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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

30), the tech and search engine giant said it is expanding its free ad initiative to other regions around the world after a successful debut in the United States earlier this year. Shoppers will be able to find more products from more stores, just in time for peak shopping season across the region.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Brazil is now Uber’s largest market outside the United States, with São Paulo boasting more Uber rides than any other city in the world. The launch is the first for Uber in a country outside of the United States, and it will be available in six Mexican cities initially: Mexico City, Tijuana, Monterrey, Puebla, Merida and Guadalajara.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

The largest brick-and-mortar retailer in the United States is replacing its traditional, cashier-staffed checkouts with self-checkout registers at its store in Fayetteville, Ark., Whether cashiers go the way of the horse and buggy could hinge on an experiment Walmart is running in Arkansas. according to local news reports.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

As instances of the coronavirus quickly increase in a number of regions across the nation, Apple plans to shutter 30 more stores in the United States on Thursday (July 2) at the latest. The tech company, which has 271 retail shops in the United States, has recently closed 47 stores again, CNBC reported.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

In the United States, the digital dollar was floated in a draft proposal of one of the early stimulus bills. A central entity may maintain exclusive rights to create or destroy currency in a region such as a nation. A central entity may be associated with a government of such a region.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

technology by “any means necessary” and that there are about 1,000 related investigations currently ongoing in the country, through its 56 regional offices, according to a report by Reuters. . Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, said China wanted to steal U.S. William Evanina, a senior U.S. airplane and electric vehicle technology.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2020

“In a post-COVID19 normal , we anticipate demand for delivery services to remain elevated,” said Demi Yu, regional head of GrabFood and GrabMart, in a press release, adding that the company plans to “double down” on its expansion of GrabMart. More than 35 percent of U.S. shoppers were buying retail goods online as of May 23, up from 29.2

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In other news, Gutemberg Dos Santos was extradited from Panama to the United States on Nov. 25, on charges of participating in an international money laundering ring, the Southern District of New York’s State Attorney Office said in a press release on Monday (Nov. Dos Santos, citizen of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As a mix of regional and national measures are put into place amid a “second wave” on the continent, governments throughout Europe have put forward more limitations to stem the proliferation of the coronavirus. The United States has 7.9 On Monday (Oct. News recently surfaced that Europe has now topped 7.2

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Facebook’s Cunnane laid out the threat in a sworn affidavit to the Irish regulator, hinting that the social media giant might be prepared to shut down its operations in a region where it has more than 400 million users. “It according to Metro. government.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The cameras are also used to track Muslims coming in and out of mosques in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, which has led to the detention of thousands of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in internment camps. Human rights campaigners have called it a systematic repression of Xinjiang’s 11 million Muslim Uighurs.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

Researchers pointed out, however, that because of the nature of some regions, more recent data could show higher overall adoption rates and transaction volumes than the total shown for 2017. Regionally, the EMV chip card adoption rate is highest in Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean (85.7 is currently lagging behind.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Bloomberg reported that MercadoLibre, which is based in Argentina and registered in the United States, has seen its market value rise to $61 billion — driven in part by the shift to online shopping caused by the pandemic. So, in the region there is an inequality in terms of the acceptance and regulation of open banking.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Ripple is mulling moving its headquarters abroad because of frustration with the regulatory climate in the United States. He noted that other regions have given similar affirmations. The FinTech company is most renowned for its XRP digital currency, CNBC reported.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

Despite some signs of improvement this month, LVMH , the world’s biggest luxury goods group, admitted that its brick-and-mortar sales were erased by lockdowns across Europe and the United States in recent months, and that an immediate turnaround was unlikely. “We Spending in Asia-Pacific on luxury goods is set to contract by 3.4

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

At a time when the pandemic has seen a massive shift toward digital commerce, the Mexican arm of Walmart – the world’s largest retailer – is looking to leverage the river of remittances that its customers receive from the United States, and to keep more of that cash in-store. Pushing Digital.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The company said that of that tally, PayPal Credit total payment volume in the United States alone was roughly $10 billion, and logged more than $2 billion across November and December. PayPal Credit said Monday that it has reached $50 billion in total payment volume.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

To continue supporting technology in regions all over the world from North America to Southeast Asia, Leonid Boguslavsky-founded RTP Global unveiled a new $650 million fund to keep investing in early-stage tech companies. The venture capital firm’s last fund totaled $200 million and was rolled out in 2017, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The conversation came against a backdrop where the number of fundraising deals in the Southeast Asian region were higher in 2020, as measured through the second quarter — more than 60 percent higher over the second quarter of last year, in fact, to 184 deals as measured by DealStreetAsia.

