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DECEMBER 10, 2020

Bank of America (BofA) is introducing a cross-border payment tracker and expanding SWIFT gpi to support more than 140 currencies, accessible through the integrated CashPro platform. 10) press release.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

For November’s Digital Banking Tracker™ cover story, PYMNTS caught up with Dave Potterton, director of business banking at NCR, to discuss the state of mobile business banking, the company’s new solution and what he sees in the future for business customers. About The Tracker.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

But data from the industry –and from PYMNTS’ exclusive Whole Paycheck tracker from Q2 – paint a very different picture. First, the data from the PYMNTS Whole Paycheck tracker. According to the Whole Paycheck tracker research, Amazon’s “subscriptions and other” line has gone up significantly over the past three years.

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MAY 11, 2023

W-9 and Contractor Payment options are among the QuickBooks Online updates inspired by accountants.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Analysts expect a minimal jump in same-store comparative sales and the stock will most likely take a hit, but that’s not what concerns the Whole Paycheck Tracker. The Wall Street numbers will be a very small part of the story when Walmart reports its quarterly earnings on Tuesday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2016

For this week’s Bitcoin Tracker, we’re taking a look at Coinsource , the largest network of bitcoin ATMs in the United States. The remainder of the week was spent lolling about in the mid to upper 770s. The current value of bitcoin at the time of writing was $777.14. —. Founded in Feb.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

PYMNTS’ latest Walmart vs. Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker found that the two retail giants did something unusual during the third quarter: They either remained flat or lost ground in the battle for total U.S. retail spend and consumer spend.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In this week’s Bitcoin Tracker, bitcoin soars, then settles down and plans for its yearly sale abound. To end this week’s Bitcoin Tracker, here are some recent, insightful words of warning from security pioneer John McAfee. The election came and went and, with it, brought some stock market shock.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

For the November mPOS Tracker™ , PYMNTS caught up with Ben Morris, founder and chief pedicab officer at Coaster Pedicab, which owns and operates bicycle taxi companies in more than a dozen cities, to discuss why many of his drivers are adopting mobile payments tools and what he sees in the future for the two-wheeled transportation industry.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

In this week’s Grocery Tracker, Panasonic shows off its automatic grocery-bagging robot, two new smart fridges come to market and Sprouts sprouts new locations, while Kmart drops a few. Expect updates on the specific nature of the new business model, as they come, in a future edition of the Grocery Tracker or elsewhere on PYMNTS.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Bitcoin is quickly headed toward fresh three-year highs after jumping up over $100 in value since last week’s tracker. Is there an alternative, profound French phrase or two that can describe what investors have seen this week with bitcoin? Because “déjà vu” no longer seems to cut it.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Let this tracker roundup be your roadmap. Look across any number of our trackers and indexes through the past several months, and you will see signposts and data points large and small worth watching, and sea changes worth heeding. as evidenced by our Unattended Retail Tracker. conventional. and the U.K.)

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In this week’s grocery tracker: Target’s grocery department struggles, Whole Foods loses a CEO and grocerants are on the rise. Target leads this edition of the Grocery Tracker with news that its grocery business executive, Anne Dament, stepped down after a year-and-a-half. Major changes are coming to a grocery store near you.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2016

Yet another $3 billion plus week for the Investment Tracker. Could this be a trend? Could we yawn at a $2 billion week and raise alarm at a $1 billion week? B2B gathered steam, with roughly 89 percent of the fund flows in the timeframe that ended July 15. The figure stands on its head the usual dominance of FinTech.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Closing out this week’s bitcoin tracker comes a stateside story that’s sure to have some bitcoin and ether users on exchange startup Coinbase, Inc., I see bitcoin helping India to move to a modern financial infrastructure by skipping the plastic money infrastructure, just like we did with mobile phones and skipped the landline generation.”.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

This week’s Grocery Tracker has the latest on how supermarkets are trying to whet the consumer’s appetite for grocery shopping, including Kroger’s growth strategy, how grocery stores are improving online shopping and offerings, as well as changes at the top for two major grocers.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Customers will also be able to activate their card through the tracker. The card reissuance tracker is the newest addition to Citi’s continued push to improve digital functionality and integrate more of the banking experience into its mobile app. Citi is the first major credit card issuer to offer real-time card replacement tracking.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

This week in the Amazon Tracker, Amazon continues to push out globally, expanding its scale and a long list of offerings. Closing out this edition of the Amazon Tracker is some lighter news from last week. As it does, battle lines are being drawn as the online retail (and a lot else) giant starts to bump up against its competition.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Alphabet stock (GOOG) took a turn for the worse shortly after our last tracker. While GOOG was breaking through to all-time highs, peaking well above $870 on St. Patrick’s Day, things quickly changed. By the following Friday (March 24), GOOG had dropped a full 4.26 percent, or just over $32.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

