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‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Combats COVID-19 With Payment Options

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point-of-sale (POS) form of lending that’s become a retail sensation around the world in recent years. It is for these reasons that we see buy now, pay later solutions being so rapidly adopted across the fitness market and almost all retail categories.”. Enter ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL), the layaway 2.0

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Changing The Stripes Of Omnichannel Inventory Management

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In retail, inventory is what you’ve got and you hope they want. Technology, as it does so often with every corner of life, can help augment that (retail) judgement. Technology, as it does so often with every corner of life, can help augment that (retail) judgement. We understand that the retailers are concerned about inventory.

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The PYMNTS 5-In-1: April 20 Daily Data Digest

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Today’s 5-In-1 has the latest numbers from Google about sites being hacked, some pretty big price tag potential for the future of unattended retail, the latest figures from the CFPB about hidden payday lending fees, what the EU is accusing Google of, and numbers that show the impact of Amazon’s latest fashion tie up.

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Why Digital Marketplaces Must Anticipate Shoppers’ Needs

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Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment company GO-JEK , for instance, is expanding its financial technology services through partnerships with peer-to-peer (P2P) lending firms Dana Cita, Aktivaku and Findaya. Smartphones contributed one trillion dollars to overall retail sales in the United States during 2018.

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Watching The Watchers Of The Apple Watch Watch

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Consumer Credit: Auto lending is showing signs of concern with higher delinquency rates and defaults. Retail Bankruptcies: The writing has been on the wall, and now the writing is going on more and more bankruptcy petitions. Brexit: The price tag on this divorce is getting higher. Recent demands by the EU that the U.K.

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Amazon (And Others) Brace For India’s New eCommerce Tax

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To get a sense of how the impact may accrue to smaller sellers, Kumar Rajagopalan, CEO of Retailers Association of India (RAI), told Rediff.com that the tax can “create a cash flow situation for genuine sellers, too. The law allows for fines of more than $5,000 per violation. ‘Rent-A-Bank’ Practices Examined.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

And it’s always nice to have a lending arm when you have a high net worth business. We were 75% retail. So bringing the two firms together, you really made us 50/50 retail and institutional, and that’s been very important. If you’re a retail investor, “Hey, I like the idea of India, I could go buy an ETF.