CB Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Global blockchain deals and dollars shattered records in 2021. In our State Of Blockchain 2021 Report, we dig into global investment trends to spotlight takeaways like: What drove the biggest year in blockchain funding yet — and what’s on the horizon. The 3 categories driving the NFT funding craze. And much more. First name.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We’ve just started planning investments for 2021, and we want them to be higher than this year,” Fernando Yunes , the company's country lead for Brazil, said in a prepared statement, according to Bloomberg. There has been a structural change in the market, and customers’ behavior is unlikely to go back to what it was before the pandemic.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

Canadia's TFI International (TFI) is acquiring Richmond, Virginia-headquartered UPS Freight for $800 million in a deal anticipated to close in the first quarter of 2021. UPS is pulling out of the domestic trucking market to focus on the escalating small package delivery business.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

The layoffs will hit about 90 people, and will consist of jobs in the marketing and enterprise sales departments. In the marketing arena, Lyft will be focusing on regional teams now, rather than state-by-state teams as it had previously.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

And, according to McKinsey’s The State of Fashion 2021 report, it was far more than a one-off tough season — it was a really bad year. Moreover, the industry will start regaining ground in the year 2021, particularly the Asia Pacific region. In 2019, the industry’s overall sales went up about 4 percent worldwide. consumer.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

Apple saw double-digit growth in every product category for its fiscal 2021 first quarter ended Dec. 26, 2020, which drove revenue records in each geographic region and set an all-time high for its installed base of active devices. Sixty-four percent of the quarter’s sales came from markets outside of the U.S. billion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2020

IDC), a Massachusetts market research company. Today, with most of its factories reopened, IDC said China’s domestic market will only see a single digit decline in 2020. . But Europe has been hit hard by COVID-19, especially in Italy and Spain, which will cause a double digit decline in the region this year. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The number of global payment cards will grow by 28 percent to 17 billion by 2021. Certain areas of the globe — namely, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific regions — will grow the fastest. By 2021, RBR expects debit cards to climb even further to 72 percent of all payment cards. That number is up 2 percent from 2014.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 25, 2022

Global fintech deals and dollars reached record highs in 2021. Funding more than doubled year-over-year as private market deal activity soared across sectors and geographies. The metrics behind $100M+ mega-rounds, how mega-rounds compare against total global fintech funding, and which region had the highest number of mega-rounds.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

But according to a new report from EY, it would be unfair to say that regulation is the only driving force behind large banks’ changing market strategies. In its Global Banking Outlook 2018 survey , EY assessed 221 financial institutions across 29 markets. Optimism Up. North American banks are among the most optimistic, EY found.

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CB Insights

JULY 6, 2021

New Markets: regions where innovative products and services are launching and where learnings can be extracted by companies in other markets. The post Future of Fintech 2021 appeared first on CB Insights Research.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 25, 2022

Global fintech deals and dollars reached record highs in 2021. Funding more than doubled year-over-year as private market deal activity soared across sectors and geographies. The metrics behind $100M+ mega-rounds, how mega-rounds compare against total global fintech funding, and which region had the highest number of mega-rounds.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Reliance on cash is particularly ingrained in the unbanked and rural populations of these regions, with consumers still reaching for cash to pay for daily transactions. Saudi Arabia and Turkey are seeing the number of plastic cards in circulation increase, with Turkey now one of the largest card markets in the region.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Developing markets are quickly increasing their rate at which paycards are accepted, according to the latest research by RBR. The company revealed its “Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2021” report Wednesday (Nov. 23) with positive news for developing markets. China spearheaded this growth, adding 4.7

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The companies are also encouraging other regional banks in Japan to participate as the country’s cross-border eCommerce volumes increase. trillion worth of B2C eCommerce with Japan by 2021, a 70 percent increase from 2017 volumes. Reports in the Nikkei Asian Review on Monday (Feb. via Amazon. Reports said the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Speaking with PYMNTS' Karen Webster, Gurukula explained which factors hold the country back from achieving maturity levels seen in other markets like the U.K. is unique compared to other markets in the world due to a general lack of regulatory pressure. It results in a longer time to market.". real-time payments journey.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 31, 2025

More types of cryptocurrencies are entering the market: Cryptocurrencies come and go, sometimes rather quickly. is a prime target for scams because of its comparative wealth and willingness to embrace speculative markets. There are currently an estimated 560 million crypto owners worldwide, creating a larger victim pool for fraudsters.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Wholesale clubs and Trader Joe’s themselves have proven there is a huge market for brands that don’t check all of the boxes for a standard supermarket trip. We did a comprehensive evaluation of the market before selecting Manthan-RichRelevance. 27, 2021,” said spokesman Andrew Whelan, as reported by MarketWatch. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

