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Today in Crypto: Binance Launches First LatAm Payments Card in Argentina; Coinbase to Give BlackRock Clients Access to Crypto

Today in Crypto: Binance Launches First LatAm Payments Card in Argentina; Coinbase to Give BlackRock Clients Access to Crypto
Today in Crypto: Binance Launches First LatAm Payments Card in Argentina; Coinbase to Give BlackRock...
August 04, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has teamed with Mastercard to launch its Binance Card in Argentina, the first Latin American country to have the product. Get the...

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Selecta: Strong H1 Results Drive Shift From Vending Machines to NextGen Autonomous FoodTech
Selecta: Strong H1 Results Drive Shift From Vending Machines to NextGen Autonomous FoodTech
August 04, 2022  |  Earnings

Swiss FoodTech company Selecta used the presentation of its first half (H1) 2022 results Wednesday (Aug. 3) to announce its new ESG targets, built around...

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Block’s Bet on BNPL and Cash App Offsets Beating From Bitcoin
Block’s Bet on BNPL and Cash App Offsets Beating From Bitcoin
August 04, 2022  |  Digital Payments

For Block, the parent company of Square, bitcoin’s been a drag on results, and Cash App has been a boon. Get the Full Story Complete...

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2 in 3 Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumers Prefer to Pay Drs. With Credit
2 in 3 Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumers Prefer to Pay Drs. With Credit
August 04, 2022  |  Connected Economy

What can payments preference tell us about differences in healthcare consumers? In basic terms, those on a solid financial footing stick to the familiar —...

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Lyft Shares Up on Rides Demand Surge
Lyft Shares Up on Rides Demand Surge
August 04, 2022  |  Ridesharing

In Lyft’s Q2 results, the ride-share company saw profits rising as demand surged due to continued reopenings of the economy after the pandemic, a company...

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Supply Chain Snarls Ease as NY Fed Index Hits 18-Month Low
Supply Chain Snarls Ease as NY Fed Index Hits 18-Month Low
August 04, 2022  |  Supply Chain

Global supply chains reported less strain in July than at any point since January 2021, with an easing of port congestion and other issues, the...

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Data Point: 68% of Consumers Want to Keep Passwords Off Their Apps
Data Point: 68% of Consumers Want to Keep Passwords Off Their Apps
August 04, 2022  |  Security & Fraud

Time to leave the passwords behind. Consumers are leaning that way — and would be happy to abandon that age-old, friction-filled relic that traces its...

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EU Asks Developers About Google App Payments, Report Says
EU Asks Developers About Google App Payments, Report Says
August 04, 2022  |  Google

Antitrust regulators in the EU have asked developers about a threat from Google to cut apps out of its Play Store if they used other...

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Business Have the Will, but Don’t Always Find the Way to Modernize Payments
Business Have the Will, but Don’t Always Find the Way to Modernize Payments
August 04, 2022  |  SMBs

The Future of Business Payables Innovation: How New B2B Payment Options Can Transform the SMB Back Office, a PYMNTS and Plastiq collaboration, reveals there is...

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