Recent research by payments provider PayActiv showed the growing impact of the pandemic on those essential workers still employed despite unemployment in the US reaching 14.7% in April. The mid-March research showed serious concerns among employees surveyed as the pandemic began taking hold in the ...
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Amazon Australia just set its sights on a brand-new market niche and the biggest players in the booze business down under and farther afield should be concerned. With online shopping habits shifting due to the impact of coronavirus, increased online sales of alcohol and growth ...
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Point-of-sale (POS) funding technology platform ChargeAfter and Japanese venture capital firm MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP) announced plans for a strategic investment to provide global e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers with the technology and tools to approve more applications for POS financing from multiple lenders in real-time. ...
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Global payments platform Paysafe launched the Skrill Money Transfer service which allows customers to transfer money for free to friends and family in Mexico, India, and 16 other Asian and European countries. First launched in October 2018 in Europe, Skrill Money Transfer was designed to ...
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Happy Friday and welcome to our weekly global payments news roundup. Lots of insight and business intelligence including what consumers are thinking, which retailers have had e-commerce success during the pandemic, new research reports, COVID-19 updates, fintech news, and much more news you can use. ...
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It’s one thing to start a business as an entrepreneur and survive the first year. It’s an even bigger badge of success to have launched your online business as a mobile-only enterprise and then thrive and grow despite the COVID-19 crisis. Meet Fitz Frames, a ...
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With a third of the global population on lockdown and scores of bank branches closed, many are convinced that branch banking is dead, and the future is branchless. Is this really true? Branchless alternatives like Revolut, N26, Monzo, and NuBank let customers achieve the same ...
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There’s lots of chatter and noise about the importance of e-commerce and how merchants are doing with online sales during the coronavirus crisis. If you needed any proof that e-commerce will be critical for every business going forward, we’ve got highlights of the latest research ...
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McKinsey’s new research report, with insight on shifting consumer sentiment over a five-week timeframe of the global pandemic in 42 countries is an eye-opener. Researchers gauged consumer sentiment between the week of April 2 through the week of May 3 and what they found was ...
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By Giffard Hogge, Product Manager, Somo The UK and the United States share culture, history, and language. But it is only after moving from the UK to live in the US that I have become more acutely aware of the more subtle differences between our ...
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