PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

While Toys R Us has disappeared from the United States, it is going strong in Asia, which plans to open 60 new stores throughout the region this year. It currently operates more than 550 stores in the region. It currently operates more than 550 stores in the region. “We

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

British challenger bank Monzo is among those moving into new product segments following its recent launch into the United States, announcing a partnership with AXA partners to provide travel insurance to its users. Banks both new and old are looking to launch additional products aimed at keeping customers away from their competition.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

Blockchain gets scrutiny on all sides, and in one looming examination, the United States Senate will examine the impact blockchain has on the energy ecosystem — specifically, how it affects the use of electricity. 21), on the “Energy Efficiency of Blockchain and Similar Technologies.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

Rules like the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have been operating for several years in the European Union, for example, but there are different considerations when it comes to online transactions and privacy during a time when most consumers and businesses are operating indoors.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Fraud varies country to country, region to region. As has been widely noted, the region has paved the way for the adoption of EMV, and its embrace by merchants in the EU, mandated though it has been, has steered hackers and criminals to online methods of siphoning funds from consumers and cheating companies.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Marks & Spencer is in discussions with online supermarket Ocado that would offer the British retailer a food delivery service for the first time. Ocado launched online grocery deliveries 20 years ago with Waitrose, but their latest agreement is set to end next year. As the U.S.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Private technology companies in Latin America have raised over $5.8B Permira, Technology Crossover Ventures.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Fraudsters are relying on technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to put ever-more-complex schemes to work like bot and automated attacks. Financial institutions (FIs) need to keep watch for newer schemes as they seek to prevent different forms of fraud, such as money laundering, on their online platforms.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Apple, Fitbit, Garmin, Pebble, Jawbone all have a stake in the game, while Microsoft may have lost its standing with the removal of the Band from online shelves. Technology has evolved in looking at microfluidics, nanotechnology and miniaturized electronics to monitor sweat molecules in real time. Eccrine Systems, Inc. just raised $5.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

This can be difficult, with a recent study finding that 78 percent of banks in the Asia-Pacific region reported rises in fraud after debuting real-time payments services. Advanced analytics technologies could help FIs tackle such issues, however, by making it easier for FIs to detect potential red flags.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

While much has been written about India’s vast unbanked population — roughly one-eighth by the World Bank’s estimates — the more important issue to really look at is how much of India ’s population is under banked , Mandar Agashe , founder, managing director and vice chairman of Sarvatra Technologies told Karen Webster.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

“Central and Eastern Europe have a lot of entrepreneurial and technological talent, and we believe even more of its companies could be expanding globally,” says Felix Huber, head of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa at Stripe. It remains difficult for online businesses to get access to capital.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

The United States has over 60 percent of the world’s cryptocurrency ATMs, followed by Canada with 12.4 s South West Regional Cyber Crime Unit (SW RCCU), in a joint operation with the Dutch police (Politie), Europol, Eurojust and the U.K.’s In other news, it was announced that the U.K.’s

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet. He passed away in January 2023.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

Online retailer eBay has launched a joint venture with a unit of Citic Private Equity Funds Management Co. As reported by Caixin Global on Thursday (March 8), eBay signed an agreement with the Citic unit, Orange Connex Holding, with the joint venture to be called Orange Connex Ltd.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. Now that cannabis is recreationally legal in eight states and medically legal in another 19 states, it may not be too much longer until it’s legal through the entire United States.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

The retail giant said it is a mere six to nine months away from deploying drones for superior management of its warehouse inventories in the United States, Reuters reported. Walmart’s announcement comes after it applied for a license to test drones for end-to-end fulfillment of online orders in October last year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

That’s the amount that Klook — a startup based in Hong Kong, which focuses on the travel industry — raised in funding earlier this month, eyeing a continued push into the United States and Europe. The users themselves come from more than 80 countries and regions, he said. There are macro tailwinds in place, he told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Think of it as an extension of brand and payment types and technology, and to some minds it is a natural fit. The movement toward digital and mobile, cashless payments is an immutable one, and Worldpay, as you might know, provides payment processing for online and brick-and-mortar transactions in more than 140 countries.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

Peter Shore, general manager of payments services firm Transpay , and Guillermo Bracciaforte, co-founder of online freelance marketplace Workana , recently spoke with PYMNTS about the payment preferences of gig workers and making gig economy payments more efficient. That includes data science, digital marketing and social media operations.

