Non-fungible token (NFT) technology is meeting travel technology in the lobby of resorts and hotels with the launch of NFTs that hotel guests can buy, similar to how StubHub allows sellers to offer concert and sporting events tickets. This new practice ensures that hotel owners...
The U.K.’s competition watchdog says it will allow the ticket resale websites Viagogo and StubHub to proceed with a $4 billion (£2.9 billion) merger. According to The Guardian, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) approved a plan that will see StubHub’s international operations sold to...
Event ticket reseller StubHub has reversed its no-refunds policy and will pay back some customers in cash for events canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Associated Press reported. To the chagrin of ticketholders, StubHub instituted a no-refunds policy in March 2020, just as the...
In today’s top payments news around the world, Germany is looking to strengthen the leadership of its Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), while a U.K. antitrust watchdog is ordering Viagogo to sell StubHub’s international business. Plus, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are eying the Asian...
November 26, 2019
In today’s top payments news, more than half of the 3,114 counties in the United States lost bank branches from 2012 to 2017. Also, cybersecurity company Kaspersky is putting a spotlight on the increase in fake browser notifications this year. And the pre-orders are coming in for Tesla’s so-called “cybertruck,” days after shattered glass embarrassed the automaker […]
September 26, 2019
In the “week of the CEO resignation,” eBay’s Devin Wenig is out, amid clashes with activist investors and the board. Amid slowing sales and rougher competition from Amazon and others,...
July 22, 2019
Instant payments are becoming crucial to consumers participating in the platform economy. These consumers want to be sure that they can both send and receive money seconds after they’ve completed...
January 30, 2019
In Q4, eBay saw deceleration into the end of the year, in part, on macro headwinds internationally as buyer volumes slowed, but still logged growth in active buyers, as well...
May 24, 2022
Non-fungible token (NFT) technology is meeting travel technology in the lobby of resorts and hotels with the launch of NFTs that hotel guests can buy, similar to how StubHub allows sellers to offer concert and sporting events tickets. This new practice ensures that hotel owners get paid for their rooms, even when someone cancels their […]
September 08, 2021
The U.K.’s competition watchdog says it will allow the ticket resale websites Viagogo and StubHub to proceed with a $4 billion (£2.9 billion) merger. According to The Guardian, the Competition...
May 03, 2021
Event ticket reseller StubHub has reversed its no-refunds policy and will pay back some customers in cash for events canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Associated Press reported. To...
February 02, 2021
Citing competition concerns, the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog is ordering Viagogo to sell StubHub’s international business. After taking a closer look into the $4 billion merger between the two companies, the Competition and...
