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JANUARY 27, 2021

The National Restaurant Association , the country’s (and world’s) foodservice trade association, released its annual State of the Restaurant Industry report on Tuesday (Jan. The report looks at sales expectations for the coming year, operational changes in the industry, consumer behavior, menu trends, employment statistics and more.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A shocking new report reveals an underworld of corruption in the world’s banks and how governments allow it to thrive, BuzzFeed News reported. The report found the illegal profits from the drug trade, cash stolen from developing countries and Ponzi schemes flow through financial institutions despite warnings from bank employees.

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APRIL 9, 2020

million ransom to get their systems back online, The Wall Street Journal reported. They claimed to have birthdates, credit card information and national insurance numbers and demanded the $6 million payment. Travelex, the foreign exchange company that was crippled by hackers on New Year’s Eve, reportedly paid a $2.3

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MARCH 10, 2021

” SNC (pronounced like the candy bar but without the “ers”) stands for the Shared National Credit Program, which, since 1977, has assessed risk in the largest and most complex credits shared by multiple regulated financial institutions. percent in 2019 to 12.4 percent in 2020.

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DECEMBER 20, 2020

Fidelity National Information Services ( FIS ) and Global Payments were in talks to merge in a $70 billion deal, but it didn't end up happening, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The deal was reportedly in "advanced talks," WSJ reported, and the companies were planning to announce a deal this week.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

As it approaches its potential introduction to the public markets, Palantir is reportedly set to be the newest in a line of tech firms to go public long prior to bringing in positive income, The New York Times reported. Palantir registered $742.5 million in revenue last year, marking an increase of almost 25 percent from the prior year.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Critical practices for individuals and organizations to protect their data The National Public Data breach serves as a reminder to all of us that proactive measures are necessary to safeguard our personal information. DOWNLOAD Takeaway 1 The National Public Data breach exposed over 2.7 million in 2020, the highest among all industries.

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JULY 5, 2023

Fidelity National Information Services had planned to spin off the merchant processing business Worldpay, but multiple news reports suggest control may be sold instead.

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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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JUNE 29, 2020

Worldwide, there were a reported 120,000 cases and 4,300 deaths. One week before, PYMNTS fielded our first in a series of more than 10 bi-weekly national studies of U.S. Click here to download our free report. We saw the first signs of the massive digital shift to come take shape. A Digital 3.0 Stay safe and well.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Digital currencies could render the SWIFT global payments network unnecessary, RT.com reported, citing the Central Bank of Russia (CBR). Olga Skorobogatova, first deputy governor of the CBR, said 30 countries are working on their own national digital currencies, some of which could launch in five to seven years.

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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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DECEMBER 14, 2020

Consumers across the nation have instead hunkered down at home, working, socializing, shopping and paying online. So-called “office workers” no longer commute to offices or work traditional 9-to-5 jobs, and most Americans no longer spend their weekends shopping, gathering or attending leisure events as they once did.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

That’s the total record amount of money invested by the corporate venture capital industry last year in 1,268 financing deals, according to a report from Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association released Friday. billion big. Overall, corporate venture capital entities participated in 44% of all 2017 […].

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DECEMBER 13, 2020

Department of Commerce and its National Telecommunications and Information Administration unit discovered Friday (Dec. 12) emergency meeting of the National Security Council at the White House, Reuters reported. SolarWinds didn't say whether the company was associated with the Commerce Department breach, Reuters reported.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The association continues to act as a leading voice, educating policymakers and the public on the value these industries provide the nation and the world. According to a recent S&P Global report , boards of oil and gas companies in 2019 only comprised 14% women. Growth Through Diversity.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

So, you’re the CEO of a national banking corporation or a national savings bank. The OCC conducts frequent on-site examinations as they investigate, prepare, and then issue its reports of examination. Therefore, your primary federal bank regulator is the Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC).

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

users by email that they have 14 days to shutter their accounts and take out all their money or have their accounts locked, Decrypt reported. In other news, BTC futures trading platform OKEx indicated that it would provide users who faced difficulty due to the suspension with a combination of renumeration and rewards, Coindesk reported.

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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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MAY 8, 2020

For companies like Fiserv, Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), PayPal and others, selling terminals, offering payments platforms and designing checkout buttons, top and bottom lines were poised to move up and to the right. Earnings reports from those companies show just how abruptly things have shifted.

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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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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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JANUARY 28, 2021

They have provided critical support for those developing markets during the pandemic and will continue their importance after the pandemic is in the rearview mirror, a report by Oxford Economics , commissioned by Western Union , has found. “We percent decline this year, said the report. It’s an engine for growth enhancing connectivity.

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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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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

chefs and industry advocates fear new rules to stem the spread of COVID-19 could be the final straw, the Financial Times (FT) reported. It's becoming very stressful," Chef Daniel Boulud of Manhattan's Daniel restaurant said, FT reported. According to FT, the Independent Restaurant Coalition reported that one in six U.S.

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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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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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AUGUST 5, 2020

Western Union (WU) reported Tuesday (Aug. Management added that WesternUnion.com is currently available in more than 75 countries, with bank account payout in over 100 nations. He said some nations have better social safety nets or managed the virus better in the early phases than others did.

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MAY 12, 2020

In the Playbook, we examine how the different bank types — local and regional, national and digital — are responding to these trends, in particular the demand for highly functional mobile card apps. In contrast, national bank customers are less likely to switch FIs, with 25.9 percent of national banks, versus 77.5

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MARCH 17, 2020

While some geographies have opted to collaborate with the private sector to develop their own national instant payment networks, others are adopting solutions like RippleNet and SWIFT gpi to modernize their banks’ capabilities. Hungary announced earlier this month that its new instant payments system is now live across banks in the nation.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dearborn and Hynes will report directly to CEO Melissa Smith. million, or 34 cents per share, on $460 million on revenue during the year-ago Q3, the company reported in an earnings release in October. WEX lost $57.7 million, or $1.49 per share, on $382.1 million in revenue for the three months concluding on Sept.

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APRIL 9, 2020

The National Multifamily Housing Council ( NMHC ) analyzed data on Wednesday (April 8) from 13.4 We need the federal government to step in,” said Shamus Roller, executive director of the National Housing Law Project. “I consumers now report living paycheck-to-paycheck, and almost half have less than $2,500 in savings.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Amazon has to keep up fighting off price gouging on its eCommerce platform, as a new wave of COVID-19 infections has prompted more panic buying, Fox Business reported. Fox Business reported that Amazon is stepping up its efforts to remove offending seller accounts and offers for putting the prices too high.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

To that end, and as reported by BuzzFeed , documents submitted by banks to the U.S. The documents, officially known as suspicious activity reports (SARs for short) show that the banks had filed more than 2,000 reports across the past 17 years. In one example, reported on Monday (Sept. billion in fines.

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APRIL 16, 2020

Which means, according to reports on the ground , that life is more or less normal, albeit with somewhat lower density. Sweden, in fairness, has the largest population of the four, with roughly 10 million citizens to about 5 million in the other three nations. Denmark has had 321 deaths; Norway has had 150 and Finland has had 75.

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