Welcome to our weekly global payments news roundup with all the payments, fintech, and e-commerce news you need to know. We look at several challenger bank updates and closures, consumer coronavirus payments and shopping trends, global contactless spending data from Visa, coronavirus analysis from McKinsey ...
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Word surfaced on the weekend that Google is working on plans to introduce a smart debit card to the marketplace to complement its Google Pay service. From Apple Pay, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s Stripe, and Google Pay, Silicon Valley has been targeting the financial/fintech sector ...
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We’re starting this week with a big global payments news roundup since there’s so much going on in the payments, fintech, and e-commerce industry around the world. We hope you find the business intelligence valuable and that you’re staying safe and healthy during these trying ...
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Only about one-third of US workers can work from home and they earn about 45% of the country’s wages. Being the first of the month, there are millions of rents, business leases and other payments due. The big question, is what happens with them? In ...
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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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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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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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Brazil’s central bank – Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) – launched testing of a new real-time digital payment system based on QR codes and is expected to go live by November this year. Use of the new payment system called PIX will be mandatory for ...
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According to data from LearnBonds.com, the value of assets under management by Robo advisors will grow from $1.44 trillion globally this year, up 47% from last year, and could reach $2.55 trillion by 2023. Robo advisors debuted almost a decade ago with the launch of ...
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