PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It is a system that mostly works out for retailers, but for the 12 times in the last 80 years that were like this year (2019), when Thanksgiving fell on the latest possible date it can be in November — the dreaded 28th. So will a “shorter season” be the Grinch that stole the Christmas spend in 2019? The Sky Is Falling .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said Thursday (Nov. 9) that the company is targeting 2019 for its initial public offering. Speaking during The New York Times ’ DealBook conference that was covered by TechCrunch , the new CEO of the ride-hailing company disclosed the targeted IPO timeline.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

"Certainly with the increase in infection rates really throughout the country we've seen a dampening of demand," American Airlines President Robert Isom said during the Skift Aviation Forum , per a Friday (Nov. Passenger traffic is about one-third down from 2019. . During an outbreak debriefing on Thursday (Nov. Between Nov.

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NOV On-Demand Risk 73

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A Russian cybercriminal was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in a sophisticated Botnet conspiracy that caused estimated losses totaling more than $100 million, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) statement on Tuesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Even before Thanksgiving, shoppers are seeing Black-Friday-like discounts on gift items,” Taylor Schreiner , director of Adobe Digital Insights, said Wednesday (Nov. billion of sales between Nov. percent from the 2019 holiday season. Sales have also shot up 49.2 25) in a statement provided to PYMNTS. That’s a 49.2

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NOV Consumer Accounts 87

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

consumers on Nov. percent increase from the share who did so in 2019. percent decrease in the share of consumers that made their Black Friday purchases at a physical store in 2019 and a 41.4 percent using them to pay in physical stores this season — up 15 percent from 2019. This is what we learned. It is also 27.1

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Debit Card PayPal Credit Cards Consumer 128

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Shoppers in China are making up for lost time, throwing money at luxury goods and cosmetics amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a CNBC report on Tuesday (Nov. The annual invitation-only conference on Nov. billion in 2019. Consumer intention is still there. InTime was acquired by Alibab a in 2017.

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Consumer NOV Procedures Facilitators 72

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

European payments rivals Nets of Denmark and Nexi of Italy have negotiated an “all-share” merger deal that would establish a large payments platform for the pan-European market, the companies said in a statement on Monday (Nov. The 2019 deal hit an antitrust snag in April when European regulators said the purchase disrupts competition.

Payments 86

Payments Visa NOV Agreements 86

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

DraftKings reported on Friday (Nov. 13) that Monthly Unique Payers (“MUPs”) for its business-to-consumer (B2C) operation surged 64 percent in contrast to Q3 2019. DraftKings announced on Wednesday (Sept. 16) that it’s signed an exclusive multiyear arrangement with the New York Giants NFL team.

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Payer B2C NOV Payments 92

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Amazon said on Thursday (Nov. Amazon launched its Key In-Garage Delivery service in early 2019 in an effort to thwart package theft by so-called “porch pirates.”. 12) that it is expanding its Key In-Garage Delivery service to Prime members in more than 4,000 cities across the U.S.

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NOV Volume On-Demand Consumer 105

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Thursday’s (Nov. Its cloud computing revenue grew 59 percent over 2019. The earnings announcement comes as Alibaba and its various retail brands prepare for Singles Day , which is Nov. The festival actually started Sunday (Nov. 1) through Tuesday (Nov. 3) ahead of the main event on Nov.

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NOV Consumer Small Business Governance 75

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

People’s Bank Of China ran a report — its 2019 China Financial Stability Report, published on Monday (Nov. This past year has been difficult for Chinese banks, and the country’s central bank, People’s Bank Of China, said that about 13 percent of the country’s financial institutions were considered “high risk,” according to Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The Shanghai Stock Exchange is delaying Ant Group’s record initial public offering (IPO) following Jack Ma’s meeting with Chinese regulators, according to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report on Tuesday (Nov. That meeting now disqualifies Ant from listing on Thursday (Nov. billion in 2019. . The IPO is expected to raise $34.4

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Payments technology startup Shift4 Payments has acquired eCommerce firm 3dcart to create a global, “unified commerce ecosystem,” the company announced in a Thursday (Nov. In 2019, the company said, it securely processed over $200 billion in payments for more than 200,000 businesses. 5) press release. “We

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Acquirers Payments NOV Product 89

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Shares of Slack were up 4 percent in midday trading Monday (Nov. The company acquired data visualization company Tableau in August 2019 in a deal valued at around $15. Two of the sector’s biggest deals have been IBM’s takeover of Red Hat in 2019 for $34 billion, and Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016 for $27 billion.

