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Robinhood Faces Another Service Interruption Due To Technical Issue

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In the latest of a string of outages as of the beginning of March, Robinhood Markets Inc. The financial technology company is regarded for helping to make trading in vogue with millennials, Reuters reported. “We The firm has created its brand on the premise and draw of complimentary trading.

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Top 13 Bank, Fintech & Financial Services Marketing Conferences

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For financial marketers, especially those in credit unions and community banks, the biggest event of the year, The Financial Brand Forum , is just two months away. See below for links to our financial services calendars, including fintech, banktech, insurtech, general banking events, and more.

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Why FinTech start-ups think they can beat the banks

Chris Skinner

Similarly, there are companies that do similar things in lending, savings, investments and other specific areas of financial services based upon internet technologies. These companies have names like Zopa, Smartypig, Nutmeg, etoro and have fun branding and cool offices.

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Mexico Sets Its Sights On FinTechs To End Poverty

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Mexico’s new government, led by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is setting its sights on financial technology to get the country out of poverty. The report noted that banking systems embedded on mobile phones are popular in emerging markets, including in China, India and Kenya , driven in part by private-sector FinTechs.

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Tencent, UnionPay Agree On QR Code Standard To Streamline Mobile Payments

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This collaboration will expand UnionPay’s market penetration and further a Chinese government initiative for same-sector partnership. The collaboration will let consumers of UnionPay’s popular QuickPass app make financial payments utilizing the same technology (QR codes) that Tencent’s WeChat Pay platform also uses.

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The Fiserv-First Data Merger Is Complete

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At the time the transaction was announced, the companies said users would benefit from a “highly complementary combination” that offers a range of payments and financial services, spanning account processing and digital banking, integrated payments and the Clover POS system, among other products and services.

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Phillips 66 Partners With WEX For Exclusive Multi-Year Private Label Extension 

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We’re proud to deepen our relationship with Phillips 66 and to leverage its powerful market presence, which has expanded nationally over the last few years,” said Jay Collins, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Small Business and Channel Partnerships at WEX in a press release.