PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

A German airline has issued the first airplane tickets powered by blockchain technology, according to a report by Reuters. Hahn Air, an airline that flies throughout Europe, said the blockchain tickets were a partnership with open-source travel distribution platform Winding Tree. It emerged as the system that powered bitcoin.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Three major Japanese players in technology, payments and banking will run a joint trial to determine how well a new blockchain-based identity verification system operates across companies and industries, the firms announced Thursday (Oct. million card members and $321.6 billion in 2019 transactions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Paris-based Ultra , which has created its own blockchain, announced that French video game giant Ubisoft will become the first major gaming system to test out payments on its blockchain for gamers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

A German airline has issued the first airplane tickets powered by blockchain technology, according to a report by Reuters. Hahn Air, an airline that flies throughout Europe, said the blockchain tickets were a partnership with open-source travel distribution platform Winding Tree. It emerged as the system that powered bitcoin.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Japanese business to business (B2B) payments firm JCB is partnering with Singapore blockchain technology provider Keychain to capitalize on using blockchain in the payments space, JCB announced in a press release. Last week , JCB announced a partnership with the blockchain-enabled commercial payments platform Paystand.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

With eCommerce in full swing, many retailers are looking to restructure many facets of their operations. Blockchain technology is often used as the go-to source to enable faster and safer transactions, especially for smaller players in the retail market. and China alone was approximately $660 billion.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Every day the world hears about another blockchain project in the works or another distributed ledger technology consortium forming. Just last week, Deloitte found that in 2016 alone, nearly 27,000 new blockchain projects surfaced on the market. “The Reports said the filing, dated Nov. 9 with the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty. Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

The digital payments news out of Brazil has been fast and furious over the last few weeks – particularly when it comes to blockchain. The big story, however, has been blockchain, as entities public and private are hoping it might just be the digital magic bullet the entire ecosystem needs. Nubank’s $10B Regional Expansion .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

As more banks, industries, companies and even retail brands take on and use blockchain technology in their business, there are the enhanced and innate elements of efficiency and security. “A But blockchain has also become a tracking mechanism, more so a cost-cutting measure for a variety of reasons. billion for a typical lender.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Fold allows its users to buy gift cards for bitcoin with 3 percent cashback, currently offering $25 or $100 gift cards on its website. Morgan announced that they have teamed up on a blockchain-based prototype that will allow payments in multiple currencies to be completed on the same network. And the U.S. And the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

As commercial card innovation expands, service providers continue to target particular pain points for their business cardholders. Together, the companies are rolling out an offering that arms SMBs with commercial cards without the need for a personal guarantee, according to a press release. Archa Collabs With i2c in Australia.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Crypto boosters have spent the better part of the past decade promoting the idea that great fiat-currency disruptions are coming care of blockchain and literally hundreds of thousands of variations of cryptocurrency circulating in the world today. The Broader Blockchain Horizon. Crypto’s Path To Spendability.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

FinTech innovators continue to bank on the blockchain to overhaul the world’s payments infrastructure, and financial institutions are backing that vision with their own investments. But could this revolution be a bust for credit card giants? I think blockchain has potential,” he stated. He did, however, have a few questions. “I

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

Global tech startup Beam Wallet is ready to launch a new mobile payment solution, which will link smartphones and blockchain technology to enable faster and simpler retail payments. The firm’s “network now operates in more than 400,000 stores” around the world,“with over 5,000 live stores on three continents.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2019

In an interview with Karen Webster, Jess Turner, executive vice president of North American Digital Payments at Mastercard , delved into the network giant’s expansion into the healthcare and supply chain spaces using advanced technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and biometrics. Making Waves With Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2019

In an interview with Karen Webster, Jess Turner, executive vice president of North American Digital Payments at Mastercard , delved into the network giant’s expansion into the healthcare and supply chain spaces using advanced technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and biometrics. Making Waves With Blockchain.

