PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Walmart is leaving Argentina, announcing a deal to sell its stores there to a regional grocery chain amid an economic crisis that is gripping the South American country. Walmart, the world’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer, announced Friday (Nov. Walmart did not disclose the price of the deal, but it did report to the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the end of the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Advance initiative. The program was made to offer companies economic relief ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. Bank Of England Chief Sees Bank-Backed Digital Currency On Horizon. Why Large Retailers Are Mandating Masks.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

What if we were to tell you that retail shopping isn’t dead? That’s bad news for commercial mortgage-backed securities tied to real estate, where loan viability and payments visibility remains in doubt if rent is not there to cover interest payments or if no tenants are left to pay said rent. Bricks and Mortar , Alive?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

That means enabling customers to pay with their preferred, trusted payment methods and currencies. China, the first country impacted by the coronavirus, thus serves as an example of how the pandemic may shift economic trends — such as by accelerating the push toward eCommerce. Achieving this can be a heavy lift for businesses, however.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

In today’s top news, FedEx officially expanded home delivery to include Sundays, Uber’s CEO believes his company is the most likely ride-hailing service to reach profitability, and the OCC prepares a civil suit against 10 former Wells Fargo executives for their roles in its retail banking scandals. FedEx Officially Launches Sunday Delivery.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

We also believe that this crisis will likely accelerate the trend of bank branch transformation as several leading retail banks have already closed significant portions of their branch locations, and it is unclear how many of these will reopen when the pandemic has passed.” . Cardtronics reported GAAP net income of $5.8 million, or $0.13

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Through analysis of the top five uses of blockchain , ranked by their potential to generate economic value, a recent report by PwC gauges the technology’s potential to create value across industry, from healthcare, government and public services, to manufacturing, finance, logistics and retail, the auditing and consulting firm noted.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

government continues to distribute economic impact payments to American citizens via ACH and paper checks over the course of weeks and months, it has become increasingly clear that their legacy payment infrastructure is ripe for innovation,” Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards told PYMNTS. People want answers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Radial data released this week shows that in terms of overall retail online, there’s some opportunity to gain eyeballs and clicks — among less frequent Amazon shoppers. The same survey found that among Amazon shoppers, 95 percent describe the online retailer as “trustworthy.” But better act fast. Two words: Cashless payments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

You have these ‘local Amazons’ that are cropping up,” he told Webster, “and if you integrate with them, then you have merchants in meaningful numbers driving digital currency activity. QR codes and even peer-t0-peer (P2P) options are gaining favor, especially for smaller retailers. Issuance Matters, Too .

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has again released its report on top risks facing banks, with its Spring 2017 analysis warning FIs that threats are coming from all angles. Noreika, acting Comptroller of the Currency, in a statement. Today, the federal banking system remains healthy,” he continued. “As

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

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. dollar on cross-border flows and the economic weakness in some emerging market countries.”. Earnings of $1.82

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

The world’s largest retailer by sales quietly filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a blockchain-backed digital currency all its own. The Federal Reserve orchestrated an official investigation of an Amazon facility in Virginia, kicking off what is expected to be ongoing oversight of cloud providers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

B2B, in some respects, is the stubborn mule of the digital economy, and represents a massive source of economic strength. Amazon itself does not handle the bitcoin, and it was not clear which financial institutions are converting it from crypto to fiat (real currency) so merchants can receive actual money.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2020

” Any B2B eCommerce platform to facilitate sales, however, must be ingrained with payments security and buyer-supplier trust. “ Trust is the currency of a successful marketplace,” he said. . “You have to focus on what you can do, and not what you can’t do as a small business or an entrepreneur.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

BoA Looks to Create Multi-Currency Digital Wallet. The North Carolina-based bank filed a Multi-Tiered Digital Wallet Security application in February 2018 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, according to a report. Can Digitally-Read Emotions Play a Role in Payments and Retail? Trackers and Reports.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

Treasury Department announced plans for more inclusive representations of note-worthy (pun intended) Americans on the $5, $10 and $20 bills, there were rumblings that some other denominations of currency should perhaps disappear altogether. As American Banker outlined in a recent article, marijuana is a booming niche retail industry.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Now why, you might ask, would the biggest retailer in the world buy an eCommerce site that was facing a mega cash crunch in December and had to raise a whopping $550M just to keep the lights on? And there are a whole bunch of players that are making it their business to help retailers make an essential part of their POS.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

