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...The hope is that an unshackled Worldpay will now be free to challenge the newcomers as well as hunt for bolt-on acquisitions that can help it make up the lost ground....
...Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com. Latest news Amy Kazmin in Rome has a fascinating piece on why Giorgia Meloni is pushing back on Italy’s shift to digital payments....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 19. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to let us know. Happy reading!...
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...cryptocurrency forum has overtaken activity on the “meme stock” forum WallStreetBets this month, reflecting how many day traders have switched their focus from the equity market to digital coins in the hunt...
...The contagion has spread to Europe where day traders are on the hunt for the next GameStop. Are we looking at the new masters of the universe? Unlikely....
...A multibillion-dollar industry offering unusual data such as satellite imagery and measurements of social media sentiment is enjoying a boom in demand as hedge funds and companies hunt for clues on how to...
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...The two companies said the combination would create a regional champion and the world’s fourth largest payment services provider, which would provide services to nearly 1m merchants and would have had combined...
...With the slowest profit recovery in Business Services, we initiate at Underweight....
...in US insurance deal (FT) Poland’s Griffin Real Estate strikes €1bn deal for retail properties (FastFT) HNA’s units are on a borrowing spree, swallowing high rates (BBG) Macquarie hunts for acquisition...
...That’s the one that allows, effectively, an issuing bank to authorise a transaction that a merchant is requesting....
...And who else but a company backed by deal shark John Malone on the hunt for blockbuster M&A?...
...Professor Ralph M Coury (Letters, February 4) asks how one can explain the rich culture of the Arab/Islamic Middle Ages, which drew so widely on the heritage of Greeks, Romans, Indians, Persians and others, if V...
...In 1972, Jules Kroll took skills he had honed exposing those who demanded kickbacks from the family printing business to found what became Kroll Inc....
...“This is not something you can just hunt and peck in Google or Amazon,” he said....
...V.me allows people to make online purchases without having to punch in their card details each time....
...The German anarchist in question is Silvio Gesell, a successful merchant who lived through a punishing depression in Argentina in the late 19th century....
...Ms Martin at Visa says V.me has a number of security layers, one of which includes not sharing card details with merchants....
...“It makes you like Ford cars and Lincoln cars better because you’re not fumbling with your phone,” says Doug VanDagens, Ford’s director of connected services....
...To a consumer, the service might feel like Amazon Prime. But as a business, it is closer to Uber or Alibaba....
...Born to a merchant family in Antwerp in 1546, Spranger was a precocious boy who rarely put down his pen....
...- In memorium: Nelson Bunker Hunt....
...At Rothschild Inc, which Pirie joined in 1982 — pulling off an “overnight transition” from what Mr Lipton describes as a “hard-driving practising lawyer to an English merchant banker” — he was at the heart...
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