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Transactions: Visa, Wedge partner on card payments

BankInovation

Digital wallet company Wedge is teaming with Visa to launch a debit card within Visa’s network in the U.S. using Wedge’s card technology. Austin, Texas-based Wedge’s card allows users to liquidate their assets — including stocks, ETFs and crypto — to pay for goods and services, according to the company. “We

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SXSW Accelerator Fintech Finalists for 2017 Announced

Bank Innovation

More fintech is coming to Austin. Austin is known for having a thriving Read More. The massive South by Southwest conference and festival features startups in a number of categories — transportation, augmented/virtual reality, and of course fintech — plus several others.

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Designing Mobile Order-Ahead For Roving Vendors

PYMNTS

QuickBite Founder and CEO Richard Reedy worked for a company in East Austin and didn’t have a ton of time to get lunch. Reedy also noted that Austin, and East Austin in particular, has an abundance of food trucks , but not many of them had a way for consumers to place their orders online.

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: New Expansions, Partnerships And Reorganizations

PYMNTS

The partnership would apply Goldman’s lending technology to SMB loans on Amazon’s underwriting platform, according to unnamed sources. In 2019, Goldman partners with Apple on the launch of the Apple Card , which the bank’s executives have stated was the “most successful credit card launch ever.”

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Mastercard, Pine Labs And The Global Buy Now, Pay Later Explosion

PYMNTS

The firm processes about $30 billion a year and works with 140,000 merchants through 450,000 global card network acceptance endpoints, mostly in India, with some penetration into the Middle East and Southeast Asia. It can literally now be point, click, use,” Khoja said.

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Taiwanese Banks Share Tech to Power Mobile Wallet

Payments Source

Fourteen banks in Taiwan have launched a mobile wallet using a shared technology platform developed by Mozido, marking one of the first rollouts of the Austin, Texas-based company’s global Host Card Emulation (HCE) solution.

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The 14 Biggest Payments & Card Industry Conferences & Events in 2023

Fintech Labs Insights

These are the largest events in the financial services industry geared towards payments and card technologists, program managers, marketers, developers and C-Suite execs at both legacy financial institutions and upstart payments firms and card issuers. And prices tend to rise as the event draws closer.