PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Rudolf Booker , CEO and founder of Payvision , joined PYMNTS for the latest segment in the Commander in Chief series to explain why sparking innovation in payments may mean looking outside the payments industry itself to bring about real and lasting change. PYMNTS: Define your company’s approach to innovation. RB: Just do it!

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 23, 2019

Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC is weighing a possible acquisition of smaller rival Noor Bank PJSC as the United Arab Emirates’ biggest Islamic lender seeks ways to expand amid a wave of mergers in the region. We’re in the early stages of that analysis,” Chief Executive Officer Adnan Chilwan said on a conference call on Tuesday. […].

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

But China is also pressing for payments innovation, SWIFT noted, as industry players like Alibaba promote digital payments and more China-based financial institutions (FIs) join SWIFT’s global payment innovation (gpi) initiative. RMB usage made up 1.61 It could be key to the broader Chinese economy too.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

The country has the fifth-highest number of FinTech deals in Europe, according to an analysis from Belgium-based European FinTech platform B-Hive. The average FinTech deal size in the region is doubling, but B-Hive noted a decrease in the number of deals. Oracle chose the city due its central location and presence of EU institutions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

However, the applicants will have to allow Cainiao to provide things like inventory information and operational status to HSBC for analysis. “We But analysts said the move represents an attempt to compete with a number of new online challenger banks that will appear in the region later in the year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

We are delighted to partner with NAB, a globally respected banking brand and Australia’s leading business bank, and to provide them innovative, digital spend solutions for their [SMB] clients in Australia,” Bisgaard said, according to the report.

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NCR

APRIL 27, 2018

Many in the banking industry have recently highlighted Africa as a part of the world that has huge untapped potential for the development of innovative financial services products. Keeping up with the pace of innovation. Tanzania, for example, has permitted this for three years. However, other nations still ban the practice.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

Banks across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region expect real-time payments to come with some major benefits to their businesses, according to new analysis from ACI Worldwide and Ovum. However, the report did find that banks in the region are less clear about exactly how they will create APIs for third-party use.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve created a list of finance innovation labs from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as from newcomers looking to make a name through tech. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

A new report by business banking market research and analysis firm East & Partners suggests corporations aren’t opposed to changing banks as a direct result of new FinTech solutions businesses want to use. East & Partners found regional trends in corporate treasurers’ demand for FinTech solutions, too.

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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. In other news, Chainalysis , a crypto transaction analysis startup, announced that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding, led by venture capital (VC) firm Accel.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

Large corporates across Asia are driving digital transformation of banking and treasury management in the region, according to new analysis from Greenwich Associates. Greenwich Associates managing director and report co-author, in another statement.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

Trend Lab was established in less than three months by its Founder and CEO Tin Mok, reports said, who wants to enhance FinTech across Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region. Hong Kong has emerged as a hotbed for FinTech innovation, especially when it comes to technologies like blockchain.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Regulatory efforts to promote FinTech innovation, a bustling climate for blockchain and interest from other markets eyeing the region for expansion have all led to Southeast Asia’s impressive standing in this space. Southeast Asia is now front and center on the world’s FinTech stage, and it’s no accident.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Australia is now the Asia Pacific region’s second-largest alternative finance market, largely due to a favorable regulatory climate, according to new KPMG analysis. The Australian market is quickly becoming a hotbed of alternative lending , and new analysis from KPMG suggests it has risen up in the ranks.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

With the pandemic nudging businesses further into the digital payments realm, commercial card innovation is heating up to capitalize on the opportunity for adoption. ” Mastercard, EedenBull Expand Into APAC. Namibia Wildlife Resorts Entices Business Spend.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

At the same time, however, these innovations have also introduced unfamiliar disruptions to antiquated workflows, creating new challenges for treasurers to understand how to readjust their processes and cash flow management strategies as their role within the enterprise grows more complex and valuable. ” Challenge Turned Opportunity.

