PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Thanks to smartphones equipped with facial and fingerprint recognition for security, many consumers now have up close and personal experience with newer forms of digital ID. Innovations — some more fantastical than others — keep emerging, though. Biometrics isn’t as sci-fi as it once was. Vein recognition? Voice patterns?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

In the January Credit Union Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of CUs, including a retrospective look at the CU industry in the 2010s, an examination of hybrid cloud technology and a new synthetic identity security threat that could steal hundreds of thousands of dollars. Around The Credit Union World. billion in 2009 to $1.54

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

Bluefin Payment Systems, which offers point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solutions to several industries, including retail and health care, said on Tuesday (May 3) that it will also add the Visa Data Secure Platform (DSP) to its portfolio, through its Decryption-as-a-Service P2PE Solution.

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FICO

MAY 9, 2019

Congratulations to UBS Card Center on winning the Security Innovation of the Year award at the Retail Banker International Awards. You can read more about UBS Card Center's achievements and Security Innovation award in this Electronic Payments International article.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In a world where payments become more invisible the more digital they become, there’s never been a better opportunity to consider new ways to enable the digital transformation of financial services in a secure and compliant way. Payments Security As A Digital Business Enabler. Then, there was sudden exponential growth in innovation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

PingPong is yet another innovative FinTech player that chose Luxembourg as its EU hub. The EU’s PI licensing requirements are especially stringent, with strict requirements on PI infrastructure, shareholder qualifications, Know Your Customer (KYC) and AML policies and information security programs.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

While the benefits were great, the innovation came with its share of risks, too. Security strategies. Faster payments aren’t all doom and gloom, though, and proper security measures can help businesses reap the benefits of real-time payments schemes with fewer detriments. Behavioral biometrics became widespread in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Storonsky said Revolut wants to develop “many more innovative products” that will advance “innovation and competition” across the financial services sector. The London-based FinTech was founded in 2015 and has secured more than $580 million in funding on a $5.5 billion valuation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Founded in 2015 by Spanish entrepreneur Oier Urrutia, the company uses algorithms to provide users with a personalized online shopping experience. Existing investor All Iron Ventures and new investors Bonsai Partners, 10x and Santander Smart also participated in the round.

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NCR

OCTOBER 13, 2017

One innovation that demonstrates what can be achieved when the mobile and ATM channels are brought together is Mastercard’s Cash Pick-Up. Security and convenience through contactless. Bank of America is one of the institutions that have embraced this particular innovation. Bringing the ATM and mobile together.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

News came this week that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has filed suit against Ripple over its XRP cryptocurrency. billion unregistered securities offering, and named CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Co-Founder Chris Larsen in the suit. It’s an attack on the entire crypto industry and American innovation.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. In 2015, these two researchers went back into the lab to dive deeper. Research that we did in 2015 on this topic then reported that nearly 60 percent of all searches related to commerce started in Amazon.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Financial services company SWIFT announced today that it has mitigated four additional capital depositories onto its Target2 Securities, or T2S, network. The four CSDs, which will start live operations on SWIFT T2S, marks the last four to move to the network since the migration plan first begun in June 2015.

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JULY 1, 2022

The total funding secured through Series B round amounts to more than $100 million. The company states that the additional funds will be directed toward team development, product and technology innovations, and expansion of its operations. Consequently, the fintech platform provides peer-to-peer digital payment solutions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2016

Embedded digital security company Oberthur Technologies released on Thursday (March 17) the results of a survey showing that 80 percent of respondents would be more likely to use a MOTION CODE-enabled card over one that has a static and printed CVV code when shopping online.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

At the end of 2015, the company announced it had a run rate of $5.6 They are pioneers in financial innovation, enhancing core capabilities and accelerating digital commerce. The company is in the rapidly expanding space of fraud protection for eCommerce. We’re thrilled to partner with Menlo Ventures and American Express.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 15, 2019

Steele told Bank Innovation that the Swiss firm saw about 400% cloud deployment growth amongst its clients from 2015 to 2017, with the most significant growth occurring in Latin […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

PYMNTS' October Banking As A Service Playbook: Powering The Next Generation Of FinTech Innovation , a collaboration with Transcard , examines developments around banking as a service (BaaS) and how its digital-first nature makes it ideal for current banking needs. And it goes well beyond that as a unifying financial faculty.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

For other firms, security specialists spring to mind, raising the bar on vigilance and pushing the pace of innovation. 20 percent: Share of Apple’s revenue that came from China as of 2015. Data: 75 percent: Share of QSR managers that view Amazon Pay favorably.

