Chris Skinner

MAY 9, 2017

These legislative acts foster innovation and drive both competition and choice in the market. They will have a negative impact on competition, they will jeopardise consumer control over their own financial data, and they will have a critical negative impact on the future trajectory of innovation in Europe.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 13, 2016

In a final post about African transformation through technology, I’ve covered the key themes: mobile financial inclusion, smartphone innovation through apps, digital currencies and blockchain identities. One thing missed is a mention of the Water ATM.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Trying on clothes in the store can really be an experience of fashion out of context — a problem that MIT graduate Salvador Nissi Vilcovsky decided to formally take on in 2013 when he and MemoMi Co-Founder Ofer Saban launched a product that had heretofore never been seen in the market: a smart mirror.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2019

This is up from 35% in 2017, and way up from 18% in 2013, according to Financial Technology Partners’ 2018 Annual Fintech Almanac. Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic investor.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2020

Philippines payments startup Voyager Innovations has closed a funding deal worth up to $120 million from existing backers, according to a Monday (April 6) statement from Voyager. Voyager Innovations runs the payments platform PayMaya Philippines. Vea, founder and chief executive officer of Voyager Innovations.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. And who will influence how innovation happens. Distribution.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve created a list of finance innovation labs from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as from newcomers looking to make a name through tech. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

From the digitization of medical records to smart patient care platforms, technology is disrupting the healthcare industry. One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Technology.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

Australia’s Car Next Door , which was founded in 2013, provides a Turo -like car share service to connect car owners and would-be borrowers. These are just some of the ways that home sharing and car sharing sites are bringing value-added offerings to consumers and owners around the globe: . Just under 11 million — or 10.8

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

As the number of worldwide deaths from the coronavirus nears 400,000, the crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has launched a $100 million Pandemic Innovation Fund. This worldwide crisis presents the greatest challenge yet faced by digital technology,” he wrote. “To Since its founding in 2013, OurCrowd has raised $1.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

“The banking license means a great responsibility, and it is gratifying to see that Sweden and its authorities foster innovation,” Lindahl said, adding that the mission of the bank is to “simplify people’s financial lives through technology and innovation.”. N26, which started in 2013, has a valuation of €2.38

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 22, 2013

and its subsidiary BofI Federal Bank aspire to be the most innovative branchless bank in the United States providing products and services superior to their competitors, branch-based or otherwise. A summary of the banks, their strategies, and links to their website are below. #1. BofI Holdings Inc. Nasdaq: BOFI) BofI Holdings Inc.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The initiatives will take advantage of Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband tech to not only provide innovative AR products, but content and new ways for people to communicate. Our strategy is to partner with the best brands to ensure our customers have exclusive access to cutting edge technology and services. Fashionable Looks. That’s not all.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

But where there are problems lie opportunities – and that’s the story with a company called TruTag Technologies. According to that report, “TruTags are used with hyperspectral imaging technology, which is able to process much more wavelengths than other imaging methods, so it can collect more precise and detailed data from an image.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

But where there are problems lie opportunities – and that’s the story with a company called TruTag Technologies. According to that report, “TruTags are used with hyperspectral imaging technology, which is able to process much more wavelengths than other imaging methods, so it can collect more precise and detailed data from an image.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

“It’s hard to imagine that there’s so much technology and innovation happening up and down the mobility spectrum except for in this market — and it’s a $1.4 It’s 2020, we have technology everywhere all the time, and most people are doing all their research on their phones anyway. trillion market in the U.S.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. In some cases, the technological changes inspired by Covid-19 will come in the form of an acceleration of existing trends — for example, industrial automation and contactless payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The company has opened an arm of its early-stage technology investment program in Tel Aviv and plans to pursue R&D in artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality and cybersecurity. This latest move by Samsung shows the race for innovation between the two rivals. Discussions on free trade and the $1.7

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Assembly Payments shares our vision, and we are pleased to partner them based on the strength of their core technology and talented team,” said Alex Manson, head of SC Ventures — the innovation, FinTech investment and ventures arm of Standard Chartered. We identified payments as an area where we wanted to make a strategic investment.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

