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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: How financial institutions can stay safe and secure online

Abrigo

Ideas for educating and promoting cybersecurity in October Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an opportunity for banks and credit unions to promote online safety and take steps to reduce cyber risks. First held in 2004 The history of Cybersecurity Awareness Month October is a special month for cybersecurity enthusiasts.

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Contour Enters Live Production To Digitize B2B Trade Finance

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Its technology provides an online application for trade finance through a distributed ledger trade network that enables entities to manage their own information as they transact, while looking at shared data with their service providers and trading partners.

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OnDeck Eyes Equipment Finance Loans For SMBs

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Online small business lender OnDeck has announced that it will offer equipment finance loans to select U.S. “We expect OnDeck equipment finance loans to quickly become a vital source of online financing for small business owners seeking simple, transparent equipment financing they can understand and utilize.” ”

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Alibaba’s Ant Financial IPO Rumored For Late 2017

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Ant Financial, the $60 billion online financial extension from Alibaba, says it’s putting growth first by expanding its number of users from the current 450 million, by adding merchants and more customers into the mix. Alibaba launched Alipay in 2004, and later peeled off on its on accord ten years later.

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Ant Financial Names New CEO

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Ant Financial Services Group, Alibaba’s online and mobile financial services affiliate, shuffled some of its top executive positions over the weekend and named a new chief executive officer, according to Reuters. Ant Financial is valued at $60 billion and, besides Alipay, also offers wealth management and insurance products.

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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 was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. And each January, we ranked all previous recipients into a master list.

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Cashing In On Returns: Marketplaces Reinvent Inventory Liquidation

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Retailer overstocks and excess inventory help to drive B-Stock, which facilitates the sale of some 70 million items each year via online auctions of various product categories and types. So what’s to keep companies with too much product from trying to get rid of counterfeit goods in the online marketplace? Reputation, Rosenberg said.

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