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and across the world. Shares of the three big publicly-traded cruise ship operators – Royal Caribbean, Carnival Corp and Norwegian Cruise Line – have been severely battered. While airlines are still flying – albeit on a limited capacity – the cruise ship industry is effectively shut down in the U.S.

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JUNE 12, 2020

The official “no sale” deadline by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is officially set to expire on July 24, but thus far many major cruise companies, including Norwegian, Royal Caribbean, MSC and Carnival, have extended their sailing suspensions just past that date. But it isn’t that high on the list.

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MAY 14, 2020

To that end, remittances are poised to decline markedly from the $550 billion level seen last year, as estimated by the World Bank. The World Bank projects that remittances will decline by 20 percent to about $445 billion. That decline will hit certain companies — and corridors of payment flows — harder than others. Setting the Stage.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

the largest movie theater chain in the world with 1,000 theaters and 11,000 screens in 15 countries; Snap-On Inc., She said among the companies that have announced a new position of chief medical officer include Tyson Foods, Stanley Black & Decker and Royal Caribbean.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

“This is an important milestone for Visa and for Argentina’s electronic payments ecosystem,” said Eduardo Coello, the regional president of Visa for Latin America and the Caribbean. “We We are committed to working with our partners to accelerate the adoption of electronic payments.

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JULY 10, 2020

The prime minister of Barbados has a message for workers weary of COVID-19 restrictions and other pressures at home: Come to the Caribbean island for up to a year and do your job remotely. Amid all the “uncertainty” created by the pandemic, she added, Barbados is offering 12 months of stability.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

To allow ATM operators and acquirers to use Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) around the world, Visa is growing its Visa/Plus ATM services and updating its rules. Elsewhere, CFO Vasant Prabhu stated that inbound activity in certain corridors was up double digits, such as in Mexico and the Caribbean, spurred by tourism, for instance.

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JULY 8, 2020

Latin America and the Caribbean. Businesses large and small are the engine of growth for economies around the world and right now they need our collective support to navigate these uncharted times,” said Jess Turner, executive vice president products and innovation in North America for Mastercard, in a statement.

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JUNE 24, 2016

billion across the world. Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean: 71.7% (up from 59.5% percent of card-present transactions were EMV chip-enabled in Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean; usage grew to 87.1 billion in a year’s time. That brings the total at the end of 2015 to 4.8 The data showed that 35.8 in 2014).

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Remittances are a lifeline for many individuals around the world, with workers overseas in developed countries frequently sending money back home to support families in emerging economies. Many FIs, in a practice known as “de-risking,” have stopped or significantly reduced their correspondent relationships with banks in such countries.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The internet platform is also coming to regions of Asia and the Caribbean. The news comes as Zara’s owner, and the world’s largest clothing retailer, Inditex , has announced that it will sell products from all of its brands online, it was reported in September. “We The full online catalog will be operational by 2020.

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JULY 26, 2016

First Data , “a global leader in commerce-enabling technology,” has announced a partnership with Bancolombia , a conglomerate of Latin American and Caribbean financial companies, that will “integrate and strengthen their technology platforms in order to improve and diversify services for business owners in Colombia.”.

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MARCH 12, 2019

. “With our alliance, local businesses will have access to an innovative and world-class platform, allowing entrepreneurs the ability to be more competitive in the international marketplace,” said TuChequera.com Founder and President José García in a statement.

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APRIL 19, 2018

In addition, the number of EMV payment cards in circulation around the world increased by 1 billion over the previous 12 months — to a total of 7.1 percent of all card-present transactions made around the world between January and December 2017 used EMV chip technology. Data from EMVCo shows that 54.6 The data also showed that 63.7

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The lawsuit against Amir Golestan and his web-services provider firm Micfo is shedding light on the ecosystem that governs the world of online spammers and hackers, a Wall Street Journal article said on Monday (Feb. The alleged victim is the nonprofit American Registry for Internet Numbers , based in Centreville, Virginia.

