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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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. DraftKings signed a multiyear deal in 2019 to be an authorized NBA betting operator. How much potential does online gambling have?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Vilash Poovala , founder and CEO of FinTech Oyster , said online financial platforms, powered by open banking, can serve as alternatives for business banking in a country where business banking seems an afterthought. The world needs a FinTech operating system.”. Widening Debit’s Acceptance.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

To bring its fashions to new markets, Zara plans to roll out a global online platform. For payments, the company plans to support major credit cards, along with PayPal. Orders will be fulfilled from Zara’s Spanish online platform and orders will be in euros. The full online catalog will be operational by 2020.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

are now able to accept those types of payments, and many more issuers have their cards provisioned in those mobile wallets — but so far, consumers haven’t taken the bait. and Australia where merchants’ contactless terminals and consumers’ ability to provision and use mobile contactless payments have been more evenly matched.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

How do consumers really want to search online ? That’s a question with obvious relevance to payment and commerce operators. In a brand new PYMNTS interview , Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo , makes the case that his search engine can win over a decent number of consumers. Further regulations are looming.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. Payments Innovation.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

Which brands will blow it? For payments and commerce , there’s another uncertainty that hangs in the air: Will legal online sports betting keep going forward, despite a recent decision by the U.S. In the meantime, what should businesses that want to operate in that new world do besides sit around and wait?

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JUNE 8, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has led consumers to try digital tools for grocery shopping, and the total number of online grocery orders in the U.S. That month saw 40 million customers head online to shop for groceries, and these customers are expecting their preferred chains to keep up with that shift. . reached a record 62.5

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

24) that it enjoyed a 61 percent jump in online sales during its fiscal third quarter ended Oct. But all in, Gap Global’s net sales dropped 14 percent year over year, with comparable sales for the brand falling 5 percent from Q3 2019. said Tuesday (Nov. 31 — offsetting a 20 percent fall in in-store sales due to the ongoing pandemic.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

And, whether a service offers streaming or on-demand delivery, it needs to make purchasing and payments as seamless as possible for the consumer. From 7-Eleven to H&M , retailers are adopting digital payments and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to bring more convenient experiences to their customers.

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MAY 7, 2020

Many are instead flocking to online gambling sites after the closure of all 989 commercial and tribal casino properties in the U.S. However, it can take a long time for online players to collect funds, unlike at casinos, where consumers can instantly collect winnings in cash. US Payments Are Playing Catch-Up.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But that national network of body-sculpting palaces is in disarray today, with major chains including Gold’s Gym and 24-Hour Fitness filing for Chapter 11 relief due to the coronavirus pandemic, along with a slew of other operators from privately owned yoga studios to fitness centers. Peloton’s stock price doubled on that news.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

IAC , the New York-based global media and internet giant, is betting that an investment of $1 billion in MGM Resorts International will pay off in online gambling, according to a press release. Diller and Levin said research revealed MGM’s revenue in online gambling revenue is essentially zero.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Canadian global point-of-sale (POS) and eCommerce firm Lightspeed is teaming up with Silicon Valley payments platform Stripe to advance in-store and online payments for retailers and restaurants in the U.S. Restaurants and retailers will be able to process in-store payments and personalize readers with their own branding. .

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

As much as a click from the Kardashians helped spread the brand awareness and jump-start his company, Molnar said, as a spending trend among young consumers set the stage for BNPL's success. The payments ecosystem, of course, is not and will not be immune to the seismic impact and aftershocks of the coronavirus. According to J.P.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Two famous North American-based quick-service restaurant (QSR) brands are preparing to duke it out in China for chicken-meal supremacy, the most recent sign of how Western brands are trying to increase their footholds in that massive country. The news comes as more Western brands – including those based in the U.S. –

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JANUARY 27, 2021

The friction inherent in the basic operations of many healthcare services — from complex payment processing methods to inconsistent appointment management practices — became more salient against the backdrop of the pandemic. Now, healthcare providers have to work to maintain loyalty just like any other brand.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

In terms of payments, they all use the services of Adyen, the Amsterdam-based payments giant. Adyen operates in more countries and currencies than competitor Stripe, and serves large, international operations, while Stripe works with startups and developers. Netflix, Uber, Facebook, AirBnB, Spotify., Adyen’s Read More.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The latest Payments and the Platform Economy study examines how marketplaces are responding to the counterfeit threat as well as how they are continuing to innovate the customer experience. Online Resale. Sales of counterfeit goods through online marketplaces are expected to hit $1.8 billion per year to fake online sales.

