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Wirecard’s Former CEO Markus Braun Arrested

PYMNTS

The 50-year-old executive faces charges of accounting fraud and market manipulation designed to artificially inflate the financial technology company’s balance sheet to make it look more appealing to investors and customers, the Financial Times reported. billion euros ($2.1 billion), prosecutors confirmed on Tuesday. billion euros ($2.1

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

Fintech Labs Insights

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It’s still going under the stewardship of fintech famous Jim Marous, who modernized the name to Digital Banking Report (and recently opened the archives for free access).

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How Visa, FIS, TCH, SWIFT, Nacha and Circle See The Future of Faster, Real Time Payments Rails

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All of these new instant payments systems around the world are being built on the ISO 2002 standard,” said Waterhouse. The conversation turned to whether FinTechs are purely competitors to traditional FIs — or, actually collaborators. Waterhouse noted that FinTechs act as collaborators. “In

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120 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century: November 2020 Update

Fintech Labs Insights

At FintechLIVE , we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). But we achieved a new milestone surpassing the $1 TRILLION-mark in total valuation among the 120 public and private financial technology companies. Full Fintech Unicorn list (values as of 2 Dec 2020). Ant Technology.

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Yahoo! Is! For! Sale!: Why Banks Should Care

Celent Banking

’s original idea by deploying technology that could automate the building of a website directory by using bots to crawl the web, catalog the content of websites, maintain an searchable index of the result, and most notably calculate the importance of a website that reflected the number of inbound links from other websites.

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The 134 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Feb 2021 update)

Fintech Labs Insights

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. It’s currently tied for 96th most valuable across all fintech, and 36th most valuable payments company. Full Fintech Unicorn List. Value Date.

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How Banking CIOs Can Deliver Data-Driven Intelligence at Scale

FICO

With a focus on data-driven digital transformation, how do IT teams deliver differentiated value and increase customer satisfaction directly from technology investments? Banking and financial services continue to be disrupted by leaner, new-to-market fintechs andchallenger banks, as well as shifting economic and regulatory conditions.

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