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Caps NOV Acquirers Product 80

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

On Saturday (Nov. Amazon said the 2019 deal for $200 million, invested in a Future unit in the hopes of getting further ingrained in India's eCommerce market down the line, came with clauses that the Indian group wasn't allowed to sell its assets to other companies on a “restricted persons” list that included Reliance.

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Disputes Legal NOV Authorization 92

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

In addition to its usual Nov. 11 shopping period that lasts for 24 hours, the company will also provide a new time between Nov. 1 and Nov. The company says it will debut over 2 million new items — two times the amount in 2019. brands and items on Singles Day on Nov. Alibaba will provide two shopping periods.

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NOV Cross-Border Consulting On-Demand 56

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Individual investors in Hong Kong have rushed to purchase into the initial public offering (IPO), as they wager that Ant Group will spike in value following its public debut on Thursday (Nov. More than five million people made orders in Shanghai for stock – reportedly a new high for IPO subscriptions on STAR Market, which rolled out in 2019.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

25+ winners will be presenting at our upcoming fully virtual Future of Fintech Conference (Nov. Mega-rounds: Since 2019, there have been 87 mega-round ($100M+) equity investments to this year’s Fintech 250, with 35 of them in 2020 YTD. Deals, funding, and mega-rounds: Since 2019, the 2018 Fintech 250 has raised $22.9B

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We are sure that this strategic partnership supported by investment and the power of Grab's technology will strengthen LinkAja's services in providing effective solutions to provide access to finance and the economy for the Indonesian people,” Haryati Lawidjaja, president director of LinkAja said in a statement on Tuesday (Nov.

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FinTech eWallet Financial Inclusion NOV 81

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The notice also said that a court hearing would take place on Nov. A claim’s value is said to be determined by the “actual or estimated interchange fees” of a merchant’s payment transactions with Visa and Mastercard between Jan. 1, 2004 and Jan. In the event that the court approves the lawsuit settlement, a deadline for claims would be set.

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Settlement Visa Debit Card NOV 87

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This year, Thanksgiving lands on Nov. According to the PYMNTS “ Virtual Reality in Retail:2019 and Beyond ” report, by 2022 virtual reality (VR) will generate $1.8 The upcoming holiday shopping season is expected to break records in online spending, according to a study by Adobe Analytics. That’s even with a shorter shopping season.

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Consumer NOV Product Technology 51

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

PayPal and Square’s Cash App digital currency buying spree has reportedly triggered a bitcoin rally, according to a Benzinga report on Monday (Nov. Robinhood started trading in digital currency in 2018, while Square has been involved since 2019. itBit is run by Paxos, which is PayPal partner. .

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PayPal Bitcoin Digital Currency Cryptocurrency 87

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

billion in a landmark public listing in Hong Kong, Reuters reported Tuesday (Nov. Alibaba closed in New York on Nov. percent discount to Alibaba’s share price on the day before the deal was launched, Nov. In the world’s biggest IPO so far this year, Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba is set to raise up to $12.9 19 at $185.25.

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NOV Cross-Border Origination Governance 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It seems a fair question to ask of the technology sector as 2019 draws to a close. Google, at $1,314, is about 23 percent than at 2019’s dawn. This afternoon (Nov. How do you value a company if you don’t know what the company will look like? As a group, the technology sector is on pace to notch its biggest gain in a decade.

