PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma told Chinese regulators in November that he would give portions of Ant Group , the FinTech he founded, to the country's government in what so far has appeared to be an unsuccessful effort to make peace with authorities in the country, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.

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Perficient

JULY 1, 2020

Forrester has included Perficient in its Now Tech: Oracle Apps Implementation Services Providers, Q2 2020 report. Within the report, Forrester examined implementation service providers for their work with Oracle Cloud apps including ERP Cloud, EPM Cloud, and HCM Cloud as well as legacy-oriented apps like PeopleSoft and E-Business Suite.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

There are bad days on the market — and in the wake of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus , which has spent the last month gaining more and more global ground, there have been more than a few of those of late. The market has had a crisis of confidence,” Willie Delwiche, investment strategist at Baird told the Associated Press.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Europe Plans To Publish Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act Drafts. The Digital Markets Act is a second set of regulations. They will have two pillars, which Vestager described as a do’s and don’ts for large digital gatekeepers and a “harmonised” market probe blueprint “across the single market.”. Regulation.

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PYMNTS

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. NEW REPORT: The Banks’ How To Guide To Using AI To Manage Credit Risk. businesses.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

On Friday (July 31), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced Varo Bank has been granted its full-service national bank charter. As a new national bank, Varo joins the world’s most respected system of financial institutions and has the opportunity to become a household name as many other national banks have become.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Europe's biggest banks have called on the European Commission to implement tough regulations for cryptocurrencies, such as stablecoins, that would protect consumers and preserve state sovereignty in monetary policy, Reuters reported. The association declined to comment, Reuters reported. In a joint statement Friday (Sept.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

has sought a national bank charter from the Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC), which will let it meet “promises of efficiency, affordability and financial inclusion,” according to a Friday (Nov. Financial services firm Figure Technologies, Inc. 6) announcement.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

million jobs, according to the ADP National Employment Report released on Wednesday (Aug 5). million, the nation’s jobs market has a long way to go before it recovers from the damage inflicted by COVID-19 in March and April. million jobs from May to June, according to the ADP’s June report.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

As COVID-19 started to impact the housing markets during a wind-down in mid-March, new home sales in the United States plummeted 15.4 percent sales drop in February, per the Commerce Department, the Associated Press reported. Both areas of the country had states that put stay-at-home orders into place before other parts of the nation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The new regulations, if adopted after a comment period, would require banks and some other institutions to obtain and report the identities of parties engaging in certain digital transactions, including payments involving what are called "unhosted wallets" – effectively secret bank accounts that hold cryptocurrency.

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Bobsguide

MAY 10, 2022

Why Australia Benchmark Report 2022 released. Australia’s health and economic response to COVID-19 has put its recovery among the world’s leading nations, according to new analysis of global data. The report is produced by the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade). Why Australia Benchmark Report 2022.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

Russia’s Ministry of Labor has banned federal and local governmental officials — and their spouses and underage children — from holding digital currencies, CoinDesk reported. In other news, in an attack on Indian cryptocurrency exchange BuyUCoin , hacker group ShinyHunters leaked the private information of over 325,000 users, Inc42 reported.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

dollars (USD) through PayPal in addition to other payment methods, the KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange said that USD support has been added to its P2P Fiat Market, according to an announcement. Now, our P2P Fiat Market supports … the 5 mainstream fiat currencies. 1 place at 63.21 percent, per Coinhills data.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

And as PYMNTS has previously reported , the Boston Federal Reserve has been working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore tech infrastructure. Notably, China’s central bank is already developing and testing a national digital currency in the Asian nation.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Western Union (WU) reported Tuesday (Aug. This is not a shift because this digital growth isn’t coming at the expense of our retail business so much as it is about getting new customers to the category and other customers from other parts of the remittance market, like banks and other digital financial services providers.”.

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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. Many nations in the region are thus examining their open banking proposals to ensure they address this behavior.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Despite an order from the European Union ’s antitrust watchdog to curb its anticompetitive practices, Google continues to boost its market power, according to Reuters , which cited a study released Monday (Sept. In 2017, the European Commission , responsible for managing the day-to-day business of the EU, fined Google 2.4 billion euros ($2.8

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

To that end, as reported on Wednesday (Dec. 16), the National Restaurant Association offered up seven public policy tenets that – in collaboration with delivery aggregators – are being billed as a “framework” for the delivery industry. The Delivering on Restaurant Rewards report found that 38.6 With data sharing, to boot.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

A group of big European banks is planning to challenge Visa ’s and Mastercard ’s positions as the world’s two largest payment processing networks, Electronic Payments International reported. . The launch, first reported by Les Échos, is expected to be revealed by the 24 banks as early as Thursday (July 2). .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The central bank and several other commercial banks collaborated on a cross-border bank account offering that Pakistanis overseas can use to store rupees and foreign currencies as well as to pay bills and make other transactions in the nation. customers to recipients in Asia and Europe.

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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. Transaction volume of the platform soared to a record 1.34

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

This role leads the product management team for the Ripple Project, a decentralized ledger technology-based solution to cross-border payments marketed to [global transaction services (GTS)] clients,” the job listing read. According to Cointelegraph , the bank recently took down a job listing about the position on LinkedIn.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

It was only a few short years ago that the conventional wisdom was that millennials were shaping up to be slower entering the homebuying market than their Gen X siblings and baby boomer parents. Gross national product skyrocketed to $300 billion by 1950, compared to just $200 billion in 1940. Today’s Buying Boom .

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In November 2022, the Treasury Department explored opportunities and risks related to the use of AI in its report assessing the impact of new entrant non-bank firms on competition in consumer finance markets, for which the department conducted extensive outreach.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) provided the firm with permission to put WhatsApp Pay into operation in a phased manner, The Business Standard reported. . According to the report, the phased WhatsApp launch is connected to its expansive user base.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Here are four techniques you should include as part of your healthcare marketing efforts to reach older patients: 1. According to a 2021 Statistica report, 73% of adults over 65 are active internet users. Create a rollout plan that considers your older patients. How are you reaching them?

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

With its walk-in business taking a large negative hit due to the coronavirus pandemic and stay-at-home orders, MoneyGram reported 57 percent digital transaction growth for the first quarter of 2020. The money transfer company said performance was driven by high client retention rates, market growth and strong demand for the company’s app.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2020

JPMorgan Chase is attempting to stave off the oncoming economic downturn by raising the standards on who can borrow from them for the time being, according to a Reuters report. The coronavirus has flipped the table on what was, until earlier this year, a stable housing market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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. 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.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

Home sales fell to a 10-year low in April as buying and selling have been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). For the second consecutive month, each of the nation’s four regions saw sales dwindle in year-over-year sales, with the West seeing the greatest dip. million. “The

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

would be the latest nation to develop and launch a nationally available real-time payments system. The system, which will be called FedNow, is designed to bring real-time payments capability to the market as a whole, and pick up the pace of money flows nationwide (and beyond).

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

On November 17, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) announced in a blog post that it is in seeking to build a new data set that “will allow for a more robust understanding of market trends” in the auto market. trillion nationally) are on pace to surpass student loans as the second-largest debt category in 2023.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

In this week’s look at payment rails innovation, PYMNTS finds a slew of new markets around the world adopting entirely new payment networks that can support their demand for real-time transactions. Hungary announced earlier this month that its new instant payments system is now live across banks in the nation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in a recent report that the number of correspondent banks — where banks and financial institutions (and domestic payment systems) are linked together — slipped 3 percent in 2019 vs. 2018 and declined a significant 22 percent from 2011 to 2019. A Reduction In The Number Of Corridors .

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