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Swedish fintech Klarna dodges a strike after reaching agreement with workers

TechCrunch Fintech

Fintech giant Klarna has reached an agreement with workers that were set to strike next week, the company told TechCrunch today. The dispute was reportedly over the lack of a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) — a […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Industry Statements on on Merchant, Payment Network Lawsuit Agreement

Electronic Payments Coalition

EPC STATEMENT: WASHINGTON – Electronic Payments Coalition (EPC) Executive Chairman Richard Hunt issued the following statement regarding the impact the interchange lawsuit agreement between U.S. Congress should put an end to the ill-advised Durbin-Marshall mandates and let the agreement merchants reached stand on its own.”

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SaaS Platform Kount Partners With Verifi To Help Firms Minimize Disputes, Fraud

PYMNTS

The collaboration will extend Los Angeles-based Verifi’s dispute management offerings to Kount’s platform, with solutions that help businesses to manage disputes, prevent chargebacks, give issuers and customers access to enhanced transaction information, provide fraud notifications, and stop fraudulent transactions. .

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Dubai Land Department and Oqoodi Enable Peaceful Real Estate Settlements Worth AED1.38bn in H1’24

The Fintech Times

Ensuring property disputes can be sorted quickly and peacefully is an extremely important aspect of ensuring booming ecosystems can continue to thrive. In light of this, Dubai Land Department (DLD) has successfully completed 647 real estate settlements using Oqoodi, the digital platform navigating land and property disputes.

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Green Dot battles Uber, loses contracts

Payments Dive

Green Dot disclosed in its recent quarterly report that it’s in a dispute with ride-share company Uber over their agreements. It also noted its failure to renew contracts with several other customers.

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Australia Forms Body To Handle Entrepreneurs’ Bank Disputes

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Small businesses with disputes can go to the AFCA, which will first tackle any issues via informal methods, including mediation. If a matter is not resolved, the AFCA has the authority to set financial and other agreements, and force financial services companies to take courses of action to resolve the dispute.

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Trade Disputes Create Supply Chain Risks — And Opportunity

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Global vendors in the supply chain are seeing pressure from multiple sides as a result of ongoing trade disputes and renegotiations. However, other residual effects of ongoing trade disputes are less positive. That’s less than half of the $56.7 billion in deals reached in H1 of 2016. That’s less than half of the $56.7