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69UK Gov’t Wants New Homes To Have Electric Car Chargers
The U.K. government wants to equip all new homes in the country with electric car charging points. The news comes as the...
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203Uber, Yandex To Acquire Russian Taxi Service Vezyot
Yandex has announced that MLU B.V., its ride-sharing and food delivery joint venture with Uber, has agreed to acquire the IP and...
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230PayPal On Its Xoom Into The Continent And The UK
Xoom, PayPal’s international digital money transfer service, is launching in the U.K. and 31 countries, allowing millions of users to remit in...
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360Amex Write-Off Rate Is Down; Delinquency Rate Holds
American Express has reported that its American consumer card delinquency rate was 1.4 percent for June, the same number it was in...
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422Postpartum Care App Lands $3M From Mark Cuban, Serena Williams
Data-driven maternal and infant health tech startup Mahmee has garnered $3 million from tech investor Mark Cuban, tennis icon and entrepreneur Serena Williams and...
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498Symantec Finds Vulnerability In WhatsApp, Telegram
The cybersecurity company Symantec has found an exploit that can be breached by hackers using WhatsApp and Telegram media files, according to...
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479ABN AMRO, Qutech Link Up To Improve Banking Security
As computers become more and more powerful and start to utilize quantum technology, today’s security measures, like encryption, will increasingly be at...
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639IMF Warns Of Big Tech Disruption In Banking Space
Banking institutions will get “left behind” if they don’t evolve as big tech companies continue disrupting the financial system, the latest research...
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200Ready, Set, Go: Here Comes 2019 Amazon Prime Day(s)
Only Amazon could alter the meaning of long-established units of time. We at PYMNTS occasionally employ benign exaggeration for journalistic purposes, but...
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532Bank Of America’s Card Delinquency Rate Remains Flat In June
Card delinquencies have remained steady at Bank of America, which reported June credit card delinquencies of 1.56 percent. The figure registered at...
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556How Starbucks Elevates Online Ordering In China
Starbucks has designed a new store around order-ahead and delivery as the upstart coffee company Luckin Coffee takes hold in the Chinese...
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584Cannabis Firm Caliva Eyes National Growth With Jay-Z Partnership
In a move that is said to help the company grow across the nation, California cannabis firm Caliva has teamed up with...
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736Barneys Looks Into Bankruptcy Amid Rent Increase
With a liquidity crunch brought on by a rise in rent at its flagship in New York City, Barneys New York is...
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661JPMC Q2 Earnings Expected To Reflect Expanding Digital Innovations
Of all the banking institutions releasing Q2 earnings this week, watch for JPMorgan, whose strong performance can be credited to a growing...
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747U.S. Farming Has A Banking Problem
The latest jobs figures propel the lengthy period of corporate optimism in the U.S. today, with hiring stronger than expected in June....
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844Sword GRC Collaborates On Supply Chain Risk
Supplier risk and supply chain compliance company Sword GRC is collaborating with Brazil-based Procurement Garage to expand across Latin America, the companies...
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677In Australia, Card (And Other Payments) Fraud Is Big Business
Attacks on Australia’s government — including payments fraud — have been on the rise, scoring, cumulatively, tens of millions of dollars. Elsewhere,...
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605Competition As The Driving Force For Better Fleet Payments
From back-office spend analytics to autonomous vehicles, fleet payment service providers are exploring a multitude of opportunities to address friction and enhance...
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603Avidia Entices FinTechs With Real-Time Payments
Avidia Bank is embracing real-time payments as part of its push to promote collaboration with FinTechs, the financial institution announced Friday (July...
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1.2KFor Mastercard/OpenText and the Automotive Industry: Have Trust, Will Trade
Mastercard and OpenText have partnered to streamline supply chains and help boost spot trade credit that in turn breaks a funding logjam...
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1.1KCan A Line Of Code Fix Customer Onboarding?
Few activities in the digital economy are as filled with friction, and as frustrating and risky for merchants, banks and other businesses,...
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1.2KFacebook Slapped With $5B FTC Fine, But Still Has Lots Of Friends
The most interesting story about Facebook since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke is one that hasn’t really been written. And it’s the...
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1.3KWeSwap P2P Currency Exchange Seeks $2.89M In Crowdfunding
After hitting the 500,000 user mark, currency exchange service WeSwap has rolled out a Seedrs crowdfunding round. The company is seeking a...
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678France’s ‘Digital Tax’ On Tech Firms Passes
Even with the United States announcing it would look into a proposed “digital tax” in France, the country is moving forward with...
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582New China Guidelines Increase Foreign Business Opportunities
The world’s second-largest economy wants to make business transactions easier, from nurturing private enterprises to widening market access. The 30-page draft guidelines...
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811Samsung Pay Offers Payments, Credit To Indian Marketplaces
Samsung has reached an agreement with an online marketplace for financial products in India that will allow consumers to apply for credit...
