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Slice Integrates No-Fee Visa For Millennial Shoppers In India
October 15, 2020

India’s pay-later app Slice is introducing a no-fee Visa card that offers its Gen Z and millennial customers cash back and no-cost EMIs during festive sales. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Partnerships / Acquisitions
Stripe To Acquire African Payments Processor Paystack
October 15, 2020

Stripe is acquiring Paystack, a company that says it processes more than half of online payments in Nigeria. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...

Retail
Automotive Continues Comeback Leading With Digital-First Tools
October 15, 2020

Although consumer shopping behaviors are changing, the automotive market continues its comeback, with the digital-first economy playing a lead role and a newly-minted publicly-traded company — Shift Technologies — among its ranks. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Retail
Conversational Commerce Finds Its Voice In Digital Retail
October 15, 2020

Consumers want information in the digital-first economy – actually, they wanted it yesterday. As new PYMNTS data show, they want to know about everything from shipping dates to available inventory to pricing to the exact time their package is being delivered curbside. And if they...

Retail
Tiffany Upbeat On Sales, Operating Earnings Amid COVID-19 Comeback
October 15, 2020

Tiffany & Co. said that preliminary results for August and September 2020 are positive, even as its “worldwide net sales for the two-month period declined slightly from the comparable period in 2019,” according to a news release. The company said that “positive sales trends are...

Retail
Walgreens Profits Fall As UK Business Struggles In Fourth Quarter
October 15, 2020

Walgreens Boots Alliance said its fourth-quarter profits dropped 45 percent to $373 million from $677 million a year earlier as the U.K. business, in particular, was hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a press release on Thursday (Oct. 15). Sales in the fourth quarter,...

B2B Payments
Reshoring Of US Manufacturing Presents Its ‘Biggest Opportunity in 70 Years’
October 15, 2020

As U.S. businesses enabled by an array of digital capabilities look to overseas markets for new customers post-pandemic, a curious reversal of sorts is happening in the unlikeliest of places: industrial manufacturing. Many manufacturing firms that offshored years ago are now returning to U.S. soil...

B2B Payments
How The World Is Making Paper Invoices Digital
October 15, 2020

In recent months we’ve seen the pressures confronting the B2B space as have not been seen before.  That’s due, of course, to the pandemic, which has exposed the vagaries of a market worth tens of trillions of dollars largely dependent on paper checks, and paper...

B2B Payments
FinTech Software Fuels Simplification, Analytics For Banks
October 15, 2020

As online platforms allow financial institutions (FI) to potentially streamline their operations, Judo Bank has tapped FinTech nCino for its commercial banking software. In addition, OneAZ Credit Union has tapped Lumin Digital for its cloud-based solution. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...