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JULY 29, 2020

(and a can-do spirit), a country that rewards ambition and innovation — and where individual success stories of, say Google and Amazon customers are folded into the testimony in efforts to show how tech can help smaller firms pivot and embrace the great digital shift. Experiments — And Trust . More than 80 retailers in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“Outback Steakhouse created curbside take-away in early, and now we’ve applied that concept to gift cards just in time for the holidays,” Outback Chief Marketing Officer Danielle Vona said in announcing the initiative. The new financing, a Series C round, is aimed at “accelerating” the growth of the company, particularly in the United States.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

EXCLUSIVE—Crypto wallet provider Wirex will be expanding its services to several new markets in 2018, including the United States, CEO Pavel Matveev told Bank Innovation. It’s [one of] our top priorities at the moment, we are in the process of getting a company, looking for names,” Matveev said. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2016

Though the industry knew it was coming, the sharp migration of fraud from in-store to online channels with the growing adoption of EMV is still enough to keep any online merchant up at night. The data show that since the October 2015 EMV liability shift, United States fraud attacks have jumped by 11 percent.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

billion, Chinese peer-to-peer lender Qudian is now the largest Chinese company listed in the United States. It is also the fourth biggest IPO in the United States this year. Valued at $11.7

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JUNE 19, 2019

million in fresh funding, capital that will go toward “a B2B offering (that allows) individual travel agents at large online travel management companies and tour operators to offer a ‘seamless travel experience’ to their end customers, making the booking experience simpler, faster and cheaper.”. That includes the payment of airline fares.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

Starbucks has designed a new store around order-ahead and delivery as the upstart coffee company Luckin Coffee takes hold in the Chinese market. In addition, online orders from Starbucks Delivers and Starbucks Now will be stored in an in-wall system with a pickup portal that is associated with every order.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Providing onboarding services in the Latin American market is both an exciting opportunity and a challenging one. And there is no shortage of interest in the region in that ability, with particular interest coming from the financial services sector, the cryptocurrency markets and in the healthcare vertical. A Diversity Of Needs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

When the United States economy locked down to slow the spread of the coronavirus, it rapidly and radically altered the way consumers browsed, shopped and paid for goods and services — and not all small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) were prepared. Confronted with the option, most SMBs chose to innovate. Meanwhile, 16.9

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Starting with some of the most recent changes — and a sign of what’s to come — earlier in the month, the European Commission offered up its initial draft of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. As reported in this space , the DSA and DMA cover online marketplaces, social media and other platforms.

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JUNE 11, 2018

In news that might please frat boys, fans of European beer and owners of man caves, Heineken has started online sales of its home tap machines and the two-liter kegs that work with it. But this is not Heineken’s first foray into online beer sales. A direct-to-consumer service means Heineken can be fast to market, she said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Restaurants that are driving food innovation with carefully chosen ingredients focused on health are seeking funding to help power their growth. percent in the United States in 2018 to $167 million per Technomic data. percent in the United States in 2018 to $167 million per Technomic data. Its sales increased 22.3

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

In today’s top news, The Clearing House (TCH) is increasing the value limit for general transactions on the TCH-operated real-time payments (RTP) network, Verizon is working with financial firm Synchrony to put out its own consumer card and the United States is moving to get tough on the sale of counterfeit merchandise through eCommerce.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar. 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. Bamboo Straws, Emerging Markets And The Lessons Of Selling Cross Border.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

Counterfeiting is an industry-wide concern — both online and offline. We find the most effective solutions to prevent counterfeit are based on partnerships that combine Amazon’s technology innovation with the sophisticated knowledge and capabilities of brands,” said Dharmesh Mehta, vice president, Amazon Customer Trust and Partner Support.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. And who will influence how innovation happens. Distribution.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2017

And as marijuana becomes less the exciting and elicit provenance of hardcore Grateful Dead fans and everyone’s burnout cousin and becomes more the provenance of mainstream customers, a problem is beginning to surface in the cannabis market, according to Socrates Rosenfeld, cofounder and CEO of Jane Technologies.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Most are encouraging employees to work from home while also moving their back-office operations online, and payments operations are no exception. The pandemic has fundamentally changed the lives of working professionals across the United States — possibly for good. Around The B2B Payments For The Virtual Workforce World.

