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Brett Mooney returns to the card network as the country manager for Canada, a digital-forward market that is attracting more competition from banks and fintechs.

The card network is examining how to make incentives more personal by using advanced technology to sift through a trove of consumer spending data.

This week's global news roundup includes Apple Pay securing a lingering holdout; a CBDC project that targets FX rates, and more.

Associate partner Mary Ann Francis is a risk taker — the kind who jumps off a waterfall without a parachute. She brings this same boldness to her work at IBM, where her decades of banking experience help the tech giant find new opportunities for artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

This year's Most Influential Women in Payments honorees are uniquely positioned to make the most of disruptive factors such as the advancement of artificial intelligence, central bank digital currencies and real-time payments. 

A new product enables consumers to initiate a transaction by typing in a merchant's web domain — even if that business doesn't have an e-commerce site. It's the web-hosting company's latest bid to provide more to small proprietors.

Citizens Financial Group, which has offered point-of-sale financing for iPhones sold through Apple since 2015, is finding that as objects such as refrigerators become more complex and internet-connected, they are also more frequently replaced — creating new categories for installment lending.

This week's global news roundup include Canada's crackdown on crypto operators, Westpac's cloud project and more. 

As firms like Klarna and Sezzle attempt to reach profitability, fintechs that offer point-of-sale financing brace for consolidation, regulation and other drastic changes to their market.

The boom in digital commerce led to a boom in hiring, and many payment companies have started cutting back. This is creating an experienced pool of talent for employers that have room to grow.