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Japan’s Fujitsu, JCB, Mizuho Bank Test Blockchain-Based ID System

Japan’s Fujitsu, JCB, Mizuho Bank Test Blockchain-Based ID System
Japan’s Fujitsu, JCB, Mizuho Bank Test Blockchain-Based ID System
October 15, 2020  |  Innovation

Three major Japanese players in technology, payments and banking will run a joint trial to determine how well a new blockchain-based identity verification system operates...

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Second Coronavirus Wave Intensifies In Europe
Second Coronavirus Wave Intensifies In Europe
October 15, 2020  |  Coronavirus

Europe is going through a second wave of COVID-19 infections, with an escalating surge in new cases triggering another round of restrictions, including lockdowns, according...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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Retailers Put The Spotlight On Digital Ordering, Product Availability 
Retailers Put The Spotlight On Digital Ordering, Product Availability 
October 15, 2020  |  Today In Data

Restaurants are working overtime to make sure their ordering systems are as frictionless and safe as possible amid the pandemic, with a number of them deploying advanced...

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

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...

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

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,...

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