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APRIL 22, 2020

The State Bank of Vietnam granted FinTech startup GPay a 10-year license to provide intermediary payment services in the country — electronic payment portals, payment services, digital money transfer services and eWallet services. In 2019, Payme, FinViet, EPay, PayTech, Dibee and Smart Net were granted licenses from Vietnam’s central bank.

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Bussman Advisory

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Join Oliver Bussmann, CEO of Bussmann Advisory and Elevandi Board Member, the 7th edition of the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) on 2 – 4 November organized by Elevandi and MAS. As the first in-person SFF since 2019, the SFF team is ready to bring the global FinTech community together for a long overdue reunion.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

The World Bank also noted that it is expensive to send money across borders, with the average fee for transferring $200 at 7 percent in Q1 2019. Thailand-based Kasikornbank (KBank) recently took steps to address these and other common pain points in the country’s financial services sector by forging partnerships with FinTechs.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Welcome to Think 2019 in San Francisco, CA! Download the NEW IBM Events app for Think 2019. See the full Think 2019 conference guide. 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Session ID: 6920A: Think 2019 Chairman’s Address: Building Smarter Businesses. IBM FinTech (@IBMFinTech) February 11, 2019. Get social.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb. Three years after launching, the startup hit the half-million customer mark in August 2019. 10) that it topped 1 million active customers. . Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S.

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APRIL 27, 2020

billion by 2024, and a separate study suggested that many customers were willing to use FinTechs as well as their primary banks to receive the level of technological support they desired. It found that 64 percent of consumers across 27 surveyed markets noted that they were using FinTech services.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

But then again, only two weeks into 2020, mergers and deal-making in payments, specifically within digital payments and FinTech, are sizzling. The biggest one, so far, of course, has been Visa inking a deal to purchase FinTech firm Plaid for $5.3 percent for the entirety of 2019. We’re only two weeks in, but off to the races.

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Insights on Business

JULY 17, 2019

It’s gratifying to see IBM once again positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Risk Management, released on July 3 rd for its OpenPages with Watson solution.* Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for IT Risk Management, Khushbu Pratap, Brian Reed, 03 July 2019. Learn more at ibm.com/RegTech.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

The world’s biggest social media platforms are cracking down like never before. billion transactions found that between July and September 2019, about 20 percent of accounts opened were the result of massive bot attacks , not humans. One analysis of more than 1.3 Then there’s the mobile advertising situation. billion of that.

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Lars Markull

MAY 30, 2020

You have probably read somewhere that Shopify is now becoming a FinTech company due to the launch of a couple of new products. A few years ago it was quite easy to identity Fintech players but the lines are getting blurry. And now coming to the most crucial Fintech announcement by Shopify: Shopify announced their own bank account.

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Bussman Advisory

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We are supporting the 7th edition of the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) on 2 – 4 November as Oliver Bussmann is Board Member of Elevandi who is the SFF organizer together with the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Constellar and in collaboration with The Association of Banks in Singapore.

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Bussman Advisory

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We are supporting the 7th edition of the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) on 2 – 4 November as Oliver Bussmann is Board Member of Elevandi who is the SFF organizer together with the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Constellar and in collaboration with The Association of Banks in Singapore.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In the middle are the consumers whose data fuels eCommerce, social media and basically the entire internet as we know it. That sum is more like a friendly reminder to Google, which did $40 billion in revenue in Q3 2019. That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators. are affecting the adoption of open banking.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 28, 2019

–> Browse more Think 2019 financial services blogs. –> Watch the Think Concierge videos to learn how to make the most out of Think 2019. Also follow the social media platforms to stay informed with the latest updates : . 6078 : IBM Counter Fraud Implementation to Address Financial Payments Challenges.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2019

Interested in joining us for Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 on March 11-12 at the Hyatt Olive 8, Seattle? In Seattle, you’ll see four Ignite Ideas sessions from the following fintech innovators: Lisa Frazier, Head […]. You’d better hurry! Early registration ends this Friday, February 1 at 11:59 PM.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

At IBM Think 2019, Henrique Albuquerque from Bradesco Research and Innovation offered insight into how Bradesco is transforming by focusing their entire business structure around the customer journey. –> Browse more Think 2019 financial services blogs. They use the Bradesco infrastructure, but they operate in parallel.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

As a result, at IBM Think 2019 you’ll be able to find a number of client-led sessions. These are exclusive pre-conference sessions that take place on Tuesday, February 12, 2019. Learn more about these sessions in this blog: –>Ten “Smart Starts Here” sessions to give you a jump on Think 2019. IBMFintech Twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The FinTech ecosystem within Saudi Arabia has been expanding steadily over the past decade, for example, with more than 60 FinTechs now operating, compared to the 20 companies operating within the country in 2019. The country’s Data Protection Law was announced in 2019 and officially came into effect in July 2020.

