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Capital One Disclosed Inquiry Into Anti-Money Laundering Practices

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Capital One Financial disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week that it’s being investigated by the New York District Attorney’s Office, the Justice Department and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Treasury Department for its anti-money laundering program. That all changed with the filing late last week.

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Turkey’s PayCore Snags New Majority Investor Amid Digital Payments Boom

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Mediterra Capital is expanding its portfolio with a big new investment that will give the top Turkish private equity firm a stake in the country’s fast-growing digital payments sector. Launched in 2001, PayCore notes that more than a million POS terminals in Turkey operate with software developed and provided by the company.

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B2B FinTechs Diversify Funding Strategies With M&A, IPOs

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Talk of a decelerating FinTech venture capital market continued to mount this week with reports that digital banking startup Aspiration is struggling to raise money. Venture Capital Funding. raised $10 million from SEB Bank and Seed Capital for its commercial card technology. Cardlay, based in the U.K., Also in the U.K.,

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Barclays Corporate Banking Chief Resigns

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According to reports, Winter has been at the bank since 2001, previously serving at Deutsche Bank. While at Deutsche Bank, Winter served as head of European debt capital markets. and Germany-based credit card operations.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

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Innovations from 1995 to 2014 (with launch dates) Note: Ranking as of Jan 2014 Wells Fargo is first in the world to offer Web-statement access (launched May 1995) Security First Network Bank launches first full-service Internet bank brand (Oct 1995, disbanded 2002) PayPal launches first online optimized payment system (Nov 1999, bought by eBay in 2003) (..)

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Artificial Intelligence: FIs’ Friend Or Foe?

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It doesn’t mask murderous intentions with a calming voice like HAL of “2001: A Space Odyssey.” When customers apply for a credit card or loan, that application can take weeks to process, said Kaplan. What will banks do with all that liberated capital? It’s not a beautiful but cunning killer like Ava of “Ex Machina.”.

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Green Dot CEO: 20 Years Of Innovating ‘Banking For The Masses’

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His main exposure to the payments industry was using his Bank of America debit card to pay for things at the store. That brought about an idea to create a card that would give kids — who didn’t have a credit card, but did have access to high-speed internet at school — a way to buy things online. area Rite Aid stores in 1998.