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PYMNTS

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.”. Payments Cost.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

From the retail point of sale to core banking systems, online security issues have dominated financial headlines in 2014. The Banking.com staff recently connected with Alex Trombetta, Vice President of Digital Check ‘s international division, to discuss a recent study they released on ultraviolet check security and technology.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The push toward digital banking seems an inexorable one, with the technology and demographics acting as tailwinds, and where governments have increasingly gotten into the act of promoting digital banks (the pure-play kind) and making forays into bits and bytes, where once paper and face-to-face transactions reigned. Kill the check.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Its Getaround Connect device now operates in the United States, as well as in seven European countries: Norway, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Belgium and the U.K. Even with the recent news from Fair, companies are still driving toward the goal of more online and mobile car subscriptions. That’s hardly all.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Its Getaround Connect device now operates in the United States, as well as in seven European countries: Norway, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Belgium and the U.K. Even with the recent layoff news from Fair, companies are still driving toward the goal of more online and mobile car subscriptions. That’s hardly all.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

The lockdown of the United States economy quickly and radically changed the way consumers browsed, shopped and paid for services as well as goods — and not all small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) were prepared. How To Keep Fraudsters From Scamming Banks Across Every Nook And Channel .

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

Once cards became significantly harder to clone, fraudsters took their bag of bad tricks online. At least, that is the narrative that most people in developed countries have internalized, said Derek Pak, regional head of Customer Fraud Management for Asia-Pacific at Mastercard , in a recent conversation with Karen Webster.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 17, 2020

Year one of the Tech Decade in Banking will bring no shortage of tension between technology investments and earnings targets. New regional banks will struggle with operational maturity and customer experience. We are in the infant stages of integrating digital marketing and online origination. This must change from the top.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

As a spoiler alert, as they say online, I do not think we are facing a catastrophic situation,” he told Karen Webster in a PYMNTS interview. In any response to the United States, or anyone else, they will certainly want to be highly calibrated,” even as they seek the element of surprise. In a match-up with the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In pursuit of that goal, Instacart just announced that its new grocery pickup service will launch in cities across the United States, in many cases alongside Instacart’s delivery service. They look to Instacart to be able to arm them with the latest technology, so they can focus on what they’re good at,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

Those MNOs span Canada, China, India, Spain, France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, the company said. Traditional methods of online authentication don’t capture trusted identities as well as they once did, he said. “We After all,” he told PYMNTS, “the internet is not regional.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The news underscores not only the importance of China to the larger world of app technology and commerce, but also provides more evidence of the power of app stores and app availability in general. Recently, Feelunique , an online retailer of cosmetics and related products, joined the WeChat mini program world. The Numbers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2018

What started as a small service representing a few pockets of regional credit unions has expanded to 1,900 member credit unions – or half of the credit unions in the United States. For the credit union, settlement happens via ACH the next day. And the goal is straightforward: to capture that other half. “We

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 23, 2020

The United States started responding about two months late, and widespread testing only become available in the last week. What We Know: Customers must do business online and by phone. million accounts had been opened online in the last year and 75% of all new customers are mobile-active. CONSUMER BEHAVIOR.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

Those MNOs span Canada, China, India, Spain, France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, the company said. Traditional methods of online authentication don’t capture trusted identities as well as they once did, he said. “We After all,” he told PYMNTS, “the internet is not regional.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2017

Suma told PYMNTS, “As the size of the organization grows, many continue to be siloed as a result of legacy processes and structures and inclusion of varying tools and technologies which do not necessarily speak to or work with one another without a integration effort. The true value of this information is then diluted.

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CB Insights

JULY 26, 2017

Significant 2016 exits included the $137M acquisition of Finalsite by Bridge Growth Partners and the IPO of hardware and software company Chengdu Jiafa Antai Technology Co. More recently, Chinese company Retech Technology went public at a valuation of $80.7M The remaining 7 are based in the United States. Instructure.

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