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JANUARY 8, 2021

Eligible taxpayers who didn’t receive their payment will need to claim it on their 2020 tax returns, CNBC reported. Some residents are receiving messages that they can only get their checks after filing their 2020 tax returns. The Treasury Department said it set up a special website for EIP card information.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Tencent’s 2020 Pandemic and the QR Code Economy Report , released in May, reported that QR code usage had increased 25 percent from the previous year, with over 140 billion instances of usage from governments, businesses and individuals. companies like Walmart and Walgreens, in addition to Apple utilizing them for Apple Pay.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

But for the recipients of the cross-border money transfers and peer-to-peer (P2P) payments usually associated with developing economies, they are lifelines. Person-to-person international transfers form by far the largest foreign economic support for developing economies. In the payments industry, they’re known as remittances.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

economy posted slight gains in the pandemic year of 2020, after closing the books on what was one of the most dismal economic fallouts in history, according to the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book report on Wednesday (Jan. Several months ago, 38 percent of responding economists didn’t expect a recovery before 2022.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

With restaurant dining rooms closed and Americans forced to rely on their own abilities as home chefs over the last eight months, meal kits have caught a second wind in the pandemic economy. Will consumers keep ordering cookable meals when the easier option of dining out returns? It’s not a question that will be answered tomorrow.

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MAY 4, 2020

economy since governors began asking their citizens to #stayathome in mid-March, and even well before that. Over the last two weeks, consumers have added 47 days to how long they think it will take for them to return to normal, and when they think the economy will truly reopen. Healthy Or Hermits? Almost three-quarters (71.7)

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He added that many customers want to “find ways to be more creative in their purchasing to make sure that they are supporting the economy and small businesses as a whole.”. Ultimately, what we are seeing means we’ll have a better long-term effect on the economy in a post-COVID world,” Burgin said. Strengthening The Digital Offering.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

When the digital economy started to reduce jobs in some areas and create them in others, a more robust “ gig economy ” developed. Now that the digital shift is underway in a big way, retailers need to enter a new kind of gig economy. All of a sudden, it seemed, being a free agent was cool. Side hustles were in.

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MAY 25, 2020

The balance of 2020 will be notable for what Amazon does not do. If Amazon sees any M&A deals this year, it will likely be on the infrastructure side: shipping, return platforms and payment mechanisms. Nike will end 2020 as a consistent retail force, commanding respect for more than the shoes. The Digital Shift.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

If there’s a word that captures the state of financial services in 2020, it’s “acceleration.” I’ve said it forever and I’m going to keep saying it, because I believe it’s truer at the end of 2020 than it’s ever been. Among the things she is most proud of in 2020, Turner said, is the expansion of faster payments.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Bond , however, aims to help even the smallest online brands improve their logistical offerings by allowing them to deliver products and accept returns. is teaming with thredUP to allow shoppers to exchange their secondhand clothes for a shopping credit as they support the circular economy. And in fashion retail, Gap Inc.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Connected-economy companies led 2020’s surprisingly successful roster of U.S. households with pets will rise 4 percent in 2020, creating $4 billion in fresh demand for pet products. In fact, Petco’s net sales actually rose 9 percent year on year during 2020’s first 10 months despite COVID-19 closures, reaching $3.6

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JANUARY 15, 2021

percent higher in 2020 than in 2019, surprising even the National Retail Federation (NRF). We believe President-elect Biden’s stimulus proposal, with direct payments to families and individuals, and further aid for small businesses and tools to keep businesses open, will keep the economy growing,” Shay added. 31 were $789.4

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The coronavirus is showing signs of a return after several weeks of low positive test rates, with over 1,000 new cases in the state of New York on Saturday (Sept. New York's Metropolitan Opera announced cancellations for its entire 2020-21 season, which CNBC called "ominous" for all other performing groups.

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OCTOBER 11, 2020

T]he euro area economy is still operating far below its pre-pandemic level," he added. Economic output by the end of 2020 is expected to wind up about 5.2 percent below the same figure at the end of 2019, he said, and "economic activity is foreseen to return to pre-pandemic levels only towards the end of 2022.".

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APRIL 5, 2020

Online tax preparation service TurboTax has announced that it is rolling out a free, stimulus registration solution to assist people who are not required to file a tax return. The IRS will be using federal tax returns from 2018 or 2019 to determine eligibility. There are roughly 10 million people in the U.S.

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MARCH 31, 2020

By all reasonable measures, the first three months of 2020 have been a wild ride. economy into a recession. This is unlike 2008, when “the cancer in the housing market” left the economy permanently damaged when it ultimately collapsed from the inside. Will the major expenditure work to buffer the economy? Probably not.

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MAY 5, 2020

“While these actions were necessary, it became clear that we would have to go further when we faced two hard truths: We don’t know exactly when travel will return,” he wrote. When travel does return, it will look different.”. The company also said at the time that it did not expect to give out bonuses for 2020.

