PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The enhancements follow technical problems resulting from a 35-day government shutdown, which caused problems in paycheck deductions and missed payments for some workers, reports said. The government’s use of multiple payroll systems means addressing those issues can be a challenge. the publication said.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Illicit share of all cryptocurrency transaction volume, 2018-2023, Source: Chainalysis 2024 Crypto Crime Report, Chainalysis, Jan 2024 Conversely, the data reveal an increase in ransomware attacks and darknet markets, indicating challenges in cybersecurity and a resurgence in these illicit activities.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In an interview with the paper in 2018, Peloton Co-founder and Chief Executive John Foley noted that this year “makes a lot of sense” for an IPO. But the year has had a rocky start, as the agency didn’t have the ability to give the go-ahead for IPOs with the partial government shutdown. billion, per unnamed sources.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Its last valuation was $600 million in 2018, Reuters reported, citing data from PitchBook. Earlier in the year, the increase in convenience needs came as people had less options to shop, due to the pandemic's shutdowns, and as they became more concerned about their health because of the virus.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Compare the French shutdown to the economic damage — approximately $11 billion — the United States’ government shutdown caused in early 2019. In Italy, consumer confidence in January 2020 grew to 111.8 from 110.8 in December of last year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

As some states consider lifting their shutdown orders, investors and Mickey Mouse fans are watching what Disney will do. Disney, which makes a third of its revenue from parks and products, began the shutdowns on March 12. More than 157 million people visited Disney parks in 2018, according to the Themed Entertainment Association.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The government shutdown was no speed bump, at least, according to the latest job numbers. Department of Labor (DOL), showed that even with a partial government shutdown, growth marked the period and the unemployment rate stood at 4 percent. These latest numbers come after an average monthly gain of 223,000, seen throughout 2018.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

and elsewhere, reels from the shutdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. There is one shining light in the company’s operations: the pan-Asian brand Wagamama, which has performed well since the Restaurant Group bought it in 2018. Charlie Baker’s shutdown of restaurants on St. The latter will take the lion’s share of the hit.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The shutdowns are on in the European Union as COVID-19 cases rise and local leaders work overtime to bend back the curve because their hospital ICU beds are outstripped by the exploding number of new cases. is far from the only continental player tapping into shutdowns. In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

government shutdown and lower volatility, and declined by 17 percent. million in the first quarter of 2018. The use of Zelle for business-to-consumer “digital disbursements” also grew by 135 percent between 2018 and 2019. billion in 2018. economy slow in the near future. Customers sent or received 58.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Businesses built up their cash reserves throughout 2018, researchers found, and did so at a faster pace in Q4 2018 than they had done in the previous quarter. Still, the AFP said the findings signal optimism despite unfavorable market conditions stemming from the government shutdown, trade disputes and a slowing global economy.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

That means economic activity for months post-vaccine will be compared with months that fell during the depths of the COVID-19-related shutdowns beginning in March 2021. adults planned to get flu shots in 2018 even though 60 percent thought getting them was a good idea.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Data shows that stores are closing or filing for bankruptcy this year at a faster pace than in 2018. The reported noted that a subpar 2018 holiday season was a main factor, with December retail sales dropping 1.6 percent from the month prior — the weakest sales performance since December 2009.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2020

In New York City, Broadway’s shutdown portends a series of ripple effects, all of them massive headwinds for travel and tourism — specifically hotels, restaurants and airlines. Thomas Schumacher, president and producer of Disney Theatrical Productions, blamed the closing on the “industrywide shutdown and resulting economic fallout.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

The company, founded in 2018, has focused since its inception on connecting remote workers with payment solutions. Remote work has become ubiquitous during the pandemic as companies have been forced to deal with shutdowns.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The companies first started working together in 2018 to offer Kroger customers exclusive savings of up to 85 percent off the list price of commonly prescribed medications. The World Bank forecasted in May that due to the shutdown caused by the pandemic, remittances will decline by 20 percent to about $445 billion.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Twenty-nine percent of SMB CEOs said economic conditions had recently improved , Vistage’s Q1 analysis revealed, a significant decline from the 44 percent who said the same in Q4 2018, and even more of a drop from the 62 percent who agreed in Q1 2018. middle-market in the recently released Golub Capital Altman Index.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

