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18FTC Works To Stop Edgewell From Buying Shaving Upstart Harry’s
With qualms over competition in the consumer shaving market, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly intends to bring suit to stop the...
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28UPS Looks To Drones To Speed Up Delivery
In a move to compete with Amazon in the competitive consumer delivery space, UPS plans to use drones and other tactics to...
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56Top News In Payments: Mastercard CEO Pushes Back Against National Payments System; FCA Tells Credit Cards To Ease Up On Non-Payers
In today’s top payments news, Mastercard’s CEO speaks out against a national payments system, the FCA tells credit card companies to be...
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104China’s eCommerce To Take A Hit From Coronavirus?
Might eCommerce – in China, yes, but also well beyond that country’s borders – be among the casualties of the Coronavirus? More...
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117New UK Bank Will Cater To Farmers Who Need Funding
A new British bank that will launch later in 2020 is aimed at securing funding for farmers, according to a report. Oxbury,...
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184UK Watchdog Seeks Tighter Grip On US Big Tech
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is pushing for more leeway to go after U.S. Big Tech firms in the wake...
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172Cars.com Traffic Revs Up With Carmakers’ Super Bowl Ads
The Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl, but Cars.com is claiming a different kind of victory. Although it didn’t run its...
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552Fighting The Friction In Retail Returns
Free returns have become something of a standard offering for eCommerce consumers. What better way to compensate for an improperly fitting clothing item...
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480Taking Laundry Off The To-Do List With On-Demand Apps
Everyday chores are a challenge for working parents who have to balance their lives between jobs and families. They spend time away...
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489Social Shopping Struggles With The Burden Of Potential
2020 just might be the year that the long-awaited social shopping business actually shows up. Ever since Facebook and Google put their...
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425In Europe, Single Data Market Looms?
In Europe, another regulatory salvo may be aimed at U.S. tech firms’ dominance across online platforms, and the collection and use of...
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426Analyst Reduces iPhone Supply Predictions Due To The Coronavirus
With concerns that the coronavirus in China will impact the supply of iPhones, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said his company, TF international...
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644Worldline’s $8.6B Ingenico Deal Births Fourth-Biggest Payments Titan
Two European payments behemoths — Worldline and Ingenico — are merging in an $8.6 billion deal to create the industry’s fourth-largest company...
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756Forever 21 Could Be Sold To Real Estate Firms, Licensing Co. For $81M
With an offer that establishes a minimum price on the assets of the bankrupt merchant, Forever 21 Inc. came to a deal...
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885ATMs Are Ahead Of Their Time — Again
The automated teller machine (ATM) debuted 51 years ago in the U.S., dispensing small preset amounts of cash … and that’s about...
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785How HR’s Self-Service Shift Drives Payroll To Unlock Data
As open banking frameworks continue to encourage bank-FinTech collaboration, the financial services market is exploring new ways to unlock data — not...
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642Reverse Factoring’s Late Payments Controversy
The conversation surrounding late supplier payments is proliferating as new controversies emerge about the impact of reverse financing on supplier payment practices,...
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792APIs May Be The Key To Singapore’s Open Banking Future
Banking is no longer just for traditional FIs, thanks to open banking’s spread. Digital banking development is poised to explode in Singapore,...
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797FCA Tells Credit Cards To Ease Up On Non-Payers
The U.K. financial watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is telling credit card companies to reduce fees on non-payers’ debt rather than...
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2.5KWhy Consumers Are Firing Traditional Retailers
“Jobs to be done” – a theory popularized by the late Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen – is the notion that...
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962PBOC Pumps $173B Into Chinese Economy To Combat Virus Impact
The Chinese government braced for additional economic turmoil, took steps to bolster its lagging economy and activated new safety measures as the...
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1.1KThomasNet CEO: How A 122-Year-Old Company Sees B2B Payments Evolution
As is so often the case with technological disruption, the digital evolution of supply chains remains slow and steady. That’s not to...
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1.4KUber Bans 240 Mexican Passengers As Coronavirus Precaution
Approximately 240 Uber users in Mexico can’t use the service now, their accounts suspended by the parent company after concerns over the...
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984FCC To Crack Down On Sharing Of Mobile Users’ Location Data
Wireless networks that sold their customers’ real-time location data violated U.S. law, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai wrote in a...
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1.3KBOJ: 40 Pct Of Japan’s Financial Firms Victims Of Cyber Attacks
Ahead of hosting the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo this summer in July and August, Japan’s financial institutions have been cautioned to be...
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1.3K‘Ghost Kitchens’ Set Up Shop In Malls
Property builders are constructing kitchens in empty malls to help fill food-delivery orders, a new strategy to service the flourishing business segment...