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JULY 17, 2020

The following is an excerpt from How 35 Execs Are Powering The Great Digital Shift Of 2020 (And Beyond) , contributed by Drew Edwards , CEO at Ingo Money. A recent McKinsey study showed that “75 percent of people using digital channels for the first time indicate that they will continue to use them when things return to ‘normal.’”.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Right now the economy is gradually returning to normal, but more support is still needed (given) small and micro-sized enterprises’ production and operations face unique challenges,” the government statement said, according to CNBC’s translation of the text. in the first quarter. so far this year. percent), Russia (0.2 percent. “The

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JUNE 1, 2020

In today’s top news, China’s economy looks to be rebounding, and a minimum of $20 billion in PPP loans has been returned. China’s Rebounding Economy Is Likely Exception, Not Norm. Manufacturing indexes in China show that the country’s post-pandemic economy is on the rebound, the latest reports indicate.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

This winter will be grim, and we believe the economy will contract again in 1Q," the economists wrote. “We The projection goes against earlier Wall Street forecasts that largely believed the first quarter of 2021 would be the start of a bouncing-back economy. Morgan economists said in a new forecast, CNBC reported Friday (Nov.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

In addition, Ripio has rolled out wallet feature Ripio Earn, which is a USDC yield account providing a 6 percent annual rate return, the release stated. Ripio said it has seen an 800 percent increase in the use of stablecoins during the second quarter of 2020. The product is available in Argentina and Brazil.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Netflix’s stellar first-half 2020 financials belie the fact that it’s losing subscribers to Apple TV, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max and other entrants as big studios take back titles from Netflix — a victim of its own success if ever there was one. Given such news, Netflix is coming to grips with the limits of growth.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

By the conclusion of 2020, eCommerce advertising will comprise 12.2 Of course, another key trend to watch is Walmart’s ability to continue to capture the digital shift and grow in the digital-first economy. According to eMarketer , brands will spend $17.37 billion on advertising on eCommerce sites and apps this year, up 38.8

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

economy hit another round of shutdowns as summer gives way to fall and colder temperatures sweep the country. At the outset, the average Main Street business believed the pandemic would last 177 days — an estimate that now on average has stretched out to 248 days from now (September 2020), or roughly another seven months. In fact, 39.3

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JUNE 6, 2021

But while the economy in general is expected to boom, many small businesses are still in recovery mode. Of the firms that did apply for non-emergency financing, only 37% of applicants received all of the financing they sought in 2020, down from 51% in 2019. The post The Economy is Rebounding—But Small Businesses Are Still Recovering.

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JULY 8, 2020

economy — a recovery is in the cards, yes. They won’t return to brick-and-mortar. Last month, the Federal Reserve estimated that Fed officials indicated that, as noted in The New York Times , the unemployment rate will close 2020 at 9.3 For the digital consumer — for the U.S. But it will take a while. Roughly 26.5

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JUNE 15, 2020

Separately it will take a few years for the sector to return to 2019 levels, as noted by CBRE Senior Economic Advisor Spencer Levy. Overall, economy class hotels had reached a 50.3 As reported in Skift , Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson Monday said most of the world’s hotel markets had hit bottom and had started to rebound.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The year 2020 has been big for “un” words: unprecedented, unknown, unforgettable and (of course) unending. I think there are a lot of things that 2020 taught us for sure,” Kress said. “We It’s not that consumers will never return to stores; the panel unanimously agreed physical commerce will always have patrons.

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APRIL 2, 2020

We do have technology that can help provide funding to the 30 million impacted small businesses that are so vital to the country’s economy and its employment … This is our small part in standing up to this unprecedented global challenge. “We are not set up to sew masks or to manufacture ventilators.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics has released a report stating that global smartphone shipments dropped 38 percent year on year in February of 2020. The staggering decline is blamed on the COVID-19 outbreak, which has seen countries around the world stop their economies to contain the spread of the virus.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

That is 339 days from now, and 557 days after the pandemic was first declared on March 11, 2020. Back on March 11, the average consumer expected the pandemic to be over and for their lives to return to normal by July 27, 2020, roughly three months ago.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

As alleged, Gutemberg Dos Santos played a key role in an international investment scam that promised extraordinary rates of return on phantom investments in cryptocurrencies, defrauding victims of tens of millions of dollars,” said Acting United States Attorney Audrey Strauss in the release. Dos Santos, citizen of the U.S.

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FICO

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Now, what does 2020 promise on the C&R front? Creditors are selling more portfolios and services are needing to create the economies of scale necessary to support higher efficiency and stronger returns. Here’s what I see. M&A will grow in the third-party space. This is happening now and I see it continuing.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Business roadmaps predating 2020 aren’t much use these days, however, as COVID has altered the terrain. Very recently, the fourth annual How We Will Pay 2020 study, done by PYMNTS in collaboration with Visa (more from that in a minute) gave new context to the shifters. At least in 2020, we know where people are shopping.

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JUNE 14, 2020

Stimulus payments to taxpayers totaling $267 billion was not enough to avoid a decline in household net worth in the first quarter on 2020, the largest drop since records began being kept in the 1950s, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. economy devastated by the pandemic. trillion in the first quarter compared to $117.3

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