PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This is an escalation of a previous policy to only limit travel to the hardest hit areas like Asia and Italy. . The virus is spreading around the world, with Nigeria confirming its first case. The outbreak can go in any direction based on how we handle it,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

While most of the world has gone into some version enforced social distancing and quarantine mode with the rise of COVID-19 — closing schools, banning public gatherings, shutting down all non-essential businesses like restaurants and shops and requiring that anyone who can work from home do so — Sweden has been an outlier.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

23) announcement that the card is now available in France, Austria, Italy, Ireland and Spain beyond its current availability in the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. PayPal and Mastercard are bringing the PayPal Business Debit Mastercard to more businesses in Europe. The companies said in a Wednesday (Sept.

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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. Lagarde positioned the change as a necessary one to acclimate to the new digital world.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 31, 2017

Things we’re reading today include … Japan’s biggest bank ‘set to move investment operations from London to Amsterdam’ because of Brexit Hack on Italy’s largest bank affects 400,000 customers Last-minute talks bid to halt first Bank of England strike in 50 years The 16 highest-paid CEOs in the world of banking HSBC (..)

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

Micro-mobility giant Helbiz announced a partnership with mobile payments platform Alipay , which will allow customers a wider breadth of access to Helbiz’s eScooters, eBikes and other devices for easy riding through Italy. The app is used by tens of thousands of merchants.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Google’s antitrust woes in Europe and around the world just got a little bigger. A spokesman for Google in Italy told Reuters the company was cooperating with Italian authorities and that the practices in question may involve how the tech giant’s online ad tools work in relation to European Union privacy laws.

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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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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2016

Digital transformation has become a major challenge for insurance companies all over the world. In Italy, this transformation is exemplified by the adoption of vehicle telematics. Guest Post by Matteo Carbone The insurance sector is undergoing a profound change. of… Read more 30,000 Foot Look at InsurTech.

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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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Switzerland has mirrored Italy in implementing an intra-country face covering requirement in every public space beginning on Monday. million confirmed cases per the World Health Organization. Also, the Republic of Ireland will transition into “Level Five” limitations, ABC News reported. On Monday (Oct. The United States has 7.9

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PYMNTS

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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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

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. In addition, UniCredit customers in Italy can now use the Google Pay digital wallet, and cybercriminals are reportedly using malware to encrypt files and asking for a ransom to be paid through WeChat Pay.

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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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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2020

Businesses and industries throughout the world are bracing for the economic impacts of the coronavirus as it disrupts supply chains, events and travel. In Italy, which has experienced the largest outbreak of the virus beyond Asia, hotels said that more than 50 percent of reservations were canceled in three days last week.

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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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Abrigo

MARCH 18, 2020

As the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread around the world, cybercriminals are taking advantage of the widespread fear. Ministero della Salute in Italy. Educate your employees and stakeholders to stay protected. For cybercriminals, vulnerability and anxiety present opportunity. Health Canada.

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Bussman Advisory

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Join our community of 50,000+ subscribers and stay informed on the latest trends and news in the FinTech & AI world with the weekly newsletter provided by Bussmann Advisory. Gabriele Tavazzani, CEO of Amundi Italy, envisions creating the first tokenized fund under Italian law, which would be open, digitally native, and fungible.

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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), United Kingdom ($37 billion), Italy ($34.2 A four-month lockdown on international and much domestic tourism as well could cost the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It is the biggest cyber-financial attack in Italy and one of the biggest in the world,” the police said in a statement. Italian police charged the former head of cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail, identified by the initials of “F.F.,” with money laundering, fraudulent banking and computer fraud, Reuters reported. “It

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2020

Plans across the world to reopen economies and re-enter public life are being thwarted by new flare-ups of the coronavirus. will ease restrictions on exercising, and Italy, which was under a total lockdown for months, may end it earlier than expected.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

“Our innovative payments solutions enable individual and enterprise users to send, spend and collect money to and from any part of the world — while saving on high transaction costs that are associated with traditional cross-border money movements,” he added. billion), Italy ($1.07 billion) and others, according to the World Bank. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

Overall, we want to give every Amazon customer the option of an alternative delivery location,” Amazon Hub World Director Patrick Supanc said, according to the report. The eCommerce retailer is teaming up with Next Plc, and has forged similar partnerships with Giunti as well as other merchants in Italy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Here’s the latest news from the technology industry, which is coming under increasing global scrutiny from governments around the world. US Trade Representative: India, Italy, Turkey Digital Taxes Discriminates Against US Firms. commerce,” according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

In a blog post , Bill Ready, PayPal’s chief operating officer, said the new digital platform will provide what the company is calling the most comprehensive set of technology, tools, services and financing for businesses of all sizes around the world. The payment company plans to expand to more than 40 markets by the end of 2019.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

There are many reasons for that, but perhaps the biggest, Ecwid CEO Ruslan Fazlyev told Karen Webster, is consumers who once inhabited that world pre- coronavirus no longer exist. Consumers now live in a digital world. and around the world will really be able to renew itself. “If I will create on.’

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

According to reports , Google has “quietly” updated its default search engine lists, expanding them to include pro-privacy search engines in 60 markets around the world. Even if the move aims to diminish criticism, it likely isn’t nearly enough to calm down regulators and lawmakers around the world.

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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), United Kingdom ($37 billion), Italy ($34.2 A four-month lockdown on international and much domestic tourism as well could cost the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

Canada, Australia, Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Japan, although more countries will follow soon, according to Google. Google, enjoying near ubiquity in the online advertising world by now, has also faced backlash for its advertising practices, as reported by PYMNTS. The “Promoted” pins are only available in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Britain is followed by Mexico, South Africa, Italy, Brazil, India, the Eurozone, France, Canada, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia and finally Australia, with a projected 0.3 For 2021 as a whole, the OECD sees the world economy growing 4.2 is expected to be the next slowest to recover, with its GDP sliding 6.4

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TheGuardian

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Meeting regularly since 1976, the G7 is made up of seven countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US. Between them, the countries represent around half of the world’s GDP, and the group’s main purpose is to provide a forum for discussing world economic stability.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Nicola Simionato, director of business development for Travel at Google, revealed the new enterprise at the Vacation Rental World Summit in Lake Como, Italy. Search results for vacation rentals previously were part of Google Hotels or Google Trips.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

Madrid and Copenhagen are reportedly being considered, as well as cities in France and Italy. The company says it is the largest car-sharing organization in the world, with 21,000 cars in Russia. The largest market in the world is in Moscow, with 30,000 cars. Yandex’s car-sharing service was founded in 2018.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

consumers, who send more money overseas to friends and family than anyone else in the world,” said Lorenzo Pellegrino, Skrill’s CEO, in a statement. will benefit from the service, which ensures that cash reaches loved ones in Mexico, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and France, among others.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

As reported in Bitnews Today , in Italy, several retail firms and food manufacturers are getting behind projects that will help trace the food supply chain, with an eye on transparency. There have been other, similar efforts within the food industry as Carrefour has been tracing 4,000 food products that bear the firm’s labeling in Italy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Through the company’s payment ecosystem farmers can process Mastercard and Visa payments around the world. In Italy, passengers from China can now make payments with WeChat Pay, the International Airport Review reported.

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