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Super Apps Rising: Mobile Drives Digital Payments Uptick In Pakistan

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In Pakistan, and elsewhere, the stars are aligning for greater use of digital banking and payments to improve financial inclusion. For now, he said, firms like TAG, powered by i2c and other providers are “in a race for customer acquisition and making sure that all the other pieces are working before adding those hooks.

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Pakistan Launches Payment System To Boost Financial Inclusion

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Pakistan has debuted a government-run instant digital payment system to help with financial inclusion and government revenue, Reuters reports. The app, called TAG, will work to provide assistance for the 100 million Pakistan adults who are unbanked.

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PodChats for FutureCFO: Why CFOs need to drive ESG initiatives

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Big price tags and longer timelines. There are a lot of unquantifiable ESG initiatives like diversity and inclusion, health, and safety. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs can pose unique challenges to finance chiefs charged with maximizing returns.

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Former Heartland CEO Agrees To $250K SEC Fine

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It also reported that, last October, Hanratty agreed to pay $528,608 with the inclusion of a civil fine of $250,628 to settle charges related to the SEC. Through a release in December of that year, the companies said the definitive merger agreement came with a price tag of $4.3 billion and would grow the U.S.

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Retail Pulse: Amazon Grows 4-Star Footprint; Forever 21 Files For Bankruptcy

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There are also digital price tags for every item, and Prime members can pay the discounted online price for their selections at the store. Reis data indicates that the proportion of units sitting empty in some cities – with the inclusion of Indianapolis, Indiana and Birmingham, Alabama – is roughly four times higher than San Francisco.

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L’Occitane Embraces The High-Tech Experience

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Known for its shea and almond bath products, lavender scents and its tastefully muted color scheme, L’Occitane is very much about what its tag line says it is: natural beauty from the south of France. . It is happy to keep that demographic, and its enthusiastic spending habits, but it also wants its customer base to be a bit more inclusive.

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How Tech Is Reinventing How Brides Say Yes To The Dress

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And even an inclusive boutique can’t hold hundreds, thousands and millions of pieces of inventory,” Vorhees said. It makes for entertaining television, Anomalie Co-founder and CEO Leslie Vorhees told PYMNTS in a recent conversation — but a guide to what it’s actually like for the average person to buy a wedding dress? “The