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1.2KLawmakers Propose Bill To ‘Keep Big Tech Out Of Finance’
Just days before the Facebook Libra hearings, a draft bill to limit “Big Tech’s” entry into finance and crypto has surfaced online....
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1.2KUS Retailer Store Closures Could Top 12K By Yearend
So far this year, 7,062 retail stores have closed, and that number could reach as high as 12,000, which would be an...
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1.9KWalmart Looks For eCommerce Chief Revenue Officer
To help lay out its battle pay to take on Amazon, Target and other competitors, Walmart is on the hunt for a...
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1.3KPoliticians In India Look To Pull Plug On TikTok
Popular video-sharing app TikTok is being accused of spreading “indecent” content and sharing user data with the Chinese government, prompting politicians in...
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1.4KUK Lender Starling Loses Four Executive Employees
Amid expansion efforts of U.K. digital bank Starling, several senior executives — including Julian Sawyer, Starling’s co-founder and chief operating officer —...
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1.5KBird eScooter Startup To Hire 1K For New Hub In Paris
The Santa Monica-based eScooter rental service Bird is planning a new hub in Paris that will serve as the company’s “second European...
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1.8KColgate-Palmolive Strikes Deal To Buy Filorga Cosmétiques
In a sign that Colgate-Palmolive is looking to diversify its interests beyond soap and toothpaste with deals, the consumer goods group has...
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1.3KRetail Pulse: Macy’s Collaborates With Brands For STORY; Kohl’s Accepts Amazon Returns
Brick-and-mortar retailers are opening experiential concepts by working with other brands as they look to engage consumers with experiences instead of products. Macy’s,...
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1.2KLegal Pot Starts Pulling Its Retail Weight
Trends in legal cannabis retail are just now emerging, and fresh numbers from Colorado are providing insight into how the industry is...
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1.1KCiti Looks To Lead In Q2 Earnings
Companies are beginning to release their second quarter earnings reports, and experts are pointing to Citigroup to outperform in the banking industry....
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1.1KAmazon Works On Home Robot, New Echo Speaker
With its hardware foray keeping consumers connected to its ecosystem, Amazon is at work on a higher quality Echo speaker as well...
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1.3KEuler Hermes Collaborates On Same-Day Factoring
Euler Hermes has made a strategic investment in FinTech APiO, reports this week said, as well as a collaboration that will see...
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1.5KInvestors Eye B2B eCommerce, Expense Tools
Though not the busiest week in B2B venture capital funding, investors presented a clear preference for corporate expense management and B2B eCommerce,...
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1.3KBNP Paribas Taps OneUp For SMB Banking Digitization
BNP Paribas is teaming up with one of the FinTechs of its incubator program to digitize and modernize small business banking. Reports...
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1.4KBilltrust, Priority Streamline B2B Payments Reconciliation
Order-to-cash solutions provider Billtrust has added Priority Commercial Payments to its Business Payments Network (BPN) to streamline B2B payments reconciliation, the companies...
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733VW Teams With Ford On Autonomous, Electric Vehicles
Ford and Volkswagen are set to announce joint ventures that will focus on autonomous and electric vehicles. Sources said that the deal...
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2.3KCommercial Banking Gets Up Close And Digitized
Commercial banking can take some cues from eCommerce, especially when it comes to serving customers with speed and convenience. Bottomline Technologies’ Jessica...
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1.3KChallenger Payments Platform VibePay OK’d By UK FCA
London-based VibePay has won approval from the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to provide direct-to-bank payments via open banking. VibePay will launch...
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1.2KRiverPay Facilitates Payments Via Alipay, WeChat At Harrods
Integrated payments and marketing platform RiverPay has announced that it is facilitating payments through Alipay and WeChat Pay at Harrods’ Knightsbridge store...
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1.1KDocs Show Walmart Lobbied US Gov About India eCom Rules
Reuters is reporting that Walmart communicated privately with the U.S. government in January of this year about India’s new rules for eCommerce,...
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1.0KEU Central Bank Taps Former Goldman Sachs Banker As Regulator
The European Central Bank (ECB) has brought on Elizabeth McCaul as a banking supervisor, according to a report by Reuters. McCaul is...
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1.6KSafeCharge Taps Visa Direct To Speed Insurance Claim Payouts
Everyone likes the idea of faster, streamlined payments, especially when dealing with an insurance-related mishap. To that end, insurance-as-a-service company Setoo signed on with...
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1.2KSam’s Club To Offer Same-Day Grocery Pickup Across US
Walmart-owned Sam’s Club will now offer same-day grocery pickup for online orders, according to sources. The retailer’s announcement comes nearly a year...
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1.3KGermany’s N26 Neo-Bank Rolls Out US Mobile Banking
Through a staged rollout in which 100,000 customers on the U.S. will be invited to sign up and have full access to...
