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Under Armour Settles Accounting Practices Suit for $434 Million

Retail TouchPoints

16, 2015 and Nov. The lawsuit, filed in 2017, alleged that Founder and then-CEO Kevin Plank knowingly or recklessly misrepresented facts regarding consumer demand for Under Armour’s products as well as the company’s financial and operating results, according to the Wall Street Journal. billion revolving credit facility.

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Why Retailers Need Cloud-Native Payment Orchestration: 5 Tips to Flexible, Scalable, Customized Payment Infrastructure

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Why is payment orchestration suddenly getting so much attention? Payment orchestration is no longer optional. Surprisingly, how retailers manage and handle payments has not changed; it’s decisively stuck 20 years in the past. To ultimately transform, retailers need flexible, scalable and customizable payment infrastructure.

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Deliveroo Australia collapses, enters administration

Inside Retail

Delivery service provider Deliveroo has ceased trading in Australia, entering voluntary administration after about seven years of operation in the country. Deliveroo started its business in Australia in 2015 and was the longest-standing online food delivery platform in the country.

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Consumers and Merchants Should Look Before They Leap into BNPL Services

Retail TouchPoints

The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated demand for buy now, pay later (BNPL) payment options. Research by The Ascent showed that among people who have used a BNPL service, 45% first did so in 2019, 21% first did so in 2020, and only 7% had used a BNPL service prior to 2015.

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Beyond the Transaction: How PayPal is Helping Remove Friction Across the Commerce Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Since spinning off from eBay and going public for a second time in 2015, PayPal has expanded its reach well beyond that one digital marketplace to more than 30 million merchants worldwide. PayPal will need this edge as the world of digital payments heats up, with formidable competitors including Apple and Google snapping at its heels.

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Hair salon penalised over unlawful cashback scheme

Inside Retail

The former operators of a Sydney hairdressing salon have incurred more than $291,000 in penalties, as well as having received backpayment orders, for having underpaid a worker through an unlawful cashback scheme. compensation (plus interest) to rectify the underpayments and cashback payments.

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What next for PayPal, as CEO announces he is standing down?

Retail Focus

Not only were dial-up connections painfully slow , but there was no secure way to make payments. The company went from a peer-to-peer banking disruptor to THE trusted name in online payments. ” “Together, we have reimagined financial services and e-commerce and worked to improve the financial health of our customers.