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MARCH 10, 2016

Innovators and FinTech players are eyeing how blockchain technology can ease friction for corporate cross-border payments, a need pressing more heavily on companies that expand operations internationally. One business is using blockchain for this very purpose and, on Wednesday (March 9), released its API to address the issue.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2016

The blockchain has been touted as a technology to revolutionize a lot of things — moving money, clearing trades, making contracts smart and enforcing terms. That’s the view of Ron Quaranta, COO of loyyal and chairman of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance. That, Quaranta said, is what makes the blockchain so appealing.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

Bitcoin — and the technology that enables it — has certainly had a rather fast trip from obscurity to mainstream awareness. intervening years, bitcoin and the blockchain technology that enables it hasn’t quite gone mainstream. Good News: 2/3 of CFOs Are Now Very Confident They Understand the Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

But a company’s interest and efforts to adopt new technologies does not always mean that all B2B payment processes are improved. According to the report, more than a quarter of survey respondents said their firms have allocated at least $100,000 to payment technology investments in the year ahead.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

While the prices of cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets have fallen from their 2017 peaks, equity investment into blockchain startups is on pace to hit all-time highs in 2018. THE FUTURE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECH. See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion. While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

The latest Payments as a Service Tracker charts the newest developments in the space, including a blockchain-based loyalty program that enables reward points to travel across franchises, a digital currency remittances pilot and more. Money, business and loyalty reward points are increasingly showing signs of roaming from one venue to another.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2017

Recent PYMNTS research found that card use grew 20 percent in the country over the past three years, and new payment methods, like digital and mobile transactions, are quickly gaining steam, with several new payment interfaces being rolled out over the past month. Bringing blockchain to new heights.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

When the B2B payments industry began considering what to expect for 2018, commercial cards weren’t often on the radar. Cards are still expected to account for only a minor fraction of B2B payments volume in accounts payable by the end of the year, after all, with ACH gaining traction as the go-to ePayments rail for corporate payers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2017

But it was blockchain that turned heads with its record-setting funding. The investment will also help Eunimart in its research and analytics effort to capture global sales data and deploy predictive analytics features using machine learning technology, it said. Blockchain. Take a look at the investment breakdown below.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Florida, which recently legalized medical marijuana, saw its issuing of state ID cards slowed dramatically because Bank of America rather adamantly refused to touch online payments for medical marijuana cards. Ralston argued it’s a situation blockchain technology is uniquely well-suited to solve.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The afternoon session brought on the blockchain. The morning session at BBVA Open Talent Challenge was all about artificial intelligence. From these sessions, two winners were chosen that will have the chance to engage with a global bank — perhaps the ultimate prize for a fintech startup today. The challenge was part Read More.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

According to Johannes Koeppel, CEO and co-founder of travel payments company WeTravel , those huge hurdles place a heavy burden on these small firms’ ability to manage cash and, frankly, to operate. For Koeppel, group travel payments present challenges that cannot be solved by credit cards. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

The technology lets users move money sans routing, banking account or credit card number. VMware Head of Cybersecurity Strategy Tom Kellermann said that extremist groups, beyond organized crime, are known to harness alternative payments infrastructure to fundraise and for “operational purposes.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

Indian FinTech Infibeam Avenues , which works in digital payment and eCommerce solutions, has bought all shares of Cardpay Technologies, which provides payment and invoice technology, in an all-stock deal. Srinivasan will continue to lead the operations at Grit, according to BusinessLine.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The magnitude of the market is attractive even to B2C FinTechs, though the industry has quickly understood that B2B problems cannot be addressed with tools and technologies designed for consumer. A Borderless Blockchain. However, he noted, global payments friction runs rampant. The Faster Payment Demand.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In addition, Russia’s Yandex.Checkout is allowing customers to make donations by rounding up their purchases and TransferGo is rolling out money transfers powered by the blockchain between Europe and India. has started to allow money transfers enabled by the blockchain between Europe and India, BlockTribune reported.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Rather, the difference could be seen in just how significantly technology disruption has slammed its way into bankers’ discussions regarding shareholder value. The grassroots of community and regional banking will no longer be vanilla operations geographically focused. and a trailblazer in the world of banking as a service (BaaS).

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Blockchain database technology has the potential to be a major disruptor in the world of banking and financial services over the next few years, with a growing number of companies having either already adopted the approach or made plans to do so. Blockchain’s benefits.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2016

Developers of accounts receivable technology have a lot on their plates these days. Not only do they have to keep up with the in-house tools that suppliers want to manage their AR departments, but firms must also keep an eye on the broader payments industry and how technology is shifting the way their supplier customers are getting paid.

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