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July 4, 2017

Brexit

Brexit FinTech Talent Drain A Leak Likely To Deluge?
 

Brexit is still being worked on, worked out and one is left to wonder what FinTech players will do. Today it still looks like a mixed bag. But the fear for those in the U.K. is that the drip of the FinTech Brexodus may quicken into a rolling river.

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Digital Payments

India’s Grand (De) Monetization Experiment
 

India’s push toward digital payments has given us a real-time look at what happens when a government removes 86 percent of a country’s notes in circulation, overnight, in an effort to create an entirely cashless country. We’ve got the rundown eight months in.
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Retail Reinvention

Is Seattle's Minimum Wage Hike A Job Killer?
 

Three-years ago the city of Seattle decided to raise the minimum wage to $15 in an effort to close what they called the local wealth gap. New data out of the University of Washington, suggests that it did just the opposite. Now, economists on both sides are duking it out, as the future of minimum wage and the retail jobs that go along with them, hang in the balance.

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European eCommerce

What's Next For EU eCommerce?
 

The good news for EU merchants selling online is that eCommerce is clipping along, with a 14 percent growth rate expected in 2017 after a strong 2016 showing. It’s a trend that everyone expects will only continue given that only 18 percent of the 77 percent of all online retailers in the EU today can actually accept online payments. So what’s driving the growth — today — and what countries are expected to ignite in the next few years? We've got it here.

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