PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2020

Since its debut four years ago, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the instant payment system developed by the National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI) that facilitates inter-bank transactions, has propelled the growth of online payments, the Financial Times (FT) reported.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

24) that it enjoyed a 61 percent jump in online sales during its fiscal third quarter ended Oct. But all in, Gap Global’s net sales dropped 14 percent year over year, with comparable sales for the brand falling 5 percent from Q3 2019. billion at Q3 2019’s end. said Tuesday (Nov. Gap added that it finished Q3 with $2.6

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

As online shopping powers a forecasted 26 percent year-over-year volume surge on National Returns Day, the United Parcel Service (UPS) foresees shipping 1.9 A 2018 report from the Appriss Retail and National Retail Federation noted that roughly 10 percent of products sold in the U.S. million gifts and other products back to U.S.

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Perficient

JUNE 30, 2022

Members of Perficient’s Digital Asset Team have advised followers in multiple online articles about the digital asset revolution and relevant regulations affecting the same in the United States. Billion in 2019). Traditionally reliant on tourism, the Bahama economy suffered significantly during Covid.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

India has seen a steady stream of digital payments since it locked down to prevent the spread of COVID-19 , but the nation of 1.3 To address grievances, the central bank will require payment system operators to introduce an online dispute resolution center. In July, the National Payments Corp.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Thanksgiving outlived Lincoln, and every president that followed him offered the same proclamation every year declaring a national day of Thanksgiving to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November. A look at some expert opinions and PYMNTS’ fresh Black Friday spending data tells a somewhat different story. The Sky Is Falling .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

With blackjack and roulette on mobile phones, the growing market for online sports wagering in New Jersey has introduced gamblers to virtual casino games. Online casinos’ monthly revenue more than doubled in the 15 months following the rollout of sports betting in June of last year.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2020

Panera Bread has entered the online grocery business. According to the National Restaurant Association , the restaurant industry experienced its largest one-month employment decline in March. The survey found that 42 percent of respondents purchase groceries online at least once a week, up from 22 percent in 2018.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

GonzoBankers, 2019 was a year of extremes. Third, read and enjoy the 2019 edition of the GonzoBanker Awards, our 18 th. Mark Turner, Executive Chairman of the Board, WSFS Bank – We have to give the nod to an early 2019 retirement of Turner, who had one hell of a run in 12 years at the helm of a great community and wealth bank.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports betting – both in-person and online – in the U.S. All in, counting online and in-person wagers, Super Bowl betting was worth roughly $6.8 In a microcosm of the national expansion, New Hampshire’s newly online sports gambling program raked in $2.31

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Consumers across the nation have instead hunkered down at home, working, socializing, shopping and paying online. Our research shows that just 20 percent of consumers own eReaders in 2020, for example, down from 23 percent in 2019 and 26 percent in 2018.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“One of the worrying things for department stores is they don’t do as well at attracting consumers online, so the fact that footfall is very suppressed is really bad news for some of these stores,” Neil Saunders, retail managing director of GlobalData , told FT. They’re not going to make it up online.”. billion for the day.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Last year, credit card data was stolen from online stores hosted by eCommerce software, hosting and support company Volusion. Consumer information was compromised on a tourist website and Alpha Bank, Piraeus Bank, Eurobank and the National Bank of Greece were all forced to cancel cards.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts that retail sales this year will increase between 3.8 The Federation is now predicting that there will be growth in 2019 of between 3.8 Based on growth of 10 to 12 percent, online sales are expected to be between $751.1 percent and 4.4 percent to reach more than $3.8 percent to $3.68

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Jack Henry

JULY 31, 2020

Think: Wistia’s 2018 CouchCon , USDLA’s 2017 National Conference , and The Learning Guild’s 2019 Emerging Tech & Learning Online Conference.) Virtual conferences have been on the rise for quite some time now. But in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ve become an industry necessity.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

percent as of 2019 — PYMNTS’ 2019 numbers are historic, trailing 12-month numbers based on data from Q4 2018 through Q3 2019. percent as of 2019 data. In related grocery delivery news, Amazon Fresh, the company’s online grocery delivery program that pre-existed Whole Foods, dropped its $14.99 Webster added.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The revenue result marked a rise of 13 percent from 2019, while the count of cars sold represents an increase of 25 percent year over year. businesses throughout the nation, car dealerships have found themselves encountering a crisis as shoppers could no longer visit the showroom for a fast test drive. L Catterton, Blackrock Inc.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Comparing it favorably to the first half of 2019, Feedzai says it closed deals in the U.S., one of the biggest payments processors in the world, one of the top 3 banks in Brazil, one of the big four banks in Australia, the largest national card processor in Europe, and several others),” according to the release. And meanwhile, 35.7

