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Nium extends remittances to four new African markets 09 March 2021
Source: Nium Nium, an advanced global payments platform, announced today that its clients are now able to send funds to their business partners located in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania, with more countries in the pipeline. Customers of Nium are also able to extend this service to their own consumers. This announcement comes shortly after the news of the company’s expansion plans into Africa at the tail end of last year.
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BNPL outfit Zip partners BigCommerce 09 March 2021
Source: Zip Leading Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) provider Zip (ASX: Z1P) today announced the company has been selected by BigCommerce (NASDAQ: BIGC) as an Elite Partner.
Seen as a best-in-class e-commerce solution for businesses both large and small, Zip will provide flexible digital payment options to BigCommerce’s network of more than 60,000 merchants, globally.
“With so many options in today’s retail environment, merchants need to be thoughtful about decreasing barriers to purchase for their customers – including providing easy-to-use alternative payment methods at checkout,” said Russell Klein, Chief Commercial Officer for BigCommerce. “Zip is a trusted global leader in instalment-based payments, and we are excited to welco
Tom DeWeese
Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center, a grassroots action and education foundation dedicated to the promotion of free enterprise and limited government regulations over commerce and individuals, says they need to stop depending on one person one icon to lead them forward and take responsibility into their own hands by forming Freedom Pods in their communities. By Freedom Pods he means joining forces with a collection of local officials and citizens who share their values.
DeWeese says, For several decades the radical left has been dedicated in its efforts to organize at every level of government while advocates of limited government failed to do the required dirty work of local organization and activism to protect our freedoms. We gave the left a pretty clear playing field to organize and seize control, and now we are suffering under the result. For the dedicated left, no position was too small. No appointed board was ignored. When was the las
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Manish Chandra is the founder and CEO of resale shopping app Poshmark.
He thinks there are certain steps business owners should take to prepare for changing future of the retail industry.
Chandra says online stores should replicate the in-person shopping experience and expand into niche categories.
When he was growing up in India, Manish Chandra, CEO and founder of online secondhand retail marketplace Poshmark, attended the Chandni Chowk market in Delhi with his grandfather. That inspired him to create a platform that would provide a social shopping experience. It
imbued the fact that socializing is part of how we shop, and it s not about just walking in this very sterile environment, Chandra said.
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Operational resilience becomes priority on the regulator agenda 09 March 2021
Source: ORX A global study of financial services institutions has identified six areas of focus as operational resilience becomes a significant topic for regulators globally.
Published by ORX, the world’s largest operational risk association with a membership of over 100 banks and insurers globally, the findings highlight how much the industry is shifting from traditional risk prevention to adapting, responding, recovering and learning through times of significant disruption.