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Hypur To Offer Digital Payments For Cannabis Firms With CU Partnership

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The collaboration builds on Hypur’s extensive network of financial institutions (FIs), according to an announcement. . Cannabis operations that partnered with Hypur to leverage the company’s financial technology can tap into the digital HypurPay app to access a safer and more convenient payment environment.

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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. Mexico has a lot of the key ingredients to succeed, but it’s not plug and play,” said Monica Brand Engel, a partner at Quona Capital, in an interview with the newswire.

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An interview with Tom Blomfield, co-founder of Monzo

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11:FS CEO David Brear talks to him about why ‘Monzonauts’ are so crazy devoted to the brand. [You And it gave me this grounding in how money works, how FinTech, financial technology works, and sort of, how money moves around the world…I worked for a dating website for a year, after I left GoCardless, which was amazing fun.

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

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“This extension reflects our mutual commitment to grow together by providing innovative payment solutions, world-class service, and a dedicated team to help Phillips 66 build its customer base and increase brand loyalty to the iconic Phillips 66, Conoco and 76 brands.”.

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The Fiserv-First Data Merger Is Complete

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With the transaction now complete, Fiserv is one of the world’s largest payments and financial technology providers. “As The combined company will carry the Fiserv brand and will continue to trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol FISV.

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Go-Jek To Grow Thailand Food Delivery Business

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Go-Jek started its Thailand operations with food delivery and motorcycle rides with the Get brand, which put pressure on Singapore-based Grab. It was also noted that customers, merchants and drivers will have additional access to bank products such as small business lending as well as insurance.

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Bitcoin Daily: Binance Denies Reports Of Police Raid; Blockchain Expands To Gaming Payments

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“Since Ubisoft is already a leader in the games industry, and shows commitment to probe blockchain as a viable technology for games, we are very excited to be announcing our first cooperation of this kind with them,” said Nicolas Gilot, Co-CEO of Ultra, in a statement.

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