PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Ant Group, the online payment service affiliate of China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, is looking to go public as early as this year, Reuters reported. . Ant Group was launched in 2014 to provide global financial services.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

To enable customers to shop from the complete selection of multiple mall offerings and retrieve their purchases from one place, European mall operator Citycon is creating a buy-online-pick-up-in-store (BOPIS) service. Ball said he doesn’t think that online shopping will “ever replace bricks and mortar.”. “At

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

As the chief operating officer and co-founder of Copenhagen-based Astralis Group , Jakob Lund Kristensen walks both sides of the eSports line. Astralis is a group of eSports teams that is pioneering the approach to the eSports industry by treating its gamers like athletes.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Scandal-plagued German FinTech pioneer Wirecard counted among its payments processing clients an online casino that laundered money for an arm of “one of Europe’s most dangerous mafia organizations,” the Financial Times reported on Monday (August 3). ‘Ndrangheta operates from the Calabria region in Southern Italy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

As reported in this space , the DSA and DMA cover online marketplaces, social media and other platforms. The proposal also mandates more disclosure on "online advertising and on the algorithms used to recommend content to users.". In China, of course , Ant Group is reportedly being told to switch focus back to payments business.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Mall owner Simon Property Group has formed a “blank check” company to go on the hunt for “a company or assets with significant growth potential and prospects.” The move comes as the retail industry is reeling from a double blow: fallout from the pandemic and the great shift of consumer buying to online sales.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

million ransom to get their systems back online, The Wall Street Journal reported. The hacking group, also known as REvil, told the BBC that they gained access to the company’s computer network last year and downloaded 5GB of sensitive customer data. You are one of those that’s most likely to pay up,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

China’s Ant Group is mulling the creation of a new consumer loan unit that would allow it to continue making loans throughout the country while complying with new Chinese banking regulations. Ant Group had planned to go public for $35 billion, which would have made it the largest IPO in market history. China TransInfo Technology Corp.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Over the weekend, Reliance Industries – the company owned by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani – purchased Future Group ’s 2,000 retail stores and the Big Bazaar grocery chain. Reliance’s purchase of Future Group is similar to Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods , but at a much bigger scale. Whole Foods has 497 stores.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

Every online wine company that reports sales has noted big spikes during the pandemic. The latest to report, Wine.com – which bills itself as the nation’s leading online wine retailer – earned $165 million in revenue and saw 25 percent growth for fiscal 2020, ending March 31. out of 10 on “likelihood to recommend.”.

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Perficient

JULY 10, 2020

Achieving these commitments will require clinical, marketing, and operations teams partnering more closely together and in a way they never have before. COVID exposed the fragility of many systems’ operating models: an over-reliance on a small number of services to fund expenses across the enterprise. The $200B question.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

The gloves are off in the retail landlord leasing battle, with Simon Property Group now suing mall tenants who aren’t paying their rent. Last month, Simon Property Group filed a similar lawsuit against Brooks Brothers seeking $8.7 Stern likes what Ingka Group, operator of IKEA stores, is doing.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Group Seeks to Block Maryland Online Advertising Tax. At issue is the eCommerce retailer’s parallel responsibility to third-party merchants as an online shopping ecosystem and to itself as a competitor on the platform with rival products. Amazon Encounters EU Charges Over Seller Data. 10) statement from the European Commission.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

New Chinese finance rules will force Ant Group to comply with regulations to back up any payments, lending or other finances with substantial capital, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). 1, and will have to apply for a license to do so. trillion) in the year leading up to June 2020, according to WSJ.

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Perficient

JULY 6, 2020

I went online to translate the text on my pill bottles to the words on my chart. And this doesn’t take into account booking the surgery in the first place, or scheduling the post-operative check-up. This is a shared responsibility across healthcare groups: clinical, operations, marketing. That was partly due to bad luck.