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Banking 2020

JANUARY 15, 2015

As we begin 2015 in retail banking, here is a quick look at five trends to watch for in 2015. Now in 2015, we will see more experimentation in location-based services and loyalty, and reward tie ups with merchants. Payment disruption and innovation. Branch innovation and branch closings. Digital Banking.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Founded in 2010, Sightline has experienced 744 percent revenue growth since 2015. Consumers going cashless also reap benefits from better security, convenience and flexibility in how they spend and play. Sightline maintains that by going cashless, operators can better serve customers while also tapping data for behavior insights.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

AppHarvest is working to build indoor farms, combining the conventional agriculture technique with innovative tech to grow affordable fruits and vegetables at scale, the release stated. billion in funding to accelerate manufacturing, product development and distribution into key national grocery, restaurant, and hospitality venues.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Fraudsters’ attempts to access systems and steal valuable information are becoming more innovative, and research suggests they are also increasingly successful. Phishing attempts threaten many firms’ security operations, often tricking employees into revealing email addresses, login credentials, passwords or other sensitive details.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

Mobvoi, a China-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, has almost secured funding to value the company at upwards of $1 billion before an initial public offering, according to a report by Bloomberg. Mobvoi was previously valued at $300 million in a financing round that Google led in 2015.

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NCR

APRIL 26, 2017

The ATM Industry Association’s (ATMIA) 2016 annual fraud survey found that the proportion of respondents revealing a general increase in ATM crime dropped to 42 percent , from 51 percent in 2015. This emphasises the fact that one of the most testing aspects of ATM security today is the need to fight on several fronts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Barclays is collaborating with Hitachi on a biometric scanner designed to accelerate and boost the security of corporate transactions. The technology, which is billed as being more secure than fingerprint scanning, will enable corporate treasurers and other clients to complete banking transactions without having to input a password or PIN.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In today’s top news, the stock market takes its biggest hit since 2015 due to mounting fears over the coronavirus, and an ex-Microsoft engineer is found guilty of stealing $10 million in digital currency. The S&P 500 lost $1.737 trillion, the largest drop since 2015, when the Chinese government devalued the yuan amid the U.S.-China

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

LoanDepot will be seeking as much as $315 million in its initial public offering (IPO), according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. The company is offering 9.41 million shares of its common stock, and private equity backer Parthenon Capital Partners is selling 5.59 million of its shares, for a combined 15 million shares.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. In general, venture capitalists are boosting their investments in Latin America, with funding reaching $594 million in 2015, a stark increase from $387 million in 2012, the Latin America Venture Capital Association confirmed.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

The tallies are in: Innovate Finance has calculated the state of investment in FinTech for 2015, and we have the numbers. Innovate Finance released The 2015 FinTech Investment Landscape this month, a report that offers a snapshot at how investors are placing their money among financial innovators. reigned supreme.

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ZootBlog

JANUARY 14, 2016

Over the past several years as banks focused on staying in compliance with myriad new regulations, innovation slowed—nearly to a standstill. In 2015, I predicted it would be the year banks took back banking. Grass roots innovation is something taking hold within banks. Innovation, alive and well.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

Aqua Security announced that it has closed a Series C investment round of $62 million , led by Insight Partners. Founded in 2015, Aqua enables companies to secure their container-based and cloud-native applications, from development to production.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Ruchir Rodrigues, the head of digital and open banking at Barclays , said that Bink, which was founded in 2015, “created a practical and innovative solution to an everyday problem,” and that Barclays is excited to help Bink grow.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday (Dec. In 2015, the company mulled going public again but instead was acquired by CVC Capital Partners and Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board for $4.6 The Silicon Valley-headquartered company filed an S-1 with the U.S. Founded in 1965, Petco was last publicly traded in 2006.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2019

This approval demonstrates New York’s competitiveness as a hub of innovation and leadership in emerging technologies.”. We appreciate the work that the DFS has undertaken to bring a standardized regulatory framework to digital assets, particularly in the area of secure custody. 16) in a press release.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

They must deliver services that customers and clients demand while securing their personal data. More Data, More Innovation. billion faster payments transactions between 2015 and 2016, and recent estimates project that number will reach approximately 2.3 Some of the benefits can be seen in the U.K. What’s more, the U.K.

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