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Today In Payments Around The World: Lendify Secures $115M In Funding; Contour Teams With Mphasis On Trade Tech

Today In Payments Around The World: Lendify Secures $115M In Funding; Contour Teams With Mphasis On Trade Tech
Today In Payments Around The World: Lendify Secures $115M In Funding; Contour Teams With Mphasis...
October 22, 2020  |  News

In today’s top payments news around the world, Swedish peer-to-peer (P2P) lending upstart Lendify has reportedly secured $115 million of funding, while international trade platform Contour...

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Amazon Teams With Family-Owned Business In Counterfeiting Lawsuit
Amazon Teams With Family-Owned Business In Counterfeiting Lawsuit
October 22, 2020  |  Legal

Seattle-based Amazon has hooked up with a small business to sue 11 individuals, alleging that they counterfeited J.L. Childress’ products — including travel bags for...

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Instacart Enables EBT SNAP Payments For ALDI
Instacart Enables EBT SNAP Payments For ALDI
October 22, 2020  |  Digital Payments

Instacart has teamed with ALDI to debut EBT SNAP payments for same-day eCommerce supermarket delivery and pickup to bolster access to those services, according to...

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Facebook Brings Dating App To Europe
Facebook Brings Dating App To Europe
October 22, 2020  |  Facebook

Social media giant Facebook is bringing its online dating tool to Europe after seeing success in the 20 countries where Facebook Dating is already offered,...

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Facebook’s WhatsApp Enables In-Chat Purchases
Facebook’s WhatsApp Enables In-Chat Purchases
October 22, 2020  |  Social Commerce

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is introducing new services that will enable business users to sell directly on the platform within chats, WhatsApp said in a statement on...

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Fiserv: Helping Small Businesses Get Back To Business
Fiserv: Helping Small Businesses Get Back To Business
October 22, 2020  |  Innovation

When Fiserv witnessed the devastating effects the pandemic was having on the small merchants it serves, the firm immediately made a plan to help them...

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Chipotle’s Online Ordering Surge Bodes Well For Restaurants’ Digital Efforts
Chipotle’s Online Ordering Surge Bodes Well For Restaurants’ Digital Efforts
October 22, 2020  |  Earnings

For restaurants — quick-service restaurants, especially — three Ds are powering sales: delivery, digitally, dining at home. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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How BNPL Became This Holiday Season’s Hottest Payments Trend
How BNPL Became This Holiday Season’s Hottest Payments Trend
October 22, 2020  |  Buy Now Pay Later

At this point, half-a-year in and with no clearly defined end in sight just yet, the fact that we’re living in a changed world is...

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SMB Survey: It’s All About The Customer
SMB Survey: It’s All About The Customer
October 22, 2020  |  Retail

Small businesses are optimistic and resilient but not communicating their value as well as they could. That’s the hot take from a qualitative and quantitative...

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