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Let's Talk Payments

MARCH 1, 2016

We have been actively exploring FinTech ecosystems in Europe and hubs like London and Germany in particular. The next stop in our FinTech ecosystems haul will be France. The largest.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

And while partnerships, collaboration and internal product development have helped banks to improve their reputations for innovation among their corporate clients, a new report from Boston Consulting Group says it’s not enough. The analysis was drawn from a survey of 300 business banking units ranging in size. ”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The country has a high concentration of ATMs — at 135 ATMs per 100,000 people, the country had the second-highest penetration of ATMs in the Asia-Pacific region, after South Korea, according to a recent PYMNTS Global Cash Index Australia analysis. Still, consumers in Australia are embracing contactless tap-and-go payments.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

among other regions. Making sure the transaction risk analysis tools attached to online payments can swiftly determine their legitimacy is thus critically important, said Arjun Kakkar, vice president of strategy and operations for global identity verification solutions company Ekata , in a recent PYMNTS interview. and the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

“You have Barnes & Noble, Borders and regional bookstores. .” That’s in stark contrast to the “front office” operations of the sector, according to analysis by DNV GL, an oil and gas industry advisory firm. “You have to look at the book seller market before Amazon,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

Hyundai added its customer analysis and several digital techniques while Shinhan engineers the remittance. As a digital powerhouse with a strong history of world-leading innovation, Hyundai is perfectly placed to embrace the opportunities FinTech presents to this region. ”

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NCR

JULY 19, 2016

Their analysis suggests retail banks embracing digital may see profit gains of more than 40 percent. Recently we’ve seen more financial institutions at the regional, national and multi-national level, make strides toward digital innovation. Businesses must focus on the customer experience to drive innovation.

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NCR

JANUARY 29, 2018

This is one of a number of notable recent developments in the payments sector in the Far East, which is developing into a key hub for innovation in financial services. At the same time, we need to strike the right balance between promoting financial innovations and according appropriate customer and investor protection.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2018

Fortunately, that is changing with research by the Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment , or CAPSEE. Few advisers have sufficient training to help students factor real-time labor market information and employment trends in the local and regional labor markets into their selection of degree programs.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Yapstone provides payment services to a variety of marketplace sellers and service providers, giving the company a front-seat view of the changes, innovations and disruptions that will define transactions into the 2020s. Indeed, Villante told Webster that fraud rates have dropped from 25 basis points to four because of data analysis.

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Let's Talk Payments

MAY 24, 2016

If there is one region to lead the world into the next generation of financial technology innovation, it is Asia. Despite common belief spread by media coverage that the western.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A regional government in Russia is now working with state-backed VEB, reports in CoinDesk said this week, as authorities explore how to use blockchain “to improve the quality of management decisions.”. Singapore stepped onto the global stage as a world leader in blockchain innovation in recent months. Saudi Arabia.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

Farmer’s Fridge sources its items from local and regional suppliers, prepares them as needed in its commissary kitchen and delivers them in refrigerated vehicles to each location five days a week. Farmer’s Fridge controls its menu and ingredients with algorithms that quickly capture data and combine the results with real-time analysis.

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The Financial Brand

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Most banks and credit unions approach innovation by product or channel, leaving them struggling to keep pace with digital banking leaders. The post How Financial Institutions Can Stop Chasing Their Tail Digitally appeared first on The Financial Brand - Banking Trends, Analysis & Insights.

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Accenture

JUNE 20, 2019

And nearly 80 percent of bank operations leaders say their organization’s existence could be threatened without flexible technology for rapid innovation. Consider this: CFOs of a regional health system and a global retailer use the same tool, even though their cash management needs could not be more different.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

Preparations for corporate banking disruption and PSD2 are stirring the innovation pot, it seems. With more than $5 million in new funding, the company will be able to reach more customers with its services, which include customer verification via voice and even analysis of how a customer interacts with a device. EaseCentral.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Reports in CNBC cited data from Innovate Finance that pinpointed the $564 million statistic, which represents how much investors placed in U.K. in general when it comes to fostering FinTech innovation and attracting talent. “Positioned as the gateway between the U.S. and the EU, the U.K. Asian FinTech startups raised nearly $4.8

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

Market entrants are looking to disrupt across a range of segments of the banking industry, but SME finance has become a popular target for these innovators. Its report, The Challenger Bank Battlefield, analyzes these players not only as competition heats up, but as innovation spreads, too. Sometimes this is a mix.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2016

In its analysis, Transparency Market Research said this growth will bring new business to a host of service providers. One of them is NCR , and with its new Innovation Lab , the company is looking at how omnichannel eCommerce and payments can make transacting simplified. ” B2B eCommerce’s B2B Payments Impact.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

. “It is interesting that in a healthy, growing economy, bad debt continues to plague the B2B markets,” said David Huey, president and regional director of U.S., Canada and Mexico at Atradius , which has just released new analysis on B2B payment practices across North America. percent in 2017 to 1.8 percent this year.

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