As an ex-PayPal-er herself, Mielke noted that she is happy for PayPal — as having a partner like UnionPay paired with the payments license it managed to secure with the GoPay acquisition late last year are an incredibly powerful combination. If it goes on, it could have significant economic impacts.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

With the 2016 presidential race in full swing, many important economic issues are being discussed. To add insult to injury here, the Census Bureau’s accounting for online sales as a percentage of retail sales may not be keeping up with the reality of what consumers are doing. Secure Convenience: The New Password Death March?

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Companies looking to advance in this new economic environment will continue to rely on the same four strategies that have proven successful over the past 16 months. For example, a retailer might discover that, despite plans to build another location, many of its consumers choose to never shop in a store again. Secure a quick win.

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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. Consumers spend time waiting for websites to load.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In an interview with Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Nomi Prins takes up and extends the argument that she has made over a series of books, that central bankers are ever-more administering policies that are good for the markets but very bad for the real economy and real people. economy and Wall Street.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2016

and a year ago, Ant had raised $2 billion from China’s National Social Security Fund. The positive for Ant Financial is that should the company need a cash infusion, or should the economic shoals become too rocky to navigate (remember, China’s growth is slowing), there could possibly be a bailout. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” It’s secure, it’s cheap, it’s faster than a speeding bullet. What is it you ask? ” Here are two examples.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 24, 2021

Put simply, inflation is a measure of the change in purchasing power in a given currency over time. The second is that inflation is tied to currencies, and different currencies can be exposed to different levels of inflation over the same period. What is inflation? Implicit in this definition are two key components of inflation.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In retail, peak seasons can be as reliable as clockwork, dependable as — and even dictated by — spring, summer, fall and winter. Back to school is the longest peak season, stretching through July and August, generating tens of billions of dollars (as estimated by eMarketer ) for kindergarten through 12th grade and college-focused retailers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

It’s not realistic to manage 20 million retail bank accounts” at the Fed, contended Cagney, especially with the infrastructure needed to support robust know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) activities. The idea where we are not at a ‘one day security’ where I have real-time visibility is crazy,” he told Webster.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

I had an economics lesson, I had a life lesson, I had an epiphany, I had a race relations lesson, I had a self-esteem and confidence lesson. Being broke is economic, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind, a depressed condition of your spirit. It’s home economics class, doesn’t exist anymore. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Buffet’s expertise in the economics of railroads grew out of his childhood fascination-turned lifelong interest in them. railroads were responsible for $274 billion in economic activity and employed 1.5 The economic impact of railroads isn’t felt only in the U.S. In 2014, the last time data was publicly reported , U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

PYMNTS recently caught up with Sutter for a discussion of all those changes — taking place amid an evolving regulatory environment for short-term rentals secured online, as well as changing travel and payment habits. That’s one way to keep an edge via payments. Visual Tools.

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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. Highlighting The Good.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he isn’t in a rush to adopt a central bank digital currency (CBDC) because of the risks such currencies pose to the status of the dollar. Decoding QR Codes: Retailers Embrace Simple, Secure Touchless Payments Option.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

The bitcoin mining companies don’t hire anyone when they come to town — except security guards. The latest round of this so-called crypto-jacking was reported this week when a hacker or gang of hackers broke into a Tesla-owned Amazon cloud account and used it to “mine” cryptocurrency, security researchers said. “We percent.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This essay is forthcoming in the Review of Keynesian Economics and is posted here with the permission of the editor. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website 1. The issue of persistence is blurred by transmission effects from the wholesale to the retail levels. Contact: galbraith@mail.utexas.edu.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

So the idea being, you know, that we could analyze, dissect companies anywhere from, you know, senior securities, secured down to distressed. So I think there are 4,800 equities, different securities globally. And so whenever we build a portfolio, we think about every security has a tail to it. Was that the basis?

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2018

In addition, there is increased lawmaker attention to promote innovation among non-bank providers of new payments and payment-related technology, and more consumer concern about online and data security. To do so, regulators should work with FinTech firms on “data sharing, standardization, security and liability issues.”.

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