PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2017

Even in the quiet seasons, the online travel market is susceptible to the trade winds, and they don’t always blow in agents’ favor. But what hurts a business (especially a small one) more than an October snowstorm is when online fraudsters use CNP transactions to steal their services. The End of Excessive Card Surcharges.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

Founded in 2013, N26 has raised a total of $683 million in financing. In 2019, N26 began operating in the United States. CEO, said in a PYMNTS interview that growth came after N26 evaluated domestic customers’ online banking perceptions and preferences. Nicolas Kopp, the U.S.

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

Now, the fast-growing operation is tapping into one of the growing trends in payments and commerce by offering online financing for its many partners. To get a better handle on what’s going on — and why OYO is embracing hotel financing — PYMNTS recent talked with Abhinav Sinha, chief operating officer and operating partner at OYO USA.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Against that backdrop, considering the speed at which states are accepting online sports betting (and the strength of the dollars flowing into the space), legalized gambling via mobile seems a sure wager. Several other states have online gambling legislation in the works. The Technology Component.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Kering is gearing up to offer its own luxury eCommerce sites within the next two years, ending existing joint-venture efforts and bringing such operations in house, reported Reuters. By 2020, Kering will bring full control of its luxury brands online through its own internal activities, which include building tech teams, said Reuters.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2019

Carrefour opened its first supermarket in Beijing in 1995, and now operates stores in more than 70 cities in the country. In addition, the retailer is facing competition from online rivals, especially Amazon. As a result, Carrefour revealed plans last year to expand its eCommerce operations. billion euros ($3.4

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2020

Wirecard reportedly provided multimillion-dollar loans to Bauer to operate his two businesses in the Philippines, PayEasy Solutions, an online payment company, and Froehlich Tours, a bus and coach rental company. Bauer and his wife Belinda Bauer owned Pay Easy and Froehlich Tours, according to public filings. . .

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2019

This is up from 35% in 2017, and way up from 18% in 2013, according to Financial Technology Partners’ 2018 Annual Fintech Almanac. Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic investor.

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MARCH 26, 2020

Jeffrey Zack, a spokesperson for the company, said there was “no evidence” that the breach had hit the company’s own network, adding that it was “fully operational.” If a victim doesn’t pay, then the stolen files are published online. Zack did not say anything beyond that. In December, it warned companies about the threat.

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JUNE 25, 2020

Long reportedly operated a third-party payment processing company, V Internet Corp, which worked to create and deposit remotely-created checks (RCCs), which Long maneuvered to have his name on, saying the checks were authorized by the account holder rather than the payee. This lasted for six months during that year, the press release says.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

It was originally put into place in 2013 but was only intermittently enforced over the next six years, letting many cryptocurrency exchanges continue their KYC-less practices with impunity,” according to the December 2020 AML/KYC Tracker®.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I would personally prefer to be operated upon by a robotic surgeon with a million successful operations under its belt, rather than a human surgeon who makes a mistake once in 10,000 operations. I blogged about this in 2013 when Tony Sale, Britain’s greatest fraudster, spoke at the Financial Services Club.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The report noted that there is no internationally agreed-upon definition of what that activity might be, but for the confines of the report, it includes “all credit activity facilitated by electronic [online] platforms that are not operated by commercial banks.”

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APRIL 1, 2019

It has grown at a rapid pace since launching in 2013, and is now the sixth largest hotel operator in the world. The acquisition puts Airbnb in direct competition with online travel website operators such as Expedia, Priceline and Travelocity. OYO has a presence in China, the Philippines, Indonesia and the U.K.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

Amazon’s India head Amit Agarwal told Reuters that if the country were to reduce red tape, it would help small businesses sell online and export more goods to help boost India’s economic growth. In addition, the company is responsible for more than $1 billion in exports and expects this to exceed $5 billion in the next three years.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Other online marketplaces include Sky.Garden, Kilimall, MallforAfrica, My Big Order, Masoko, Ubuy, Shopit, Cheki, MamaMikes and Electro Hub. Jumia , which was founded by two Frenchmen in 2012, operates in 11 African countries, from Morocco to Nigeria and Kenya, and has been referred to as Africa’s version of Amazon.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Lotte, a South Korean conglomerate, is shutting down its Vietnamese online marketplace, lotte.vn, which allows merchants to connect with buyers, according to Deal Street Asia. Lotte’s move isn’t the only such case of larger retailers shying away from eCommerce. The Vietnamese eCommerce market is projected to hit $4.6

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

Restaurant management app Revention is teaming with on-demand logistics platform DoorDash to help restaurateurs streamline delivery operations, Revention said in a press release on Tuesday (Aug. The partnership wants to build out restaurants’ operational efficiencies and eventually include supply fulfillment and last-mile logistics. “The

