November 21, 2019
Banking Circle Broadens SMB Lending Reach With Cardstream
Banking Circle, a company that provides global B2B payment solutions, is collaborating with payment processing company Cardstream to deploy a small business lending solution. In an announcement on Banking Circle’s...
November 20, 2019
Alibaba’s $12.9B IPO Could Be Hong Kong’s Biggest Share Sale...
In the world’s biggest IPO so far this year, Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba is set to raise up to $12.9 billion in a landmark public listing in Hong Kong, Reuters...
November 13, 2019
Alibaba Files For Secondary $13.4B Listing In Hong Kong
China’s Alibaba Group has unveiled a secondary listing plan in Hong Kong dubbed “Project Tangerine” in an effort to raise about $13 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday...
November 01, 2019
Eastern Europe Online Retail Sales Continue Double-Digit Growth
According to the Eastern Europe B2C E-Commerce and Online Payment Market 2019 report, online retail sales in Eastern European countries continue a trend of double-digit growth rates this year, a...
October 16, 2019
Citi On Simplifying Cross-Border Payments
The buyer is in Canada. The seller is in Singapore. The transaction wends its way across borders, in the middle of the night, settling instantly. In the always-on, 24/7/365 economy, payments...
October 13, 2019
China’s Club Factory Raises $100M To Grow Online Sales In...
Chinese eCommerce platform Club Factory has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round as it plans expansion into India, sources reported on Friday (Oct. 11). The new funding...
October 11, 2019
Facebook’s Libra, Uber Losses, Instant Deposits Top Week’s News
It’s never quite a slow week in the world of payments and commerce, and the newest edition of the PYMNTS Weekender is proof of that. This week’s coverage includes a...
October 10, 2019
PingPong: Why Doing Payments Globally Is All About Thinking Locally
The appeal of the global market for both eCommerce buyers and sellers needs little explanation or introduction. As billions of consumers all over the world are logging into the global...
October 08, 2019
What’s The Future For NBA-Related Retail In China?
Basketball is one of the most popular sports – if not the most popular sport – in China, but there’s a little less NBA available today for online shoppers in that...