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MARCH 7, 2018

But the fintech market has rebounded. In 2017, in the United States, overall VC funding -- a barometer of startup activity and appeal.Read More. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The online retail giant is scooping up 90,000 additional square feet of office space in the middle of Singapore’s financial district at the Asia Square Tower 1, Bloomberg reports , citing people familiar with Amazon’s real estate plans. The world’s largest retailer is also on a hiring binge in Singapore.

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JUNE 10, 2020

These reasons are driving a surge of interest in and use of remote online notarization (RON) services, according to James Schlimmer , managing partner of Naples, Florida-based notary firm Cottrell Title & Escrow. The COVID-19 crisis has been a catalyst for RON adoption in the United States,” Schlimmer said in an interview with PYMNTS.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

India has overtaken the United States to become the world’s second largest smartphone market. According to news from a report by Canalys , smartphone shipments in India grew 23 percent year over year in Q3 2017 to reach just over 40 million units, making the country the world’s second largest smartphone market after China.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

The global contactless payment market is projected to reach $18 billion by 2025, in fact, up from $10 billion last year — a nearly 12 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). CU members who reported shopping online at least several times a week increased by nearly 50 percent since the pandemic began last spring.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. Overall, 69 percent of consumers favor GDPR-like regulations in the United States. For instance, the market for apps and wearables related to personal healthcare will reach $11.25

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AUGUST 22, 2018

The online marketplace has disrupted any number of verticals, changing the way we shop and spend, and where we grab must-have items — from books to rugs to lamps, and sometimes from across international borders. We are redefining how fashion is bought and sold through technology, data and innovation.”. Within that, how much is online?

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APRIL 26, 2018

billion, will use the new funding to expand to further markets, including the United States, Australia, and Hong Kong. -based digital bank Revolut has raised $250 million in a Series C, boosting the company’s valuation to unicorn status. The company, which is now worth $1.7

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

Josh Beck wrote in a note to investors that the online marketplace has received “overwhelmingly positive” feedback from developers, partners and merchants at three recent conferences. The company’s market share, he said, could grow three times in five years to 9 percent. He also raised his 2020 revenue price target from $300 to $350.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

consumers now prefer making their purchases online, and the majority of them want digital-native experiences. A smaller but growing share prefer cross-channel commerce that allows them to shop online and pick up products in stores using services like “click and collect.”. Data shows that 46 percent of U.K.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

And these digital services are only expanding in the United States as well as other places around the world. By using AI technology, the sportswear brand was able to offer suggestions for outfits to shoppers online. And retailers are working to integrate innovative payment options into their offerings.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

European challenger banks like Monzo and N26 are expanding to new markets and an increasing number of other financial players are launching suites of products and services designed to entice customers away from their traditional financial institutions (FIs). For more on these stories, visit the Tracker’s News and Trends. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The news comes as Entersekt continues its expansion into the United States and Canadian markets. During his career, he has created high-performance technical and business teams, as well as launched innovative and award-winning payments and authentication solutions in Canada and abroad.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Necessity is the mother of invention.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

Banks need to innovate faster and further when it comes to the technology they use on their online platforms, as to stay one step ahead of bad actors with access to the same technology. The Tracker also examines how these technologies are beginning to be used in new markets like South Africa and India.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

Stadiums from the United States to Japan are implementing contactless payments, in-seat ordering or even going full-on cashless to add more convenience to their in-person experiences. Other sports venues and companies are working with media outlets and streaming channels to bring a new connected component into their events.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2017

EXCLUSIVE— Will the popularity of the QR code in China eventually make its way to the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western markets? It could, with a little push from Alipay. The mobile payment service, which uses QR codes at the point-of-sale, has been increasing its partnerships with U.S.,

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Chris Skinner

JULY 26, 2017

Innovate Finance has just published their report on the first half of 2017, and the investments made in FinTech. Billion in H1 2017 –with UK investment up 37% reveals Innovate Finance H1 2017 saw 787 deals globally, attracting $6.5 Global VC FinTech investment attracts $6.5 billion of investment compared with $7.0

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Founded in 1999, based in Argentina and registered in the United States, MercadoLibre is an eCommerce platform and digital payment solution that operates across Latin America. Online sales are facilitated via its marketplace platform, which includes classifieds for motor vehicles and real estate. .

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