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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Visa teams up with Razorpay to debut a small business commercial card solution, while Nets is working with Yoba Smart Money to develop small business payment tools. Plus, Australia mulls mandatory eInvoicing, and Emirates NBD launches an omnichannel corporate banking offering.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

In today’s top digital-first banking news, Goldman Sachs has selected FinTech startup Marqeta to power digital checking accounts for Marcus, while California credit card startup X1 notched $12 million in a funding round headed up by Spark Capital. X1 Card Raises $12 Million In Funding Round Led By Spark Capital.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In the coming months, Kuda will add savings and P2P payments along with the no-fee checking accounts and debit cards it offers now. You can open a bank account within five minutes, do all the KYC in the app, and you get issued a new bank account number,” Ogundeyi said.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Scotland-based Tesco Bank has announced that it’s the first financial institution (FI) in the United Kingdom to introduce technology that allows its 2.6 million credit card customers to more easily manage and pay their balances. We expect this functionality to be widespread in the market in the coming years.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Grab , Razer , AirAsia , Axiata and CIMB join other companies that are considering applying for digital banking licenses in Malaysia, sources told Reuters on Wednesday (Jan. Some are in discussions with consultants for guidance as they ponder a move into digital banking, according to the sources, who are familiar with the matter.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

DasherDirect is issued by Stride Bank and powered by Payfare. The platform offers drivers a mobile banking app and a business Prepaid Visa Card, along with new rewards. Dashers can choose to have earnings automatically added to the card every day at no cost. A nationwide launch is planned for early next year. .

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JULY 7, 2020

For more community banks, the latter strategy can fast-track digitization initiatives. This week’s look at the latest bank-FinTech tie-ups shows Banking-as-a-Service and other FinTech players embracing smaller regional and community banks to elevate small- to medium-sized business (SMBs) and corporate banking offerings.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, Alfa-Bank has become a part of Contour's international trade finance network, while J.P. Plus, Visa is collaborating with UAE-based NOW Money to bring digital banking services to low-income customers. . Alfa-Bank Signs Onto Contour International Trade Finance Network.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Credit Sesame Launches Free Digital Bank Account. Credit and loan company Credit Sesame has announced a new, free digital bank account to help customers grow cash and credit in one place. The account offers a Sesame Cash debit card, partnering with Mastercard as its card network.

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JUNE 11, 2018

Attendance at American Banker’s Digital Banking conference has grown significantly since I was here in 2016, reflecting the obvious interest levels in digital, yet the vibe remained largely the same as two years ago…. Is voice banking even a blip on your digital roadmap? Huge missed opportunity.

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JUNE 30, 2020

Careem , the Dubai-based ride hailing company, has entered into a partnership with Visa to expand digital payments. The agreement is expected to accelerate cashless payments and digital banking across the Middle East and North Africa, the companies announced. Regulators approved the $3.1

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JUNE 29, 2020

Mastercard and Norwegian financial technology (FinTech) company EedenBull have agreed to expand their partnership to the Asia Pacific region, the firms announced Monday (June 29). Under the terms of the new deal, Mastercard will support EedenBull’s product development and digital services.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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APRIL 25, 2016

While Nubank is focused entirely in offering a credit card with a customer friendly personalized real-time view of expenses and modern contact channels (email, call or chat), Bankaool is mainly focused in a checking account with a debit card, SME loans and investment vehicles. They launched in March of this year.

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APRIL 24, 2020

bank technology firm securing $100 million to expand in the region. India’s KarbonCard , a FinTech that offers startups in India and Southeast Asia with corporate card solutions, secured $1 million in new funding from Orios Venture Partners, Whiteboard Capital, and others, according to YourStory reports. KarbonCard.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Virtual Cards And Mobile Technology. That can be attributed, in part, to the company's virtual card investments, according to Rettig, with the company's ability to support supplier virtual card acceptance "starting to pay off earlier than expected in the quarter.”. While losses climbed from $5.7

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Digital banking and payments firm i2c is partnering with next-generation commerce firm Sightline Payments to deliver cashless, mobile and omnichannel programs to over 45 gaming resorts, state lotteries, digital gaming and sports betting sites across eight states, i2c announced on Wednesday, Feb. There are more than 2.5

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

After all, what counts as a bank or not is a little bit different in India than it is in the United States, he said. Agashe said the 50,000 very small community banks and credit unions (CUs) spread throughout India’s rural regions don’t count as “banks” in the official tally. or ‘Why don't you put in an ATM?’

