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Why FinTech start-ups think they can beat the banks

Chris Skinner

Really easy to work with, the company is the chosen system for many other innovative companies including Kickstarter and Apple Pay, and valued at almost $10 billion by the end of 2016. These companies have names like Zopa, Smartypig, Nutmeg, etoro and have fun branding and cool offices. Not bad for a six-year-old start-up.

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Why Digital Marketplaces Must Anticipate Shoppers’ Needs

PYMNTS

Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment company GO-JEK , for instance, is expanding its financial technology services through partnerships with peer-to-peer (P2P) lending firms Dana Cita, Aktivaku and Findaya. Special tags can trigger purchases with Apple Pay without the need for a special app through the function.

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The Week in Payments: Mobile Wallets, Subscription Solutions And Recentering Financial Services 

PYMNTS

Apple Pay’s usage rate declined modestly from 2019 and to an even greater extent from late 2017, when it peaked at 6.9 The smart brand takes the moment to re-evaluate alongside customers and consider what the long-term loyalty play is — and how to do more, not less, for the customer. percent to 3.3 percent in our latest survey.

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How to Buy Stock in DoorDash: Invest in Food Delivery & Takeout

MyBankTracker

How to Invest in Ant Group: A Financial Technology Giant. How to Buy Apple Stock: Invest in Shares of the World’s Most Popular Brand. Building an ETF-Only Investment Portfolio: Pros and Cons. How to Invest in IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). SIPC Insurance: What Assets are Protected?

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FinDEVr APIntelligence

Fintech Labs Insights

Are you building new financial technology? PayPal’s Braintree supports Apple Pay in the UK with its v.zero SDK. Alumni updates: InComm adds new brands to its Incentives e-commerce site, including vacation brands. Avalara Integrates Automated Sales Tax Solution with Stripe. Xero updates Tracked Inventory feature.

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What Customer Intimacy Has To Do With Payments

PYMNTS

They were much more interested in a mobile point of sale unit they could brand and we would white label. Back in 2009, the Apple iStore and Facebook Connect had just come out, and a group of friends and I saw these disruptive forces and thought that we could harness them and build a social payments app. .’s

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

A consensus says that the future banking customer relationships—particularly for millennial consumers—will orbit to one degree or another around mobile technology. The latest twists came in September, when one of the biggest technology and payments events of the year featured the announcement of Apple Inc.’s

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