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Today In Payments: Wirecard Forces German Accounting Regs Reboot; Consumers Sour On Travel Rewards Cards

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In today’s top news, Germany’s deputy finance minister wants to restructure accounting firm regulations, and consumers are turning away from travel rewards cards. Consumers Sour On Travel Rewards Cards. A Merchant’s How-To For Managing The Contactless Payments Surge And SCA Requirements.

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PayPal’s Xoom Makes Remittance Deal With Euronet’s Ria

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PayPal has increased its foothold in Eastern Europe and Africa, and has boosted its presence in the global remittance market, through a new partnership agreement. Xoom launched in 2001 and was purchased by PayPal in 2015 for $890 million in an all-cash deal. And other player are always trying to gain market share.

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Billtrust Taps Green Dot For New CFO

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. “I’m excited, not only that Billtrust’s market-leading order-to-cash platform continues to be the industry standard, but that our Business Payments Network is revolutionizing B2B payments.” Billtrust was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

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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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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. 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., Funding Xchange secured $10.3

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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.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

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By the 1990’s, improvements in technology and further changes to securities regulations made it easier for corporate customers to access financial markets directly. This forced banks to renew their focus on middle market commercial banking and consumers. While access to credit grew, the costs associated with managing it were high.

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