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JULY 27, 2017

Alexander Vinnik, the 38-year-old Russian man who is accused of being behind the BTC-e virtual currency exchange and bitcoin laundering $4 billion or more, has reportedly been arrested in Greece. According to a news report in Reuters , Vinnik was arrested after a tip-off that led police to a small beachside village in Northern Greece.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Slovenia can now start accepting payments in over 130 currencies from anywhere in the world. Stripe aims to empower more companies from this region to export their creativity and ambition to the rest of the world.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

The European Commission recently approved Italy’s decision to mandate domestic eInvoicing to validate payments and decrease the risks associated with tax noncompliance, and similar mandates are expected to come to Greece, Portugal and Norway, among others.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The world had a pretty good idea of what the morning would look like in broad strokes, but some fun speculation swirled with the annual rumors about an Apple Car. The new iPhones and the rest of Apple’s fall lineup of devices got their introduction when Tim Cook and company hit the stage in Cupertino today. Stripe Expands European Presence.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

By offering the best card to travel the world, European travelers can now always pay with the real exchange rate and enjoy the benefits of a true credit card without the burden of debt or monthly fees,” bunq Founder and CEO Ali Niknam said in a press release. . Its travel card saves users up to 3 percent.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2018

Reports in The Financial Times on Thursday (May 3) said Euler Hermes, a trade credit risk insurance provider, found the average number of days it takes a company to pay a supplier (Days Sales Outstanding, or DSO) has reached 66 days around the world, an increase of one-tenth since 2008, the report found. While the U.K.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Earlier this year, at the Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple used N26 to demonstrate how to use Siri for payments, as the Berlin bank is known as one of the many companies pushing payments into the social media world. You may remember hearing about N26’s initial launch back in 2013.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In the latest PSD2 Tracker , PYMNTS analyzes the impact of SCA in its first several weeks post-deadline, as well as how merchants, PSPs, banks and other members of the EU payments and eCommerce worlds are responding. Around the PSD2 and GDPR world. For more on PSD2 and GDPR, visit the Tracker’s News & Trends.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In several markets around the world, biometric solutions are gaining ground among consumers, companies and government organizations. In the February edition of the Digital Identity Tracker , PYMNTS looks at how modern identification solutions are being evaluated by both government agencies and workplaces around the world.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

“Since the launch of the WU EDGE platform, businesses across the world have used the platform to support their aspirations to grow, invest and deliver the jobs of the future,” said Kerry Agiasotis, president of Western Union Business Solutions, in a statement. The company concluded that a strengthening U.S. ”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2016

It is not an uncontroversial view among analysts, some of whom believe H&M’s real world focus is a bit off the mark. .” Persson is also confident in his firm’s future as a physical and digital brand, believing the two “locations” for commerce will ultimately complement each other.

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MARCH 31, 2020

Its inventory includes a wide range of art, including jewelry, figurines, amulets, sculptures and vases from areas such as Greece, Rome, Egypt and Byzantium. The newly launched e-Tiquities features pieces from the Mediterranean basin. You can also buy a Greek limestone sculpture of Aphrodite for $20,000. How do you know it’s real?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

Though often written about and praised highly, the digital-only world may not have quite the number of converts the tech press would lead one to believe. than they’ve been in Greece, Spain, Ireland or Italy – but more aggressive than has been the norm in Germany, France or Canada. Case in point?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

In the traditional financial world, this would mean storing your money in your home, clearly a security issue.” He offered the illustration of traveling to Greece and “when paying for the dinner, just scan the QR code or touch the POS terminal to pay and send tip.” It means keeping your assets yourself, not with someone else.

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Insights on Business

JUNE 14, 2018

From there, banking expanded across the world in the form of lenders supporting trade across the Silk Road in ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Han Dynasty. Today’s banking systems evolved from the first merchants bartering and carrying goods between early villages and towns.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

More than 600 B&Bs, hotels and self-catering businesses across the world have signed up to take part in the second international Barter Week,” reports the U.K.-based Offers come in from all over the world, but as of Friday (Nov. South Africa, Spain and Greece originated more offers than most other countries. 8), the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2016

On the other side of the world, some observers are also predicting that The Bank of Japan might also have an effect on bitcoin ’s rise i f it decides to continue its easing policy. Faber said that we saw it when Greece collapsed, he said, and bitcoin was the only way for money to move outside of the country.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 24, 2015

Greece may have to go bankrupt, impacting the many financial institutions who own the sovereign debt of Greece and impacting the many consumers who will lose part of their deposits as banks fail. And so, the crisis the world has feared for several years is here. None of us would do that, but tell that to the Greeks.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

So why is the Fed rolling its eyes, while the rest of the world seems to be getting ready to panic? Bitcoin and the like do all-right in an environment where there is low or no trust, they noted – say, Greece in 2015, when the debt crisis was so severe it seemed possible the nation would leave the euro zone. Not Much of a Competitor.

