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DECEMBER 9, 2020

In today’s top news, cybersecurity firm FireEye announced that it had been hacked by a suspected nation-state, and PayPal’s iZettle added QR code payments to its POS app in the U.K. Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Hacked By Suspected Nation-State. Plus, Robinhood is in talks to go public. amid COVID-19 restrictions.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Power research shows that the number of customers doing their credit applications online has kicked into high gear. Consumers and Banks Both Like Online Auto Loans. Consumers are apparently so glad to dump the back-office haggle between dealer and bank that roughly one-third of car buyers are now doing the loan process online, J.D.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

ICBA’s National Community Bank Service Award winners for 2021 demonstrate that when their local areas need support, community banks are there with innovative, compassionate and thoughtful responses. The community bank provided nearly 480,000 PPP loans totaling more than $13 billion to businesses across the nation. “I

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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. The Chartis Group estimates that 10% of the patient market for elective care will disappear. The $200B question. In practice, EMRs have fallen far short of the vision.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

11), the finance ministers of Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands said they asked the executive branch of the European Union (EU), the agency responsible for managing the day-to-day business of the EU’s 27 nations, to prohibit stablecoins until oversight challenges had been addressed, Reuters reported.

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MARCH 31, 2020

If there’s any industry that has been slow to transition online, it’s antiques. Two recent moves from leading arts and antique dealers are leading a trend toward online arts and antique buying. Now we’re going to take a smaller storefront and concentrate more online. We’re finally knocking down the barriers online.”.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amid the commission caps, and amid the pandemic’s tailwind that has spurred a great digital shift toward food delivery through online channels – might eateries and aggregators be partnering to navigate a post-COVID future? The ability to order food online and the ability to pay for it digitally came in a close second and third, cited by 38.5

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MAY 27, 2020

Unanswered customer complaints is one common example, particularly for companies that are new to amplifying their online channels. A new category is starting to grow around this area of online reputation management, with Lexus one of the latest brand names to embrace it.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Starting with some of the most recent changes — and a sign of what’s to come — earlier in the month, the European Commission offered up its initial draft of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. As reported in this space , the DSA and DMA cover online marketplaces, social media and other platforms.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2020

Gartner’s Digital IQ Index for 2019 surveyed 80 banking and financial brands, including national banks, regional banks, online banks and fintech startups. It examined 1,200 data […].

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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. Old Navy continued to experience meaningful acceleration in its online business as strong customer response to product was further bolstered by compelling and relevant digital marketing investment,” management said.

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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. The country has diverse needs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

To capture that growth and cater to it, Gorthy launched the Petpal platform to fill a void in the market. With no PetSmart or Petco on the ground, Gorthy said the domestic market is highly fragmented and dominated by tiny mom-and-pop shops or grocery stores with very limited selections. and the 10-year-old PetsWorld platform.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

The money transfer company said performance was driven by high client retention rates, market growth and strong demand for the company’s app. MoneyGram Online, which he said is the biggest component of digital, provided a 60 percent transaction growth rate for the quarter and started to surge even further toward the end of March and April.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

And while those numbers aren’t likely to keep Amazon or H&M up at night, for a small Cuban eCommerce startup operating out of nation where internet access is patchy and from which the company can’t ship goods directly to U.S. as relations between the two nations began to improve in 2014. We’re super-happy.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Paydek’s infrastructure supports an extensive international base of people and businesses as clients, with handling payments to more than 160 nations. It is anticipated that over 80 further nations are forecast to become part of the payment network of Paydek after the tie-up with Thunes.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2021

These predictions are in light of the five themes I see for 2021: Telehealth as a competitive advantage, New insurance markets, More self-service digital triage tools, Mega-mergers of vertically integrated health delivery models, and. We expect these blurry edges to continue even as additional products and services are brought online.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

In markets like Australia, this is already happening. National Australia Bank set up its own alternative lending arm called QuickBiz Loans back in 2016. Over the […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Notably, China’s central bank is already developing and testing a national digital currency in the Asian nation. However, she added that “issues raised by central bank digital currency related to financial stability, market structure, security, privacy and monetary policy all need to be better understood.”.

