Monthly Archives: July 2014

Emerging-Market Stocks Rise as Telecom Shares Jump; Forint Gains – Bloomberg

Emerging-Market Stocks Rise as Telecom Shares Jump; Forint Gains
Bloomberg
Emerging-market stocks rose as China Mobile (941) Ltd. paced a rally by phone companies and Thai shares extended the longest winning streak in almost four years.

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MOVES-Allianz asset manager hires team to grow emerging markets debt … – Reuters

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MOVES-Allianz asset manager hires team to grow emerging markets debt …
Reuters
The team will be based in London and work alongside Oleksiy Soroka, who leads EMD credit research.

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Does Emerging Market Debt Have Room to Grow? – Bloomberg

Does Emerging Market Debt Have Room to Grow?
Bloomberg
July 14 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg’s Lisa Abramowicz and Julie Hyman examine the performance of emerging market debt.

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Acceptance of Credit Cards – Small Business Trends

A small business gains many benefits from accepting credit cards from customers as payment. Take a look at what some of those are. Quick Stats: 58% of small businesses are asked by customers to accept credit cards, on a regular basis. By 2017, credit card purchases are expected to rise to 33%. Meanwhile, by 2017, …

Source: smallbiztrends.com

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Pricing Pitfalls And The Professional Buyer

Consumers have certain expectations of their shopping experience that are simply non-negotiable.  While willing to be flexible site design, selection and pricing—it is hard to imagine someone sitting down to purchase something in a retail context…

Source: www.pymnts.com

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Commerce’s Other 75 Percent

Surprisingly, 75 percent of US merchants aren’t set up to sell cross-border, leaving money and new customers on the table. So, how do merchants go global but stay local cost effectively?

Source: www.pymnts.com

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Will Picasso’s Supplant Pez Dispensers Now that Sotheby’s Has Partnered With eBay?

Sotheby’s and eBay are partnering up to bring a taste of high-end, big ticket auctions to the auction website that built its reputation on the vast array of Star Wars lunchboxes it initially made available to its user base.

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Does The US Really Trail The Rest Of The World In Payments Innovation?

Maybe it was the celebration of our independence on the 4th of July that got British columnist, John Gapper, annoyed enough with the US to write a piece in the FT last week that took our banking and payments systems to task.

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Paperless Debit Used To Lure Millennials

Fighting the trend that has seen millennial consumers—those aged 18 to 34—increasingly pulled away from traditional banking channels in favor of all digital methods of storing, moving and using money like Google Wallet or PayPal;  one Chicago area…

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SupplierPay Initiative Pushes Large Companies To Speed Payments To SMBs

In the U.S. and around the world small businesses that act as supplier for larger firms often have difficulty seeing invoices paid.  Depending on local ordinance, small business owners can legally be made to wait 30-90 days for payments on orders,…

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