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Fast-Growing Neobank Lupiya Partners with Network International to Launch Card Product

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in 2015 to 69.4% There’s also a prevailing gender finance gap, with women struggling to access financial products and services from regulated providers. By outsourcing payments to a Payments as a Service (PaaS) provider, fintechs can significantly reduce the time required to launch new payment products and services.

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Citi fined $25.9M over alleged discrimination

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The bank, between 2015 and 2021, denied certain credit card products to applicants with surnames ending in “ian” and “yan,” suffixes that Citi employees associated with Armenian national origin, the CFPB said.

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Senators Question Amazon’s Product Search Process

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Lawmakers want to know how Amazon determines which products receive its “Amazon’s Choice” badge. Richard Blumenthal expressed concern that the eCommerce giant could be leading consumers into buying “inferior” products. In a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez and Connecticut Sen.

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Kerv Payments Ring Enters Production with Visa, Mastercard on Board

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The Kerv contactless payments ring, a Kickstarter-backed project that reached its funding goal in October 2015, has begun production.

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Amazon Killing It With Its Own Products

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3) new analysis that shows that, by leveraging its online shelf space to introduce new private-label products, Amazon has had success in stealing market share from established brands in a lot of product categories. 2015 to Aug. 2015 to Aug. 1010data released Thursday (Nov. 1010data found that, from Sept.

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Stan Chooses Stripe to Improve Business Agility with Payments and Billing

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The company, launched in 2015, is known for providing Australians with unlimited access to thousands of hours of entertainment including first-run exclusive shows, original productions, movies, kids programming, and sport, all ad-free.

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Startup Files Suit Vs. L’Oréal On Hair Products

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unit of French cosmetics giant L’Oréal is being sued by a small California firm, The Wall Street Journal reported, alleging that L’Oréal copied a hair product. Olaplaex said in its suit that L’Oréal gained access to the smaller firm’s products and marketing efforts when it engaged in takeover talks in 2015.

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