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JULY 28, 2020

Many shoppers who make purchases online rely on eCommerce marketplaces to discover items and connect with trusted sellers. dollars, but the practice can be inconvenient for sellers in many international markets. Some markets have also made delivering sellers’ payments in local currencies a legal requirement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Hong Kong-based digital payment platform Statrys has recently landed $5 million in funding through a closed-door funding deal with an angel investor with the expectation that the firm will get market share in the expanding remittance and digital payment arena, according to an announcement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

We have deep dives on digital payments, online ordering and memberships. Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year marketing campaign rolled out by American Express in 1987 to convince consumers that it was worth paying a yearly fee for one of its charge card offerings. The Printed Holiday Toy Catalog Makes a Surprising Return.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

That’s the market summary Outdoorsy Co-founder and CEO Jeff Cavins gave to PYMNTS' Karen Webster on the status of his RV rental platform, which’s about to cross the billion-dollar bookings milestone in only its fifth year in business. “So There is no Airbnb in Grand Canyon National Park. So I say, wait a minute, 2.3

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With so many companies giving their employees Election Day off, it could be an opportunity for a one-day sales event both online and in-store. 28), which is supported by American Express nationally. It’s also an area where the big six or other retailers won’t play this year, focusing instead on regional and national media.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

These guidelines set the standard for algorithmic ranking transparency and will increase fairness in the online platform economy, which drives innovation and welfare for millions of Europeans,” Margrethe Vestager , digital chief, EU, said in a European Commission statement. . European Union (EU) guidelines released on Monday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Consumers are spending online instead of making potentially risky visits to physical stores, and they are also paying for purchases in different ways. And in eCommerce, digital coupons are growing right along with the crisis-driven shift to online shopping. 47B: Projected value of the Australian eCommerce market by 2023.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for its application for a national bank charter.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

housing market, which itself is poised to take a hit where no part of the U.S. The housing market depends on the sanguine attitude of the U.S. The quartet includes Zillow Group, Offerpad, Redfin and Opendoor Labs. Their stomping grounds, of course, are tied to the U.S. economy remains unscathed. percent year over year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

Inmar Intelligence , one of the leaders in digital couponing, reported last week that enrollment in digital coupon programs among the top 30 percent of national grocery chains has grown 93 percent year over year since March 1. Digital coupon redemption in March increased 56.5 percent industry-wide year over year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

A so-called “scheme manager” will be the central governing body, the online news service reported. PYMNTS recently reported on the TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS), a real-time payments network created by the European Central Bank (ECB), the EU’s regulatory body, to be transferred quickly and seamlessly among the 27-nation bloc.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

To an extent, that same spirit and intention is behind the recent spate of government approvals for online gambling. That leads to the product of said online activity — and that’s money. We’re growing a market of people who have never bet before in Tennessee.”. We’re bringing sports gambling out of the shadows,” she said.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

The companies are testing the service in four California and Oklahoma markets, with an eye toward a national launch in 2021. Stop & Shop owner Ahold Delhaize NV announced plans earlier this week for putting more resources toward online shopping operations. Ahold intends to outfit roughly 1,100 U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

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. The deals sometimes concerned big players, including “some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world (e.g.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

With a business model that resembles Carvana’s, Cazoo purchases and refurnishes vehicles prior to marketing them via the internet. 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. As the coronavirus shuttered U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A recent report released by the United Nations found that 132 out of 194 countries have now introduced data protection regulations of some kind, all varying in terms of what type of information they protect and the severity of their restrictions. Meanwhile, other markets are continuing to adjust with their own data protection laws.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The Russian government is poised to launch the world’s first national cryptocurrency, the CryptoRuble, in the next few weeks, after which it will likely ban all other cryptocurrencies, effectively establishing a state monopoly over the Russian cryptocurrency market.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

13), Beijing’s proposed new laws had a negative effect on the market value of the country’s tech leaders like Tencent and Alibaba , dropping some $290 million in two days. 12) earnings call, Martin Lau, Tencent president, told analysts that the proposed new laws will not overly affect its online entertainment and gaming business.

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