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BankBazaar

JULY 1, 2019

BankBazaar has won top honours in the Financial Communications Category at the PR Awards Asia 2019 held in Hong Kong. With the survey findings, we then conducted a media outreach programme, including traditional media (media conference, center-specific press notes, industry stories) and social media.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

–> Browse more Think 2019 financial services blogs. –> Watch the Think Concierge videos to learn how to make the most out of Think 2019. Also follow the social media platforms to stay informed with the latest updates : . –> Explore IBM Banking and Financial Markets Solutions.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

There are just two China-based fintech businesses valued at over $100B in the world. The second, conceivably, is Tencent’s fintech business. In May 2019, Barclays released a note estimating the value of Tencent’s fintech business at $123B, or close to a third of the company’s total market cap.

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Gonzobanker

APRIL 3, 2019

Focus on digital marketing and social media , supplemented with physical outreach to drive digital , such as enhanced contact centers, bank-at-work programs, trade shows, art exhibits and other outreach. Consider fintech partnerships that offer digital delivery.

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Lars Markull

MAY 30, 2020

You have probably read somewhere that Shopify is now becoming a FinTech company due to the launch of a couple of new products. A few years ago it was quite easy to identity Fintech players but the lines are getting blurry. And now coming to the most crucial Fintech announcement by Shopify: Shopify announced their own bank account.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Six of the startups come from INV Fintech, this website’s sister […]. The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., Exagens Corp., Fintel Labs, iGTB, JUDI.AI, KapitalWise, OpenDoor Securities, and Operant.AI

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Accenture

JUNE 5, 2019

UK-based fintech CreditEnable is helping corporate lenders tap into the power of digital demographics by collecting extensive global financial datasets on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and using proprietary credit algorithms to quickly generate insights on both risk and opportunities. 1 CreditEnable.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Working with fintechs is opening banking opportunities, but are compliance and regulatory mandates being met? At Think 2019, the security team behind the IBM Cyber Range will bring the stress of a cyber incident directly to the audience. –> Browse more Think 2019 financial services blogs. IBMFintech Twitter.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite. Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

As reported, the social media giant was hacked through a vulnerability in the Facebook source code, which gave the attackers the ability to steal access tokens, which they in turn used to keep Facebook subscribers logged in. The one million euros will be spent through 2019, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

The payments and commerce ecosystem in the ending days of 2019 and the first few days of 2020 offers plenty of examples of corporate attempts at self-improvement, reinvention and opportunities for resolutions this year. According to reports last week, JPMorgan Chase will soon stop allowing FinTech apps to access customers’ passwords.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. That’s enough to send normal people into the fetal position.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

IBM has increased its fintech practice in recent years. IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. The […].

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

For financial services, and specifically for FinTech , the ripple effects may keep rippling. But then again, capital is being deployed into the sector, with more than $3 billion coming to FinTechs through the first few months of 2019, up 18 percent from last year, as Innovate Finance estimated.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

driven by economic strength, government policy and continued efforts among the financial technology (FinTech) and financial services (FinServ) communities to introduce new tools for entrepreneurs — to make running their businesses easier, more efficient and more profitable. In a survey of 1,000 small business owners in the U.S.,

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

At Think 2019 in San Francisco, attendees will hear firsthand some of the ways that clients are using blockchain to digitize the flow of goods, information, and money across the world. –> Browse more Think 2019 financial services blogs. –> Explore IBM Blockchain for Financial Services solutions. IBMBlockchain Twitter.

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APRIL 26, 2019

The aim is to announce the launch of the credit card in 2019. Venmo is one of the FinTechs that have been able to garner widespread adoption. Reports have appeared all over social media about Chipotle user accounts being pirated, with hundreds of dollars’ worth of food ordered to customer cards that those customers never saw.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

The Deep Dive also highlights innovative fraud detection technologies that FinTechs and other businesses are employing — such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and dynamic biometrics — to thwart criminals. billion transactions that occurred between July and September 2019 were the result of massive bot attacks.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

For financial services, and specifically for FinTech the ripple effects may keep rippling. But then again, capital is being deployed into the sector, with more than $3 billion coming to FinTechs through the first few months of 2019, up 18 percent from last year, as Innovate Finance estimated.

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