PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

The largest brick-and-mortar retailer in the United States is replacing its traditional, cashier-staffed checkouts with self-checkout registers at its store in Fayetteville, Ark., In January, Walmart dispensed with cashiers at its Neighborhood Market store in Coral Way, Fla. according to local news reports.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It is mostly impossible to manufacture goods in Cuba and send them directly to the United States due to the strained diplomatic relations between the two countries. The funds from sales generally do not flow back to Cuba, instead paying for marketing, taxes and payment for future printings.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

ALDI has announced that it is expanding its online grocery delivery service to all of its stores in the United States. By Thanksgiving, it will be available in 5,000 new areas in 35 states. “Our Last year, the company revealed plans to spend $1.6 billion on U.S. expansion and remodeling efforts.

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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. shores).

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 16, 2018

EXCLUSIVE—Crypto wallet provider Wirex will be expanding its services to several new markets in 2018, including the United States, CEO Pavel Matveev told Bank Innovation. It’s [one of] our top priorities at the moment, we are in the process of getting a company, looking for names,” Matveev said. “We

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

23) announcement that the card is now available in France, Austria, Italy, Ireland and Spain beyond its current availability in the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. The companies said in a Wednesday (Sept. Small businesses can have immediate access to their PayPal funds and unlimited 0.5 In the U.S.,

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2018

But the fintech market has rebounded. In 2017, in the United States, overall VC funding -- a barometer of startup activity and appeal.Read More. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Amid a change in shopping habits from brick-and-mortar to eCommerce, online spending is expected to reach $124.1 To arrive at the forecast, Adobe Analytics took a look at transactions at 80 of the top 100 retailers in the United States along with visits by consumers to U.S. percent growth the retail market saw one year ago.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 26, 2018

billion, will use the new funding to expand to further markets, including the United States, Australia, and Hong Kong. -based digital bank Revolut has raised $250 million in a Series C, boosting the company’s valuation to unicorn status. The company, which is now worth $1.7

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Washington Privacy Act (WPA) and other new privacy and online transaction standards are changing how businesses interact with consumers’ data in the U.S. Modern retail is not just a physical store thing or a mobile thing or an online thing. But, these [proposals] are not plucked from the ether.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

They are able to use cutting-edge technology, black-market websites and top-level, nimble and well-secured global networks to work their craft. ID theft stands as the fastest-growing crime in the United States, and, globally, one in 60 transactions are fraudulent. We are trying to take our offline ID and use it online.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

That meant the rollout was rocky and filled with delays almost everywhere it went, especially in the United States. When the card networks first started mandating EMV, McCutcheon said, there was heavy resistance. When it was finally mandated in the U.S., a lot of providers were caught short in their efforts to roll it out,” he said. “In

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

FinTech companies are expected to benefit over the long term from customers’ shift to online banking due to COVID-19. N26 launched in the United States in August 2019 and on its first anniversary announced it had 500,000 customers in the country. Venture capital investment in Europe’s FinTech industry has surpassed $35.4

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

Seattle-based Amazon is ramping up its operations in India’s growing market by launching Amazon Food, which will deliver prepared meals. Competitors include online food delivery platform Zomato and Swiggy , which raised $43 million from investors last month in a bid to expand into new businesses. PYMNTS surveyed 2,047 U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“There has been a structural change in the market, and customers’ behavior is unlikely to go back to what it was before the pandemic.”. A number of analysts have predicted that even when the pandemic is brought under control, a significant portion of shoppers will continue shopping online.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

That network, in combination with Equifax, will use advanced technologies to connect data “signals” that stem from 32 billion online interactions, five billion annual transactions and 17 billion unique devices across the globe, as the company said in its announcement tied to the acquisition. The deal is anticipated to close in Q1 of 2021.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2017

EXCLUSIVE— Will the popularity of the QR code in China eventually make its way to the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western markets? It could, with a little push from Alipay. The mobile payment service, which uses QR codes at the point-of-sale, has been increasing its partnerships with U.S.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Meanwhile, luxury brand Burberry has teamed up with Tencent in China to offer a “social retail” store to take advantage of China’s online shopping trend and capture more of the luxury market in the country, according to a report by Reuters. Last year, the global jewelry market rose 7 percent and was worth roughly €18 billion.

