William Mills

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Free report designed for the financial industry provides vendors and bankers better technology insights and a check against their own technology priorities. Leading industry analysts, consultants, bankers and financial technology professionals share commentary as well as insights on trends for the year.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

William Mills Agency will be live blogging at FinovateFall 2017. Helps companies secure email, chat and collaboration platforms communicate with confidence. I don’t think I know these folks, but they seem like they have a pretty good security product. Check back for new updates throughout the day. MalauzaiMonkeys. SamsungMobile.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Financial technology (FinTech) company Numerated , which links financial institutions (FIs) with digital business lending and sales solutions, has announced a partnership with PayNet to integrate risk analytics into its offering. In a press release issued on Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to allow FinTech companies to operate in all states, according to the same standards as banks — a move that would require the office to issue special charters to those younger payment and financial technology firms. Re-examining Tradeoffs. FinTech executives are eager for such moves. “It’s

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NCR

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

If the past decade or so has taught us anything about the financial services industry, it’s to expect the unexpected, but that shouldn’t stop us from making some educated guesses about what 2017 could bring. The payments industry will likely become even more dynamic and competitive in 2017. New fraud threats.

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Bobsguide

MAY 25, 2022

London — May 16, 2022 — Mindtree , a global technology services and digital transformation company, and Finastra , a leading financial technology provider, today announced a partnership to bring Finastra’s Fusion Payments To Go payments technology to banks in the Nordics, the UK and Ireland, as a managed service.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Taiwan’s central bank is looking into implementing blockchain technology in order to improve its operations. Big Data and even artificial intelligence and other technologies [will] help our bank to predict and analyze economic and financial conditions more effectively.”. “In

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 2, 2017

The background to this was announced in a press release on 1st February 2017: Ripple’s Distributed Financial Technology fits within NBAD’s existing infrastructure and offers a secure end-to-end payment flow providing transaction immutability and payment integrity. Forget hours or days.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that financial regulators should look more closely at the role of non-bank tech companies in the small business (SMB) lending and consumer lending markets. The news outlet quoted SEBI Chairman Ajay Tyagi late last month that blockchain may pose challenges for exchanges and financial firms.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

just secured more than $97 million through an initial public offering. The companies were grouped together between 2014 and 2017 after investments and acquisitions by Arrowgrass Master Fund Ltd., An alternative lending conglomerate based in the U.K. reports noted.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

8), the Securities and Exchange Commission ’s (SEC’s) Office of Compliance and Examinations (OCIE) offered up a list of its priorities for the year that has just dawned. In addition, there will be examination of transfer agents (which help to settle transactions) that are developing blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

For example, Pornjapan, a pornography vendor, was charged a 10 percent fee for transactions handled by Wirecard in 2017, according to internal Wirecard documents viewed by WSJ. The financial technology company faces insolvency with debt of nearly $4 billion, after it was revealed that $2.1 credit card purchases.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

While financial services (FinServ) innovations often emerge with built-in security measures, new market trends — including faster payments and open banking — are introducing new security threats to corporate treasury departments, according to cybersecurity company BioCatch. In the case of Same Day ACH in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The app will enable community financial institutions (CFIs) to compete with larger financial institutions by providing their business banking customers with iOS and Android access to this secure and easy-to-use account management platform.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

The company recently filed paperwork with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. billion in 2017. That marked an increase from 2017’s $1.4 Just under $3 billion – or $2.7 billion – of funds were lost to card fraud in 2018, up from $1.4

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Insights on Business

JUNE 14, 2018

The next evolution facing banking institutions is taking place in the digital reinvention of our current and future technologies. To do this, they will need to deploy new technologies and release the latest digital tools in ways that support scalable growth and sustainability. The Banker Technology Projects of the Year Awards 2017.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

There is significant room for improvement in the cross-border payments space,” said Scott Hendry, Bank of Canada’s senior special director of financial technology, in another statement. Reuters reported earlier this month that the Financial Stability Board (FSB) counted a 4.1

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Hyperwallet says the root of this problem is technology that hasn’t kept pace with the changing workforce – and their needs. By the end of 2017, these five trends will be realized — one way or the other. Security and transparency are top of mind as well. The end result as transactions increase but hoary methods persist?

