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Galileo, Plaid Integrate To Streamline ACH Transfers

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The Salt Lake City payment processing platform has joined with Plaid, a Visa subsidiary based in San Francisco, that builds financial technology platforms to connect bank accounts and initiate automated clearing house (ACH) transfers. Last month, Galileo launched what it called a faster and less expensive way to create debit cards.

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Visa, Wave Team To Bring Instant Payouts To Micropreneurs

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The Wave financial technology platform, he said, at base, is designed to handle the bookkeeping and tax complexities for its micro-merchant customers as they generate invoices and collect funds. That is the reality of what customers want in terms of user experience.”. The Trust Factor And Opening Up For Everyone.

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Ant Financial Debuts Technology Brand For FIs

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Ant Financial , the financial services unit of Alibaba , is rolling out a new brand to provide financial institutions (FIs) with support for digital transformation. The brand was announced at the 2018 Ant Technology Exploration Conference. In a press release issued Thursday (Sept.

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Fintech challengers – a threat or an opportunity?

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The disruption caused recently by the emergence of a wide range of new financial technology (Fintech) players has been a huge jolt for the banking sector, and reminded traditional players that they cannot afford to be complacent in the face of these competitors. For instance, an analysis by Goldman Sachs estimates that as much as $4.7

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Finding The Investable Needles In The Startup Haystack

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When it comes to financial services and financial technology startups, making the right investment decisions is not easy or obvious work. A massive, fully developed FI with an established legacy stack is often a pretty poor fit for a brand-new startup that might be incredibly agile and clever, but is also incredibly immature.

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FinovateFall 2017 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

Cool name and branding. VERY Cool mobile, user experience. I like their branding. 83 million in funding. This technology powers a ton of other FinTech companies (something that I don’t think most people know). The company is now Envestnet, but until they drop the Yodlee brand they will always be Yodlee to me.

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Finovate Spring 2018 – Day 2

William Mills

Using Samsung SDS Digital Identity Platform, specifically Nexsign , a FIDO-certified biometric authentication solution, user identity is verified using non-duplicative biological information, such as a fingerprint, voice or facial scan, to deliver a user experience that is simple, fast, and more secure.