PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The conversation came against a backdrop where the number of fundraising deals in the Southeast Asian region were higher in 2020, as measured through the second quarter — more than 60 percent higher over the second quarter of last year, in fact, to 184 deals as measured by DealStreetAsia.

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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 Spending in Asia-Pacific on luxury goods is set to contract by 3.4

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Perficient

DECEMBER 16, 2020

After extensive planning and alignment of business goals across various client teams, Perficient’s Management Consulting group led the effort to configure, develop, and deploy Manhattan & Associate’s SCALE WMS application to the client’s 135 warehouses, across five regions of the United States within a single year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Also in Europe, the European financial markets regulator has said that it wants to spend one million euros to promote market stability in the region as pertains to cryptocurrencies and FinTechs. That document focuses on budgets and regulatory efforts across the region. Regulatory Fines, on a Global Scale.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

With banks having struggled for years with anemic interest rates, the sharp upward turn in the bond market has analysts and bank executives looking up again, the Financial Times reports. Regional banks like Comerica and M&T Bank also posted big gains, rising 20 per cent and 25 per cent, respectively, with Comerica up.37 76 percent.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In Europe, the continued evolution of data policies and regulation now point toward a single market across the Continent. As reported mid week, the European Commission is planning a single European market for data , in hopes that by pooling talent, the region can compete with Big Tech in Silicon Valley and China.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2017

Amazon ‘s investment in the India region over the past few years just may be paying off. According to data from 7ParkData , Amazon’s share of the mobile market is at 30.3 The eCommerce industry is a highly competitive arena. percent, while India-based Flipkart came in at 30.7

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

“[The] slump in the industry is largely driven by markets being in lockdown, consumers not stepping out due to fear of transmission and restaurants not opening up, even if the city is not in lockdown.”. At the same time, the privately held company reported , the annual net loss grew to $293 million from $277 million.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Brazil is now Uber’s largest market outside the United States, with São Paulo boasting more Uber rides than any other city in the world. While the source wouldn’t comment on the terms of a possible deal, it would target the rideshare giant’s drivers and Banco’s more than 3 million clients.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Whether in Australia, India, Europe or the United States, mobile phones aren’t just driving interconnectivity, but are the key channel driving innovation in payments and commerce. Payments landscapes in different regions can vary greatly, and to succeed, businesses need to know the ropes. Take China, for example.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

In the United States, Shark vacuums run the market — it’s the top selling upright brand and owns 35 percent of the market. Not bad for a firm that in 2010 controlled only 1 percent of the market. and Europe over that last few years, and the firm “fully intend[s] to become UK market leader” in floor care.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

European challenger banks like Monzo and N26 are expanding to new markets and an increasing number of other financial players are launching suites of products and services designed to entice customers away from their traditional financial institutions (FIs). For more on these stories, visit the Tracker’s News and Trends.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The company said that of that tally, PayPal Credit total payment volume in the United States alone was roughly $10 billion, and logged more than $2 billion across November and December. PayPal has said that PayPal Credit has led to sales increases and also to customer loyalty: As measured by the firm, when middle market U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In the United States, anyway. As for the “quaint relic” mindset – well, that may have been the prevailing consensus here in the States, where the codes had been slow to take off. Up until recently, QR might have been an acronym for: Quaint Relic. But indications hint at a change.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2018

Ripple is eyeing the Chinese market, aiming to use blockchain technology to quicken cross-border payments. According to a report in CNBC , citing Jeremy Light, vice president of European Union (EU) strategic accounts at Ripple, the China market is a target for the company. In illustrative use cases, users can send dollars to the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2017

India has overtaken the United States to become the world’s second largest smartphone market. According to news from a report by Canalys , smartphone shipments in India grew 23 percent year over year in Q3 2017 to reach just over 40 million units, making the country the world’s second largest smartphone market after China.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Such a move would see the United Kingdom exit the European Union and abandon the financial regulations that are in place in the region, and some FIs that have served both markets are now withdrawing to serve one or the other. customers to recipients in Asia and Europe.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Three regional players in the organic food retail business — where Whole Foods and parent Amazon rule — have declared bankruptcy over the past month. food retailer to have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy so far this year — and, like predecessors Fairway and Lucky’s Market, it did so after trying to find a buyer. The number of U.S.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Building a team in this manner means more velocity and faster time to market. As the Colombian economy expanded into global trade, companies in the region needed enterprise resource planning (ERP) to take the first steps with digital transformation. That’s when we had to pivot and focus on companies based in the United States.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Uber said it will focus on emerging markets in the next 10 years, although it is unsure when it will be profitable as a company. Reuters is reporting that despite the issues Uber has encountered in getting a foothold in China and Southeast Asia, the ride-hailing and food delivery company sees those markets as defining its future growth.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

