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Today In Payments: DOJ Approves Mastercard's Finicity Acquisition; Airbnb Files For IPO

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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday (Nov. Customers can also split purchases with other users on PayPal and Venmo and receive the credit directly back to their card. Germany's Razor Group, which works to acquire and scale Amazon brands, has raised 25 million euros (about $26.7 Airbnb filed paperwork with the U.S.

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New Data Shows 1.5 Companies Fall Victim To Ransomware Each Minute

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. “With businesses expanding their online presence to create more touchpoints with customers, employees and partners, the boundaries between what’s inside the firewall and what’s outside become less and less discernible, opening a whole new front in the battle between attackers and security teams,” the company wrote in a blog post.

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Fraudsters And The Retail Identity Crisis

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Potential regulatory uncertainty aside, however, Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga was upbeat about the results – and what’s next, particularly as it relates to securing an increasingly digital commerce-based world. “We are executing well on our strategy and are pleased to deliver another quarter of record results,” said Banga.

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Mastercard Stock Rises On  Q3 Growth, Falls On Regulatory Concerns

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Potential regulatory uncertainty aside, however, Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga was upbeat about the results – and what’s next, particularly as it relates to securing an increasingly digital commerce-based world. “We are executing well on our strategy and are pleased to deliver another quarter of record results,” said Banga.

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Mastercard’s 3Q Shows Masterful Masterpass

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In the latest earnings report showing that consumers are still happy to use their cards and spend (election be darned), Mastercard’s latest results were above the Street. Globally the card tally stood at the end of the latest quarter at 2.3 billion Mastercard and Maestro branded cards out in the field, up six percent year over year.

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Retail Pulse: Zola Opens NYC Store; Kleinfeld Shop ‘Pops Up’ In NJ

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Ma told Fortune in December that going forward, the company does not intend to shift away from its main digital strategy. On another note, digitally native brand Warby Parker was reported hit by a cybersecurity attack that impacted roughly 198,000 shoppers between late September and late November.

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Data Dive, Summer Heat Edition: Venmo Speeds Up, Amex Branches Out And Walmart Takes A Pass

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PayPal lived up to a promise it made about a year ago when it was announcing new partnerships with the card networks and brought instant payments to Venmo; Amex is eying an insurance play; and Walmart and Amazon it seems both had their hearts set on having a Whole Foods to call their own. But as for the lazy, well not so much.

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