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The Evolving Nature Of P2P Lending Marketplaces
By Matt Heiman for Techcrunch.com, In March 2014, The Economist publishedBanking without banks, declaring that peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms were set to disrupt banks and other traditional...
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Who will be the WeChat of India? And what will it do to Flipkart and Snapdeal?
By Meghna Rao for TechinAsia, The trend of buying things through chat has taken off in such a big way in China that some wonder if it’s a sign that chat commerce will pose a threat to conventional...
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How Alibaba is helping Paytm think differently about ecommerce in India
By Meghna Rao for TechinAsia.com Paytm has had a unique approach to ecommerce in India. Originally launched as a site for mobile phone top-ups in 2010, the name is an abbreviation for “pay through...
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India: Moving a Billion People into Digital Finance
By Elliot Maras, article first appeared in CCN: Bitcoin, Blockchain, FinTech, & Cryptocurrency News CCN: Digital finance has great potential to improve life for consumers and merchants in India....
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Paytm removes one reason for not using digital wallets
By Meghna Rao for techinAsia.com Mobile wallet-turned ecommerce site Paytm made it free for customers to pay merchants offline through its app today. This makes Paytm an attractive alternative to using...
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Bain report: China’s E-Commerce (Full report)
By Jason Ding, Bruno Lannes, Weiwen Han, and Tingting Yao Rapid innovation in China is delivering the future of online retailing and brand development. Brands that speed the integration of the customer...
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Online acquiring: Stripe and Competitors
Top companies in the global online acquiring industry and ways how they turn challenges into opportunities. All this and more will be published in our annual “Money of the Future” research. Payments...
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The hot e-commerce app Wish has “hundreds of millions of users” (plus other...
By Connie Loizos for techcrunch Last week, toward the end of a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, GGV Capital managing director Hans Tung took the stage to interview one of his portfolio CEOs, Peter...
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Airbnb just acquired a team of bitcoin and blockchain experts
By Ian Kar for QZ.com Home-rental company Airbnb has “acqui-hired” the majority of the team behind ChangeCoin, a startup that runs a bitcoin-based micropayments service, according to four people with...
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Failing To Adapt to eCommerce was The Downfall of Forever 21
By Jamie Cheng If getting sales is the lifeblood of every business, Forever 21 needs more than just one blood bag donated to them. Sadly, even if they had a donor, it would be too late for them. To...
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