At a time when the pandemic has seen a massive shift toward digital commerce, the Mexican arm of Walmart – the world’s largest retailer – is looking to leverage the river of remittances that its customers receive from the United States, and to keep more of that cash in-store. The remaining revenue comes from in-store purchases.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Going a bit further, the United States saw 10 percent growth to $466 billion, outpaced by the rest of the world at 16 percent to just over $1 trillion. Within the United States, he said, spending and growth have held up “reasonably well” amid low unemployment and “still healthy” consumer confidence. The company had 2.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

In the latest Merchants Guide To Navigating Global Payments Regulations® , PYMNTS analyzes how the pandemic has affected SMBs in the EU, the United Kingdom and the United States. The health crisis has brought about changes to this rule, however, and these may have long-term implications for payment standards and regulations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But that doesn’t mean other types of apps aren’t finding increasing use among consumers — one of the changes going on that relate to the future earning and marketing power of apps and app stores. It’s not just Asia-Pacific or the United States that are fueling the rise of apps, of course. and Brazil. and Brazil.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

To that end, news came earlier this week in the United States that a dozen community and regional banks have formed a group aimed at exploring the opportunities amid FinTech offerings. Here In The States. In the United States, sandboxes are grabbing a bit of headline space.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2020

Launched amid the coronavirus crisis, Grab ’s new online grocery shopping delivery service is on its way to grabbing a sizable share of the Southeast Asian market on the heels of a major expansion. Grab said that its new service offers deliveries within an hour of ordering, or at pre-scheduled times. More than 35 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

The largest bank in the United States, J.P. Experts predict that the market will reach $10.87 This change in operations could remain after the end of the crisis, according to Stephen Griffin, senior vice president at Alabama-based Regions Bank , as it has two major benefits over the status quo.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Providing onboarding services in the Latin American market is both an exciting opportunity and a challenging one. If a firm needs to digitally onboard someone and verify them, we can help that company do that fairly seamlessly,” Samer Atassi, regional director, Latin America and Caribbean for Jumio, told PYMNTS in a recent conversation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

The parties rarely meet in person, presenting a trust issue that can become an even bigger problem when employers have to make payments across borders as payment preferences vary between regions. An employer based in the United States, for example, will most likely want pay for a job in U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

Implementing any new standards during the pandemic was off the table for many markets, though some regulators were left scrambling to figure out how the rules they already passed would adapt to life in lockdown. Around The Data Protection World. where regulators have been workshopping potential rules for several years.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Regional expansion will take precedence over product expansion,” said Markus Gunter, chief executive officer of N26’s banking arm. N26 raised new funds in January with a view to expand into the United States and prying business away from more traditional financial institutions like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

For entrepreneurs eager to get their first (or maybe their fifth) business off the ground, there is perhaps no better place to look for funding than the southern United States. ” The data pointed to states south of the Mason-Dixon Line as host to an increase in C&I loans in the third quarter.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Despite the economic damage inflicted by the pandemic, hoteliers expect sub-Saharan Africa to remain a hot market for big-time lodging development, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday (Oct. Global hotel chains are eyeing sub-Saharan Africa as underserved and expect both leisure and business travel will grow after the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Pay in 4 is currently live in the United States, with expansion plans in the works. And that global interest in payments in increasingly being pursued worldwide by regional players on top of either the hyper-locally focused or large global tech firms. Who will win the race with a BNPL product that dominates its market?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

FlixMobility launched in the United States in 2018, challenging popular companies like Greyhound, and now operates with 100 destinations from coast to coast. India is a potential target market, and FlixMobility has begun regional recruiting, a company spokesman said, but it has not yet launched in the country of 1.3

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

trillion, where the United States saw those transactions up by 12 percent to a total of $494 billion and the rest of the world saw 16 percent growth to the remaining $1.1 CFO Sachin Mehra said the cross-border volume growth was in line with expectations and was driven by double-digit growth across most regions.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

The dual language option is a nod to the bilingual culture extant in Puerto Rico, he continued, but also allows Biz2Credit to springboard that platform to other multi-lingual regions, such as Florida and California in the United States, along with, eventually (and longer term), as a gateway into Latin America.

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