PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The partnership will enable Bithumb to further expand in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. While European blockchain technology companies saw a record year in VC investment in 2018, new data shows that they still didn’t receive as much funding as FinTech companies.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

China’s community banks are raising new fears over the health of the industry after auditor Ernst & Young resigned from its work with regional bank Bank of Jinzhou. Last month, the government took control of a struggling regional bank, Baoshang Bank, marking the first such event in more than two decades.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2018

As of early 2018, U.S. regional bank executives were gearing up for a bumper year, according to Bloomberg. BB&T is expecting to see loan growth between 2 to 4 percent in 2018. Bancorp , the largest regional bank in the U.S., Early 2018 seemed to be the time for high hopes — and big expectations. Bancorp said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Though FinTech has, in many ways, heated up the competition with banks, traditional financial institutions (FIs) widely began to realize in 2018 that their best strategy to remain competitive in today’s financial services landscape is often to collaborate with (not against) those FinTech firms. Visa Acquires Longtime Partner Fraedom.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

Beyond product and strategy, payment methods come with highly regional preferences. A recent study by GoCardless analyzed payment preferences for subscriptions, memberships, bills and installment plans in 10 countries and found a number of regional quirks. One of the biggest issues — especially among U.S. How Do Consumers Want to Pay?

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Regional Payments Cards America 108

CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

On September 21, 2018, the CFPB announced that it will be relocating its southeast regional office from Washington, D.C. that will be surrendered after the southeast regional team is moved to Atlanta. The plan for a southeast regional office has been in the works since 2016. to Atlanta, Georgia in late 2019.

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Payments Dive

MAY 24, 2018

It covers 9 of the biggest countries in the region by population where Fortumo has coverage: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala and Bolivia. Fortumo's latest market report gives an overview of the mobile payments landscape in Latin America.

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Bobsguide

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Headlining in 2018, the price volatility of bitcoin, cloud computing, and challenger banks stole the show. Funding in the UK from the government in East London Tech City and tech partnerships in Brazil and South Africa, has shown that digitisation and innovation have been front of mind for both.

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The Paypers

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

(The Paypers) Mobile payment usage in the APAC region has grown 30% in 2018, with 63% of consumers citing the mobile device as an important shopping tool.

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Insights on Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Given IBM’s experiences helping clients accelerate their digital transformation journey with Cloud and AI, we’re particularly excited that “Enabling the digital economy” is the Sibos 2018 conference theme. IBM at Sibos 2018. Stay tuned for more blogs on Sibos 2018! Jim Brill, IBM Financial Services Marketing.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Samsung Pay has increasingly grown in popularity, processing more than one billion transactions , almost double compared to 2018. By early 2019, Samsung Pay’s international presence grew to six global regions. has seen slow adoption compared to other regions. By year-end 2019, it expanded into several new countries. .

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BankUnderground

JULY 7, 2020

Chart 1: GDP-weighted “global” public real rates and previous series, 1311–2018. Chart 4: R trends across three risk classes, advanced economies, 1311–2018. No doubt, various early modern geographies fall short of even remotely comparable financial market depth, particularly in peripheral European towns and regions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

All in, Chinese consumers were behind 40 percent of the $101 billion in app-related purchases in 2018 — including paid downloads, in-app purchases and in-app subscriptions. They’re still getting a smartphone for the first time,” Jaede Tan, a regional director at App Annie, told CNBC. “If billion in revenues annually.

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American Banker

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

When the 2018 Dodd-Frank reform bill lifted the asset bar for enhanced prudential standards for banks from $50 billion to $100 billion, few thought it was controversial. Recent turmoil among regional banks suggests the change may have created as many problems as it solved.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Since we would hate for anyone to go into the end of 2018 behind the eight ball, we decided to pay tribute to both a great bit and a great deal of news with our own top 10 list of the biggest news of summer 2018. It is not an exaggeration to say that 2018 has been the summer of movie subscription service MoviePass ’ discontent.

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Insights on Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Given IBM’s experiences helping clients accelerate their digital transformation journey with Cloud and AI, we’re particularly excited that “Enabling the digital economy” is the Sibos 2018 conference theme. IBM at Sibos 2018. Stay tuned for more blogs on Sibos 2018! Jim Brill, IBM Financial Services Marketing.

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Conference Regional Examples Payments 70

Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The European Central Bank is planning to ask banks within the euro zone to up the amount of cash on hand to cover non-performing loans, a move meant to help bolster lending in the region. The proposal, which was released for public consideration yesterday, would give banks two years beginning on January 1st, 2018, to […].

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 2, 2018

The 16 registered cryptocurrency exchanges currently operating in Japan will soon form a self-regulating body, after a $530 million heist of digital coins in the region led to investor concerns, Reuters reported today.

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cryptocurrency Regional Regulation Operations 199

Bank Innovation

APRIL 4, 2018

The launch comes after Apple CEO Tim Cook told listeners to the company’s Q1 2018 earnings call that users in the region would soon […].

