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Currencycloud Links Regional Banks To X-Border B2B Tech

PYMNTS

To provide regional and community banks with a full-scale solution to manage and grow their FX programs, FinTech firm Derivative Path, Inc. Our industry-leading rates platform now combined with Currencycloud’s capabilities will make our offering even more powerful for our regional and community banking clients.”.

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Drip Capital Aims To Create Trade Finance Network For Cross Border Buyers, Suppliers

PYMNTS

And enter Drip Capital , the middleman that serves as the financial grease that enables trade to flow, easing concerns of both buyers and suppliers. said Pushkar Mukewar , co-founder and CEO of Drip Capital in a conversation with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster. When you think of any cross-border transaction — let’s say an importer in the U.S.

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Toys R Us Is Going Strong In Asia

PYMNTS

While Toys R Us has disappeared from the United States, it is going strong in Asia, which plans to open 60 new stores throughout the region this year. It currently operates more than 550 stores in the region. It currently operates more than 550 stores in the region. “We This follows Toys R Us shuttering all of its U.S.

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London FinTech Curve Notches $95 Million Series C For US Expansion

PYMNTS

London-based FinTech startup Curve has raised $95 million in Series C funding led by IDC Ventures, Fuel Venture Capital, and the investment division of Vulcan Capital, launched from the estate of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Founder and Curve CEO Shachar Bialick said in a press release on Tuesday (Jan.

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What Relationship Pricing Means for Bank Performance

South State Correspondent

However, historically very few US banks have been able to consistently provide a level of service that translates to higher profitability. The real issue for many banks is that managers cannot easily identify and measure the service level or correctly measure granular returns at the customer, product, branch, region, or supervisor level.

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Climate and capital: some outstanding issues

BankUnderground

There is a lively debate about whether and how capital regulations for banks and insurers should be adjusted in response to climate change. Moreover, it asks for research on an appropriate time horizon over which the risks should be considered and how scenarios and forward-looking data should be used.

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Israel’s Red Dot Capital Likes Southeast Asia’s COVID Comeback Story

PYMNTS

Fresh on the heels of a $200 million round of fundraising, Tel Aviv’s Red Dot Capital is straying from its bread-and-butter focus on homegrown Israeli technology and security startups to find opportunity half a world away in Southeast Asia. But Stern said the strategy shift isn’t just based on the need to fuel growth.

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