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

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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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Berkeley Intros Real-Time Business Payments

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The service also supports new debt repayment and collections resources as well as the real-time transference of prepaid cards directly from consumer bank accounts. Berkeley Payments was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Toronto. DirectSend is quicker than ACH, checks and prepaid alternatives. in the late spring. .

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Razer Gaming Company Teams With Visa For Online Payments

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Razer, a gaming hardware company based in Singapore, has partnered with Visa to offer a prepaid card that will let the company’s 60 million users make payments all over the world, according to reports. Razer, which was founded in 2005, has 18 offices around the globe and headquarters in both Singapore and San Francisco.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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Steve Jobs, in his very famous 2005 Stanford commencement address , said connecting the dots was only possible with hindsight, by looking in the rearview window at the series of things that had happened over the course of one’s life to explain the actions of the here and now. depository institutions are using for payments innovation.”

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Atradius Reports: Top US Firms Take Longest Time To Pay B2B Invoices In A Decade

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The company paid its invoices 83 days after issuance on average last year, and has been taking at least two months to pay supplier invoices since 2005. This tug-and-pull is the subject of much B2B FinTech innovation that has emerged in recent years, from commercial cards to cash flow forecasting automation.

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Data Dive: Buying, Selling And Foreclosing

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MarketWatch , citing comments from Triton’s co-founders, reported that the student-run fund believes the subscription model is actually a solid innovation that isn’t going away anytime soon – and that the low share price offers an opportunity. Bank will sell its card processing service, Elan. For its part, U.S.

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Why Amazon Bet (Almost) A Billion On Certainty

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And it’s why plastic cards still rule at the physical point of sale, even though there are more contactless POS terminals than ever before. Plastic cards and the card rails are reliable and certain, at the physical store as well as online. Consumers stick to what they know will deliver a predictable outcome.

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