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 date on the latest breaking payments, e-commerce, and retail news stories. In India, the country’s Retail Association ...
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Fintech
Fintech
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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Money matters to consumers and the new Future of Money market research by Logica shows changes ahead in how we pay for things in the future. And those changes are coming fast. Digital payments are growing, but cards still are the leading payment method used ...
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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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One high-profile victim of Brexit is German digital bank N26 despite its notable success since launching less than two years ago in October 2018. By April 15, 2020, an estimated 3.5 million UK customers of the neobank will need to transfer deposits, move funds from ...
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McKinsey & Company is out with a new analysis of the future of banking in Asia and it may be an eye-opener for some. Asian banks traditionally looked to the West for product and service ideas and business models. That’s definitely changed in the past ...
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The global automated accounts receivables marketplace was estimated at $1.7 billion in 2019 and is expected to grow at an annual rate of 12.1% to reach $3 billion by 2024 according to research by MarketsandMarkets. The US is also one of the largest markets in the world for accounts receivable financing ...
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