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How to Offset an Evaporating Data Center

Gonzobanker

Numerous applications, including card processing, online banking and bill pay, are overwhelmingly being outsourced. Industry-specific tech talent is consolidating and migrating to programmer and megabank community hotspots in San Jose, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta and Phoenix.

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Loop-Powered Samsung Pay Launches

Fintech Labs Insights

Pictured: LoopPay CEO Will Graylin demonstrating its company’s mobile payment technology at FinovateSpring 2014 in San Jose. “And consumers are not going to adopt if they can’t use a vast majority of their cards at a vast majority of merchants.”

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Fintech Fundings: 22 Companies Raise $300 Million Plus 2 IPOs Raise $5.9 Billion

Fintech Labs Insights

Gift cards backed with public company equity. HQ: San Jose, California. Fingerprint-authenticated payment card. HQ: Boston, Massecheusetts. Card rewards management. Tags: SMB, small business, merchants, acquiring, payments, mPOS, cards. Source: Re/Code. Latest round: $15 million. Source: Finovate.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

Credit cards offer rewards but over 60% of payments are made on debit cards. Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Verifies the card and pushes that information onto the merchant. The software/platform pieces is the ability to use virtual card numbers. Plus the 1% rewards.

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55 US Companies That Became Unicorns In 2018

CB Insights

New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Company Description: Circle Internet Financial is a Boston-based cryptocurrency company offering a crypto exchange platform, money transfers, and investment services. Circle Internet Financial. Valuation: $3B.

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Finovate Spring 2018 – Day 2

William Mills

HQ: Boston, MA. HQ: Boston, MA. I really like this kind of tech: why use a card with an ATM when you have your mobile banking app on your mobile phone? These folks are San Franciso-based. I think these folks are based in San Jose, California. is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Key Executives.