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Could Super App Users Spell the End of Germany’s Cash-Heavy Retail Economy?
Could Super App Users Spell the End of Germany’s Cash-Heavy Retail Economy?
July 20, 2022  |  Digital Payments

It has frequently been observed that German consumers are an anomaly among their northern European neighbors due to their comparably high preference for cash. Get...

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Digital Commerce Surge Continues to Dominate the 2022 Agenda
Digital Commerce Surge Continues to Dominate the 2022 Agenda
July 20, 2022  |  Opinion

Simone Lavicka, head of strategy, marketing and sales enablement at Digital Commerce at Worldline, writes  in the PYMNTS eBook “Baseline 2022: What the Next Six...

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Wish, Collect+ Partner on Click and Collect Initiative
Wish, Collect+ Partner on Click and Collect Initiative
July 20, 2022  |  Retail

eCommerce marketplace Wish has teamed up with the United Kingdom’s largest retail parcel network, Collect+, to simplify and accelerate the pick up, delivery and return...

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US, UK Policymakers Plan on Delivering Crypto Promises in 2022
US, UK Policymakers Plan on Delivering Crypto Promises in 2022
July 20, 2022  |  Regulation

In 2021, policymakers around the world raised concerns that crypto assets were too big to be left unregulated and regulation was needed to offer more...

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UK’s Proposed Bill Paves the Way for New Stock-Listing Rules
UK’s Proposed Bill Paves the Way for New Stock-Listing Rules
July 20, 2022  |  Regulation

The British government on July 19 set out plans to bolster the competitiveness of the U.K. as a global financial center to compete with Wall...

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Visa Changes Chargeback Dispute Program
Visa Changes Chargeback Dispute Program
July 20, 2022  |  VISA

Visa is changing how it deals with first-party fraud, or intentional cardholder misuse, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. Get the Full Story...

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To Survive Funding Drought, Startups Must Think Like Camels, Not Unicorns
To Survive Funding Drought, Startups Must Think Like Camels, Not Unicorns
July 20, 2022  |  Startups

It’s been widely referred to as the “fundraising winter”: a major downturn as tech stocks fall and the appetite for investment wanes, leading to mounting...

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PYMNTS GCC Series: Big Tech Firms Set Up Shop in Qatar
PYMNTS GCC Series: Big Tech Firms Set Up Shop in Qatar
July 19, 2022  |  emea

In this fifth installment in a PYMNTS series on the state of FinTech in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, we take a look at...

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Concerns Over Lost Fee Income Prompt Nigerian Lenders to Slow CBDC Adoption
Concerns Over Lost Fee Income Prompt Nigerian Lenders to Slow CBDC Adoption
July 19, 2022  |  CBDC

Nigerian lenders have been putting up roadblocks against using the country’s digital currency, concerned about loss of revenue from traditional banking services, Central Bank of...

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