PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

China’s eCommerce giant Alibaba is hoping to boost cross-border trade by upgrading its wholesale business and adding a new sourcing channel, The Payers reported on Monday (Aug. Alibaba posted results earlier this month that topped expectations as eCommerce sales continued to surge by double-digit percentages.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

As detailed by NPR, though at least some verticals, such as grocery stores, accept card transactions (and thus see at some volume of contactless payments), a significant number of smaller businesses rely on cash to keep revenues coming in.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Payments Canada President and CEO Tracey Black said RTR will help both businesses and consumers drive long-term economic growth. While Track supports a range of payment rails, Transcard highlighted its support of the RTP network as a key value proposition within the context of B2B eCommerce.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In terms of headline numbers, Mastercard’s revenues of $3.9 percent year on year, edged analysts’ estimates slightly, though management noted that revenue on a currency-neutral basis, and excluding items, was up 17 percent. billion, up 18 percent on a currency-neutral basis. and beyond. billion, up more than 14.7 Earnings of $1.82

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2017

Stemming from eCommerce’s increasing popularity, the notion of paying without physical cash has become synonymous with online payments. In a sense, digital currencies began via online payments, which have then shifted into the creation of cryptocurrency like bitcoin, Ethereum and dogecoin.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

Brazil may be facing an economic crisis, but Leo Tristao, country manager for Airbnb, told Fast Company that business is still booming. We can see that in the numbers,” he added. These numbers have been able to grow due to Airbnb’s acceptance of two common local payment methods — Boleto and an option that enabled financing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Doing this correctly requires providers to note which currencies and purchasing instruments consumers in each market prefer to use with recurring expenses. Failing to provide convenient currency options will be detrimental to businesses’ bottom lines. Economic conditions are similarly known to shift preferences in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2018

The proliferation of eCommerce makes it difficult to believe that any business would be operating without a website in today’s market. Separate estimates from PipeCandy pinpointed the number of eCommerce companies around the world at between 2 million and 3 million — and that’s excluding the massive eCommerce market of China.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Consider the fact that signing on to long-term leases, taking on liabilities in the billions of dollars and taking in revenues in the form of short-term leases – right into the face of an economic slowdown – might be a business model facing significant headwinds. WeWork never made it to market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

percent from the previous day’s close of $168.15, though still well up from past numbers. Global economic factors also come into play, such as the price of oil, transportation costs and the value of the U.S. dollar compared to foreign currencies. 2016 before prices fell September through November.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

is impacting everything from eCommerce sales to the value of the nation’s biggest financial institutions. But what he’s found to be the most interesting in talking to who’s on the ground, is the differences in how people voted based on their age or economic status. s decision to say “see ya” to the E.U. With the U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Amazon and the city of New York managed to pull off one of history’s more spectacular break-ups this week, with the Valentine’s Day announcement that the city and the nation’s largest eCommerce firm would not be joining forces to build half of Amazon’s HQ2 in Long Island City. But a number of other people have.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Consumers always have their debit card handy and and can provide that number to a sender – knowing that if something goes wrong they are protected. Senders don’t have to ask receivers for the ABA and routing number of the bank account they’d like the money deposited to either – and then when the 99.9

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

The world’s most famous and recognizable jewelry brand Tiffany reported holiday sales down 5 percent — a reality the company chalked up to “restrained consumer spending tied to challenging and uncertain global economic conditions.” ” Just this week, landmark Manhattan jeweler and bridal firm Michael C.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

The concept these researchers were testing in economic parlance is that of sunk cost. In the dynamic environment in which the world operates now — one in which time is one of the most valuable currencies there is — the sunk cost fallacy can crater businesses in one of three ways. Here in the U.S., 270 million worldwide — every week.

B2B 43

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

With the 2016 presidential race in full swing, many important economic issues are being discussed. These businesses — we call them Store Fronts — number 3.8 Going local means thinking and optimizing for: languages needed, supported currencies, regional logistics, regulation and then, of course, payments and payments processing.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2016

Hosts Karen Webster and David Evans, economist and author of “ Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms ,” received an inside look at what’s really happening in the cyber underworld from a company doing its best to help matchmakers keep fraudsters at bay. “We are creating fraud-free eCommerce.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

A true indicator of the global demand and usage of cash, Delnevo said in a recent interview with PYMNTS, is the rising number of ATMs. When people are worried now about economic consequences, they tend to fall back to relying on cash,” he said. “It There are more ATMs than ever before. The curious case of cash in Europe.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

But not because the fundamentals of its eCommerce business are strong and getting stronger. In fact, Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has said publicly he’d like to sell the eCommerce business. Even Overstock — among the first, if not the first, to accept bitcoin as a payments currency on its site — reports that a measly 0.25

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Dining out versus dining in is tightly correlated to the economic environment in general,” he told Webster, noting that consumer confidence is up and the job market is good. The numbers do not lie” when looking across consumer spending in general. Now, you have an open eCommerce mobile environment” that is vulnerable.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

Gary Cohn, economic adviser at large, former Goldman executive and widely liked by Wall Street, is out the door. The chorus of those saying that back-and-forth retaliation is never sound economic policy has been growing. The Chinese eCommerce company plans to buy out Baidu and other investors in in Ele.me. More retaliation?

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