The developments are still ongoing, so PYMNTS’ Bitcoin Tracker will keep watch for new details in the coming weeks. Last week, Bitcoin Tracker covered a bit about Nigeria’s rising interest in digital currency as the nation’s issues of inflation and recession continue. We weren’t the only ones to notice.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This week’s Bitcoin Tracker takes a look at the recent bitcoin projects that are in the news and that are targeting the unbanked. Can the unbanked benefit from bitcoin, or are they merely the experimental subjects of bitcoin adherents, lobbyists and scientists? Bitso Eyes The Latin Market.

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APRIL 20, 2017

It’s been awhile since our last edition of Alibaba tracker, and a great deal has happened since then. There’s a lot to get through, so hold on to your proverbial hats! First up: no showers, just flowers for Alibaba (BABA) shares in April. The company continues its steady year-to-date progress into spring. percent.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In this week’s Facebook tracker, the social media giant amps up community vibes with its new standalone group video chat Bonfire app, while also cracking down on ads that target haters or run beside objectionable content.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2017

Chatbots have moved into a unique position over the past few years. Rather than using chatbots to resolve customer service issues solely on company websites or for inside use at organizations, businesses have begun branching out to help optimize both internal and external organizational needs.

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JUNE 14, 2023

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major container ports is expected to be 22% lower during the first half of 2023 than the same time last year despite increased consumer spending, according to the Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. That was up 9.6% from March but down 21.3%

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

According to data from PYMNTS’ exclusive Whole Paycheck Tracker , food and beverage for Amazon’s gross sales (Whole Foods is not broken out) hardly budged from Q2 2019 to Q2 2020. It’s also possible that the categories it caters to aren’t built for the same kind of increases. For example, let’s look at the food and beverage category.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Other trackers pegged the low point even lower, well under $1,000. In the wake of the SEC decision, bitcoin’s value fell considerably. Within the first hour post-rejection, bitcoin plummeted from over $1,285 down to $1,066, according to CoinDesk’s exchange. Almost as quickly as prices fell did they rise again.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

Through another filing, Walmart described in-store inventory trackers that could determine inventory levels. In another filing, Walmart describes a wearable device that could keep track of a user’s activities — a technology that could help increase employee productivity.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The December Next-Gen Debit Tracker® examines how card issuers are working to sharpen their fraud-fighting tools and leverage innovative, machine learning (ML)-based strategies and technologies to keep shoppers safe. Find more on these and the rest of the headlines in the Tracker. Read the full story in the Tracker.

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MARCH 10, 2017

“What goes up must come down” is, unfortunately, the most appropriate proverb to open this week’s bitcoin tracker. It all started when the price of bitcoin dropped by some $70 on Tuesday (March 7) for no readily apparent reason.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

This week’s voice-activated tracker is all about the banks, baby. In recent weeks, a number of financial institutions and FinTech providers have begun testing, introducing or adding upgrades to voice navigation functionalities for their banking customers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The second half of January saw Amazon (AMZN) stock up a net 2 percent since its last tracker. On Thursday (Jan. 26) of last week, Amazon stocks neared their all-time high record (set in October 2016), hitting $842.60 in the early afternoon. Since then, prices slid a bit, though they were still up overall. percent from Tuesday’s (Jan.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2017

Subscription-based businesses across the board have already signed up — from traditional subscription-based publications like The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker, to live TV streaming service SlingTV and business mileage tracker MileIQ.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

First up in this week’s Voice Activated Tracker, Santander Bank upgraded the voice functionality of its SmartBank mobile application, starting with the iOS version. Santander first rolled out its mobile banking app’s voice technology functionality last year, though its capabilities were much more limited in scope.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

PYMNTS’ May 2020 Faster Payments Tracker examines changes now taking root in the pandemic’s wake, as consumers, financial institutions (FIs) and merchants seek reinvention on the road to a new normal. The EU Model. “The This decline in economic activity has tightened cash flows for businesses and consumers alike. Problem No.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

It’s first and foremost a numbers game in this week’s Grocery Tracker as we take a look at how the first few weeks of the new year have (or haven’t) affected the stock values of some of the nation’s largest publicly traded supermarket chains.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Starting off this week’s Grocery Tracker, Whole Foods’ (WFM) stock hasn’t seen much net movement since last week. Prices on Friday (Jan. 20) afternoon at $30.78 compared to $30.68 a week prior.

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