Andrew Cuomo and the state’s Department of Labor, concerns several drivers who decided to apply for New York unemployment benefits after the pandemic decimated their rider bases, and who have yet to see any unemployment money after months of shutdown. The lawsuit asks for those drivers to be paid their benefits immediately.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Data shows that stores are closing or filing for bankruptcy this year at a faster pace than in 2018. Additional retail bankruptcy filings are expected along with the closure of brick-and-mortar stores.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Deel has focused on linking remote workers with payment offerings since its inception in 2018. Remote work has become ubiquitous amid COVID-19, as firms have been forced to contend with shutdowns. Andreessen Horowitz headed up the round, and its general partner Anish Acharya was to take a seat on the firm's board.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

s shutdown orders from earlier this year, and people looking to spend more time at home due to the coronavirus. Amazon, which started its own delivery fleet in 2018, has over 30,000 last-mile delivery vans and trucks. Amazon’s van-buying tendencies have been a help for auto makers, PYMNTS recently reported.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2021

BMW announced last week that it is pulling the plug on its “Access” vehicle subscription service less than three years after launching the single-city pilot program in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2018. According to Kelley Blue Book , the Audi Select program was tested in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area beginning in 2018.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Although the recent government shutdown affected the SEC’s ability to process and approve listings, Lyft’s speed shows that the shutdown might not have had as big an effect on the new-issue market as some had feared. billion in 2018. The NYSE listed a few marquee companies in 2017, including Spotify and Snap. billion by 2019.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

trillion, despite threats from a trade war with China and the recent government shutdown. “We It’s time for artificial problems like trade wars and shutdowns to end, and to focus on prosperity, not politics.”. In addition, the overall economy is set to gain an average of 170,000 jobs per month, a decrease from the 220,000 in 2018.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

30,000: Number of free pies that &pizza gave away to furloughed government workers during the shutdown earlier this year. 31.3B: Estimated value of global card losses due to fraud in 2018. 3,248: Average amount millennial consumers lost per bank scam this past year. 10 percent: Approximate share of people in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

By contrast, late last year the composite gauge of business sentiment was in positive territory, at just under 2 percent, having hit a recent peak of plus 4 percent in 2018. While the bank’s Business Outlook Survey has since rebounded, it is still mired in negative territory, at minus 2.2 With many containment measures related to the COVID?19

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The recent government shutdown forced the Small Business Administration to stall its lending operations. During the government shutdown, Biz2Credit CEO Rohit Arora said that it could take months for banks that process and issue SBA loans to relieve the backlog.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

The news came in the company’s annual report, as it had announced last year that it was doing the voluntary shutdown at some point. Apple posted $266 billion in total revenues for 2018, reports noted. “At The bank’s Russian arm said in the report that sanctions from the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2020

February’s widening is the largest the index has seen since December 2018. Parts of China’s economy, where the virus was first widely reported, have experienced a shutdown, creating issues for U.S.-based based companies that use China’s production and consumption chains. as the virus continues its spread.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2020

More than 184,000 of the city’s 274,000 food and beverage workforce have lost their jobs due to the forced shutdown of the city economy brought by the pandemic, Comptroller Scott Stringer told Bloomberg. “We will provide a massive expansion of curbside seating and an expansion of open streets,” he said, according to Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The government shutdown was no speed bump, at least, according to the latest job numbers. Department of Labor (DOL), showed that even with a partial government shutdown, growth marked the period and the unemployment rate stood at 4 percent. These latest numbers come after an average monthly gain of 223,000, seen throughout 2018.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2019

government shutdown was singled out as a key factor behind a corporate banking slowdown at the start of 2019, according to Citigroup Chief Financial Officer Mark Mason, who took up the position only weeks ago. Reports in the Financial Times this week said the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

The app’s shutdown comes about a year and a half after it was introduced. Since March of 2018, the app was downloaded around five million times, said Randy Nelson, head of mobile insights at analytics firm Sensor Tower. Downloads in May totaled 275,000, which was down 38 percent year over year from 476,000 in May 2018.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

jumped in the last month of 2018 as sales plummeted the most in three years. The report for December was delayed due to the government shutdown that lasted five weeks and ended in late January. percent during the last month of 2018 while sales at wholesalers dipped 1 percent and sales at manufacturers declined 0.2

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

That fine would come in tandem with investigations that have stretched into the past year, since a March 2018 announcement that the FTC was looking into the company’s privacy practices. The government shutdown currently underway has meant that regulators have not as of yet responded to the Friday reports.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

For the stock market, 2018 seems so rear view mirror, among the worst years in a decade. One other wild card is the fact that IPOs lagged during the government shutdown (yes, the SEC was closed) and might do so again, if a shutdown happens again beginning in mid-month. The broader S&P 500 Stock Index is up 8.8

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Lending outfits will also have to provide detailed plans on how they’ll handle a shutdown. In 2018, Murciano said, BLEND loaned 3 billion pounds to smaller firms and developers of property, with a total of 15 billion pounds since 2005.

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