Bobsguide

AUGUST 18, 2016

According to new figures from KPMG and CB Insights, Germany sped ahead in the fintech race during the second quarter of this year and brought in $186 million in comparison to the $103 million that British businesses pulled in. The report highlighted that funding to venture capital backed fintech.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Broadridge Financial Solutions has partnered with Hamburg, Germany-based payments consultancy and supplier PPI in order to launch a joint Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) initiative to help alleviate payments processing pains, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

” France ranked eighth in the world in remittance outflow in 2018, with workers there sending $15 billion to recipients in their home countries, according to the World Bank. Among European countries, only Germany reported a higher outflow. And for money transfer, he added, “it’s a very strategic market.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Nordics, DACH (Austria, Germany and Switzerland), and Middle East areas of the world, according to a press release. On the Salesforce platform, Rootstock works to offer sales order processing, supply chain, production, inventory, logistics and financials, bridging a gap in the world of ERP solutions, the release stated.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

11), the finance ministers of Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands said they asked the executive branch of the European Union (EU), the agency responsible for managing the day-to-day business of the EU’s 27 nations, to prohibit stablecoins until oversight challenges had been addressed, Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Regulators and lawmakers around the world have expressed opposition to Facebook’s plan, especially France and Germany , who have said they would block the use of Libra if it was ever released. Libra will be a stablecoin, meaning it will be backed by real-world currency like bank deposits and short-term securities.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, PayPal and Mastercard are adding more European Union (EU) countries to a debit card offering, while European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde has called for a digital euro. Germany and the United Kingdom. PayPal, Mastercard Add 5 EU Countries To Debit Card Offering.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

Breaking trends in the rest of the world, the U.S.’ In the rest of the world, Japan saw a rise in business activity, making up for a weak end to 2019. Germany was hit harder than some by the slowdown in overseas demand. ’ business activity is on the upswing so far in 2020. had hit “a 10-month high of 53.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Infineon Technologies , which works as a semiconductor manufacturer, is doing away with employee identification cards at its Germany headquarters and instead implementing a new smart card solution that combines office building access and Mastercard contactless payments capabilities, according to a FinTech Intel report.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Speaking on an IMF World Bank panel, Lagarde told CNBC’s Geoff Cutmore that the ECB is prepared to draw upon “the many weapons we have available,” including interest rates, forward guidance and asset purchase programs. Overall, more than 251,000 people across Europe have died as a result of COVID-19, with more than 7.4

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman told the Times the case is “alarming,” while Finance Minister Olaf Scholz called it “a scandal which is almost unprecedented in the world of finance.”. “We Only then can we contain the fallout from this affair.”. We have to think about how the regulatory regime should be changed,” he said. .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In today’s top payments news around the world, Grab said it has closed on a loan facility, while Getir announced on social media that it has come to London. The finance minister of Germany sees OECD member states attaining a deal by the summer on levying a tax on major digital firms.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

and Germany lost about 10 percent of their output, Italy 12 percent, France 14 percent and Spain 19 percent. with 46,000 deaths, the highest tally in Europe and the fourth largest in the world after the U.S., That’s equivalent to nearly 700 deaths per million residents, exceeding the toll in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Amazon wants to be able to compete with rival Uber Eats and needed a well-known inroad into the food delivery world. In August, Deliveroo announced that it was going to end its operations in Germany. In terms of its presence in Germany, the company has had 1,100 riders spread across five cities, with an overall employee count of 100.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

The Wirecard saga has ensnared the Germany-based payment company’s auditor, Ernst & Young (EY). The collapsed Houston-based company, which once had more than $60 billion in assets before filing for bankruptcy in 2001, resulted in the shuttering of Arthur Andersen LLP , then one of the largest auditing companies in the world.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Amsterdam FinTech startup bunq is expanding into 22 additional countries after successful launches in Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Ireland and Belgium, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday (Oct. The company also now accepts Apple Pay and Google Pay in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium and Ireland. .