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Regulations Federal Trade Commission NOV Risk 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The bitcoin bust continued Monday (Nov. If you ask analysts who are pessimistic about the price of bitcoin, you will hear predictions that bitcoin will likely to continue to fall until sometime during Q2 2019. In their estimate, $1,500 might be the rebuilding point it will be starting from in 2019. How low can bitcoin go?

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Bitcoin Continuity Cryptocurrency NOV 69

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Silicon Valley rideshare giants Uber and Lyft must abide by a California Court of Appeals’ decision that they can no longer classify their drivers as independent contractors, pending a ballot measure giving voters a say on election day (Nov. The ruling will not take effect until voters weigh in on Proposition 22 on Nov.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Source: PYMNTS.com longitudinal study of over 40,000 consumers (data from the most recent panel on Nov. Source: PYMNTS.com longitudinal study of over 40,000 consumers since March (data from the most recent panel on Nov. Source: PYMNTS.com survey of 2,683 consumers conducted between Nov. One hundred and ten (110) million U.S.

CHIPS 91

CHIPS NOV Online and Mobile Banking Contactless Payments 91

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Chase said Wednesday (Nov. 14) that it is rolling out tap-to-pay functionality across its Chase Visa card portfolio, an initiative that will begin late this year and extend into 2019. All Chase Visa credit cards, including all co-brand cards, will have tap-to-pay functionality by the first half of 2019,” according to the release.

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Credit Cards NOV Contactless Payments Card Issuer 57

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

lost bank branches between 2012 and 2017, with rural areas feeling the brunt of the closures, according to research from the Federal Reserve released on Monday (Nov. Research for the report was collected at listening sessions between July 2018 and January 2019 at regional Fed banks nationwide. Earlier this month, the U.S.

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Federal Reserve Online and Mobile Banking Small Business Fed 83

PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

PSCU’s Data & Analytics and Advisors Plus workforces collected and examined information from credit unions that harnessed PSCU for credit and/or debit processing during the 2020 and 2019 holiday seasons to calculate the 2020 holiday data. Purchases between Nov. The two weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, which spanned from Nov.

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Volume Credit Union Credit Union Service Organization NOV 62

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The increase for the week ending Nov. 14 is up 31,000 from the previous week's revised level, which was up by 2,000 for a total of 711,000, according to the weekly Bureau of Labor Statistics report released on Thursday (Nov. million people claiming benefits in all programs in the comparable week in 2019. . 31 were 20.3

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“The combined Bluefin/PAAY solution set is as close as we can get to a silver bullet in payment security for eCommerce transactions,” Ruston Miles , co-founder and chief strategy officer at Bluefin, said in a statement on Tuesday (Nov. Cyberattacks have jumped 273 percent in the first quarter of this year over the same period in 2019.

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Transactions Security Encryption CCPA 93

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In an SEC filing made on Monday (Nov. The Moscow listing would not offer any additional shares, according to a Reuters report on Tuesday (Nov. markets since Headhunter in 2019. The eCommerce marketplace Ozon , considered to be Russia’s answer to Amazon, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 7, 2024

This infrastructure, which was launched in 2019, has considerably helped boost digital payment usage, with Doku reporting a fourfold increase in e-money transactions on its platform in 2022, compared with 2021. Between January and October 2023, QRIS transaction volume reached 1.6

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Financial Inclusion Innovation Payments NOV 103

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

27 through Nov. billion reported for Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend in 2019, a record that was broken by the end of the day Saturday. 23 through Nov. 30, sales increased by 84 percent from 2019. billion in worldwide sales from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, an increase of over 60 percent compared to 2019.

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NOV Origination Gateways Consumer 61

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

percent from the same period in 2019. . percent from November 2019, while food services and drinking places were down 17.2 Census Bureau report released on Tuesday (Nov. Total sales for September 2020 through November 2020 were up 5.2 percent to down 0.1 Retail trade sales were down 0.8 percent from October 2020, but 7.1

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NOV Consumer Economy 61