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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. Since 2012, investments into the region have nearly tripled. Want the 12-page report for free? at the time.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

According to the report, those looking to broaden their footholds in the region include Marriott International, Radisson Hotel Group and the Paris-based Accor. In the United States, hotels have been hit so hard that approximately a quarter faced foreclosure in mid-August, real estate data provider Trepp reported at the time.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

One PYMNTS study found that 59 percent of United States consumers would use instant payments because of their convenience, for example. In the February Disbursements Tracker ® , PYMNTS analyzes instant payments’ rise in the Nordics with a critical eye to how entities in other regions may be able to use it as a blueprint.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

In the United States, demand for delivery services for groceries are so high that some customers are waiting seven days for orders that contain missing items, and servers for online services are crashing under heightened demand, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The stores are empty,” one manager said.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Not only are we in the thick of it, we are probably in the European region in the most acute phase of transmission, and we continue to see a really big impact on hospital wards,” said the WHO’s Dr. Catherine Smallwood during an online press briefing, CNBC reported on Thursday (Jan. in particular, has been extremely hard-hit.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Also in Europe, the European financial markets regulator has said that it wants to spend one million euros to promote market stability in the region as pertains to cryptocurrencies and FinTechs. That document focuses on budgets and regulatory efforts across the region. Crypto Regulations. Regulatory Fines, on a Global Scale.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has revealed that it might look into using blockchain technology to streamline disaster insurance payouts, as well as speed up its response to disasters. to launch an alternative crypto-enabled payment infrastructure for residents across the region.

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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

MAY 11, 2020

Marriott CEO and President Arne Sorenson said on a Monday (May 11) earnings call that, overall, “negative trends appear to have bottomed in most regions around the world. He noted that occupancy levels in the region are currently a bit more than 30 percent, which is higher from the lows of below 10 percent in mid-February.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Visa has teamed up with UAE-based NOW Money to bring digital banking offerings to low-income clients in the Gulf Region who can’t access typical banking offerings like international money transfers. CORO Global – and its gold trading mobile program – just grew its reach in the United States with the addition of a license to run in Alabama.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Still, workers across the globe have seen a somewhat less sharp drop in their overall incomes, in part due to coronavirus stimulus packages passed by the United States and other countries across the world. The amount of money coming into to working households across the world dropped 10.7 trillion, the ILO reports.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

The report also sounds a note of optimism for regions that have succeeded in beating back COVID-19, stating: “Zomato’s dining out transactions in markets like New Zealand, UAE and Portugal are already back to pre-COVID levels. In May, Zomato cited COVID-19 in laying off 13 percent of its workforce, or about 500 employees.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

The digital payment platform has added 35,000 merchants across the region, enabling Alipay’s 600 million Chinese consumers the same payment experience at the point of sale (POS) while traveling abroad in the United States. First Data first announced last May that it would be integrating Alipay into its Clover POS systems at U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

FlixMobility launched in the United States in 2018, challenging popular companies like Greyhound, and now operates with 100 destinations from coast to coast. India is a potential target market, and FlixMobility has begun regional recruiting, a company spokesman said, but it has not yet launched in the country of 1.3

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2017

Want to live among the wealthy in the United States? In defining these areas, the newswire stated that “micropolitan” locations have at least a county, an urban center and a population across both that top out at less than 20 percent of what might be defined as a “typical” metropolitan region. stated Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Three regional players in the organic food retail business — where Whole Foods and parent Amazon rule — have declared bankruptcy over the past month. While regional players struggle, interlopers continue to strengthen. The number of supermarkets in the United States declined by 1.3 The number of U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Badi had a pilot in November in New York and is now looking to grow in the United States. Next, they can select in which neighborhoods or regions they would like to stay. The company counts over two million users of the European app, and has 300,000 listings in cities that include Barcelona, Madrid, London and Berlin.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Mr. Bettenhausen previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney. On Monday, the CFPB announced the following additions to its executive team: Matthew R. Bettenhausen will serve as Senior Advisor and Counselor to the Director. Chris Chilbert will serve as the Chief Information Officer in the Bureau’s Operations Division.

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