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PayPal Announces Investments to Advance Economic Empowerment for Women and Girls
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PayPal Announces Investments to Advance Economic Empowerment for Women and Girls

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PayPal Holdings, announced that it has invested in Sweef Capital’s Southeast Asia Women’s Economic Empowerment Fund (SWEEF) and Quona Opportunity Fund to support their shared mission to advance women’s inclusion in the global economic and financial system. The investments are part of PayPal’s 2021 $108 million commitment under the UN Generation Equality Forum to advance......
Life insurance industry unprepared for $7.8 trillion wealth transfer to beneficiaries by 2040
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Life insurance industry unprepared for $7.8 trillion wealth transfer to beneficiaries by 2040

Business Wire
60% of individuals aged 65 or older have not sought professional financial advice to prepare for retirement or to transfer their wealth Three-in-four consumers are interested in innovative life insurance offerings to help them age well, but insurers lack the product development capabilities The Capgemini Research Institute’s World Life Insurance......
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What Are Cross-Border Payments In The UK?

Pooja Choudhary
Introduction In this blog, we shall highlight the CBP for the United Kingdom. Any “national payment” or “cross-border payment” made in British pounds or any other EU currency that requires a currency conversion falls under the purview of the UK regime. All parties involved in a “national payment” are based......
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What Are Cross-Border Payments In The U.S.?

Pooja Choudhary
In this blog, we shall highlight the CBP for the United States. The North American market retains the largest market share in CBP. When a person, business, or financial institution sends money to another person, business, or financial institution located in a different country, the transaction is considered a cross-border......
IDEX Biometrics Enables Rapid Mastercard Certification With Major Card Manufacturer
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IDEX Biometrics Enables Rapid Mastercard Certification With Major Card Manufacturer

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A leading card manufacturer has received a Letter of Approval (LoA) from Mastercard for biometric smart cards based on the recent IDEX Pay certified biometric solution. This LoA was received only a few weeks after IDEX Biometrics certification, allowing the card manufacturer to rapidly move to industrialized production of biometric......
Holiday Ecommerce Sales Growth Won’t Be Enough to Top European Inflation, Study Says
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Holiday Ecommerce Sales Growth Won’t Be Enough to Top European Inflation, Study Says

Business Wire
September online sales data indicates consumers are still spending heading into the crucial holiday shopping season While inflation is slowing across Europe, the deceleration in price hikes won’t be dramatic enough to turn merchants’ fortunes around, says a new analysis by commerce protection provider Signifyd. Signifyd projects that online sales......
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What Are Cross-Border Payments In Asia?

Pooja Choudhary
Introduction In this blog, we shall highlight the CBP for Asia. About 35% of global payment flows occur in Asia, with the rapidly developing digital economy fueling localized areas of expansion. Hong Kong, Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand are merely a handful of the most recent additions to the......
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What Is Embedded Finance?

Pooja Choudhary
Introduction The global embedded finance market was worth USD 83.32 billion in 2023, and it is expected to be worth USD 622.9 billion by 2032, expanding at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.4% between 2023 and 2032. Embedded finance’s rapid growth trajectory has attracted a lot of interest......
JPMorgan Chase Declares Preferred Stock Dividends
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JPMorgan Chase Declares Preferred Stock Dividends

Business Wire
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has declared dividends on the outstanding shares of the Firm’s Series DD, EE, GG, JJ, KK, LL and MM preferred stock. Fintech Insights: Leveraging the Power of Payments to Forge Better Employee Relations JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading financial services firm based in......
Vantiva Announced a New Short Term €85 Million Financing
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Vantiva Announced a New Short Term €85 Million Financing

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Vantiva SA is pleased to announce that Vantiva Technologies SAS has entered into a credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which a term facility in an aggregate principal amount of €85,000,000 (the “Term Facility”) has been provided by Barclays Bank Ireland PLC and participated in by certain funds managed/and......
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