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Fintech Deals to Watch: Fall Festivities

Gonzobanker

Fiserv partnered with Central Payments LLC , a BAAS provider for fintech, and sold its Frontier Reconciliation and Accurate Reconciliation solutions to Trintech. Card issuer and processor Marqeta acquired Power Finance , an embedded fintech credit card program. an embedded payments platform for fintechs.

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How Credit Unions Face — And Embrace — Digital Disruption

PYMNTS

That would seem to apply to credit unions (CUs), and to Consumers Credit Union of Illinois specifically, one of the largest CUs around, which has been in business since 1930 (before the Great Depression reached its worst depths). The rise of FinTech is putting pressure on all financial institutions to innovate, or risk losing customers.

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COVID-19 Sees More Online Grocers Accept EBT SNAP Payments For Food

PYMNTS

The latest such move came from Instacart and ALDI, which announced they would allow customers to pay for same-day delivery or pick up food orders using their EBT SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) cards. In May, global payments processor and FinTech Fiserv announced it was also taking part in the USDA’s pilot program.

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State And Local Governments Wrestle With Faster Payments

PYMNTS

A crowd of FinTechs and challenger banks entering the disbursements space isn’t accelerating adoption to the extent needed, because it’s hard to differentiate them. Illinois printed and mailed $1.3 Illinois could have saved an estimated $1 million by digitizing its payments. Not all states feel the same.

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Figure CEO: Figure Pay, National Bank Charter Will Boost Financial Inclusion

PYMNTS

While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments. Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion.

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Retail banking trends to look out for in 2023

Independent Banker

“We have seen an increase in mobile and digital usage, like other banks,” Hancock says, “but these initiatives have helped expand that engagement from balance inquiries and funds transfers to more complex needs like money management and managing debit card security. “In William Atkinson is a writer in Illinois.

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Fintech Fundings: 26 Companies Raised $530 Million Third Week of July

Fintech Labs Insights

There has been an average of 28 fintech deals per week this year. Fintech deals by size from 16 July to 22 July, 2016: CommonBond. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Tags: Consumer, credit, loans, mortgage, credit card, discovery, insurance, price quotes, lead gen. Total dollars raised YTD is $18.6

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