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MARCH 12, 2019

NIBank will license and develop the payment methods, and customers in the Caribbean and South America will be the main recipients. In January, UPI gave developers around the world access to 18 of its mobile internet payment products, via an open platform called the UPI Developer.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

5) an expansion of its partnership to include Canada, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa. Together, we expect to accelerate digital payment adoption across the world, improve the payment experience online, in-app and in store, and empower millions of consumers to seamlessly manage and move their money.”.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Welcome to The Axis, your look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the expansion of the alliance between Western Union Business Solutions and Mexico’s Banco Monex. In addition, U.K. based Volopa has unveiled contactless multi-currency prepaid cards and India- based Obopay purchased mobile app company Mubble.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Unquestionably, 2017 was one of the most challenging ever in North America due to several natural disasters, which included several powerful hurricanes severely impacting the Caribbean and southern United States. Forecast: Unplugging is likely to accelerate as meeting professionals and others face increasing demands in a high-speed world.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

“We’re not just waiting for customers to come to us,” Isom said, “we’re taking steps to open travel through pre-flight COVID testing,” he added, which is currently available for trips to Hawaii and Costa Rica and will soon be added to some Caribbean destinations as well. The Work-From-Home Quandary. Back To The Old Days.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It has already made the service available in Brazil, Jamaica, Panama, Latin America and the Caribbean region. In a press release , Western Union said Mexico is the most recent country enabled for international digital money transfers.

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MAY 11, 2017

Western Union said it plans to continue to increase its digital presence across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean in the next phase of its online expansion, augmenting the company’s retail agent footprint in more than 200 countries and territories.

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JULY 11, 2018

Chuck Fischer, ARC’s managing director of airline service, said that “Alipay is widely recognized as one of the largest payment platforms in the world, and as people from China travel to the U.S., they want to use their preferred payment method.”.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Canada, Europe, UAE and Caribbean, Boost operates Boost Intercept, its B2B payments gateway, to automate the virtual card payment experience for supplier acceptance. B2B payments startup Boost Payment Solutions landed new backing from Mosaik Partners, the company said Tuesday (June 13). With operations in the U.S.,

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AUGUST 2, 2017

but operates in Canada, Europe, the Caribbean and the UAE. Other board members include Chris McWilton, Mastercard’s former president of North America; Jeffrey Hack, First Data’s former EVP and COO of global business solutions; and Henry Klein, Lehman Brothers’ former managing director and founder of Ingwe Capital.

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JULY 28, 2019

First we changed the game for CBD products, then we created tremendous opportunity for farmers and their regional economies throughout the Caribbean,” said David in a press release. Now we’ve used Swiss financial know-how to create the first bank and cryptocurrency entirely optimized for the legal cannabis industry.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Gilt is taking a new path into the physical world. Gilt at Sea is an opportunity to create a unique shopping destination for vacation travelers aboard two of the most impressive cruise ships in the Caribbean.”. The Gilt at Sea locations will be available from Dec. Hudson’s Bay Co.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. the Caribbean and Mexico. Coverage includes the signing of a memorandum of understanding between The Singtel Group and Malaysia’s Axiata Digital. Elavon has customers in Canada, the U.S.,

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JULY 28, 2019

First we changed the game for CBD products, then we created tremendous opportunity for farmers and their regional economies throughout the Caribbean,” said David in a press release. Now we’ve used Swiss financial know-how to create the first bank and cryptocurrency entirely optimized for the legal cannabis industry.

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MAY 29, 2020

But Webster noted that governments around the world are beginning to lift stay-at-home orders just in time for the summer travel season. Places in Western Europe and the Caribbean, they’re aspirational places that people really want to go to,” Kirby said.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Despite the best efforts by health workers around the world, the coronavirus continues to spread in terms of cases, fatalities and nations where it has made an appearance. The World Health Organization is not yet describing the situation as a pandemic, but Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters this morning (Feb.

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MARCH 26, 2015

You’re probably up to your ears in #busyseasonproblems like being overloaded on caffeine, working on little sleep, and jealousy for missing out on the college basketball viewing parties happening in the outside world. Maybe your spouse has commented that you’ve started sleep-talking exclusively in phrases like “That’s not deductible!”.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The company spotlighted transaction and revenue growth in regions such as Latin America and the Caribbean, metrics that were up 11 percent and 2 percent, and Europe, where those metrics were up a respective 8 percent and 3 percent. percent by the World Bank.

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JULY 22, 2019

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. But that means it is a very dynamic regulatory market, and things are changing almost by the day,” he said.

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JUNE 6, 2016

Airbnb managed to capture 20 percent of all bookings during the World Cup held in Rio in 2014. But we remain aware of the different sensitivities to the situation around the world.” The agreement wasn’t strictly necessary, per se. “We make sure everyone’s aligned.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

“It’s essentially marketing our international capabilities, certainly to our issuer partners in the United States, but also to issuers around the world, which is what we’re doing in Canada, LATAM, Europe, Southeast Asia and other areas.”. in such adoption.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

There were big successes, of course —“Wonder Woman” springs to mind — but there were far more high-profile, but very expensive, flops and misses: “The Mummy,” “Baywatch,” “The Dark Tower,” “The Alien” prequel, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” sequel. By bringing back the VCR. The Return of the Video Store .

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