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Perficient

JANUARY 26, 2021

Quantum computing is one of the hottest technologies in the world right now, but it also considered an extremely complicated field because the quantum concepts involved aren’t easy to understand. Will Quantum Computing Reshape the World of Computing? What is Quantum Computing? Currently, computers are made with silicon transistors.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2016

While the emerging world of mobile payments has allowed us to collectively envision a world where payments goes far outside good old fashioned plastic, it is likely the case that very few people ever imagined that they would literally be able to use their face to pay.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The association meant to manage and handle the debut of Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra has been dealing with some setbacks involving its acceptance, especially from Germany and France, who say they won’t allow the currency to move forward. The currency will be backed by real-world assets, the Association said.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

and 70 percent in Germany. We want to acknowledge their dedication to keeping remittances moving to the communities and economies around the world that depend on them the most and support them as they continue promoting the health and safety of the communities around them.”. That includes 63 percent in the U.S., 67 percent in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

20), IHS Markit will release composite purchasing managers’ indices (PMI) — that combine manufacturing and services activity — for the eurozone and its two biggest economies, France and Germany. Low inflation and weak growth — especially in Germany — caused the European Central Bank (ECB) to drop rates last year. On Friday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The trend has played out throughout the developed world and has given QR codes a new lease on life. We are thrilled that PayPal and Venmo QR codes will help to maintain the safety of CVS customers and employees, especially in the essential pharmacy retail environment as we go into the winter months.".

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

World leaders from countries including Japan, South Africa, China, and Germany said there should be global oversight of the technology industry, underscoring the interest internationally to regulate tech, which is an area where the U.S. She argued international oversight of how data is used is necessary.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

While trade is still below pre-pandemic levels, it recouped about half of this year’s historic loss by June, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, an independent, nonprofit economic think tank based in Kiel, Germany, per the report.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Amazon wants to be able to compete with rival Uber Eats and needed a well-known inroad into the food delivery world. In August, Deliveroo announced it was going to end its operations in Germany. In terms of its presence in Germany, the company had 1,100 riders spread across five cities, with an overall employee count of 100.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

Europe is clearly the global leader in tourism with more than 600 million foreign tourists arriving in the region annually, according to Statista, the Germany-based online portal for statistics. While Europe is not alone in facing vacant tourism destinations, Breton said the European market accounts for half of world tourism.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In Germany, that case drew attention from regulator Andreas Mundt, who said Apple's decision to terminate Epic's account and thus make it impossible for gamers to update Fortnite at the store might merit further inspection. The case is ongoing. He noted that the App Store and Google Play are the only two major global app stores.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The Madrid-based company is a major global player and owner of mobile network operator O2 in the United Kingdom, Germany and other countries across the world. Telefónica said on Wednesday (Sept. For its part, Rakuten has been making headlines, jumping ahead of competitors as it rolls out a 5G network in Japan. "I

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

sellers in September of 2018; since then, it has expanded Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. As we continue expanding and scaling our management of payments around the world, we're excited to add France, Italy and Spain to our growing roster of countries.". eBay began managing payments to a limited number of U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) has had to redesign its vaccine procurement facility due to richer nations wanting more flexible deals, Financial Times (FT) reported Tuesday (Sept. That would subsidize the lower-income countries to help get more vaccines into all parts of the world. 18 from its original Aug.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The company states on its website , “We believe by bringing neighbors together, we can cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.”. 25 percent of households have been “verified” on the platform.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 13, 2017

I knew exactly what he was getting at, as the banks I deal with in USA, UK, France, Germany and other European nations are always fretting over the challenge with their old systems. Thanks to mobile … The post A three-stream financial world: which one to watch? The main reason is that China was not a card-based economy.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

Before Q2 2020, Uber was the innovator that launched the concept of a digitally backed ridesharing business with a growing side hustle in the world of delivery. As of Q2, Uber is a delivery company with a side hustle in the world of ridesharing of which it was the pioneer. Rides were down 50 percent to 85 percent in top U.S.

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 24, 2017

I’ve just spent the last three weeks travelling around too many places to mention, including Germany, UAE, UK and three very different countries: Argentina, Colombia and Pakistan. Meanwhile, Argentina has most of its population adult banked, with just 15% unbanked, but less than 10% of adults have access to credit and 5% to savings.

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Bussman Advisory

JULY 27, 2023

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In particular, the hackers targeted the organizations involved in the “cold chain,” the component of the supply chain designed to keep vaccines “persevered in temperature-controlled environments” as they are stored and shipped out to locations around the world for distribution.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

The tourism sector in the United States will take the biggest hit of any country in the world from COVID-19, with China a distant second, a new United Nations study finds. billion), Germany ($46.2 A four-month lockdown on international and much domestic tourism as well could cost the U.S. billion), France ($47.2 billion), Spain ($44.1

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