While US payments, fintech, and e-commerce are our focus, we tend to look globally for insight and business intelligence. Six weeks ago we took an early look at the incidence of coronavirus and its impact on key business sectors we cover. We decided to reexamine ...
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With financial markets plummeting and whole countries under quarantine, it is unclear what the fintech industry will look like after the global pandemic. The chaotic effects of the coronavirus outbreak are not limited to financial markets, but business operations across a widening range of industries. ...
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We’ve got our usual Friday weekly roundup of global payments news. The theme this week is COVID-19 and it’s growing impact on business evident in the lineup of stories below. First, the markets were in absolute pandemic pandemonium with no other apparent trigger for a ...
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Kelvin Phua, Global Head of Payment Networks at PPRO, explores the possibilities offered by the cross-border e-commerce market in Japan Japan is the world’s third-biggest economy. Its GDP per capita is just under USD 40,000, according to GDP per capita (current USD) – Japan, World. The World Bank. That’s ...
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One might assume Amazon is the world’s largest e-commerce marketplace and you’d be wrong according to a new report by Digital Commerce 360. Alibaba’sTmall is world’s second-largest marketplace While $2.03 trillion was spent globally on the top 100 online marketplaces in 2019, Amazon managed to ...
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Hey Amazon Prime, meet your new membership neighbor – Walmart+. Walmart’s new paid membership program is a direct shot across the bow at e-commerce competitor Amazon Prime and it should provide some interesting competitive benefits for online shoppers. While Walmart is not yet releasing details, ...
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There is so much happening in the payments and e-commerce world globally, it’s time to do a solid news roundup and share some of the best links to let you pick and choose the payments news you need to know. Let’s get at it. China’s ...
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It was inevitable. You can get pretty much Anything-as-a-Service thanks to the cloud. That includes payments, banking, insurance, investment advice, cloud storage, clothing, groceries, and now coffee. That’s right. Coffee-as-a-Service, for just $8.99 a month, courtesy of Panera Bread. Right now, millions of impoverished students ...
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While retail sales started the year on a positive note in-store and online, the threat of Coronavirus is now having a measurable impact on retail sales in addition to the earlier impact on the supply chain from China. Despite the smirking denials on FOX News ...
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By Cameron Peake, co-founder & CEO of Azlo As a founder who has spent most of my career in financial services, I intimately know the unnecessary hurdles that small business owners face when it comes to banking. Whether you’re trying to open a bank account, ...
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