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OCTOBER 7, 2020

All eCommerce sites and payment providers have one thing in common no matter their size: the constant and pervasive threat of money launderers using their businesses to process ill-gotten gains, conceal the funds’ sources and convert them into clean, taxable income that government authorities cannot track.

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JULY 21, 2020

Those include support for multiple languages and currencies and the capacity to calculate and display value-added taxes. ” Salesforce’s response to COVID-19 extends beyond adding or changing product features.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

Expense management is scaling globally, literally, as Chrome River is opening an office in the Asia-Pacific region. Roy told PYMNTS that the region has specific payments and expense management considerations that extend, for example, to Australia’s goods and services tax.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes news about Amazon’s latest investment and Visa’s B2B payments progress. Plant Prefab is the country’s first home factory focused on sustainable construction, materials, processes and operations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Launched five years ago, Revolut has almost 8 million customers, offering digital financial services through a mobile application including digital debit accounts, currency exchange, budgeting and person-to-person (P2P) payments. bringing Revolut’s total global footprint to 56 markets. . Revolut’s move for new funding isn’t a surprise.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Online gambling companies appear to be weathering the pandemic better than their brick-and-mortar cousins, but an environment in which gambling occurs online requires payments to shift as well. Pennsylvania reported similar figures, with tax revenues from brick-and-mortar gambling declining to $50.5 million in March 2020 from $67.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

Latin America is often considered to be the world leader in electronic invoicing thanks to government mandates, but the Asia Pacific region is quickly gaining steam in its eInvoicing efforts, too. on the benefits of an eInvoicing mandate, noting that it would address the nation’s current tax challenges. On Monday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

According to a report in TechCrunch profiling the startup, Flow created a platform that helps brands and retailers sell their products in multiple regions and geographies. Flow takes care of currency, local pricing, payments and shipping to provide the cheapest way for brands to get their products to merchant’s international customers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Carrying enough cash to cover those many needs is often a security risk, though, and drivers who lack the appropriate spending tools could see their delivery schedules veer off track if they have to search for specific retailers that will accept their payment methods. Independent Owner-Operators Face Their Own Hurdles.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2018

A digital fiat currency and government-issued mobile money platform could transform the Sub-Saharan African economy, according to nanopay CEO Laurence Cooke , who recently visited East Africa to explore opportunities in the region and has returned with some key insights.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

But the down payments taken on were roughly 8.8 Flywire flies high: Global payments firm Flywire logs $10 billion in total payments volume , and said last year payment volumes grew by 130 percent in the Asia Pacific region and 65 percent in EMEA. percent, compared to 11.9 percent for Generation X and 17.7

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

The ingredients for a revolution in payments across the region, fueled by demographics and technology, seem to be there. You can imagine how all of these factors will come together to drive eCommerce across the region.”. Last month, Emergent acquired Interpay , a Ghana-based payments processor.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Consumers around the world have become intimately familiar with the “card-not-present” method of payment. The company’s core business is to enable businesses to access payment or collection of major expenses using credit cards where cards are not accepted, such as to pay rent, tax, invoices and payroll.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

The company connects entrepreneurs and freelancers with bank and financial services that include invoicing and payment acceptance, pointing to the challenge of these professionals of getting paid on-time and managing the irregularities of their cash flows.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

tax laws had on other firms recently reporting results, Mastercard put up numbers Thursday (Feb. Excluding the aforementioned tax impact, earnings per share came in at $1.14, two pennies better than Wall Street expectations. As for its own tax savings, the company will use at least part of the money to boost financial inclusion.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

B2B trade and spend management firm Tradeshift is not only expanding its operations in Australia, but it’s setting up new offices there. 28) that it will open offices in Sydney to focus on serving Australian and New Zealand businesses, banking on the region’s solid economy. The company announced Friday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

The global peer-to-peer (P2P) transfer and remittance market has grown to well over $1 trillion, thanks to the glut of P2P money transfer apps making domestic and cross-border payments easier and faster than ever. As it turns out, unlike direct P2P transfers, B2B payments can range from fulfilling payroll to making a trade finance payment.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Challenger bank Yelo, operating in India, raised an undisclosed sum from Matrix Partners India, Omidyar Network, Flourish VC and Better Capital, Inc 42 reports said this week. This information is aggregated over time, allowing business users to obtain trend analysis data on customer payment habits.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

The biggest investment news of the week came on Thursday (July 26), when cross-border B2B payments company Flywire announced an impressive $100 million funding round. While announcing the funding, Flywire said it has so far processed more than $8 billion in payments for more than 400 corporate customers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Things have changed of course, because the very nature of payments has changed, and is changing. Batch processing, increasingly, is giving way to real-time payments and processing throughout the day. Business ended at 5 p.m. and wrapped up for the week on Fridays. Putting Change in Context.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

News has emerged, via Bloomberg , that Singapore-based automotive subscription operation Carro has gained the top automotive investment banker for HSBC in Asia as the company’s new chief financial officer. The venerable automaker has agreed to sell its own vehicle subscription operation to Fair, a startup in this space. Ford Retreat.

