The fast-changing habits and needs of consumers, partly shaped by the coronavirus pandemic, will require banking and financial service leaders to adjust their services and their way of thinking if they want to build resilient organizations that thrive in the near future. In an intriguing ...
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The list of layoffs and Chapter 11 bankruptcies has now grown to include hallmark retailers including Forever 21, Pier 1, J Crew, Neiman Marcus, Stage Stores, Laura Ashley and Debenhams in the UK, and JCPenney late last week. It’s not a pretty picture despite some ...
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Welcome to another weekly Friday fintech, payments, and e-commerce news and business intelligence roundup. I don’t know about you we’re ready to start barbecuing even if it requires us to keep a social distance from the hamburgers until they’re cooked. We’re getting ahead of ourselves, ...
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Just what does the “new normal” look like in a post-pandemic payments world? We reached out to Brady Harris, CEO of programmable payments company Dwolla for his insight into what’s ahead for business and the payments industry. The impact of coronavirus on business and consumers ...
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Welcome to our weekly Friday fintech, payments, and e-commerce news and business intelligence roundup. It may not feel “normal” yet where you live, so we’ll do our best to give you a taste of normal news you can use. Even your humble editor is pining ...
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When it comes to digital banking, even with the coronavirus crisis, the traditional banks seem to have customer satisfaction sewn up. Seem ironic? New research from JD Power not only shows the shift to digital banking and payment solutions is accelerating faster than anticipated due ...
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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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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 payments industry stories you need to know. Is the coronavirus killing off cash?Tech firms see the opportunity ...
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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 of global payments, fintech, and e-commerce news. It feels like there are not quite as many clouds ...
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