The week raced by with payments, fintech and e-commerce news from around the world mostly revolving around coronavirus with some interesting standouts in addition. Here are the key ...
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In a headshaking, tone-deaf move especially during the coronavirus pandemic, the brain trust at Ticketmaster has decided to add to the misery of consumers who bought tickets for ...
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The weeks are sliding by slowly as we all stay at home and wait out the COVID-19 crisis. Today, on this Good Friday, we’ve got another big roundup ...
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In the spirit of sharing as much strategic information and business intelligence as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve got another news roundup to keep you up to ...
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Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on March 11th, new research by TransUnion identified a 23% increase in weekly e-commerce transactions ...
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Other than hospitals, no one is harder hit than retailers around the world and online. Merchants face growing challenges with their supply chain, overwhelming consumer demand or lack ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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