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Kobe Bryant, Virtual Cards, Self-Service Technology Top This Week’s News

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Mastercard ’s drive to scale digital payments across the ecosystem has led the payments network to find new ways to help FinTechs participate. These offerings, however, are often not enough to encourage customers away from booking aggregators. Mastercard and TabaPay on Accelerating Instant Payments.

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Seven Big Threats Facing Seven Big Tech And Payments Players This Halloween

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FinTechs … and the Banks They Wanted to Disrupt. Instead of banks being afraid of the FinTech bogeyman, it’s now more like the other way around. Over the last many years, there’s been a lot of words, and even some entire websites, dedicated to the threat to banks by the FinTechs that were out to “eat their lunch.”.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

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FinTech threats and distractions. Heavy-handed regulators. While the darling of FinTech conferences, this divestiture seems primarily driven as a means of Customers delaying the $10 billion Durbin hit and maintaining quarterly EPS expectations from the Street. Oh, by the way, that Fintech darling of two years ago Lending Club?

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Facebook Slapped With $5B FTC Fine, But Still Has Lots Of Friends

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That breach started a groundswell of bi-partisan support for fines, other penalties related to governance and personal liability of Facebook’s CEO, new regulations – and even the breakup of the company. And now that it’s front and center with lawmakers and regulators, it’s a transition that seems off-base and off-track.

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Filling the US$3.4 Trillion SME Funding Gap

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Banks and fintechs are the main provider of global trade finance and are likely to remain so in the future, but peer-to-peer lenders will also have an important role to play. Technology holds great potential for bridging the trade finance gap. But the drive to digitisation alone will not be enough to close it without new lending sources.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

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Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. The Bank Regulator Working for Merchants Award!

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Sleepless In 2017: The Eight Big Shifts That Should Keep FIs, Retailers and Payments Execs Up At Night

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They’re doing that at the same time regulators seem to be working overtime to put traditional banks at a competitive disadvantage. Transactional credit offered by FinTech innovators takes the “good, old days” of the shopkeeper credit model to a new level by offering credit options for people and retailers — one transaction at a time.

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