Bank Innovation

JUNE 15, 2016

Bank Innovation Israel 2016 registration has officially opened today. The only Western fintech event in Startup Nation, the 2016 Bank Innovation Israel will take place 1-3 November at the Dan Tel Aviv. The event is presented by Bank Innovation, one of the world’s leading fintech blogs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Coverage includes the debut of Hong Kong’s MeReal Biometrics Keyper smart fingerprint card. MeReal Biometrics, a biometric card maker based in Hong Kong, has debuted its Keyper smart fingerprint card, according to reports. The card offers multiple forms of communication ranging from contact to sound waves and contactless.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

Global concern over the coronavirus spreading on contaminated surfaces in public places is unleashing rapid development of innovative biometric products that could assist a touchless society. They are also designed to kill the COVID-19 virus with ultraviolet (UV) lighting in the air ducts. The greatest concern is whether the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Visa Commercial Pay Launches For Virtual Cards, Digitized B2B Payments. Reed was involved in California’s watershed privacy law, which could act a model for a national law. It appears that PayPal and Cash App have bought almost 100 percent of all newly-issued bitcoins, according to an analysis from Pantera Capital.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The round was led by venture capital firm Dawn and The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund. Established in 2011, iZettle enables small business merchants across Europe and Latin America to accept card payments. Swedish payment company iZettle today announced it raised €40 million ($47.05 Over the past years, it […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

We have deep dives into virtual card adoption and self-service technology, as well as a report on Kobe Bryant’s legacy. Bryant formed the Bryant Stibel venture capital firm in 2013 with Jeff Stibel, founder of Web.com. Bank Is Doing to Drive Virtual Card Adoption. 29), has Penn National Gaming Inc.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

The firm also predicts that within a decade physical stores are going to shrink and checkout lines will become extinct, mostly due to cashier-free payments, including shopping carts equipped with barcode scanners and credit card readers, mobile payment apps, robots capable of scanning items and more. New Developments. million to 4.5

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Koho, a Toronto-based digital banking startup, is on track to expand its product suite to include credit and savings products in 2020, CEO Daniel Eberhard told Bank Innovation on Wednesday. In late November, the […].

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

With Visa and Mastercard each having made significant investments to capture more of the SMB segment through an array of payment rails, including card, ACH, and proprietary networks, SWIFT is joining a competitive landscape that aims to overhaul the payment rail status quo. Billhop Eases B2B Card Acceptance. and Sweden, it noted.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Because many banks are now producing below their cost of capital, growth further exacerbates their issues and drives them out of business (likely through a sale) faster. Without the windfall of profit accrued to banks in 2022 because of faster-than-expected rate increases, banks will need to be better allocators of capital.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 25, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— Millennial and Gen Z-focused credit card provider Deserve has raised $50 million from the Keystone National Group, funding earmarked for the startup’s expansion of account receivables, the company announced today.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

Beyond Tempe, Starship brought on a grocery delivery service in the nation’s capital last month and grew to Irvine, California. As previously reported , Starship Technologies planned to expand and deliver everything from pizza to Starbucks to university students throughout the nation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2019

Though not the busiest week in B2B venture capital funding, investors presented a clear preference for corporate expense management and B2B eCommerce, with additional funding going toward logistics and small business banking firms for a total of $203.5 while European investors at Dawn Capital and Accel also participated. ”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

City National Bank, Extend Pair On Virtual Cards. To launch its new virtual commercial card offering, City National Bank is working with FinTech Extend, the companies recently revealed. Virgin Money Taps Codat For Data Sharing. In support of that initiative, investors have placed $15 million in Series B funding for U.K.-,

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Honorable Mentions – while this was a quiet year for M&A, we tip our hat to Atlantic Union’s acquisition of American National Bank and Eastern Bank’s acquisition of Cambridge Bank. Award – goes to CNBC’s Jim Cramer , who lamented that banks should have been innovating offerings like those delivered by PayPal and Square.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Payments Innovation Leads the Way . Contactless payments took wing in 2020 and, given the venture capital flowing into facilitating greater payments choice overall, it’s a safe bet that digital-first payments are here to stay. Those processors will in turn work with issuing banks to offer near-instant issuance of cards.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In general, venture capitalists are boosting their investments in Latin America, with funding reaching $594 million in 2015, a stark increase from $387 million in 2012, the Latin America Venture Capital Association confirmed. The (Advertising) Haves And Have-Nots. Canada and Brazil. It looks like it’s no harm, no foul for Apple.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

