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Citigroup Ramps Up Payments Tech With New Tools

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Citigroup ’s Global Head of Payments and Receivables Manish Kohli is relying on technology to increase its payment business. Our strategy has to be very simple,” Kohli told his team recently , as he laid out his mission to ensure that the payments industry keeps up with the pace of technology development.

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3 key fintech predictions for 2017

NCR

Given the prevalence of financial services across the globe – in both emerging and developed markets – the disruption opportunity for fintech startups is massive. As fintech startups battle it out to get their share of the business, the drive for innovation is spreading well beyond traditional tech hubs and basic banking products.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. And in 2017, those investments were off-the-charts nuts. However, the reality behind the hype tells a different story.

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Brex Launches Vancouver Tech Hub With 40 Employees

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Silicon Valley payments FinTech Brex opened its first international office, a technology hub in Vancouver, Canada with a 40-person workforce, the company announced on Tuesday (March 3). The new hub will target software engineering and user experience processes. They previously founded the online payments company Pagar.me.

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SAP Ariba Pulls Bot Hype Into Procurement

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B2B FinTech is taking advantage of bot technology across use-cases, from SME banking to accounting. Intelligent bots are facilitating a whole new paradigm of interactions that allow people to be more efficient and smarter in what they do,” said SAP Ariba Chief Technology Officer Dinesh Shahane in a statement. “We

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Tencent WeChat and WeChat Pay

Chris Skinner

WECHAT KEY TRENDS REPORT 2017 MATTHEW BRENNAN CHINA CHANNEL THIS PRESENTATION IS ADAPTED FROM A KEYNOTE SPEECH DELIVERED AT CHINA CONNECT CONFERENCE IN PARIS ON MARCH 2ND 2017 BREAKING NEWS: SLUGGISH GROWTH FOR WECHAT IS WECHAT STILL COOL? EVERYTHING IS WITH USER VALUE IN MIND. THE VALUE TO THE USER IS THE FIRST PRIORITY.”

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Why Drive, Not Size, Is Key To FI Innovation

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When it comes to technological innovation, however, the smaller players have long been outgunned by larger FIs and their sizable IT budgets. In fact, more than 40 percent of small banks aim to be first to market with their innovations, a twofold increase from 2017 that surpasses that of larger banks. percent in 2017.