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billion online during the run-up to Diwali, according to RedSeer Consulting. The online marketplace that allows bitcoin use, Purse, offers Amazon discounts and has a larger inventory and cheaper prices than Amazon, eBay and Google Shopping. India is the world’s largest remittance market, $69 billion, according to the World Bank.
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It’s a question FICO’s fraud head honcho, TJ Horan, pondered back in 2016 , when the nascent real-time person-to-person (P2P) payments service Zelle was relaunched by a small consortium of banks (see below). As it happens, there’s a lot more happening in the real-time payments arena than just PayPal, Venmo and Zelle.
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