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

In the pursuit of a better car buying experience, our industry has been on a trajectory of incremental improvements to streamline and complete vehicle sales online,” AutoFi CEO and Co-founder Kevin Singerman said in a release. percent seen in December 2019. NY Fed: US Consumer Optimism Surges For Long Term.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

For online merchants, knowing that the person on the other side of the transaction is who they say there are is of critical importance. Synthetic ID fraud remains a billion-dollar problem, and online commerce must walk the fine line between data privacy and data security. 1B: The “balance” of synthetic fraud as of the Q2 of 2019.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Despite predictions of a bleak economy and decreasing investment spending from businesses, banks will not be cutting down their technology spend in 2019, according to Kurt Spieler, Chief Investment Officer at First National Bank of Omaha.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

As far as made-up, non-holiday holidays go, you could probably do worse than National Burrito Day , which takes place on Thursday (April 4). Part of the growth in digital came from online marketing, Niccol told investors when discussing the latest Chipotle financials. A “few dozen more” such lanes in 2019. percent of sales.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2019

Hatton National Bank PLC unveiled the rollout of HNB Solo in Sri Lanka , personal remittances from overseas Filipinos (OFs) are on the rise in the Philippines , and Canadian bank CIBC is launching a new small business platform called CIBC SmartBanking for Business. Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Wayfair case that allowed states and individual cities to launch tax policies aimed at remote sellers and marketplaces is still reverberating in 2019 and will likely affect online retail in 2020. In Q3 2019, 14 states started collected online sales tax and 11 more followed in October. eBay Makes a Deal.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Upon releasing its latest earnings, LendingClub , known up until now for its personal loans delivered through its online platform, said it had struck a deal to buy Radius Bancorp. The $185 cash and stock deal would bring an online bank with $1.4 Data breaches: MGM has admitted to a 2019 hack , where 10.6 Elsewhere, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

Recovery has been slow for the national grocer since prices fell in February. The national pharmacy and retailer recently announced it aims to grow its wellness cred in an effort to position itself as a health retailer. WFM looked to close out the third week of April trading on a high note, worth $35.83 at the time of writing — up 0.93

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has propelled a surge in online shopping and deliveries as foot traffic at physical stores has slowed to a trickle. Retailers are now largely dependent on online sales and home delivery. Compared to 2019, there were one million fewer vehicles available in the U.S. in October.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

Lloyds will look to both of these providers to help it create digital banking tools for its customers that will allow it to compete with the rising number of online-only FinTechs and challenger banks grasping at established FIs’ market share in the United Kingdom. The acquisition was finalized in July 2019 for $34 billion.

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Abrigo

APRIL 2, 2020

Other scams include Medicare/Medicaid fraud using online advertisements for durable medical equipment, or routine products and services that they would normally receive from their physicians but are afraid to go in for an office visit due to the health risk. Ignore online offers for vaccinations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Turkey didn’t become standard fare on the Thanksgiving table for over another 200 years when Abraham Lincoln officially declared it a national holiday in the 1860s. A Banner Year For Buying A Turkey, Especially Online . Consumers are also increasingly pushing their thanksgiving shopping online, as COVID-19 case counts continue to rise.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

These reasons are driving a surge of interest in and use of remote online notarization (RON) services, according to James Schlimmer , managing partner of Naples, Florida-based notary firm Cottrell Title & Escrow. The state legislature adopted such regulations in late 2019, permitting these services for use beginning in January 2020.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This year, 2019, the average American will spend three hours and 43 minutes per day on mobile devices, just ahead of the three hours and 35 minutes spent watching television. Visner of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center ( FFRDC ). They do, in fact, put their pants on one leg at a time.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

That is just one of five critical findings highlighted in How We Will Pay 2019 , a PYMNTS, Visa collaboration examining how consumers use a wide range of connected devices to shop and make purchases. This report — the third in our annual series — shows the results of a national study of 5,000 U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Tide India is poised to come online in Q1 2021 beginning with an alpha pilot offering based on its international technology stack. Currently, the firm has a technology hub in Hyderabad and a workforce of nearly 100 individuals in the nation who are mainly software programmers, according to the report. SMBs in 2019.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Analysts say the financial struggles of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are challenging the strength of the national economy, adding pressure to a market whose gross domestic product forecast for 2019 was recently cut by Mexico’s central bank. “There are openings for companies to grab market share.”

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2022

In our previous article ( HERE ), we reviewed the banking industry’s cost of funding earning assets (COF), and we compared how community banks’ COF behaves relative to national banks in a rising interest rate cycle. percentage points to 67.52% from the end of 2019 to the end of 2021. from 2019 to 2021.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Not to ruin your holiday spirit, but let’s start this story with the cold and brutal truth: One of the largest risks that payments and commerce operators face in 2019 is being called to account by government officials, regulators or media about a failure to secure their organizations from cyberattacks. and other places.

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