March 17, 2021
E-commerce in the US is approaching a major milestone: In 2022, it will record its first trillion-dollar year, predicts Adobe Analytics, which analyzes online transactions across millions of products.
The pandemic is speeding US online sales to new heights far faster than they would have moved otherwise. Adobe estimates Covid-19 boosted the country’s e-commerce spending by 20%, or about $183 billion. While some of that activity is likely to return to stores once life gets back to normal, experts expect many of the new behaviors shoppers picked up out of necessity will stick around. Retailers have to adapt, or they risk losing customers to better-prepared competition.
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TrustBills appoints Dr. Oliver Reiss as third managing director 17 March 2021 The Hamburg-based FinTech TrustBills is expanding its management team. As of April, Dr. Oliver Reiss will take on the dual function of CFO/COO as third Managing Director. The appointment not only underlines TrustBills’ consistent growth path, but also the ambition of the Hamburg-based company to develop further business areas with its digital receivables trading platform.
This is precisely where Reiss’ expertise as a company builder comes into play in order to further professionalize the organization as well as internationalize the successful business model, as Jörg Hörster, founder and CEO of TrustBills, says: Oliver Reiss joins the company at a strategically decisive time. In the current phase, we ne
Last year, the company set a goal of becoming resource positive by storing more carbon than it emits, eliminating waste and providing more clean freshwater than it uses. To help fulfill that long-term commitment, it has been setting firm targets with a 2030 deadline. Those objectives include cutting carbon emissions in half in direct operations and its supply chain, conserving or replenishing half of the water taken for coffee production or operators and halving the waste sent to landfills by cafes and manufacturing. We are a company that aspires to give back more than we take when it comes to people and the planet while creating prosperity for all who connect with Starbucks, CEO Kevin Johnson wrote in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday celebrating the company s 50th anniversary.
The worlds of police officers and young men of color can seem oceans apart, even when they are in the same city. There is a divide that has existed for generations between these two groups. The disconnect is reflected in the massively disproportionate arrest data for males of color that resu… More Headlines
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Open Banking Europe and Etsi publish a JSON Web Signature Profile for Open Banking 17 March 2021 This is openly available to the industry for download.
This document was developed in partnership with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), to help establish API standards for the Open Banking community and has been subject to open review. Contributors to the document include: The Berlin Group, STET, SIBS (Portugal), Czech Open Banking, UK Open Banking, Polish Bank Association, Team Digitale (Italy), Consorzio CBI (Italy), Borica (Bulgaria), Slovak Banking Association. The document is aligned with the Technical Specification for JAdES digital signatures, built on JSON Web Signatures and published as ETSI TS 119 182-1. ETSI JAdES aims to fulfil the requirements of European Union eIDAS