Small business lending platform OnDeck is accelerating access to capital for its users through the launch of a same-day funding option. local time, as per National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) caps, as long as small businesses complete their booking or line of credit draw by 10:30 a.m. on a business day.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The new investors were joined by existing investors including Nation Capital, Sapphire Ventures and Google’s venture arm known as GV. The firm said it will add integration with major software platforms, and increase alternate payment methods to offerings such as mobile wallets, instant payments and cards.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The nation is forming a Direct FAST industry group, where the members will include traditional financial institutions (FIs), FinTech firms and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The movement to open that FinTech access, said the minister, brings “greater convenience to consumers” as those individuals use their eWallets.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

. “The young demographic in India give[s] an edge to adopt and build on new financial technologies, and I believe this will play a vital role in making India a global blockchain innovation center to also spur cryptocurrency adoption throughout the larger public in the country,” said CEO Changpeng Zhao of Binance in a press release.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While AOBA 2022 had its share of execs wanting to “fake it until they make it” with future innovation, credit is due to the bankers who are pouring real financial investment into new fintech experiments. In some respects, AOBA 2022 felt a bit like bank executives wanted to “fake it until they make it” with their future innovation and fintech.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

More than $150 million in venture capital bolstered the B2B FinTech market this week, and while investors made big steps into areas like human resources, fleet management and artificial intelligence (AI), it was an old favorite that saw the most, and largest, investment rounds: alternative lending. Capital Match. Alternative Lending.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2016

FinTech startup SelfScore , which launched the first dedicated Mastercard credit card designed exclusively for international students in the U.S., With the new capital in place, SelfScore’s total funding reached over $15 million. With the new capital in place, SelfScore’s total funding reached over $15 million.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

It’s an existential threat that can be mitigated going forward, i2c President Jim McCarthy told PYMNTS, by card products – particularly commercial and corporate cards issued by the existing network of banks and FinTechs – and used inventively to solve acute cash flow problems. But worries over when and how persist.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year marketing campaign rolled out by American Express in 1987 to convince consumers that it was worth paying a yearly fee for one of its charge card offerings. NEW DATA: Five Payments Innovations for Winning the Digital-First Shopper. Getaround Car-Sharing Tech Disrupts Car Ownership .

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Bank Innovation

MAY 30, 2018

Citigroup has a digital-heavy, branch-light business approach that extends beyond its National Digital Bank platform (announced in March and currently in testing phase), according to Stephen Bird, CEO of Citi’s Global Consumer Banking.

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BankBazaar

JANUARY 31, 2021

The National Sample Survey Office conducted a survey between 2017 and 2018, sampling 113,823 urban and rural households. National Asset Monetising Pipeline launched to monitor asset monetisation process. National Rail Plan created to bring a future-ready Railway system by 2030. Strengthening of Urban Swachh Bharat Mission.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

63 percent of SMBs sought a loan for working capital needs last year , including payroll, inventory and supplies, according to new data from S&B Global Market Intelligence. small businesses, instead, first turn to national or community banks, credit unions or online lenders, the research showed in U.S. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2017

But a new report from Sage finds that being knowledgeable in the latest and most innovative solutions is beneficial to the organization. Given the rapid pace of innovation we’ve witnessed in our industry, there is a lot for payment professionals to digest,” said NAPCP Managing Director Diane McGuire, CPCP, in a statement.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2016

That includes for-profit companies, and that includes for-profit companies that are looking to bring real innovation and change to the way things work. The language is just broad enough that just about anything, on a governmental whim, can be seen as running counter to national interests. What about card companies?

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

That means Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics and robotics process automation — three areas that saw particularly high funding rounds in this week’s B2B venture capital roundup. Canada’s Flinks provides a platform for banks and FinTech firms to connect, a signal of the nation’s approach towards open banking.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023. 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Except maybe they did partly.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

This week we saw scientists march, the French go to the polls and a $400 high-tech juicer turned out to be an innovation on par with something that everyone already has: their hands. And most of the nation got a good chuckle — except perhaps the investors who threw $125 million at the disruptive future of juice. Ready to jump in?

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Accenture

MAY 22, 2019

For years, banks have enjoyed a low bar on CFO expectations around payment product sophistication and innovation. Today, we are seeing a slowdown in commercial deposit growth broadly with flat or negative growth in pockets as deposits shift to the national banks. No cash, check or credit card required. The road ahead.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Some interesting finalists would be: M&T and People’s United Old National and First Midwest Webster and Sterling Columbia Bank and Umpqua. This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Congrats on a brave move and national recognition Jim! 82% to over 2.3%

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