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Ex-Uber Jump Manager Joins Amazon’s eBike Unit

Ex-Uber Jump Manager Joins Amazon’s eBike Unit
Ex-Uber Jump Manager Joins Amazon’s eBike Unit
September 14, 2020  |  Personnel

Amazon has poached former Uber manager Alex Vickers and Justin Ginsburgh, known for starting New York’s Citi Bike bikeshare service, to helm its eBike delivery...

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Liberia’s Lonestar Cell, WorldRemit Team On Cross-Border Remittances
Liberia’s Lonestar Cell, WorldRemit Team On Cross-Border Remittances
September 14, 2020  |  Cross-border Payments

Liberia-based mobile financial services firm Lonestar Cell is partnering with WorldRemit to offer customers mobile remittances straight to their Lonestar Cell MTN Mobile Money (MoMo)...

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Gaming Platforms Betting On ‘The Metaverse’ As Next Internet
Gaming Platforms Betting On ‘The Metaverse’ As Next Internet
September 14, 2020  |  Omnicommerce

Our first glimpse of the not-so-distant future of handheld tech was ‘the communicator’ on TV’s “Star Trek” in the late 1960s, providing science fiction’s vision...

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Klarna Valued At $10.65B After $650M Funding Round
Klarna Valued At $10.65B After $650M Funding Round
September 14, 2020  |  Investments

Private equity firm Silver Lake is leading a group in a $650 million investment in buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Klarna, according to a...

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Bitcoin Daily: CFTC Charges Four In Alleged Crypto Scam; ECB Gets First Collectible Crypto
Bitcoin Daily: CFTC Charges Four In Alleged Crypto Scam; ECB Gets First Collectible Crypto
September 14, 2020  |  Bitcoin

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed a complaint in a Texas U.S. District Court against four people for allegedly “fraudulently soliciting funds” from individuals to...

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Today In Payments Around The World: Oracle Appointed TikTok US ‘Technology Provider’; Alibaba Mulls Investment In Grab
Today In Payments Around The World: Oracle Appointed TikTok US ‘Technology Provider’; Alibaba Mulls Investment...
September 14, 2020  |  News

In today’s top news in payments from around the world, Oracle Corp. has said that it was chosen to be ByteDance’s “trusted technology provider” that...

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Emirates NBD Debuts International Payments Hub For Six Countries
Emirates NBD Debuts International Payments Hub For Six Countries
September 14, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Middle Eastern finance group Emirates National Bank Dubai (NBD) has deployed a centralized international payments hub on Tata Consultancy Services‘ TCS BaNCS For Payments, according...

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UK Regulator Ends Half Its Money Laundering Probes Without Prosecuting
UK Regulator Ends Half Its Money Laundering Probes Without Prosecuting
September 14, 2020  |  Regulation

The United Kingdom’s financial regulator has closed the book on seven of 14 criminal investigations into the breach of money laundering rules, the Financial Times...

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Japan Fair Trade Commission Receives Amazon Japan’s Improvement Blueprint; Italy’s Competition Regulator AGCM Probes Cloud Platforms 
Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Japan Fair Trade Commission Receives Amazon Japan’s Improvement Blueprint; Italy’s Competition Regulator AGCM Probes...
September 14, 2020  |  Regulation

Here’s the latest news for Big Techs Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google, which are coming under increasing scrutiny from regulators and officials. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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