Checkout.com faces competition from Stripe, a San Francisco technology company that allows businesses to make and receive payments over the internet, and Adyen, a Dutch payment company that provides businesses a way to accept eCommerce, mobile and point-of-sale payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2017

Despite all that exchange of funds in the B2B market, the banking industry has a reputation for being a bit behind the times technologically — and it may be justified. Despite new technological developments, the majority of B2B payments are still made by check, with 51 percent of payments still coming in on good old non-cash paper stock.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Banking Transformed Banking Transformed by the Financial Brand’s Jim Marous has new episodes several times a month and features executives from financial institutions, financial technology firms, authors, consultants, and other experts in the banking industry. keep me informed.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

And while partnerships, collaboration and internal product development have helped banks to improve their reputations for innovation among their corporate clients, a new report from Boston Consulting Group says it’s not enough. The report found some good news for the corporate banking divisions of FIs, however. ”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

We are actively following the country’s Belt and Road Initiative to empower Chinese businesses through innovation in the cross-border ecosystem,” said Luo in a statement. Luxembourg had already passed a bill to legally issue “dematerialized securities” in April 2013 through an amendment to a 2001 securities law.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The cybersecurity world is witnessing a potentially new, dangerous threat: according to insurance firm Euler Hermes, one of its corporates fell victim to cyber fraud after attackers used sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) technology to impersonate the firm’s chief executive officer by mimicking his voice on the phone.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2016

But, there’s one thing left to do: honor the innovators that are creating the shifts across those industries that will impact where payments is headed over the next year, two years, five years and beyond. Submissions are received by PYMNTS.com and reviewed by a panel of judges who are experts in innovation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

We are excited about the role that our company plays in helping these high growth brands to innovate with subscriptions in a way that delights their customers while delivering breakout results against their competitors.”. Tony Allen, a former platform and architecture engineer, joins as chief technology officer.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

SWIFT India , a joint venture between SWIFT SCRL and several banks, plans to test distributed ledger technology (DLT) in partnership with blockchain startup MonetaGo , Cointelegraph reported. The FinTech firm’s technology will reportedly work with SWIFT’s standardized financial messages, which serve the market in India.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The farms use hydroponic technology to grow produce in modular vertical spaces, and can be installed in stores and restaurants. Infarm was founded in 2013 by Osnat Michaeli and brothers Erez and Guy Galonska. There has been an increase in investments in innovative farming methods. In the first half of this year, U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The mobile version was launched in 2011, with the tablet version following in 2013; they were developed for corporate treasurers as a way to conduct critical business functions, like payment initiation, trade authorization, payment status monitoring and other financial matters, from anywhere via mobile device. “The

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Uber rival Bolt has closed a €50 million funding deal from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to help the startup scale throughout Europe and improve its technology, according to reports on Thursday (Jan. Founded in 2013, the company was formerly called Taxify and rebranded to include additional offerings, like food delivery and scooters.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 29, 2016

Square Cash was launched by Square in 2013 for P2P payments. Is Citigroup going to partner with Square to offer the startup’s peer-to-peer payments service to Citi customers? That’s the implication from a recently published article in Fortune. The service is available in the U.S., and for both personal or Read More.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The global insurance technology ( InsurTech ) market is slated to become a $1.1 billion industry by 2023, analysts have predicted, with growing analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) functionality accelerating innovation in the insurance market. In analyzing 470,000 corporate insurance claims across 206 countries, totaling $66.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Domino’s Pizza, a fast food pizza chain with a well-known propensity for digital innovations, saw a cooldown in same-store retail sales growth last quarter, according to a report from Reuters. 1, 2018, to help the chain recover the costs of recent technology investments , the Reuters article said. starting Jan.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

According to a report in CNBC , citing the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, mobile phone shipments were 14.51 Nevertheless, demand this February was worse than in years past, with the news report saying this shipment rate hasn’t been seen since at least 2013. Smartphone shipments came in at 13.8

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