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

News about Chime ’s latest funding round might give pause when comparing the tech-savvy upstart’s valuation against some traditional banking players. This week, Chime, focused on banking via mobile apps, held a $485 million series F funding round that valued the company at $14.5 billion, as CNBC reported. With the $14.5

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Many card-based solutions have recently debuted, aimed at helping businesses to more easily track expenses, and gain insights into how company funds are spent in the field. The solution also allows managers to set limits on how much money can be spent with the cards, and cancel or freeze them at any time, if necessary. Yordex , a U.K.-based

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Banks lost about $4 billion to account takeover (ATO) fraud attempts last year and fraudsters have been reluctant to abandon the scheme as this year progresses. Arou nd the Digital Banking World. Banks in other regions are also dealing with data breaches of their own, such as U.K. digital bank Monzo.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Then, bad grades came in right as summer party season kicked off, mom and dad took away the car and credit card, and the Venmo transfers came to a screeching halt. Digital Engagement Had Great Attendance and Extracurriculars. First, there was the drama leading up to the breakup with the rich hottie.

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AUGUST 13, 2018

13) that Jud Linville, CEO of global cards and consumer services, will leave the bank as part of executive reshuffling. According to a report in CNBC , Citigroup is overhauling the executives in its global consumer banking businesses and, as a result, Linville will leave. Citigroup announced Monday (Aug. billion by 2020.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

That is among the reasons why Emirates NBD recently launched the first digital banking service for SMBs in the UAE, a launch that could inspire similar efforts in other parts of the world. It will have a mobile app, and provide different services necessary to carry out banking needs. New Venture.

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APRIL 21, 2020

As Verdon told Webster, embracing platforms such as the one offered by Railsbank — which enables companies to issue unique international bank account numbers (IBANs), receive and send money and issue and manage cards — means that banking becomes a service rather than a series or suite of separate products. in sight, too.

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JULY 17, 2020

He said that while small banks, credit unions (CUs) and regional players deeply fear being swept aside by the great digitalization wave that the pandemic has set off, their concerns aren’t actually unique to the financial industry’s smaller end. Third is digital customer acquisition and instant digital issuance. “We

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JULY 7, 2015

Yet while the demos and screen shots at events like Finovate have provided fascinating fodder regarding the future of digital banking, the FACTS show that these buzz-worthy players have had infinitesimal impact on market share. Bancorp Bank (Simple/PayPal et al) 1,495,558 4,499,959 3,004,401. billion in 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Banks and card providers have been devoting a lot of attention recently to Asian markets, and it’s not hard to see why. billion potential customers in China alone, and a similar number in India, the opportunities for banks are immense. Card providers have also been promoting the use of new solutions.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

As reported from Daily News Egypt , a consortium of banks in the region expects a number of FIs, including those in Egypt, to embrace FinTech. The Union of Arab Banks (UAB) has said in a study that such a movement would change the way Arab banks provide financial services. . million credit cards, 15.8

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AUGUST 9, 2019

Further, Bottomline noted that it will expand its customer targeting efforts to include middle-market and smaller businesses to on-board to Paymode-X, which will lead to further investments in card acceptance and invoice-to-pay functionality, the firm said. Digital Banking IQ.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Tennessee-based regional financial services company First Horizon National Corp. Hotels.com Debuts Loyalty Program Visa Card. Hotels.com has rolled out a Wells Fargo-issued credit card to assist users in accessing rewards. Users can access an additional reward or “stamp” each time they spend $500 through the new credit card.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

28) that they are tackling that challenge head on and solving the FinTech acceptance problem in an entirely new way across 10 key markets in the Asia-Pacific region. As a result, Dill said, digital commerce will find footing in Asian markets that have, thus far, been underpenetrated — with good reason. This region, home to more than 4.3

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Once upon a time in the 1960s, banks were building a series of one-off card-based solutions, much the way today in the ending days of the 2010s we see global digital banking, mobile wallets and alternative underwriting schemes building one-off tech-based solutions for financial services products. So today (Sept.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This represents 59 percent growth over the past 10 years, much of it buoyed by a surge in sign-ups across the Oceania region. CU members stand to benefit greatly from such solutions, as the study reported that 51 percent them of them have had their identities stolen and 68 percent have been targeted by debit or credit card fraud.

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JULY 23, 2020

Open banking has been picking up steam in Latin America for more than two years. Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. Open Banking And Digital Readiness.

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MAY 4, 2017

Brazil and Mexico — the total amount in cash payments for the region was $3 trillion in 2015, with weighted average cash use at 14 percent of GDP, with an estimated increase, annually, of 4 percent through 2020 in absolute dollars but a decline in percentage of GDP by 1.2 Turning to the Americas — defined as the U.S., do not accept cash.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

News about Chime ’s latest funding round might give pause when comparing the tech-savvy upstart’s valuation against some traditional banking players. This week, Chime, focused on banking via mobile apps, held a $485 million series F funding round that valued the company at $14.5 billion, as CNBC reported. With the $14.5

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