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JULY 3, 2018

Everyone thinks of win rates differently, and people use their metrics differently,” said Pallavi Kuppa-Apte, Head of Business Operations, Chargehound. Those that felt ready had invested in knowledge of local markets and tax codes, new tech and/or new vendors. DadeSystems. Jewel Paymentech. AvidXchange.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We’ve noted that the stage has been set for M&A to ramp up, due in part to lower corporate taxes, which gives firms higher profits, which in turn gives them more money to both extend loans (building up customer bases) and have money in hand to pursue deals.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

For merchants, conducting cross-border trade often means following another nation’s local rules around payment acceptance, compliance, taxes and physical requirements and a host of other factors that vary between borders. He noted that Worldpay’s 2016 Global Payments Report anticipates the global eCommerce market will grow by 10.4

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2018

Parker said the startup is working to get the payments industry comfortable with the idea of operating in the cloud. Other industries have all gone there, he said, yet less than 1 percent of all payments data is ever in the cloud. It’s then someone’s job to match the payment to the appropriate remittance document.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

There was lots to watch in the world of payments and commerce last week, with red flags flown in physical retail, international commerce and crypto. The emergent form of coronavirus that originated in China’s Wuhan region continues to spread and pick up fatalities. Physical Retail Stumbles Into 2020 . So what did we learn this week?

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

Cash remains a preferred method of payments, and, as noted in Webster’s own discussions with payments executives, sometimes it is the only way people can pay. Turning to the Americas — defined as the U.S., percent over that time frame.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The region is also home to an active and fast-growing startup scene. Brussels the third wealthiest region in terms of GDP per capita due to this number being twice as high as the European average. The city was ranked as a strong innovator by the latest edition of the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS 2016). environment.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Right now, we've been taking a look at 2018 and 2019 tax returns. That's especially true for small and medium-sized businesses today, which, while hoping to plan for growth in the coming years, are more often looking toward resources that can help them survive in the next few weeks and months.

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MAY 23, 2017

Raimundo Diaz, head of Americas at TMF Group, and Jason Gerlis, regional director of North America at TMF Group, both chatted with PYMNTS about the findings in the report. Expanding existing operations, boosting R&D and finding new talent were also high on the list. For both executives, some of the data came as a surprise.

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APRIL 5, 2018

For China, the tax hikes target everything from soybeans to aircrafts. Walmart recently announced it would be using WeChat Pay at all of its stores in China’s western region. Walmart previously partnered with Alibaba and will now be replacing its Alipay digital mobile payment system with WeChat Pay. For the U.S., In 2016, $2.19

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A regional government in Russia is now working with state-backed VEB, reports in CoinDesk said this week, as authorities explore how to use blockchain “to improve the quality of management decisions.”. These failures would have been easily spotted and prevented on blockchain. We hope to get the legislation ready this year.”. Saudi Arabia.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

And New England isn’t the only place enjoying the autumn chill as it sets in — although we are perhaps enjoying it more colorfully with the region’s famed foliage. In payments and commerce this week, a fall chill also rolled through. They may even call iTunes cards ‘payment vouchers.’ locations at its peak. Some major U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2016

The firm has said that SmartVM uses a variety of mechanisms through which to automate supplier information: robotic process automation, interfaces with a number of governmental agencies, including tax agencies, and vendor records that are tied to APEX Analytix’s several decades of work within supply chain management.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

businesses are attracted to digital invoicing for a slew of financial benefits: faster, more efficient accounts payable and reconciliation processes, a reduction in the threat of errors due to manual data entry and ability to capture early payment discounts thanks to an accelerated invoice management process. In the U.S., Still, U.S.

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MARCH 16, 2022

The borrower, on the other hand, wants the shortest loan possible so long as they have sufficient cash flow to handle the debt service and provide enough capital for both operations and growth. More importantly, the payment difference is only $11 per month for ten years of interest rate protection and stability.

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