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NewsIndia's Snapdeal Snaps Up Wishpicker
As Alibaba, Amazon and other global ecommerce players ramp up their operations in India,...
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Alternative FinancesOf Amazon Purses And Breaking Barriers
PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 51 Bitcoin is sitting...
- International
Bigcommerce Gets Big Bucks
E-Commerce services firm Bigcommerce has emptied an investment shopping cart to the tune of...
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CoolWho’s Driving eCommerce Spend?
In the late 90’s there was a popular bumper sticker “Think Globally, Act Locally,”...
- Alternative Finances
Why Global Financial Inclusion Programs Fail
For well over a decade, players across the payments space and all around the...
- Mobile Commerce
Mobile Payment Startup Taps Into Indian Villages
Ezetap, a mobile payment startup, wants to connect small Indian villages with business and...
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B2B PaymentsMass Payments And The Global Marketplace
Managing the “dozens of ACH islands” that exist around the worldwide in order to...
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BofA Merrill Boosts Global Cards
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has added some significant new global features for its...
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B2B PaymentsWhy Alibaba Says It's Nothing Like Amazon
Alibaba is discovering that the Chinese and U.S. E-Commerce marketplace present their own set...
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EuropeRemittance Volume Up 5 Percent
Remittances to developing countries are expected to reach $435 billion this year, representing a...
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EuropeQ3 2014 Strongest IPO Market In Years (With Or Without...
The three months through September were still the busiest for IPOs in four years...
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EuropeNon-Cash Transactions On The Rise Globally
Non-cash payments ticked up 10 percent in 2013 to 366 billion transactions, pulled along...
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InternationaliPhone6 Sales Greenlighted In China
The Chinese government is officially allowing Apple to start selling the iPhone 6/6 Plus...
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B2B PaymentsWalmart Expands Its India B2B eCommerce Presence
Walmart’s ambitions to be a viable B2B supplier in India continue to grow, as...
- Alternative Finances
Bangladesh Looks To Factoring To Bolster International Trade
Regulators in Bangladesh are looking to incorporate factoring as a financing option to help...
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B2B PaymentsChina’s Bustling Cross-Border eCommerce Market
With Alibaba last week having gone through the largest initial public offering in U.S....
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B2B PaymentsHSBC: Significant Global Trade Growth Ahead
Robust economic growth in the U.S. and United Kingdom, combined with a gradual recovery...
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B2B PaymentsWhy Alibaba’s B2B Model Doesn’t Work In India
While e-commerce giant Alibaba is enjoying the largest IPO in history today, it's B2B...
- B2B Payments
Mobile Payments Changing The Face Of Agriculture World Wide
For farmers across the developing world, being trapped in a cash-based economy is costly. ...
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AcquiringTrends Of The Week
Over the past week, PYMNTS.com’s brief’s coverage in this newsletter has spanned a broad...
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InternationalSecurity Firm Tanium Picks Up Andreessen Investment
Andreessen Horowitz is placing the second biggest bed in the venture-capital firm’s history on...
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InternationalMoney on Mobile's News for 184K Indian Retailers
My Mobile Payments Limited (MMPL), which operates the m-money service Money On Mobile, acquired...
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InternationalBindo Raises $1.8M For Asian Expansion
Online to offline (OTO) retail start-up Bindo has just taken in $1.8 million is...
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Service with 59.2 M Mobile Users In India
The immediate payment service of India, launched in 2010, reached 59.2M mobile users in...
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B2B PaymentsIndia and Bangladesh Working To Boost Border Trade
India and Bangladesh have been working together to increase and improve cross-border trading between...
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B2B PaymentsHSBC Helping Chinese Firms With Foreign-Currency Management
New HSBC service is designed to provide greater convenience and transparency in foreign cash...
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B2B PaymentsIndia's ElectraCard To Be Purchased By MasterCard
MasterCard has announced that it intends to purchase Pune-headquartered ElectraCard Services (ECS) from Opus Software....
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Alternative FinancesThe Growth of A Giant B2B Platform
Once just an idea in an apartment at the high of the tech bubble...
- Alternative Finances
The Alibaba Infographic: Everything You Need to Know
How did Alibaba go from its humble roots as an idea cooked up in...
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InternationalMobile Payments Set To Explode In India
Mobile payment growth in India is on fire, going from just under 100 thousand...
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B2B PaymentsCentral Bankers in South Asia Fight for Better System
Central bankers of in South Asian countries have reached an agreement on the need...
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B2B PaymentsGlobal Payout, Inc. Expands Into the Philippines
aying Filipino international workers just got easier with Global Payout, Inc.’s announced expansion into...
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InternationalFrrole Starts With Crowd-Funding, Ends Up With $245K In Angel...
Frrole, an India-based data analytics start-up that combs Twitter looking for patterns and trends...
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Company SpotlightAustralia-based Pinpoint To Be Purchased By MasterCard
Pinpoint, a Sydney-based provider of loyalty and rewards services for banks and merchants in the...
- Alternative Finances
Solving Global Payments Problems with Prepaid
The key to running a successful prepaid program in any market globally is to...
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NewsPitney-Bowes Taps India To Incubate Next Big eCommerce, Mobile Innovation
Pitney Bowes, the 94-year-old maker of postage meters turned eCommerce company, is launching a...
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B2B PaymentsFriday Factoids
There’s so much data influencing the industry today that it can be hard to...
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InternationalDigital River Offers A Sneak Peek At Mobile eCommerce Trends
In 2013, Digital River processed more than $30 billion online transactions, giving the company...
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S. Korea Suspends Credit Firms After Data Theft
Three credit agencies in South Korea have been suspended for three months in the...
- International
K-Glass: Korea's Answer to Google Glass
07 March 2014 Researchers at South Korea’s KAIST university have unveiled the newest innovation in...
- International
Apple Opens Store On Alibaba's Tmall Marketplace
Apple reportedly has opened its own official store on the Tmall online marketplace operated...
