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Pandora Uses Recycled Gold to Ease Borrowing Costs and Dazzle Customers
Pandora Uses Recycled Gold to Ease Borrowing Costs and Dazzle Customers
March 03, 2023  |  Retail

Danish jewelry brand Pandora is reportedly using recycled gold as a way to appeal to eco-minded creditors and customers via an unprecedented sustainability-linked bond that...

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AI Critical to Making Business Payments Faster and Safer
AI Critical to Making Business Payments Faster and Safer
March 03, 2023  |  B2B Payments

“Real-time payments processing is becoming a reality in B2B,” Manish Jaiswal, chief product and technology officer at Corcentric, told PYMNTS. But as payments get faster,...

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Nordics Remain Real-Time Frontrunners Amid Double-Digit Growth in Payments Volume
Nordics Remain Real-Time Frontrunners Amid Double-Digit Growth in Payments Volume
March 02, 2023  |  Real-Time Payments

Home to some of the most developed and widespread real-time payments schemes, Europe is leading the charge in driving consumer and merchant adoption across the...

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Contactless Cards Dominate in UK as Mobile Wallets Poised to Increase
Contactless Cards Dominate in UK as Mobile Wallets Poised to Increase
March 02, 2023  |  Payment Methods

Contactless card usage is firmly entrenched in the U.K. and goes as far back as 2007, when the popular OnePulse was launched. In fact, recent...

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Klarna Teams With Buddy to Promote Gen Z Financial Health
Klarna Teams With Buddy to Promote Gen Z Financial Health
March 02, 2023  |  Consumer Finance

Klarna has teamed with budgeting app Buddy to help Gen Z consumers track their expenses. The partnership between the two Swedish companies lets Buddy users...

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Visa and Visa Foundation Aim to Close Funding Gap for Africa’s Female Entrepreneurs
Visa and Visa Foundation Aim to Close Funding Gap for Africa’s Female Entrepreneurs
March 02, 2023  |  Financial Inclusion

Visa Foundation says it wants to help Africa’s underfunded female-led startups take off. Visa Foundation announced Thursday (March 2) that it would give $1 million...

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B2B Payments Go Digital — or Go to Die
B2B Payments Go Digital — or Go to Die
March 02, 2023  |  B2B Payments

Once businesses go digital, they don’t go back. After all, the future only moves in one direction. That’s according to Luke Trayfoot, chief revenue officer...

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VCs Place Bets on Businesses Seeing Value in Embedding Payments Into Software
VCs Place Bets on Businesses Seeing Value in Embedding Payments Into Software
March 02, 2023  |  Startups

In today’s economic environment, reaching profitability is considered a badge of honor. And that means FinTechs and startups that have yet to achieve that holy...

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Revolut User Base Grows Alongside Auditor Warnings
Revolut User Base Grows Alongside Auditor Warnings
March 01, 2023  |  Digital Banking

All-in-one FinTech platform Revolut’s first full year of profit is now coming under question. This, as the company’s auditor BDO LLP warned that Revolut’s 2021...

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