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JULY 28, 2019

Japanese chat app operator Line is set to launch an online grocery service in Thailand by the end of the year. As for merchants, users will be able to use Line Pay branded capabilities at Visa’s 54 million merchant locations worldwide. Line Pay is more than just a payment method.

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MARCH 19, 2020

The financial landscape is changing, moving toward instant payments, toward commerce that is always on – and for financial institutions (FIs) serving corporations and consumers across the world, the margin for error is fast disappearing. Traditionally, he said, deploying new payment or banking applications has been a monolithic effort.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

To serve travelers from China who want to shop in-store and online, retailers thousands of miles away from Asia are accepting Alipay in brick-and-mortar stores and on the web. Amid this trend, brick-and-mortar and eCommerce merchants in North America are adopting Alipay as a payment option for their consumers.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In the first two blogs in this series, Getting Started On Embedded Finance and Embedded Finance: Bolstering Brand Experiences, we defined embedded finance and looked at the goals and strategies that firms should take at the outset of their modern embedded finance journey, as well as how and why firms should consider getting embedded banking.

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MAY 22, 2019

Mastercard and Interac, the global and domestic payment networks, announced Wednesday (May 22) they are collaborating to offer customers in Canada a fast and easy way to send money internationally. ” According to Mastercard and Interac, Canada is a big market for international payments given its diverse population.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Taco Bell is living más as it pulls ahead of Burger King as the fourth-largest quick-service restaurant (QSR) brand with new delivery options and, yes, nacho fries. The company has recently seen positive momentum and improved operating performance, and delivery is projected to accelerate future growth. But McDonald ’s Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. They influenced those choices by changing the consumer’s path to purchase and payment. In 2009, Uber made payments disappear.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

This has helped grow the business and connect with other businesses,” said Jeremy Smith , who runs charitable outreach at Casely and operates as its head of product. . Consumers now are socially conscious and holding brands accountable,” he said. “I I think it’s very important for all brands to find their niche,” he said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Indonesian FinTech LinkAja closed a Series B funding round headed up by Grab, while Nigeria-based Kuda landed $10 million after a funding round. Plus, Canadian payment services company Interac is collaborating with Walmart Canada to expand debit card payment methods in store and online.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Brands beat Wall Street’s expectations when its earnings were released Wednesday, as an assortment of new menu offerings were successful in drawing more foot traffic into its Taco Bell and KFC locations this quarter. Brands’ efforts at expanding its digital offerings (like mobile order-ahead) and delivery options in the U.S.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

Starbucks is planning to permanently shut down operations for its online store, effective Oct. In addition, Starbucks aims to stay in contact with its most loyal online shoppers to apprise them of product inventory information and which items are sold out, Starbucks’ spokesperson Maggie Jantzen told Business Insider.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

That] keeps them from getting in trouble with the card brands, and obviously avoids the significant costs that come along with fighting, investigating and resolving chargebacks. players will start readying their operations today for a switch in liability that’s almost certainly coming down the pike tomorrow.

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APRIL 14, 2016

Everybody wants brand names, right? The upshot for the wholesale manufacturers behind those brands is, of course, that they are able to set their suggested retail prices a little bit (or, sometimes, a lot) higher than items bearing lesser-known labels. And that has become something of a problem for brick-and-mortar retailers.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

“These decisions are not taken lightly, but we believe they are necessary to set the brand and business up for long term success,” a spokeswoman said. It started online and soon added stores where people could go and try on clothes and then place orders for them to be delivered. Walmart bought Bonobos for $310 million in 2017.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

One cannot have the good without the bad, and that holds especially true, it seems, with online product reviews — a vital, useful part of eCommerce that is reviled by consumers, marketplace sellers and merchants alike. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which was pretty busy this week on issues related to digital commerce and payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

The July Payments Powering the Platform Economy Report examines how international eCommerce platforms work to create transaction experiences that are compelling and secure for users in each market they serve. Around The eCommerce Payments W orld. Deep Dive: How Marketplaces Grow Globally With Locally-Focused Co mpliance, Payments.

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JULY 7, 2020

Fernando Souza , vice president at payments platform CyberSource , a Visa solution, told PYMNTS in a recent conversation that such fears have public transit systems around the world looking at moving to EMV contactless payments and away from cash, paper tickets and closed-loop, card-based systems. They can just tap and go.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

The country otherwise has sophisticated online banking products and an emerging FinTech sector. Isik Uman , Payguru founder, told FT the company has been "planning to use the billing capability of operators in order to bill customers for purchases they made either in the physical world or online" for years now.

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