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Wirecard, Ingenico Buoyed By Worldpay Acquisition

PYMNTS

Shares in Euro payments tech companies rose on Monday (March 18) after news of the Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) takeover of Worldpay, a London-based payment processing company, according to a report by Reuters. The expected range of revenue growth is between 6 and 9 percent through the year 2021.

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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

PYMNTS

PayPal announced recently that its 350 million users could deposit bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in their accounts and spend it at 26 million merchants beginning in 2021. Department of Justice said in a report that rogue nations and other risks loom as exchanges are lightly (or not at all) regulated for cryptocurrency trading.

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Can SMBs Avoid Being Left Behind In The Great Digital Shift?

PYMNTS

The digital transformation of the commerce ecosystem, which had been underway long before COVID-19 reared its ugly head, flipped into overdrive overnight, as consumers were forced to change their habits and shift almost everything they once did in real life to an online substitute. between March 1 and Sept. The Power of Persistence.

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Data Dive, Go Big Edition: Apple, Amazon And CloudKitchens

PYMNTS

The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub.

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The community bank’s complete guide to building trust

Independent Banker

Building trust in your institution has a lot to do with technology, from implementing strong data security practices to humanizing your online customer interactions. In early 2021, a customer approached a teller at Kennebec Savings Bank in Augusta, Maine, and asked to withdraw $20,000. National banks. Illustration by Ahoy There.

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The Rise Of Card-on-File Commerce

PYMNTS

One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. It doesn’t appear that this experience is exclusive to fancy hair salons in Boston. That’s likely why in PYMNTS’ national study of 14,000 consumers, more than half (58.6 This latest study of a national sample of U.S. population.

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Apple’s In-Store Story, Android Pay Goes Wearable And Samsung Open For Business In Thailand

PYMNTS

Samsung’s global march added another stopping point this week, as Thailand became the latest nation to come online for Samsung Pay. Kim noted that Thailand presents a natural opportunity for a mobile payments platform — given the government’s national e-payment scheme and the widespread use of smartphones and e-commerce.

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