News - page 335

Fintech & Ecommerce

American regulator fines Robinhood for $1.25 million 

Hundreds of thousands of orders each month fell outside the firm’s “regular and rigorous” review process 

Blockchain & Crypto

Ripple announces $200 million funding round

The network has current customers in more than 45 countries and 6 continents, with payout capabilities in over 70 countries

Finance & Economics

Canadians have fewer opportunities to generate wealth

India, Hong Kong (SAR) and Australia rounded out the top 6

Fintech & Ecommerce

JCB creates a new B2B payment solution through new partnership

More than 150,000 businesses use Paystand every day for their B2B payments

Science & Technology

Research reveals customers’ holiday shopping behavior

BIGtoken conducted research explaining how many people and where bought holiday presents

Finance & Economics

eBay acquires automotive company

Owner of CarsGuide and Autotrader owner will join the Gumtree business in Australia

Fintech & Ecommerce

Worldpay opens for JCB card acceptance in Japan

Worldpay merchants will now be able to accept JCB cards in Japan

Fintech & Ecommerce

Austrian mobile payment solution raises €12 million

Consumers can use the mobile app at over 18,000 locations across these countries

Fintech & Ecommerce

Malaysia to increase its contactless debit card payments

Increasing adoption of contactless technology led to debit card payments growth

Fintech & Ecommerce

TransferWise launches new EUR bank details

British money transfer service launched EUR bank details in 2017

Finance & Economics

Lenovo and JD launch a joint platform

The initiative aims to help 100 suppliers, bring together 200 technical partners and 20,000 enterprise service partners

Finance & Economics

UK digital bank integrates cloud-based accounting 

QuickBooks offers 24/7 free customer support

Science & Technology

Amazon, Apple and Google to develop standard for smart home devices

IKEA, Legrand, Resideo, Samsung SmartThings, Schneider Electric are also joining the working group and contribute to the project

Fintech & Ecommerce

Adyen partners with food delivery company 

Easi delivers meals and groceries from more than 20,000 partner restaurants to the doorsteps of more than a million users

Finance & Economics

China’s e-commerce market in numbers: statistics and forecast

Between 2015 and 2019 the e-commerce market in China grew at a CAGR of 21.5%

Finance & Economics

Societe Generale signs several agreements with Nordea Bank

 This new partnership agreement will reinforce the overall relationship between Societe Generale and Nordea