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MAY 14, 2018

Taking a page from Goldman Sachs’ book, Morgan Stanley is beginning to lend to FinTech startups in Brazil as it seeks more of a return on its investments. Morgan Stanley’s move comes at a time when the Brazil FinTech market is exploding. Fortress Investment Group also took part in that deal.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Lithuania wants to become a global FinTech powerhouse. In recent years, the market has gone from one struggling with high financial illiteracy and limited card acceptance, to a bright spot in Europe for FinTech innovation. Regulation is perhaps the strongest driver of Lithuania’s FinTech-friendly environment.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

In seed funding from well-known angel investors, corporate card FinTech Karbon Card has notched $2 million. Amit Jangir and Pei-fu Hsieh started Karbon Card last year. The firm offers an alternative to corporate cards. In separate news, India landed its first SMB credit card via EnKash per news last summer.

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JULY 8, 2020

With commercial cards an increasingly popular choice in the B2B payments space, industry innovators are exploring pockets of opportunity to drive adoption through mitigating friction. For others, commercial card innovation comes in the form of overcoming the adoption hurdle of a lack of supplier acceptance. InstaRem Expands BizPay.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Singapore-based FinTech startup InstaReM , which enables banks and consumers to send money across borders , announced a partnership with First Data to assist businesses that issue corporate credit cards.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 11, 2019

A company that operates quietly in the background of popular financial apps and platforms is taking steps to become more visible.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

N26 , the FinTech bank startup, is upgrading its N26 Metal card, with a launch happening Wednesday (June 13). According to a report in TechCrunch , the card was first announced at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin in December of 2017 and was available for early access by N26 Black customers.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

As Goldman Sachs seeks further expansion in the South African economy, the financial services company joined the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s interest-rate and currency-derivatives market, Bloomberg reported on Monday (Jan. The filings also indicated that interest income would be spread across operating segments.

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MARCH 13, 2020

Despite its demonetization policy, a thriving eCommerce climate, and continued growth in electronic and mobile payments, card penetration remains especially low in India, hovering at about 2 percent to 3 percent. It’s an interesting phenomenon, especially considering the path to corporate card adoption elsewhere.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

The investors were led by Apis Partners LLP and FinTech investor Crossfin Technology Holdings. However, all three entities will operate separately. A group of investors has acquired Sureswipe , a South African payments company, for an undisclosed amount. We believe each provides a distinctive client solution.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

In Australia, the commercial card market is one example of how bureaucracy and legacy process have stifled access to important SMB financial services, despite a continued surge in banking innovation and digitization. “People don’t just want a physical credit card to swipe at the shops,” he said.

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APRIL 15, 2020

While small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) continue to hustle to secure portions of various federal coronavirus relief funding, the commercial card industry is finding itself in a position to support SMBs and their cash flow needs, too. Boost Finds A Surge In Corporate Card Interest. Visa Fuels Supplier Card Acceptance.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

At a time when surging coronavirus counts are once again muddying the outlook for consumers and business owners, MerchantE Chief Financial Officer Shim Steinmetz says the crisis has also provided a silver lining of sorts to nimble FinTechs that can solve merchants’ cash crunch problems. It just masks them until you run out of money.”.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Mastercard and pan-European FinTech myPOS are teaming up to promote card payment solutions to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across Europe, Mastercard announced on Thursday (Feb. The strategic partnership aims to inform more SMBs about the new tools for card acceptance that can fit their needs and budget.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While AOBA 2022 had its share of execs wanting to “fake it until they make it” with future innovation, credit is due to the bankers who are pouring real financial investment into new fintech experiments. In some respects, AOBA 2022 felt a bit like bank executives wanted to “fake it until they make it” with their future innovation and fintech.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The Mastercard Track Card to Account Transfer, the release says, will let businesses use commercial cards to pay suppliers even if the suppliers don't take card payments. Manual work won’t be as necessary and businesses will be able to access expanded payment operations, the release says.

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BankBazaar

MAY 7, 2024

BankBazaar.com, India’s leading fintech co-branded Credit Card platform and online platform for free Credit Score, marks its third consecutive year of fast and sustainable growth, with an unaudited operating revenue of Rs.215 Strong bank partnerships have significantly bolstered BankBazaar’s position in the market.