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Perficient

JULY 31, 2020

Just google “COVID statistics” and it returns 4,770,000,000 websites with its own dashboard automatically reflecting the state you are in and United States population (assuming you are in US). Now here are the most trusted datasets that I personally use based on who they are and what they do: CDC COVID tracker.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

58 Home is reportedly one of the country’s leaders in enabling consumers to find services online ranging from house cleaning to flower delivery. It is competing for market share against rivals that have more resources, including some businesses operated by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. The company is owned by 58.com billion to $2 billion.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This trend toward digital has only increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and this growing population of online-only or online-majority customers also means that identifying those consumers has become essential for businesses and financial institutions (FIs) in global markets.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Following a formidable start for its “ buy now, pay later ” service in the United States, Klarna intends to roll out in Australia and other markets next year. The FinTech says that, in the United States, the company is bringing users onto its shopping app at an annual rate of 6 million.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

As reported , the corridor would enable customers in Latin America to send money to the United States instantly, without fees, through the app One Pay FX. and Spain send money to the United States across One Pay FX. That app, the site noted, uses xCurrent software.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The average United States consumer believes the pandemic will not come to an end until Sept. consumers have gone from retail shopping in stores to shopping online since the pandemic began, while 16.6 percent have shifted from grocery shopping in stores to doing so online. PYMNTS research shows that 41.9

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

Starbucks has designed a new store around order-ahead and delivery as the upstart coffee company Luckin Coffee takes hold in the Chinese market. In addition, online orders from Starbucks Delivers and Starbucks Now will be stored in an in-wall system with a pickup portal that is associated with every order.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The online retail giant is scooping up 90,000 additional square feet of office space in the middle of Singapore’s financial district at the Asia Square Tower 1, Bloomberg reports , citing people familiar with Amazon’s real estate plans. Amazon will move staff into its new suite of offices in the Asia Square Tower early next, per the report.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The three-year-old startup, which facilitates online and mobile payments in emerging markets, confirmed it is processing more than R1-billion in transactions per year. The solution is designed for businesses that may not be online, but still want access to facilitating payments online, Finextra reported.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The December edition of the Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker® explores how consumers’ shifts toward using BNPL solutions in stores and online accelerated during the holiday shopping season, as well as how this trend is poised to grow in the year ahead. could become an even more competitive market for BNPL solutions in the future.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Nike is suing 589 websites, the owners of 676 social media accounts and more than 100 unidentified companies and individuals for allegedly selling counterfeit versions of its Nike and Converse shoes online. Nike wrote in a lawsuit filed in the U.S.

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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? billion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This means that PayPal is the first outside country to become a part of the payments market in the country in the two years since Beijing said outside countries would be eligible. The online payment market in China is growing rapidly and right now it’s controlled by two huge companies: Tencent and Alibaba.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Many consumers are shying away from physical stores, however, leaving these high-end merchants scrambling to develop strong online presences. This trend is pushing BNPL methods forward in the United States, with one survey finding that more than one-third of the nation’s consumers had used installment payment plans as of July.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Businesses across the United States likely knew they would be in for a long, uphill battle to stay afloat when they first began closing their doors in mid-March, but did not know just how long they would be dealing with the fallout from the COVID-19 crisis. percent until 2025, when it is poised to reach $42.9

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

The global contactless payment market is projected to reach $18 billion by 2025, in fact, up from $10 billion last year — a nearly 12 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). CU members who reported shopping online at least several times a week increased by nearly 50 percent since the pandemic began last spring.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 26, 2017

billion over 357 deals US online personal finance firm SoFi raised the largest round globally at $453 million China, which raised the largest amount of VC investment in 2016, dropped to second place with $1.0 Global VC FinTech investment attracts $6.5 billion of investment compared with $7.0 Global VC FinTech investment attracts $6.5

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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 And that’s just in the United States. So I say, wait a minute, 2.3 We're in New Zealand.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Founded in 1999, based in Argentina and registered in the United States, MercadoLibre is an eCommerce platform and digital payment solution that operates across Latin America. Online sales are facilitated via its marketplace platform, which includes classifieds for motor vehicles and real estate. .

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