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B2B Payments Drive Instant Payments, Crypto Innovation

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New payment rails are once again in the spotlight as real-time payments and cryptocurrency emerge as the top focuses for innovators. In this week’s look at payment rails innovation, the European Union begins paving the way for greater crypto adoption, while Mastercard expands its own crypto accelerator initiative.

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Odds Are That Online Sportsbook Wins Big Post-COVID

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Online sportsbooks have been beneficiaries of that dictum ever since COVID-19 eradicated most live sports, leaving millions of fans and a great many bettors potentially mired in boredom. How much potential does online gambling have? billion by 2025. billion by 2025. It’s been said that “gamblers find things to gamble on.”

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How Regulatory Concerns Are Sparking Digital Innovation

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While that happens, the payments industry is upping its game against counterfeit goods sold online. 534 billion: Projected value of the IoT healthcare market by 2025. As the U.S. federal government tries to stem fraud and other losses in benefit programs, a new mobile app might just provide a way to do that.

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Grocery Tracker: $100B By 2025

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Narayan’s expertise will enable us to deploy new service and marketing models to attract more shoppers and grow our business both in stores and online.” ” Iyengar has a track record of innovation, Albertsons said, from his time working on eCommerce optimization for Walt Disney Co. the market share is growing quickly.

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Digital financial services to generate $38b in southeast Asia, study finds

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Digital financial services from lending to asset management are expected to generate at least $38 billion of annual revenue across Southeast Asia by 2025, more than tripling from $11 billion in 2019, according to a new study by Bain & Co., Online lending will comprise about half that total for […].

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Goldman Sachs Forecasts Acceleration In eCommerce Sales

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Goldman Sachs has predicted that online shopping will expand by 19 percent each year during the next three years to come, which marks a rise from its past forecast of 16 percent. Goldman Sachs also noted that eCommerce penetration rose to more than 40 percent in May from 16 percent of retail spending domestically in the first quarter of 2019.

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Building Innovative Subscription Services With Discovery, Flexibility

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To provide consumers with the curation of a subscription box or the flexibility of a rental platform, digital innovators are tapping into the subscription business model. The estimated market size of the sharing economy by 2025 is $335 billion.