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MARCH 4, 2020

TerraPay, a Dutch FinTech, has been acquired by a number of investors, including Prime Ventures, Partech Africa and management for an undisclosed amount. It also aims to enable banks, mobile money operators and other providers to connect with one another at a low cost. Along with IFC, those same entities have invested $9.6

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

The corporate expense management market doesn’t look like it once did. The commercial card and expense management market is yet another space in which collaboration between FIs and FinTechs has proved key to driving innovative tools – especially as corporates grow weary with the traditional legacy services their banks provide.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

For Walmart, FinTechs are in sight — but where to from here? As reported , Walmart is working with Ribbit Capital to create an as-yet unnamed FinTech that would, the companies said on Monday (Jan. The notion of scaling into the markets may indeed be gaining traction. As reported late last year , a U.S.

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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). The service, offered by a network of banks in the Nordics, has been adopted by more than 10,000 registered businesses, the FinTech company said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Canadian FinTech Neo Financial said that it has raised CAD $50 million in a Series A funding round that included $25 million in funding and $25 million in debt facility financing. The company also plans to introduce more mobile banking features and greater flexibility, such as monthly subscription plans to increase Neo Cards rewards.

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MARCH 11, 2020

B2B FinTechs are once again showing off the versatility of the corporate card. While QuickBooks is piloting card payments on invoices powered by PayPal , Airwallex is readying the launch of its own corporate card — both physical and virtual — designed to enable cross-border payments. QuickBooks Adds Card Payment Support.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Analysis of contactless card transactions revealed that the volume of commercial card contactless payments, both debit and credit, jumped 24 percent between 2018 and 2019. At the same time, commercial credit cards’ cash advances dropped 14 percent last year. SumUp Wields Cards For Faster Revenue.

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MARCH 25, 2020

Branchless bank and FinTech Green Dot has reported that Dan Henry will step in as its new president and CEO, and will also join the board of directors. Dan is a highly regarded leader and accomplished executive with operational expertise and over two decades of deep experience in the FinTech space. million.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In fact, according to The Business Research Company’s 2022 Payment Security Global Market Report , the payment security market is expected to reach $43 billion by 2026. A biometric payment is a point-of-sale technology that authenticates payments by pairing a payment card with a physical identifier of the cardholder.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Brazil’s unicorn FinTech and payments startup EBANX is trialing a digital wallet, called Ebanx Go, with 10,000 consumers on a test basis, the company announced on Wednesday (Jan. The digital wallet offering is intended to solidify the FinTech’s reach in the Brazilian payments market.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Efforts in the Middle East by banks and other financial institutions to embrace FinTech are on the rise. 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. million credit cards, 15.8 million debit cards and 10.8 Outside U.S.

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JULY 9, 2020

With commercial credit cards historically viewed as a payment vehicle for businesses to make one-off purchases for the office or while on a business trip, the small business credit card has yet to catch up to adoption volumes seen by other payment methods like direct bank transfers in the B2B payments space. In markets like the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

The cross-border payment market is thriving, and trends are expected to continue over the next few years. A group of Nordic banks have selected Mastercard to overhaul its financial services operations for the region. In Southeast Asia, FinTech InstaReM recently released a new platform of its own. Meanwhile, in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The delicate balance between bank-FinTech competition and collaboration continues to teeter in the U.S. In a market without Open Banking regulations, FinTechs continue to enter in to the market, collaborating with bank partners to offer their own financial services — which often compete directly with other financial institutions.

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JUNE 28, 2019

credit card business, mobile-first company Jaja will pay an initial cash consideration of $671 million at current rates. The FinTech firm will also serve as the consumer credit card issuer for the AA and the bank’s U.K. s Automobile Association and a Bank of Ireland branded card. (It To acquire the Bank of Ireland’s U.K.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Commercial cards remain only a fraction of the B2B payments space, but FinTech firms, banks and other financial service providers continue to develop new solutions aimed at boosting adoption. For companies like SmartEquip and Unified Payments Group , that means introducing new ways to lift the burden of suppliers accepting cards.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Banks' embrace of FinTech is often driven by consumers' growing demand for a more seamless and unified experience. This week's look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaboration and open banking initiatives finds treasury management in the spotlight. But corporates can benefit from industry collaboration, too. Tink & Enel X.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Ualá provides various financial services based on a prepaid card and works via a mobile app. million cards in Argentina since its 2017 debut. It launched operations in Mexico in September, issuing around 1,000 cards a day there, Bloomberg reported. The company has issued more than 2.5

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Collaboration and not competition, Visa’s Senior Vice President, Global Head of FinTech Terry Angelos told Karen Webster in a discussion on the recent advancements and updates to Visa’s Fast Track program , is quite evident — particularly when one observes that a number of Visa’s partners are many that, on paper, might appear to be competitors.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Visa and its India FinTech partner, Open , are rolling out their joint credit card product for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). 11) that Open, which operates a small business banking and financial services platform, announced the Founder’s Card, the result of its existing partnership with Visa.

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