PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Paris-based Ultra , which has created its own blockchain, announced that French video game giant Ubisoft will become the first major gaming system to test out payments on its blockchain for gamers. The population of the country sees these capital controls are put in place, and then they’re going to look for a way around it.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

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 payment system, called CoDi, is slated to launch in March. Less than reliable telecom service in the country could also hurt the efforts.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

New day, new multi-billion-dollar deal within the payments space. To that end, Far Point Acquisition – which operates as a “blank check” company that focuses on financial technology deals – said on Thursday (Jan. 16) that it would buy Global Blue , a payments company based in Switzerland, for $2.6 billion euros.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

But it was a Singapore startup building out a holistic suite of small business financial services that landed the largest round this week, by far. Challenger bank Yelo, operating in India, raised an undisclosed sum from Matrix Partners India, Omidyar Network, Flourish VC and Better Capital, Inc 42 reports said this week.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

With the pandemic nudging businesses further into the digital payments realm, commercial card innovation is heating up to capitalize on the opportunity for adoption. As companies elevate their use of payroll cards, Galileo Financial Technologies is rolling out its own solution to facilitate employee compensation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

financial technology startup backed by Goldman Sachs , is expanding overseas. Investing.com , citing a Reuters report, said that the company, which helps other startups issue payment cards, has set its sights on London and has already hired five employees and signed up customers. than the startups operating out of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Qonto is operational in Spain, France, Italy and Germany, and handled €10 billion ($11.08 It also plans to hire more employees with the capital. In 2018, Qonto was awarded a payment institution license, developing its own banking apparatus from there. billion USD) in transaction volume last year. . million.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

challenger banking market saw a flurry of venture capital (VC) activity this week, as FinTech firms aim to disrupt small business (SMB) financial services (FinServ). Compliance startup Chainalysis works with law enforcement officials and financial institutions (FIs) to ensure that their cryptocurrency operations are within regulations.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Mastercard is expanding its Accelerate financial technology (FinTech) portfolio and is adding 11 companies to its Start Path startup engagement program, according to a Wednesday (Aug. billion in post-program capital and collaborate with Mastercard, major banks, merchants and other high-profile organizations,” Mastercard said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It may be an open road for open banking as, three years after the rollout of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), bank-FinTech collaborations and new initiatives unlocking bank account data continue to flourish. But it may not always be smooth sailing ahead. Visa Launches FinTech Collaboration Initiative In Europe.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Wall Street Journal , citing the company, reported that during the past few months, Berkshire has invested roughly $600 million in StoneCo, the Brazilian payment processor and Paytm’s parent company. Paytm is India’s biggest digital payments company.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Automated business payments processing firm AvidXchange is launching a new fundraising round that could give the firm a $2 billion valuation, The New York Times reported on Monday (Dec. Investment bank Financial Technology Partners is advising AvidXchange on this fundraising round, according to sources. 9), citing sources.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2019

Barclays also participated in the round, as did existing investors such as Bain Capital Ventures, Pivot Investment Partners and JPMorgan Chase & Co., It has created an operating system that helps create and upgrade software applications for financial institutions — much like the way consumer apps get updated on phones.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

New payment and financial technologies are quickly emerging from the FinTech community, all with the promise of expediting payments and reducing the distance between cross-border trading partners. The fear of non-payment, in particular, tends to be the smaller merchants’ worst nightmare.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The solution comes on top of the technology firm’s array of offerings to bolster the GST compliance experience for companies in the country, according to a Wednesday (Sept. The nation isn’t the first to implement an eInvoice requirement as part of more widespread initiatives to cut reduce financial crime. 16) announcement.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The firm is the holding company for an array of FinTech companies operating in supply chain finance, invoice finance and the dynamic discounting market. Its units include Distribution Finance Capital, Satago and Oxygen Finance, while it also owns a minority stake in peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Zopa. reports noted.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Creation of the new unit would be part of a much larger overhaul of the financial technology company and subject to approval by Chinese authorities, who pulled the plug on the company’s massive initial public offering late last year, according to Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

Naspers, Africa’s largest company based on market value, is gearing up to spend $1 billion in India in the form of investments focused on the financial technology market. Tencent also operates WeChat, the wildly popular messaging app. The startups raised the capital in 924 rounds. In 2017 Indian startups raised $10.4

