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Decoding China’s Central Bank Digital Currency

Forrester eCommerce

The digital yuan, the central bank digital currency (CBDC) of China, has already been tested in several major cities across the country. With further rollouts in 2021/2022, we expect to see this digital currency significantly impact a variety of B2C and B2B industries across financial services, retail, transportation, and entertainment.

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Steps Companies Are Taking Now To Help Their Customers Through The Crisis

Forrester eCommerce

Three key themes emerged as firms: Reduced sources of stress: Financial service firms, including Bank […]. Forrester looked at how more than 20 companies changed their policies and procedures in response to COVID-19.

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What is FinTech and how does it impact the financial sector?

365 Retail

Whether you’re a private investor, a company director, or you’re simply curious about the world of financial technology, keep reading to find out everything you need to know about FinTech today. Initially, the banking industry focused largely on similar lending and payment services to these well-known B2C applications.

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Consumer Spending Will Be Our Best Economic Barometer

Retail TouchPoints

If consumers start extending themselves by borrowing money to continue living the lifestyle that they were used to pre-COVID, then major consumer financial issues begin to take root. Banks want to facilitate consumer spending, especially on credit cards, to overspend but not too much. Banks can’t solve for a drop in income.

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How to Use LinkedIn Insights in an Actionable Way

Kissmetrics

The industry insights section provides you with data on certain industries, such as healthcare and financial services. LinkedIn Insights Case Study: KBC Bank. KBC Bank has one of the most prolific case studies for LinkedIn Insights. The team at KBC Bank started using the real-time pool of data they received with Insights.

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B2B is the New Driver of Growth for Buy Now, Pay Later

Retail TouchPoints

But the real BNPL growth in the next decade won’t come from retail spending; the business model is getting a boost with many B2B businesses moving to add BNPL as a payment option. For example, in 2018 global B2B payments hit $125 trillion, while the global consumer payments market only reached $52 trillion. Meeting B2B Business Needs.

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Top 10 International Payment Gateways: An In-Depth Guide

FastSpring

Traditionally, payment gateways and payment processors were offered as two separate services and you would have different providers for each service: Payment gateways quickly and securely transfer the payment details from the checkout software to the payment processor. MasterCard or Visa), issuing bank, or electronic wallet (a.k.a.,