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A brand new Clearing Bank for Britain

Chris Skinner

I recently hosted Nick Ogden, the founder of WorldPay and serial entrepreneur, at our Nordic Finance Innovation meetings in Stockholm and Oslo. I’d heard a few rumblings about ClearBank, but hadn’t really go the message until I saw him present the overview at our Nordic meetings.

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Mastercard?s Fintech Express Aims To Fuel European Startups

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Mastercard has added a program designed to assist FinTech startups in Europe with quickly launching and expanding, the company announced on Tuesday (June 2). The program supports digital payment innovators by making it easy to collaborate with Mastercard and its partners to debut new FinTech products.

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Why community banks should partner with fintechs

Independent Banker

With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. of bankers are either strongly interested in or already working with fintechs in digital account opening. The benefits of fintechs. By Elizabeth Judd. Quick Stat.

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Visa Expands Fast Track Program To Give FinTechs A Post-COVID Digital-First Edge

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Collaboration and not competition, Visa’s Senior Vice President, Global Head of FinTech Terry Angelos told Karen Webster in a discussion on the recent advancements and updates to Visa’s Fast Track program , is quite evident — particularly when one observes that a number of Visa’s partners are many that, on paper, might appear to be competitors.

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Razer Fintech, Visa Pitch New Prepaid Card To Young Adults In Singapore

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Razer Fintech and Visa have unveiled a new prepaid card, dubbed the Razer Card, now in its test phase. Right from the start, we have been very excited about our collaboration with Visa to transform the digital payments experience globally,” said LiMeng Lee , Razer Fintech CEO, in a press release.

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Walmart, Green Dot Create FinTech Accelerator Partnership

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Walmart and Green Dot have announced that they are going to develop a FinTech accelerator together and call it “TailFin Labs, LLC,” the companies said in a release. The accelerator will create new products, technologies and services that exist in the meeting place of retail shopping and consumer financial services.

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Today In Payments: Adevinta To Buy eBay’s Classifieds Unit; Panel To Review UK’s FinTech Sector 

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s FinTech sector. Independent Panel To Review UK’s FinTech Sector. s FinTech sector is planning a review of the industry to identify opportunities for growth. Second-quarter earnings reports from Coca-Cola and PepsiCo show the two iconic brands must make big modifications to what was seen as an impervious business.

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