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Apple Regional Mobile Payments 210

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The founder of Moven, Brett King, said the new venture would be a “world-class” bank, and that it would set its sights on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Its digital wallet was introduced in October of 2018, enabling users to do things like pay bills, send money internationally and share or transfer money with people they know.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Modeled after The World Bank, ADB is a regional development bank established in the 1960s to promote social and economic development in Asia. South Asia could be among the hardest hit regions of the world, with remittances falling by 25 percent compared to their 2018 levels. Its members include more than five dozen banks.

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American Banker

JULY 19, 2023

Ashley O'Neal joined Midwest BankCentre in 2018 and currently has two regional managers working for her and a total of 77 retail employees in her organization.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 14, 2018

Front and center was Evolution Group’s SilverTech slowly building up regional networks of locally deployed implementers of horizontal web and process tools. The post Financial Brand Forum 2018: 7 Takeaways in 7 Minutes appeared first on Gonzobanker. I almost took an Apple phone selfie with all of that happening in the background.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Since 2012, investments into the region have nearly tripled. Want the 12-page report for free? at the time.

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American Banker

MARCH 10, 2024

Ken Vecchione, leader of Western Alliance since 2018, grew up listening to his parents talk business strategy around the dinner table. He called on those lessons and his more than 30 years of experience to steer the regional bank through last year's turmoil.

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Leadership Regional Strategy 44

Bobsguide

MARCH 15, 2018

Martin James, Regional Vice President at DataStax, talks through how the crossover. bobsguide's Dave Beach caught up with data infrastructure architects DataStax to learn more about the challenges and opportunities financial services will face in regards to data in the next 12 months.

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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 12, 2019

The FTC has issued its 2018 Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book. For 2018, imposter scams top the list of reported complaint categories, accounting for 18% of the almost 3 million consumer reports summarized in the Data Book. The report summarizes consumer complaints stored in the Consumer Sentinel Network, a secure online database.

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FICO

DECEMBER 13, 2017

So, will 2018 be more fun? I’ve focused on what I see across EMEA, but some of these trends will play out in other regions as well. Rest up this holiday season, and I’ll see you in 2018. The post Collections Predictions 2018: Will 2018 Be Any Fun? Here are eight collections predictions for next year. Regulations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Power 2018 U.S. The data showed that overall SMB bank customer satisfaction is at 800 (on a 1,000-point scale) in 2018, which is lower than the overall satisfaction scores found in the J.D. Power 2018 Retail Banking Satisfaction Study and the J.D. Power 2018 Credit Card Satisfaction Study. According to the J.D.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2020

In 2018, SoftBank ’s Vision Fund and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Bloomberg reported America’s largest internet corporations are eyeing Asia where the region is exploding with smartphones and tech-savvy residents. The Indonesian eCommerce retailer backed by SoftBank Group Corp. ’s s Vision Fund has also met with Facebook Inc.

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Google Regional Retail Groups 264

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Corporates across the Asia Pacific region are increasing their use of commercial card products, according to a new report from Citi. While Citi’s survey suggests significant traction for commercial cards in the Asia Pacific region, it should be noted that the report only surveyed 46 executives at 40 different companies in the region.

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Cards Regional Survey Tools 199

PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. There were 441 FinTechs operating in Mexico in 2019, a 14 percent increase from 2018. Open Banking And Digital Readiness.

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America Regulation Regional Tools 165

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Global payments and receivables company Flywire enjoyed strong growth in 2018 that it plans to carry into this coming year and over $10 billion in total payments volume. In addition, Flywire rebranded and integrated OnPlan, a domestic payment capability acquired in January 2018, into its product suite.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Small business (SMB) import and export volume between Europe and China hit $323 billion in 2018, and eCommerce — Amazon, Shopify and France’s Cdiscount — exceeded $100 billion in the same year. . The startup received Seed funding of ¥5 million (just more than $45,500 USD) in 2018, and raised $4 million in 2019.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in lower-income regions or with aging populations are also slower to gravitate toward online and mobile banking. Research for the report was collected at listening sessions between July 2018 and January 2019 at regional Fed banks nationwide. Earlier this month, the U.S.

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CB Insights

APRIL 19, 2022

in Q1’22, down 18% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) — the largest percentage drop in quarterly funding since 2018. The region that saw deals grow 44% QoQ to a record high. Q1’22 Sees largest % drop in quarterly Funding since 2018. Global fintech funding clocked in at $28.8B The slowdown in $100M+ mega-rounds.

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Fintech Report Regional Trends 92

PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

80 percent: Estimated CAGR of real-time payment growth in higher education between 2018 and 2022. 12: Number of additional stores that Anchor Shops hopes to build in the Philadelphia and New Jersey region. Data: 2020: The year that Anchor Shops, with a retail store and a fulfillment center, is set to open.

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Retail New Jersey Philadelphia Payments 132