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FICO

MAY 27, 2021

Avon , one of the largest direct-selling companies in the world, used the FICO® Platform to improve its credit-granting in Brazil, reducing its representatives’ bad debt indicators by 72 percent. Read the full Boeing story here. Cloud Deployment. Automation has cut report preparation time by 90 percent and improved transparency.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

DECEMBER 29, 2014

He was commenting on some of the ongoing troubles in Greece. In 2012 Greece was far closer to leaving the euro than commonly thought. Greece could pull out of the Euro and create a “hard e-drachma”. Do such concerns return to haunt the currency in coming months? — Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) December 29, 2014.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

Greece has seen its ups and downs over the last decade when it comes to economic strength. In this week’s Tech Center tracker, Mary Gavala, Online Marketing and Promos Manager of Viva Wallet , spoke with PYMNTS on how Greece is becoming a hot spot for tech. Athens, Greece’s capital, has a population of just over 665,000.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 2, 2011

The World Around Us World events are impacting our markets. Moody’s Rating Service never sleeps and has downgraded the debt of Spain, Greece, and yes, Japan. times, so there is room to continue the upward trend, if world events cooperate, that is. since World War II, so we are close to average.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

Italy has been hit particularly hard, with one of the world’s highest death counts from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, so far. Already, some adverse effects are taking place as investors sell off government bonds in Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal, fearing the worst for their ability to sustain public debt.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

OCTOBER 21, 2014

According to Francesco Pappada of the Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance many small firms in Greece deliberately avoid taking out loans because it involves being more transparent. From Greece’s shadow economy: The treasures of darkness | The Economist ]. Lots of shady activity may also be bad for growth.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

With a location right on the crossroads of North, South, East and West, Athens, Greece is known as the “cradle of civilization,” but the location also delivers on a growing mix of offerings as a global tech hub. As one of the oldest cities in the world, Athens has continually been inhabited by people for at least 7,000 years.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 21, 2011

Debt problems in Greece and other European countries reared up again and caused a flight to quality as investors bought Treasury bonds and sold stocks in the second quarter. People don’t exit the labor force during a recovery, at least not in any recovery since World War II, according to Chris Low of FTN.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In 2006, investment banks were at the top of the finance world. After the collapse of Lehman and Bear Stearns and the global financial crisis that ensued, the business models of the world’s biggest investment banks needed to change. In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

The idea for Unbound Merino was hatched on a trip to Hydra Greece, a hilly city where Co-Founder Dan Demsky found himself “ sweating bullets ” hauling his suitcases up a hill. It was at the moment he made the connection that would launch is business. Suitcases are a problem.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 19, 2011

A volcano named Eyjajallajokull (still no one can pronounce it) erupted and disrupted travel in Europe for weeks, a BP oil rig exploded causing a giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a European debt crisis riled the markets as Greece and Ireland faltered, a “Flash Crash” in May sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 1,000 points, or 9%, in minutes (..)

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

Internet hacker collaborative Anonymous may have managed to officially disrupt both the website of the central bank of Greece and Cyprus. The group’s attack on the central bank (in Greece) also came at the same time as an ominous message was posted on YouTube: “Olympus will fall.”. “A The Central Bank of Cyprus was the next target. “[The

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2017

Our model gives us access to some of the best talent in the world, meaning that we can add real value by exposing entrepreneurs to the best practices in each domain,” said Yoram Snir, partner at 83North in Tel Aviv. Since we started investing in Europe in 2008,” Bowden continued, “we have expanded our focus from primarily U.K.-headquartered

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2016

Literally, all around the world. If their count is to be believed, over 75 million people the world over have Pokémon go on their phone, or at least that was the estimate two days before this article was written. Merchants around the world have responded to this in a variety of ways. Initially launched in the U.S.,

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NCR

JUNE 30, 2016

That gives customers of Number26 easy access to currencies from nations around the world. They’re not pure financial services providers, and they’re not tech firms per se —they’re a curious hybrid that draws on the best of both worlds. And their strengths are distinctive.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

They want brands to embody an inspiring ethos, to bring a strong point of view and take action to make a positive impact in the world,” said Raphael Bemporad, BBMG’s founding partner. However, half of the world’s aspirationals cannot name a single brand that reflects this deeper sense of purpose. yet, as only 36 percent of U.S.

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CB Insights

APRIL 11, 2019

This briefing covers emerging startup ecosystems and the companies within them located around the world that are outside of typical tech and innovation hubs. Since our last update of this map in September 2016, 6 startups have exited: Adyen , Avast Software , CCP Games , CloudPayments , Delivery Hero , and Spotify. SocialBakers. Capital.com.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2018

Chinese wages are closing the gap with those in eurozone economies like Greece and Portugal, the PPRO report noted. WeChat Pay is the largest eWallet in the world, with 1.3 Neighboring economies may benefit from the successful Chinese market, Villegas said. China tends to set the benchmark for the entire region.

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