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The Financial Technologies SMEs Aren’t Using

PYMNTS

The average small business considers itself a “moderate” user of technology, according to the PYMNTS.com SMB Technology Adoption Index. Only 13 percent say they’re willing to jump on the innovation bandwagon. 70 percent of SMEs didn’t use tax software in 2016 , found Office Depot in its most recent Small Business Index survey.

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Why B2B Payments Can’t Shake Its Anti-Innovation Notoriety

PYMNTS

B2B payments have a reputation for being slow to innovate , though the last couple years has challenged that notoriety. Still, according to the latest Mercator Advisory Group report on FinTech disruption, B2B payments will have to wait a bit longer to see true change from these innovations. B2B Payments Outlook.

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Citi Venture Investing Head: ‘Financial Services is Becoming More Like Tech’

Bank Innovation

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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Corporate Payments Firm AccessPay Secures US Backing

PYMNTS

Based in Manchester, AccessPay provides a digital platform for payments, cash management and treasury operations by integrating businesses’ back-end operations with their banks. Corporate payments have not seen the same level of innovation as consumer payments. In 2017, it co-led a $15.2 and U.S.,

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Bankers as Buyers 2017 Message from William Mills Agency President, Scott Mills

William Mills

Innovation in all things having to do with money is helping to improve both front and back office operations; remodeling the customer experience (CX); and generally making things faster (such as payments). Watch this short video from the editor to learn why he believes Bankers as Buyers is an important read for 2017.

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FinTech Firms On The New FinTech Charter

PYMNTS

Department of the Treasury report on how to encourage more FinTech, payments executives were mulling over the report, wondering if it would lead to any concrete improvements and giving their ideas to PYMNTS about how to best improve payments innovation and entrepreneurship. FinTech Improvements. Additionally, the report calls upon the U.S.

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Counterparty payments in seconds is an easy sell

Chris Skinner

The background to this was announced in a press release on 1st February 2017: Ripple’s Distributed Financial Technology fits within NBAD’s existing infrastructure and offers a secure end-to-end payment flow providing transaction immutability and payment integrity. Forget hours or days.

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