PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

One of 2020’s highest high-flyers has been the special purpose acquisition corporation, or SPAC. It might be hard in the midst of roaring markets and headlines trumpeting Dow 30,000 to remember that one of 2020’s highest high-flyers has been the special purpose acquisition corporation, or SPAC. That’s well beyond the $13.6

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

I think there are a lot of things that 2020 taught us for sure,” Camille Kress , vice president of Growth Labs for intimate clothing retailer Adore Me , said in a PYMNTS interview. “We PYMNTS research also indicates that BNPL is quickly becoming the preferred payment method for more consumers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The American Bankers Association found that 82 percent of consumers favored banking digitally over visiting brick-and-mortar locations, even before the pandemic began, and a separate study found that 88 percent of credit unions surveyed in early 2020 planned to invest more in such technologies than they had during the previous year.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 11, 2024

The report analyses the impact that fraud can have on consumer loyalty as well as the impact false declines will have on returning consumers, and ultimately, the retailer’s bottom line. The Federal Trade Commission received nearly five million fraud reports from consumers in 2020 and 2021. Widespread false declines are an issue.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2017

Ford said that the popular mid-size SUV will return to the global vehicle market come 2020. According to Ford’s research, currently half of the world’s population lives in cities, and by 2030, that’s expected to grow to 60 percent. First things first: It’s official.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A merchant has to be ready to think about touchless payments, omnichannel, as well as other tools like tokens that enable a small business to recognize a returning customer and give them a better experience versus what they can give a one-time visitor,” Burgin said.

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PYMNTS

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. And in PYMNTS’ research , about 44 percent of consumers who are looking forward to resuming daily activities that had been in place before the pandemic want to travel domestically.

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Finovate

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

And while the report took this as a positive sign that “investor sentiment is stable,” there are other indications that the much-anticipated return to more robust funding trends for tech companies in general, and fintechs in particular, has yet to arrive. billion raised by 14 alums Q3 2020: More than $1.2

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

As detailed in PYMNTS research titled “ How A Global Pandemic Created A Digital-First Customer In 12 Weeks ,” the reopening has begun. 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

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CB Insights

MARCH 3, 2022

In 2021, the investment firm backed 335 deals — up 324% from 2020’s 79, and more than any other investor globally. Tiger Global has only accelerated its dealmaking in 2022 so far, doing 2 deals per business day — in spite of a rocky few months of lower-than-average fund returns and a broader public-market tech stock selloff.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 10, 2024

Research from CB Insights , the business analytics platform, has revealed that global fintech funding in Q1’24 shows worrying trends for the rest of the year. The research published indicates that since 2021, fintech funding has dropped considerably. This has been the worst-performing fintech quarter since the start of 2020.

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CB Insights

JUNE 4, 2021

The company has paid $960M to its investors in principal and interest returns to date. Investment requests and new investors surged over 250% from January through April 2021, compared to 2020. The post Soros Fund-Backed Yieldstreet Raises $100M To Expand Its Alternative Investment Platform appeared first on CB Insights Research.

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Clearly Payments

JULY 26, 2024

Businesses that use data-driven marketing strategies can see a 5-8 times return on investment (ROI). Return and Refund Data Information about returned items, reasons for returns, and refund amounts. According to Experian, businesses that use data-driven marketing strategies can see a 5-8 times return on investment (ROI).

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PYMNTS

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. PYMNTS research shows that 41.9 percent of all U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The first is millennial preferences: A survey from millennial research firm Ypulse shows that the ages 23 to 36 segment wants to be casual at work and shop online for clothing. Fashion buyers want to rent, pay later or even return immediately. The changes in fashion retail are being driven by three dynamics.

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PYMNTS

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. million in February 2020. February 2020 saw the biggest fall ever in the history of the worldwide smartphone market.

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Fintech Finance

AUGUST 30, 2024

During his time at Morgan Stanley, Alastair was based in London and Boston and worked across equity sales and research, specialising in software and payments. Claire joined SumUp in 2020, working on operational risk and compliance, rising to Head of Operational Risk. His final position was Executive Director.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Sales of PCs, defined as computers with keyboards, stormed back in 2020, Reuters reported. PC sales worldwide peaked in 2008, with about 300 million units sold, and have declined since then to a level of about 250 million units sold annually, Reuters said — but analysts now see the figure returning to about 300 million PCs shipped per year.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But there’s another way to describe 2020 these days: “almost over,” as there are only 17 days left before 2021 gets off and running. Will they return to the old normal and ditch all of those new digital habits, or will they decide that the outside world is overrated and stick to their clean, connected lives? As of Monday (Dec.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 18, 2023

in 2022 — marking a 46% drop from 2021, but up 52% compared to 2020. Banking funding declined 63% YoY — the sharpest drop across fintech sectors analyzed — to return to pre-Covid levels. Global fintech funding reached $75.2B Overall, deals fell 8% year-over-year to reached 5,048 in 2022.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

