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WeChat App Growth Comes Amid Other App Market Changes

PYMNTS

The popularity of lower-cost Android devices in developing nations rewarded Google Play with an advantage in app install growth last quarter at 14.3 But that doesn’t mean other types of apps aren’t finding increasing use among consumers — one of the changes going on that relate to the future earning and marketing power of apps and app stores.

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New Report: Banking-As-A-Service Takes Friction Out Of Remittances

PYMNTS

The central bank and several other commercial banks collaborated on a cross-border bank account offering that Pakistanis overseas can use to store rupees and foreign currencies as well as to pay bills and make other transactions in the nation. customers to recipients in Asia and Europe.

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LATAM’s Payments Innovation Renaissance

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Providing onboarding services in the Latin American market is both an exciting opportunity and a challenging one. If a firm needs to digitally onboard someone and verify them, we can help that company do that fairly seamlessly,” Samer Atassi, regional director, Latin America and Caribbean for Jumio, told PYMNTS in a recent conversation.

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A Continued Decline in Housing Inventory

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If you are looking to buy a house, you have likely observed that the real estate market is very competitive, with increased bidding activity leading to higher prices. One reason that the real estate market is so hot is that there is very low housing inventory available. National Home Price NSA Index reported a 13.2%

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Singtel’s Dash Plans Remittance Service; KinerjaPay Notches $200M Investment

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In addition, Pakistan’s Telenor Microfinance Bank unveiled a cross-border remittance service based on Alipay’s blockchain technology, Indonesia’s KinerjaPay notched an investment of $200 million from a construction firm in the region and mobile payments are on the rise in China.

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Alibaba Halts Vaping Component Sales In The US

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9) that it will stop selling eCigarette components in the United States, Reuters reports. The incidences of injuries and deaths have, the newswire said, been linked to what are being termed “makeshift brands” other than the dominant market player, Juul Labs. Reuters reported the reports of the lung illnesses top 1,000 cases.

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Eccrine Systems’ $5.5M For Sweat-Sensing Wearable

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The “wearables” market is a hot one with many barriers to entry and even more to maintaining footing. The announcement revolves around its Series A funding with participation and support from CincyTech Fund IV and other sources within the CincyTech local, regional and national investor community. Eccrine Systems, Inc.

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