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Fintech Deals to Watch: Fall Festivities

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Treasury management provider Dragonfly Financial Technologies launched independently from an ACI Worldwide sale. Core: Core-n Mazes and Hayrides FIS acquired embedded finance provider Bond Financial Technologies and announced plans to spin off merchant solutions (to be named Worldpay ).

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How Cannabis Can Become A B2B Payments Innovation Influencer

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For several years, while state-level legalization has expanded, access to traditional banks remains an issue thanks to their status as federally regulated entities. Today, however, the banking challenge has largely been solved. As it turns out, other industries can benefit from technology that addresses those same pain points.

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SoFi Deals Point To Question: ‘Just What’s a Bank?’

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To that end, earlier this month FinTech firm SoFi made the leap beyond San Francisco to Hong Kong, having bought online brokerage firm 8 Securities. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. But the expansion, giving rise to the new SoFi Invest will offer “automated investing” and financial education. As many as 34.2

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The Future Of Payments Beyond The Pandemic

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In a roundtable discussion, the last in the “Powering the Digital Shift” series with Karen Webster, six experts in money movement, fraud prevention, banking and financial technology discussed one sure bet: “Digital optional” is no option as we move toward contactless commerce. Looking At Digital IDs — And Friction.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. So where do ballyhooed mobile banking and payments developments among the biggest players leave community banks?

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

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The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet. We remember his architecting the legendary Bank of America and Security Pacific merger on the West Coast. This award must go to the Federal Reserve.

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 Dodd-Frank Looms For Capitol Hill Consideration

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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is examining the Community Reinvestment Act, which in part means that rules governing short-term lending may be reversed, and would let community banks compete more directly against payday lenders. FinTech Innovation and Cooperation in the Cards? Last Monday (Feb.