That in a nutshell is Salesforce’s take on Holiday 2020, which it delivered in a press event on Wednesday (Sept. The company’s quarterly outlook predicted huge numbers for eCommerce, which will result in serious negative ramifications for shipping and returns, with customer satisfaction hanging in the balance.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

Noting that, “Our job [at Visa] is to make [digital] adaptations as easy, seamless, secure and fast as possible,” Forestell said business will return after the crisis abates, but it will be different. percent in 2020, marking a 34.9 percent in-crease,” according to the 2020 Remote Payments Study. “We percent in 2019 to 56.4

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

Most of these are dining out-centric places which have shown agility to pivot to food delivery,” Zomato’s researchers wrote. The report’s authors concluded that food-delivery volume “may return” to pre-COVID levels in two to three months. As for Zomato itself, the pandemic appears to have driven an increase in overall demand.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Business roadmaps predating 2020 aren’t much use these days, however, as COVID has altered the terrain. PYMNTS researchers found that what we call “social shifters” moved online fast but are most likely to rush back to physical stores and outside activities. At least in 2020, we know where people are shopping.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

PYMNTS has tracked those changes every step of the way via exclusive research , Tracker reports and studies, starting on March 6, a full 10 days before the country – or large swaths of it – were locked down. And they’re also “the most likely to say they will keep shopping online once daily life returns to normal.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2018

And maybe you’ll see insight flashing as bright as any sparkler you’ll see today, with the benefit of returning to the grind with new perspective. Facilitating international payments is no easy task, especially in the corporate realm, where the market is slated to reach about $23 trillion in 2020.

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Fintech News

AUGUST 19, 2024

As such, DDEx was launched in December 2020, addressing a gap in the market for digital asset platforms that could uphold the regulatory, operational and security standards expected of any professional counterparty, David added. “These are the same value propositions that we set out to offer clients since our inception in 2020.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2020

IDC), a Massachusetts market research company. The prediction follows the largest year-over-year decline in history in the first quarter of 2020. What started as a supply-side crisis has evolved into a global demand-side problem,” said Sangeetika Srivastava , IDC’s senior research analyst, in a statement.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With torrential growth and return on investment (ROI) driven largely by the trading of complex financial instruments, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs and others achieved record profits and awarded unprecedented bonuses. Even so, September 2020 was one of the strongest months for IPOs since Uber went public in May 2019.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

PYMNTS research shows that there could be as many as 130 million who are eager to follow suit — as soon as they get the chance. Forty-one percent of consumers say they are shopping more via mobile now than they did prior to March 2020, for example. There are now roughly 6.7 We surveyed a census-balanced panel of 2,268 U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

In February, Bottomline released its 2020 Treasury Fraud and Controls Survey in partnership with Strategic Treasurer, a Georgia-based financial processing company. Researchers said the findings underscore the acknowledgment that fraudsters are stratifying their methods to optimize returns by automating and scaling attacks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Bloomberg News cited unnamed sources as saying the world’s largest home-sharing platform has postponed — at least for a few days — filing what’s been pegged as perhaps 2020’s largest and most-anticipated U.S. That came following a company projection at the time that 2020 revenues would be less than half what they were in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Coresight Research , a global research company, said the record number of closures is expected to exceed the more than 9,300 locations shuttered in 2019, CNBC reported. The latest numbers from the New York-based research group exceeds its earlier forecast of 15,000 retail closings this year.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

consumers about how shopping and payment preferences will change if a vaccine is available when 2020 ends, PYMNTS got some surprising responses, including this eye-opener from To Vaccinate Or Not To Vaccinate: Measuring The Impact Of A Covid-19 Vaccine On Consumers’ Digital Lifestyles : “Only 37.9 Human Contact A Powerful Driver Post-COVID.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

Vladic said 2020 “in many respects was a transformational year because under that relentless pressure from the new customer realities, the payment space, the banking space, the retail space did new things overnight.”. The personalized experience is one that pays dividends. As Vladic told PYMNTS, we’re in a different environment now.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

We noted in this space , toward the end of last year, that the advent of vaccines would spur a return to “normal” life, toward large-scale gatherings, among them trade shows and events. And although it didn’t specifically address business events or travel, PYMNTS research released this week shows that vaccines are far from a lock.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

Crypto intelligence company CipherTrace’s “ Spring 2020 Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering and Crime Report ” revealed the thefts have escalated in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing global economic crisis. The scam promised investors incredible returns using nonexistent algorithmic trading software.

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