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Banks are leaving the Caribbean. It’s unfair and will backfire on the west | Kenneth Mohammed

TheGuardian

The Barbados prime minister said that the Caribbean and Pacific islands, being the most vulnerable and least responsible, face certain doom if wealthier nations are not held accountable. The Caribbean has some of the most resilient and talented people in the world. People who have risen above slavery and colonialism.

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Memorial Day: Remember Irv Earhart

Jeff For Banks

The Battle of Luzon was one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, and the second bloodiest in the Pacific Theater. Luzon was to be the strategically significant base from which General Macarthur would direct war efforts against Japan, who had seized the island in 1942. The Americans landed on Luzon with little resistance.

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Tappy Teams With Etisalat For Wearables; Nets Rolls Out PayCollect For Merchants

PYMNTS

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Singapore ’s Nets PayCollect rollout. In addition, Xero is working with GoCardless in New Zealand on payment collection, and Tappy Technologies is teaming up with Etisalat for wearable payments in the UAE.

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LumoXchange Launches In Philippines; UAE Exchange Rebrands Fiji Business

PYMNTS

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. The name change comes among the company’s rebranding efforts across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, India and the Asia Pacific (APAC). Coverage includes LumoXchange ’s launch in the Philippines.

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TRENDING: Bringing Brewers Into The Platform Commerce World

PYMNTS

Around the Payments Powering Platforms world. Similarly, IBM partnered with the United Nations-funded, Pacific-region financial services company KlickEx Group and blockchain network nonprofit Stellar.org to build an international monetary exchange based on IBM’s blockchain electronic ledger.

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Financial inclusion in Indonesia – could ATMs hold the key?

NCR

Home to more than 261 million people, it is the world’s fourth most populous country and also the largest island nation on the planet, comprising more than 13,000 islands. The Asia-Pacific region as a whole was by far the leading adopter of automated deposit in 2016, according to earlier research by RBR.

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10 Lessons We Learned at the Nacha Smarter Faster Payment Conference

South State Correspondent

Interestingly, they highlighted the World Acceptance case, in which the CFPB put them under an Order, and World Acceptance challenged the CFPB’s authority. The CFPB then made its reasoning public, further damaging World Acceptance’s reputation. After all, “Payments are not an island.” Pacific Time.