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Perficient

JANUARY 11, 2021

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

A group that says it represents 850,000 pharmacists in India wants the government to shut down Amazon’s new pharmaceutical delivery service in the country. For years, pharmacists have complained about confusion around what is allowed as small operations have launched. ”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sequoia Capital has agreed to invest around 6 billion euros in Auto1 Group before the online car trading platform's initial public offering (IPO), Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. In addition, the company said the increasing amount of online sales was wind in their sales, too. 18), citing anonymous sources.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Consumers were flocking to digital and mobile banking well before the pandemic’s onset, but social distancing and limited branch operations highly accelerated that uptake. It goes to consistency of process,” he said in a PYMNTS interview.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) is making investments in its supply chain, technology, merchandising and personnel, which it says will transform the shopper experience at Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus, according to an announcement. NMG is investing $85 million gross in its supply chain, particularly systems and fulfillment hubs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Taking up 54,000 square feet on the fifth floor of a Saks store a few blocks from Barneys’ former location, the new operation will feature apparel from Fear of God and other cutting-edge clothing lines. Barneys also operates six stores and five outlets in Japan and expects to expand into South Korea and China over the next two years.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Online retailer Allegro.eu was valued by investors at $25 billion in a deal last month, Bloomberg reported, in a transaction whose value was driven up by the shift of Poles to online shopping as a result of the pandemic. Globally, experts predict, online shopping will surpass prior levels significantly this holiday season.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

In an interview with PYMNTS, Xavier Ginesta , chairman at Voxel Group , which focuses on B2B payments, said that friction exists for B2B payments within the travel space — but that friction can be eased with eBilling and ePayments. This made the need to optimize operational inefficiencies secondary,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

Despite some signs of improvement this month, LVMH , the world’s biggest luxury goods group, admitted that its brick-and-mortar sales were erased by lockdowns across Europe and the United States in recent months, and that an immediate turnaround was unlikely. “We Could the online surge help luxury goods?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

To address grievances, the central bank will require payment system operators to introduce an online dispute resolution center. Established by the central bank and owned by a group of local lenders, the instant payment system facilitates inter-bank transactions. According to officials, instructions will be issued shortly.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Merge multiple calls into a 1:1 or group call! In addition, Microsoft has indicated they will be making some enhancements to Visio for web by adding multi-page operations. If you are coming from Skype for Business Online you may be familiar with the Skype for Business Online Connector. Call Merge. New Teams devices.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

The first big move was the introduction this month of an online marketplace to enhance the popular Kroger Ship service and widely expand the digital assortment of private-label products that Kroger has on offer. That will be a very big shift in operations, as eCommerce only accounted for 3.6 Ahold Delhaize’s Latest Moves .

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Perficient

APRIL 4, 2022

Recently, Digital Insurance issued the findings from Keynova Group on the 2022 Mobile Insurance Scorecard. Perficient’s offerings enable insurance companies to innovate and deliver products and services through superior and personalized mobile, online, phone, and in-person experiences.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2020

The Indonesian eCommerce retailer backed by SoftBank Group Corp. ’s In 2018, SoftBank ’s Vision Fund and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., s Google and Temasek would be major scores for one of Southeast Asia’s biggest eCommerce operators. s Vision Fund has also met with Facebook Inc. Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. ,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We’re operating at this intersection of finance and technology, which are both industries that are woefully underrepresented by women in the first place,” Alaina Sparks , a managing director and the U.S. Female Innovators Lab is a New York program run by the Anthemis Group and Barclays that champions female FinTech founders.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Faculty and staff members are attempting to control COVID-19’s spread to keep everyone safe and maintain smooth operations while also managing higher online portal volumes and other troubles related to education environments’ new realities. We had to transition all of that new student orientation programming online.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

One of the three licenses was granted to Rakuten International Commercial Bank, which is operated by Japanese eCommerce firm Rakuten Inc and Taiwan’s IBF Financial Holdings. A license was also granted to LINE Financial Taiwan, led by Japanese app operator LINE Group.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

The number of orders placed online and picked up at stores surged 208 percent between April 1 and April 20 compared to a year ago, according to Adobe Analytics, CNBC reported. The next phase allows stores to reopen to the public with social distancing and limited capacity, similar to the way supermarkets are operating now.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

11 (“11-11”) in China and some other countries — saw online sales explode past last year’s sales totals. online sales seen last year between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. billion online during that period, according to Adobe Analytics data. International hotel groups Marriott International Inc. That’s up from $38.4

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

Malware targeting computers running the Windows 7 operating system were especially hard-hit, rising 125 percent, according to the report. How Emerging Travel Group Is Using AI To Weather Fraud-Related Turbulence. Users who clicked the links would see their computers infected with viruses. About The Playbook.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

China’s Alibaba Group is putting $1.4 The investment will also help further research into IoT operating systems, edge computing and natural language processing (NLP). . “By The Tmall Genie’s latest model has a 10-inch screen and supports a variety of live concerts and online classes in addition to Taobao Live.

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