traffic fall, again in line with the trends of the last few years. We expect many companies — and many sizable companies — to announce closures.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In this edition of the Commerce Connected Report , in collaboration with First Data, PYMNTS takes a deep dive into the quickly growing QSR world, examining how, and in what region, the industry’s sales are increasing most quickly. percent nationally over the past six months, and ticket sizes have increased by 2.7 Growing Ticket Sizes.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Visner of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) — managed by nonprofit MITRE , in support of the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence — said it’s important to put the cyberthreats, and Iran’s willingness to deploy them, in context. “As MITRE (@MITREcorp) January 3, 2020.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Owned and operated by Ant Financial Services Group, Alipay is the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform. trillion by 2020. Overseas, Alipay now covers 38 countries and regions to provide payment services for Chinese visitors who are traveling overseas. China is expected to process $3.29

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

PYMNTS fielded a study to a national panel of 1,062 U.S. consumers during the last week of February 2020. That said, some banking-like providers appear to be closing the primary banking services gap, particularly regional banks and credit unions (CUs). percent of bridge millennials’ primary FIs are national banks, but 8.1

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 1, 2020

After Turbulent 2020, Ag Lenders Look to 2021 Understanding credit risk in current ag loan portfolios will also be key to ag lenders' solid returns. . How farmers have fared in 2020 The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on farmers in 2020 has been multifaceted, Newberry said. You might also like this webinar watch.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

Analysts predict that Alibaba will likely see additional loss through at least the next fiscal quarter—though long-term projections out past 2020 bode well for future growth. Last month, news broke that Alibaba would be bringing its Taobao online marketplace to Singapore, a strategic point of entry to the broader Southeast Asian market.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Once upon a time in retail, the term anchor store referred to the big, national department chains that anchored the various corners of shopping malls and drew consumers into it to shop. We estimate that we will still see 70 percent of the purchases we deal with happening online. Redefining The Anchor Store.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

In some cases, they’ve been converting paper documents into data, taking analog transactions into online banking or establishing host-to-host ERPs. Between March 2019 and March 2020, Citi has estimated a 24 percent increase in the total number of CitiDirect BE online and app users. The Journey.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

Earlier this week Alipay’s European head Roland Palmer noted at an industry event that those efforts are thus far paying off — the number of merchants who have integrated the mobile and online payments platform has tripled over the last year. That is a first for UEFA, which has never before allowed digital ticketing outside its home site.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

The nation has watched many European countries go through this process over the past year, so impacts on its financial ecosystem are at least expected if firms have not yet experienced them. 1, 2020, and banks and regulators had been ensuring that they will be fully prepared, and most local FIs are already waiting with PSD2-compliant APIs.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

Digital enterprises are going regional and instant payments are going national (and earlier than originally scheduled). Nubank’s $10B Regional Expansion . million customers and is the largest online bank outside of Asia. But before partaking in blockchain bacchanal …. While Nubank is far from a household name in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

To get a sense of scale, headed into the fall of 2020, there were more than 3.2 There’s] a lack of proper CRM tooling, or modernized tooling, or there’s a lack of a super app in our region.”. We've observed over the course of the pandemic that moving education online is a challenge for all grades, especially for younger kids,” he said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

or in other countries,” said Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, on a conference call. Despite the trepidations and extended precautions, online ordering has spiked in China in recent weeks, as have delivery orders to homebound Chinese consumers.

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BankUnderground

APRIL 6, 2022

Supply shocks include ‘classic’ disruptions such as natural disasters, labour union strikes, suppliers going bankrupt, industrial accidents, etc ( Miroudot (2020) ), as well as disruptions from broader sources like trade and industrial policy changes, and political instability. These are frequent. Systemic shocks are a different matter.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

As he stated, the EPC aims to bring SCT Inst to a progressively wider geographical scope of countries, ultimately reaching 34 nations, as laid out in plans disclosed last year. “On Specifically, digital payments are designed to be used online, whether through computers or mobile conduits. Still Early Times. It’s early times indeed.

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BankUnderground

MAY 22, 2024

Consistent with this, previous analysis by the Bank of England, featured in the December 2019 Financial Stability Report and the August 2020 Financial Stability Report , suggests that households with gross DSRs of around 40% are at a much higher risk of missing their mortgage payments. Both samples are based on repeated cross-sectional data.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2017

Online fraud falls — a LOT: Contrary to popular opinion — and perhaps contrary even to logic — the fraud fight has given a round to the good guys, even if the battle is far from over. Online fraud is down 34 percent, overall, at the end of Q1 2017 versus a year ago. percent annually through 2020, to top $8.1 trillion that year.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It’s been a long two years since bankers and investment bankers nationwide made their annual pilgrimage to the Arizona desert for the Acquire or Be Acquired conference – and ohhh man, a completely different world has emerged since the January 2020 get-together! Let’s put COVID aside for a minute. price/book multiple.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

After all, a great many charities were dependent on live events locally, regionally and nationally pre-coronavirus, but that model won’t return for some time. GDP way down so far this year, charities are preparing to take a hit in 2020. And when it does, it won’t be the same big kinetic crowds of givers as before. But with U.S.

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FICO

AUGUST 18, 2021

This post explores the credit card trends in the US, UK and Canada, reviewing regional differences and focussing on the impact of the pandemic. The pandemic reduced the percentage of accounts exceeding their limit in all three regions. US credit cards have the highest average balance , with all three regions following a similar trend.

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