While COVID-19 is spurring new entrepreneurial startups, San Francisco-based fintech Azlo has launched a new set of digital banking, invoicing, and back-office tools to help SMEs and freelancers manage their back-office financial functions more efficiently and less expensively. Azlo Pro is a new subscription-based set ...
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Another new digital bank launched in the US and it’s aiming to provide innovative features for what it says is the underserved middle-class in America. Former Capital One senior vice president Brian Hamilton and former PayPal and Intuit CEO Bill Harris founded the new banking ...
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After a big spike in global e-commerce growth through the pandemic which sectors are consistently winning and which are softening as we near the end of Q3 and the start of the holiday shopping season? A new report from Nosto analyzes six key e-commerce sectors ...
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With non-US-born residents making up nearly 15% of the US population, establishing credit is often a big challenge for these new immigrants, many of whom have excellent credit records in their home countries. It’s also a challenge for lenders who are keen to offer services ...
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A new Visa business holiday shopping study shows small to midsize businesses (SMBs) and consumers are both getting ready for a busy holiday shopping season despite the pandemic. Researchers asked 2000 businesses and 4500 consumers in the US, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brazil, ...
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When it comes to instant payments, the international banking network SWIFT has been anything but fast in recent years. That’s about to change with the organization’s announcement of a two-year strategy to implement faster payments. “SWIFT Operations Forum Americas Conference at the Convene Center in ...
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By Sunil Jhamb, Founder & CEO of WL Payments The e-commerce sector has grown steadily over the past few years, while international transactions have also become a regular phenomenon, especially in Europe where 23% of e-commerce[1] is cross-border. The COVID-19 crisis has further exaggerated these ...
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Matt Jackson, Head of Partner Development (EMEA) at PPRO Invisible payments have already had a massive impact on the physical and online retail experience and could have the potential to eradicate cash and payment cards from the payment journey. Amazon Go even went as far as removing ...
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When it comes to US e-commerce and COVID-19, we’ve got 10 things you really need to know about the impact of the pandemic on online shopping from an analysis by our friends at Digital Commerce 360. Consumers spent $347.26 billion online with US retailers from ...
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European shoppers in Budapest and Spain are shopping and paying with a wink and a wave with the launch of Hungarian fintech PeasyPay.Imagine. No more carrying your purse, wallet, smartphone, or credit card while shopping and paying for groceries, lunch at your favorite cafe, fresh ...
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