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CB Insights

JULY 1, 2018

On an annual basis, 2017 saw overall funding to VC-backed Canadian companies increase to $2.7B, even as deal activity dropped 13% YoY, according to the Full-Year 2017 Money Tree Canada Report from PwC Canada and CB Insights. Fintech: The financial technology category has the greatest number of startups in our table.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

It was a busy year throughout the world of payments, with plenty of new technology making headlines along the way. Prpic and his team are hoping to use VR technology to transform luxury and high-end retail as we know it. As the year opened, our inaugural Faster Payments Tracker™ looked at the looming arrival of the new Same Day ACH.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2016

However, PayPal’s two new partnerships, with credit card issuing behemoth Citibank and financial technology firm FIS, are the first two public proof points of this strategy in action. PayPal is giving them the great, secure, digital experience, while they get that digital impression upon checkout.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The mobile wallets aren’t primarily competing with each other; they are competing with the plastic cards that consumers have a decade-long habit of successfully and securely using. Visa and Mastercard are working to tag team tokens together to create a universal security standard for transactions across channels.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

DBS launched its Singapore innovation lab to break out of its “traditional banking mindset to think, behave, and deliver more like a technology company,” according to Neal Cross, chief innovation officer. Fidelity — Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) and Fidelity Labs. Founded: 1999 and 2005.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 31, 2017

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateEurope on the 7 and 8 of February 2017 in London. Veridium’s end-to-end biometrics-based authentication software makes it easy and cost-effective to eliminate passwords, PINs and security tokens. Reduce financial fraud. You don’t want your company to be the headline in 2017.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have officially ended a two-year investigation of LendingClub, its subsidiary LC Advisors (LCA), its founder and former CEO Renaud Laplanche and its former CFO Carrie Dolan. On Friday (Sept. Attorney Alex Tse.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

Again another financial wellness platform using machine learning technology. Founded: August 2017. A TON of really old technology is being used in mortgage lending. In fact, Fiserv recently sold ALL of their mortgage technology to a PE firm. Founded: January 2017. Pretty good dashboard. HQ: Boston, MA.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 6, 2017

FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY. Fintech 250: The Tech Startups Redefining The Financial Services Industry. The Anatomy of Healthcare Technology. Cybersecurity’s Next Frontier: 80+ Companies Using Artificial Intelligence To Secure The Future. 60+ Cybersecurity Companies Securing The Future Of Digital Identity.

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CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

Allianz has backed startups providing complimentary technologies to auto insurance for purposes of roadside assistance ( Urgent.ly ), cybersecurity ( Argus ) and connected camera networks ( Nauto ). For Allianz’s corporate VC arm, the connected car space has been a particular focus. Aviva Ventures. Number of investments: 7. in funding.

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FICO

JANUARY 19, 2018

Through their own innovations and an overall advancement in technology, online retailers attracted customers away from legacy retailers with a wide variety of choices, low prices, and high convenience. The financial and retail sectors both have emerging competitors who are more technologically sophisticated than the incumbents.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But we achieved a new milestone surpassing the $1 TRILLION-mark in total valuation among the 120 public and private financial technology companies. New in November: Newborns: Verafin , the Canadian anti-financial crime specialist founded in 2003, is set to be acquired by NASDAQ for US$2.75 Ant Technology. Dec 2017 round.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

And it has a unique pedigree, originating within Eastern Bank , which earlier spun out Numerated (2017). Funding : $750k per Crunchbase (as Signal Financial Technology). This week we look at Monit , a Boston-based startup innovating in our favorite sector, small biz banking. Business model : Primarily B2B2C.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Provided instant card-issuance technology to Bank of the Ozarks. Partnered with Trend Micro to bring better data encryption and authentication technology to businesses. Provided technology for fellow Finovate alum Q2’s Contextual PFM solution. Launched Financial Fitness program for employers to offer employees.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2018

When it comes to blockchain technology, there’s a lot of hype. Ziddu focuses on blockchain-backed solutions that offer microfinance lending against collateralized commodities in the form of Ziddu Coins — in other words, blockchain-based technology that could hypothetically make it easier for LongFin to collect collateral from borrowers.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Once the deal closes in Q1 of 2017, it will boost Cardtronics’ network to 225,000 ATMs across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Many of Sberbank clients actively use new technologies, and an increasing number of them will prefer cash-free and contactless payment using their smartphones.” The blockchain.

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