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2016

26) they seized around €1 million earlier in 2016 in connection with a operation that was being run on an online dark market. In a report by CoinDesk , a representative of Finland’s customs office said the online drug site was named Valhalla, which has been in operation since Oct.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Small business (SMB) online lending company BlueVine is expanding its financial services with the launch of BlueVine Business Banking. The service supports one-minute online account opening, and allows small business owners to access an online dashboard through which they can view transaction activity, make payments and transfer funds.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Once the transaction closes, Reverb will continue to operate as a standalone business. Vibrant two-sided marketplaces are lightning in a bottle — there are only a handful of them operating at scale — and Reverb is one,” said Etsy CEO Josh Silverman in a press release.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The agency said that the person behind the operation, Katrina Moore, “promoted the sale of a variety of financial documents on the website she operated, FakePayStubOnline.com. Its operator, Steven Simmons, had a website called “NoveltyExcuses.com website from 2013 until October 2017, where for $19.95

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

"Combining Facturama's regional expertise with FreshBooks’ online payments and scaling expertise will accelerate our ability to better serve Mexico’s growing small business and startup market.". Ramirez López and Arochi started Facturama in 2012, and the company was selected as a 500 Startups portfolio firm in 2013.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

Both companies were rivals vying for market dominance and hemorrhaging cash as they tried to attract businesses and outdo each other, but now they can focus on taking on the online giant itself. He has run Cloudera since 2013 and took it public in 2017. When the merger was announced in October, it was valued at $5.2

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JUNE 18, 2018

to face newly unsealed charges for his role in the operation. billion empire selling heroin, cocaine and crystal meth online. In October 2013, the marketplace was shut down by the FBI, and Ulbricht was apprehended, arrested and given a sentence of life in prison without parole. Last week, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Alibaba co-founded Cainiao in 2013 to bring organization to Chinese logistics, especially when it comes to online shopping deliveries. In separate news, Alibaba Group’s logistics operator is partnering with Aviastar-Tu and Pochta Russia to roll out direct China-Russia cargo delivery flights.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

N26 was founded in 2013, launched in 2015 and now serves 3.5 I do see, in more recent years, more larger institutions [that have suffered] data breaches which then leads to more [secure] information circulated online,” Kopp said. operations. N26 officially entered the U.S. Bringing a global fraud approach to a new local market.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In a recent column featured in Forbes , the thinking goes that online retail has managed to disrupt the lives of many a brick-and-mortar retailer. There’s another existential threat here, as online retailers must grapple with other online retailers. Is Overstock an overvalued stock?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

To save physical retail, anyone who wants to operate a physical store must convince consumers that it’s worth their time to—how’s this for an insight?—go What’s really steered people wrong is focusing on the average percentage of all retail sales that are online, and ignoring what’s happening in key verticals. population was online.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Yes, I know that for many of you, especially in California, this is old news and standard operating procedure – but hear me out. The card networks left it up to the states to decide whether or not to allow its operating merchants to do so. It wasn’t until 2011, when a complaint was filed with the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Once the transaction closes, Reverb will continue to operate as a standalone business. Vibrant two-sided marketplaces are lightning in a bottle — there are only a handful of them operating at scale — and Reverb is one,” said Etsy CEO Josh Silverman in a press release.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

“To cater to their needs in the most effective manner, we are delighted to announce the launch of our newest Innovation Lab in India, where the focus will be on fueling new age technology and giving rise to unconventional ideas with the potential to transform the ecosystem we operate in.”. and Singapore.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

OrderUp does, however, continue to operate in 11 markets, which license the platform’s technology and mobile app, though they may not be doing business under its name. Investor’s Business Daily reported in September that Amazon controlled only 11 percent of the online food delivery service market, while Grubhub commanded 34 percent.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The world’s largest retailer by sales will be pumping the breaks on its store expansion model as it reorients its attention toward expanding its e-commerce operations and infrastructure. Walmart also confirmed it will be looking toward its current assets more as it looks to expand future growth. billion capital budget.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

Discover has launched a new online functionality called Credit Scorecard to keep its users up to date on their latest FICO credit score. The launch of the service, in partnership with Experian, makes the credit card issuer the first company to offer free credit score reporting to its users. Now, we’re extending this benefit to everyone.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

The transaction itself shows Ant Financial, which operates as an affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, the eCommerce giant, making inroads into the United States, which has been a goal of the parent company. based business are an extension of the position that Ant Financial’s Alipay maintains as China’s leading online payments conduit.

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