This latest report shows how the impact of COVID-19 varied by region and industry as the infection rate escalated, which dashed hopes brought by the arrival of the vaccine. Low real estate inventories combined with rising construction costs caused the continued rise of housing market prices. Commercial real estate remained flat.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

percent from 2016 to 2021. Post-demonetization, the market for digital payments in India has grown, which could create an opening for newer, alternative payment methods to gain ground in India, especially among younger, smartphone-savvy consumers. percent by 2021. India spent $1.5 A Growing Competitor For Cash.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In the Asia Pacific region, the eCommerce explosion has touched the B2B market in a big way, especially for small- and medium-sized buyers and sellers, said Vaibhav Dabhade , founder and CEO of Anchanto. After the pandemic is over, B2B, B2C, F&B [food and beverage], and social commerce — everything will converge in 2021.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pressures that can lead to market fragmentation exist. Quarles also outlined the meeting priorities in the letter, and noted that G20 needs “a smooth transition” to a world after the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), which is being phased out by the end of 2021. Federal Reserve governor — in the letter.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

For Worldpay, it expands its distribution footprint and accelerates its entrance into new regions. Once the deal is closed, the combined company will offer enterprise banking, payments, capital markets and global eCommerce services to financial institutions and businesses around the world. billion and $4.9 billion, respectively.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Tata Group ’s app, on track to debut by year’s end or January of 2021, will offer food and grocery ordering, fashion and lifestyle, consumer electronics and consumer durables, insurance and financial services, education, healthcare and bill payments. Walmart Inc. Chandrasekaran said the app would be a huge opportunity for the company. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Technavio, the research firm, is forecasting the global mobile card reader market will grow at a CAGR of close to 54 percent from 2017 to 2021. According to a press release highlighting the new forecast, Technavio said the magnetic stripe technology was the most commonly used technology in 2016 with more than 53 percent market share.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Open banking is appealing to financial institutions (FIs) and regulators in many markets, even as the pandemic sweeps across the world. Regulators in other regions, including Latin America, are also shaping and announcing plans to enable open banking and better support digital financial systems.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2020

Bookings were off up to 90 percent in particularly hard-hit regions, data from independent monitoring firm AirDNA indicated. The market capitalization of Expedia was down 58 percent, Hilton, 44 percent and Booking.com 37 percent. The market capitalization of Expedia was down 58 percent, Hilton, 44 percent and Booking.com 37 percent.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Stc has 4 million customers and “an established regional brand in a fast-growing digital wallet market,” today's release states. Western Union said the transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of calendar 2021.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The fourth quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021 are expected to be weaker than forecasted unless “pandemic dynamics change significantly,” the IMF stated, indicating fiscal and monetary stimulus could be necessary in order to help support the region. “A The IMF pointed to the 390 billion euro ($465.8

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Opening hubs in new markets presents a tremendous opportunity for CarLotz to gain ground in large and attractive regions of the country where the Company’s business model can make a real difference for car buyers and sellers,” CarLotz CEO and Co-Founder Michael Bor said in the announcement. 11) announcement. 8, CarLotz, Inc.

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 26, 2023

Yet between March 2020 and December 2021 (‘the pandemic’), housing prices grew in the UK, reaching at the time their highest growth rate in a decade. First, housing prices continued to grow across all UK regions through the pandemic. Martina Fazio and Gary Harper During recessions, and indeed pandemics, housing prices usually fall.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Several of the largest banks in the Nordic region have reached an agreement to finance the development and rollout of instant payment system P27, Reuters reported Wednesday (Oct. The Nordic countries are relatively small, so when we combine our markets we get a different scale and become much more attractive to partner with,” he added.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Lime wants to be the first micro-mobility company to be profitable for the full year as of 2021. Micro-mobility was already expanding before the pandemic, but the crisis has pushed down on the accelerator notably — and pushed Lime to think about serving an expanding global market. Meeting Consumers’ Post-Pandemic Ridership Needs.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

According to the PYMNTS Unattended Retail Tracker , the self-service market is growing rapidly, as fresh food sellers work to carve themselves a niche in a market that will soon be worth billions. The projected value of the global self-service market by 2023 is $13 billion. There are 3,000 planned Amazon Go stores by 2021.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2022

The Fed is data-dependent but has reinforced the market’s view of front-end loading interest rates at 50bps per meeting. The following external factors would dampen the industry’s beta: Ample liquidity – Banks are flush with liquidity and can lag the market with deposit rate increases. from 2019 to 2021.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. The potential impact of the crisis on open banking’s future in the region is a different story, however.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

To capitalize on that aforementioned eCommerce growth in emerging markets and log sales in those regions, U.S. The read across: Be mindful of the payment methods customers know and want, market by market, or else merchants must suffer the consequences of missed sales. Villegas noted that in markets beyond the U.S.,

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