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And The Payments And Commerce Innovation Winners Are…

PYMNTS

PricewaterhouseCoopers — after 83 consecutive years of tabulating the Academy Awards without incident — managed to accidentally put the wrong card in Warren Beatty/Faye Dunaway’s hands for the Best Picture award and … well the rest is YouTube history. PwC is now called Probably Wrong Card!”. Alexander questioned, for example, how Adm.

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The Finanser’s Week: 17th July – 23rd July 2017

Chris Skinner

You will all know by now that I love the innovations in retail banking in Turkey, and Gürhan didn’t disappoint. First, there … Five financial innovations you may have missed I just attended an EFMA conference where the opening presentation talked about the most innovative banks in the world.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Uber, Bitcoin, Botnets, SWIFT – And The Wells Wallets

PYMNTS

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. I recall three years ago at Innovation Project 2013 that a rather prescient panelist said that the payments system’s worst nightmare would be having the SWIFT network breached. Mr. Karpeles is cooling his heels awaiting trial on criminal charges related to the bitcoin’s disappearance.

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Happy Birthday To PYMNTS

PYMNTS

The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). and was followed by the great cybercriminal migration to the web and card-not-present transactions. We always want to talk to innovators and those who understand them best. But a lot has stayed the same.

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Why One Startup Is Desperately Seeking Regulation

PYMNTS

Officials at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the national bank regulator, told the Boston startup they would weigh its request. The OCC offers few limited-purpose charters, mostly for trust companies or credit card issuers. Kennedy School of Government. In the last 10 years, it has issued eight such charters.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

PYMNTS

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” Except, of course, it didn’t – and it is now in the crowded graveyard of payments innovations that sounded too good to be true.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Eric has always been a student of innovation, and now at Coastal, this fearless leader has spearheaded a number of high-profile banking-as-a-service partnerships. The most important aspect of this deal is Huntington.

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