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2.0KIndia’s Gaana Streaming Service Far Surpasses Apple, Spotify
India has access to the well-known music streaming sites Spotify and Apple Music, but it’s the country’s homegrown Gaana that is getting...
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3.3KAccounting Firms MYOB, Xero Eye Invoice Finance Solutions
Accounting software providers MYOB and Xero are exploring invoice finance solutions while retaliation ensues in the background regarding products that charge fees...
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1.5KSMBX, Degrees Plato Partner For Bond Offering
Small business bond marketplace SMBX and taproom and eatery Degrees Plato are partnering to introduce Degrees Plato’s Small Business Bond offering, the...
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1.4KOneWest Bank Unveils Mobile App For Small Businesses
CIT’s Southern California branch network, OneWest Bank, unveiled a new mobile app to help small businesses meet their financial goals. “Small business...
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1.2KProposed Fed Rules Could Allow Banks To Fund Startups
A proposed change to a post-financial crisis rule could shake things up for banks, making it easier for them to invest in...
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1.9KSuper Bowl Commerce Preview: Avocados, Spiteful Beer And A $6M Thank-You
The Super Bowl is nearly upon us – the Kansas City Chiefs are headed to their first “big game” in 50 years...
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2.6KModa Operandi Raises $100M To Invest In Upscale Fashion Marketplace
Online fashion marketplace Moda Operandi announced a $1 million funding boost that it will use to invest in its technology and bolster...
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1.8KPolicygenius Notches $100M For InsurTech Growth
As it aims to invest in adding products and hiring more staff, InsurTech firm Policygenius notched $100 million from investors, with the inclusion of...
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2.2KCasper IPO Could Mean Reduced Value For Prior Investors
Target’s venture investment in mattress company Casper could prove to be a case of overspending for the retail giant. Casper pitches itself...
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2.0KTakeaway Says Just Eat Takeover Is Done Deal
While the two firms still need the go-ahead from a competition authority before they combine operations, Netherlands-based online food ordering company Takeaway.com made it...
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1.8KMacy’s To Open New Store Format With Beauty Focus
Macy’s is planning to test a new kind of store with a focus on apothecary and beauty products, which could lead to...
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2.6KeSkimming Malware Attacks On The Rise
With the popularity of eCommerce, a cyberattack called eSkimming has become more of a frequent occurrence. Skimmers had long been a risk...
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1.8KTop News In Payments: Visa Logs 700M Direct Transactions; CFPB Sues Citizens Bank
In today’s top news, Visa reported positive first-quarter earnings, totaling 700 million Visa Direct transactions, and CFPB sued Citizens Bank for violating...
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1.4KBuilding Micromobility At A Global Scale
The electric scooter and bike race in Washington, D.C. has gotten complicated in the last few months, as the nation’s capital has...
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1.6KMagazines Dive Into Retail Again — This Time With Pot, Fashion And Delivery
Retail and magazines have always had a relationship, mainly through advertising, but also via some other methods over the years. Indeed, during...
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1.6KBlibli.com Debuts Cashierless Store; Nordstrom Pilots Resale Concept
eCommerce merchants are tapping into brick-and-mortar retail with cashless and cashierless stores. Indonesia’s Blibli.com, in one case, has opened the first location for...
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1.5KEA Video Game Publisher To Focus On Subscriptions, Services In 2020
As next-generation gaming consoles are set to come to market, Electronic Arts will have a narrow release lineup in 2020, after the...
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1.5KOla Plans London Rollout In February As It Takes On Uber
As it broadens its competition with Uber, Ola plans to official start operations in London in February after establishing its office in the city in...
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2.4KDeep Dive: Giving ATMs Next-Gen Upgrades For Security, Cardless Functionality And More
Brick-and-mortar financial institutions (FIs) compete with digital-only competitors that often take advantage of lower — or nonexistent — physical buildout costs. The...
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1.8KSmoothing Bumpy Cash Flow For Small Town Governments
Local governments of small towns across America are in a precarious situation. Like small businesses in the private sector, small local governments...
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1.6KVisa’s X-Border Investment Leads Week Of B2B Funding
The most high-profile B2B FinTech investment this week went to cross-border payments technology firm Currencycloud, thanks to Visa’s participation in an $80...
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1.4KThe Vendor’s Role In AP Automation Adoption
Automating back-office processes has indisputable positive impacts on companies’ ability to promote efficiency and operational cost savings, and even encourage sustainability through...
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2.1KTo Amazon Or Not Amazon? An Eyeglass Retailer Faces The Question
Want to know how the future of eCommerce looks? Well, you could do worse than taking a deeper dive into the world...
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2.4KMonetary Authority Of Singapore: What It Will Take To Win Digital Banking Licenses
Financial institutions (FIs) and merchants in the European Union (EU) have had some time to get used to both the General Data...
