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Paytronix Picks Payments Industry Veteran Porter For Board

PYMNTS

Amy’s payments industry insight and unique experience in properly scaling a company will be valuable assets to our growth strategy,” said Paytronix CEO Andrew Robbins. “I Porter nabbed the 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Financial Technology category for the Central Texas region.

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Real-Time Payments Successfully Gets Through Its First Test Drive

PYMNTS

s first new payment and clearing system in more than 40 years is up and running. was moved between accounts at two different banks (there was only one customer with two bank accounts) via RTP, the name for a new “Real-Time Payments” system set up by The Clearing House. At 4:59:40 p.m. on Monday, $3.50 Progress in the U.S.

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Fed Task Force Releases Payment Lifecycles And Security Profiles

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Through the collaborative efforts of those with backgrounds in payments and security, the Federal Reserve’s Secure Payments Task Force has published “Payment Lifecycles and Security Profiles.” The profiles provide a perspective on the most common payment types, covering enrollment, transaction flow and reconciliation.

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Fed Tackles Fraud On Legacy Rails As New Infrastructure Gains Traction

PYMNTS

New payments infrastructure continues to gain traction with financial service providers looking to modernize their services for business clients. The Clearing House’s RTP finds expansion within the community bank arena, while abroad, the Bank of Thailand is planning its own infrastructure development to accelerate B2B payments.

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Funding Round Could Give AvidXchange $2B Valuation

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Automated business payments processing firm AvidXchange is launching a new fundraising round that could give the firm a $2 billion valuation, The New York Times reported on Monday (Dec. Investment bank Financial Technology Partners is advising AvidXchange on this fundraising round, according to sources. 9), citing sources.

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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

PYMNTS

Jeremy Allaire , CEO of financial technology firm Circle , told PYMNTS that digital currencies are ready to transition from speculation to become more broadly adopted in everyday commerce. . At a high level, that means helping crypto companies and FinTechs come to market with crypto payments across the Visa rails.

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Celent Model Bank Awards 2017: Banking Products Innovation

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The Products entries for 2017 fall broadly into four sub-categories: Payments Product — for launching the best consumer or business payments product. The Products category submissions were impressive indeed: Payments: The submissions in this area focused on modernizing existing banking and payments infrastructure.