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

“Unlike the broader VC market, early-stage FinTech companies have continued to attract a solid flow of capital in the U.S., national co-lead partner, venture capital practice. “At But that means some of the upstarts could operate without having to tie up with traditional financial firms.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The latest lab will aim to promote collaboration between the bank’s employees, corporate clients and FinTech partners to develop new financial services for businesses. The labs are a part of Standard Chartered’s venture capital arm SC Ventures, reports noted. “To

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital and mobile technology, along with online marketplace models. That doesn’t mean it’s been easy. But in a new PYMNTS interview on Tuesday (Dec. But that’s not all. “We

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

For Bottomline Technologies , the opportunity emerged with Friday’s launch of the $350 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) under the CARES Act. Prioritizing B2B Payments Digitization. “No doubt, this will accelerate the digital transformation of business payments,” said Eberle.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

These are just a few of the ways that digital marketplaces are making these connections with digital payments and commerce, in an age when consumers are looking for more choices when it comes to their shopping experiences: One-hundred and sixty-two U.S. and European workers participate in the gig economy. Just under 40 percent – or 39.1

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

Clerico has built WePay from the ground up through his innate love of people and by building relationships with customers to provide them with a payments platform that is exactly what they want and need. A lot of payments companies try to build point solutions, solving one problem related to payments.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2019

This is up from 35% in 2017, and way up from 18% in 2013, according to Financial Technology Partners’ 2018 Annual Fintech Almanac. Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic investor.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2018

Zelle made a difference to the bottom line of financial technology provider Fiserv, the company reported on its earnings call yesterday. It was also noted that several banks — Fiserv serves some 13,000 financial institutions — saw a boost in transactions due […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

While its market capitalization is more than 30 times smaller than bitcoin, Tether’s volume has consistently exceeded it since early August at about $21 billion per day. “If investors must comply with the securities laws, irrespective of the industry they operate in or the labels they place on the investment products they offer.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

Financial services company Enova has a new chief financial officer, and he is reportedly looking to take the company in a new direction. The financial technology and data analytics firm has traditionally focused on the consumer finance space in its lending operations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As the operator of the Swiss financial market infrastructure, we welcome the initiative of the SNB and the BIS to conduct more research into innovative financial technologies in Switzerland. percent rate.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to this site, is pleased to announce its inaugural episode of INV Unfiltered — a new monthly podcast series, which will cover current trends and intriguing topics in financial technology and beyond.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

PYMNTS also explores the venture capital and lending spaces as professional investors make some changes and as businesses look to invest in themselves. However, total investment in these startups — venture capital, in addition to angel, hedge fund and mutual fund investment and more — topped $17.8 and Europe dominated in 2015.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Banking Transformed Banking Transformed by the Financial Brand’s Jim Marous has new episodes several times a month and features executives from financial institutions, financial technology firms, authors, consultants, and other experts in the banking industry. keep me informed. Whitepaper. Asset Liability Modeling.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2018

However, for them to distribute those offerings — and deliver on them — community banks have technological and regulatory challenges to clear on the path going forward. Rainey told PYMNTS that financial services, particularly around payments, is evolving and changing at a pace never before seen in the industry. What’s Next.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

Financial technology seems to be leading the startup charge, representing 40 percent of the largest 10 deals of the year so far, collectively worth $100 million. Coming up on the half mark in 2018, total fundraising on the continent has hit $168.6 million — already ahead of 2017’s full-year take of $167.7 So why the boom?

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 21, 2022

As we will discuss, it applies the BSA to persons providing corporate formation, trust, third-party payment, or similar legal or accounting services. II) are not direct payments or compensation for civil or criminal defense matters. Requirements. Here, the amendment does provide the Secretary and FinCEN with its typical discretion.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

In the latest PYMNTS Commanders in Chief series, Bruce Lowthers, executive vice president of FIS Global, a financial technology solutions provider , and president of the company’s Payments Division , didn’t set out to be an innovator. I get to see every keynote speaker, presentation and article relating to the payments space.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

The city is able to attract investors due to its low logistical and operational costs and excellent infrastructure, international outlook and liberal government policies. Dubai is considered to be a hotbed for financial technology and innovation, not just in the Middle East but globally. 2016, the inflation rate was 0.12

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