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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Cape , a new Australian FinTech made up of professionals in finance, is debuting its new “recession fighting” credit card, powered by open banking and intended to allow access to new functions like buy now, pay later (BNPL), according to a report from AltFi. Common plans offer four-installment payments as ways to buy items.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Goodbye, corporate expense cards and hello, “Zero Card?”. 6) rolled out its new Zero Card , a touchless, pre-paid, digital corporate expense card that the California FinTech is hoping will give the traditional corporate expense card a run for its money. Paystand on Thursday (Aug.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

That left FIs scrambling to “rapidly figure out how to get that same emotional and engagement outcome when the possibility of face-to-face is virtually nonexistent,” Randy Piatt , head of product solutions at card technology firm Ondot Systems , told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Simple: Start with the cards.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Razer Fintech and Visa have unveiled the Razer Card prepaid card, while SafetyPay has joined forces with LATAM’s Rappi. Razer Fintech, Visa Pitch New Prepaid Card to Young Adults in Singapore. Digital Payment Firm SafetyPay Teams With LATAM's Rappi. through March 2024.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

The great digital shift is transforming credit cards into money management tools. Consumers want cards, and they want them quickly, and they want those cards [delivered] in a digital way," said Turner. The company said that through the expansion of its Digital-First Card Program, which was announced last Wednesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

More consumers than ever are turning to online shopping channels to meet their needs during the pandemic, but many are also aware that cybercriminals are looking to capitalize on this stepped-up online activity to steal their card data. Firms are also prioritizing security as they transact online more heavily as well.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

The Outsourced FinTech Opportunity. But as Disque noted, advancements in B2B FinTech have created more options than ever before for a B2B seller looking toward technology to solve some of the biggest pain points associated with selling to corporate customers. COVID has certainly changed consumer behavior,” he said.

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MARCH 28, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – Are credit cards the next big hot spot for fintech takeover? That’s what startup Petal hopes its partnership with Salt Lake City-based WebBank achieves, as the startup gears to launch of its first major product: a credit card designed to serve the "credit invisible."

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

So far, the young life of the Apple Card has turned out pretty — perhaps even spectacularly — good, depending on the source. The recent news about Apple Card includes a big thumbs-up from Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon. Bharghavan has an intimate view into all things digital and mobile when it comes to cards. Apple Pay?.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Two fintechs announced new products and services this week geared toward e-commerce sellers, pointing to gaps in offerings from banks and legacy card companies to provide seamless, affordable solutions for online-based businesses looking to scale up quickly or stock up for busier seasons. provides […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

That arm of the financial technology (FinTech) giant offers a virtual credit card. Ant Group is best known for its wildly popular payment and loans app Alipay , which has both online and mobile platforms. Chinese regulators are looking to strengthen the rules for FinTechs. The company did not elaborate.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Necessity being the mother of invention, consumers rapidly reset their lives around digital across the board — from working to shopping to learning to managing their financial lives online. That’s where FinTechs can come in. However, Kikkeri said FIs should consider the robustness of potential FinTech partners’ offerings.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Among the numerous ways small businesses have been affected by the global pandemic, the sudden race to launch online operations has been among the most profound — and may ultimately be among the most long-lasting changes to the SMB community. “It does seem absolutely logical, up until the point that you start calculating costs.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

The corporate card industry continues to dig its heels into adoption efforts with the launch of new products and features designed to elevate the value of the card beyond a mere means of payment. Employees Lack Access To Corporate Cards. WEX Links MYOB Users To Card Payments. Plastiq Loops Into QuickBooks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

While FinTech innovation has opened up the doors for small- to medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) to access more sophisticated solutions to manage money, software fatigue has business owners overwhelmed by a barrage of siloed systems. According to Yakov, before the pandemic, about 65 percent of The OLB Group's merchant base were not online.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Online grocers are increasingly allowing underprivileged consumers to use EBT payments (the modern equivalent of food stamps) at a time when the pandemic has made going to the store too risky for many shoppers. The move by the two companies is just the latest initiative in a growing trend of EBT acceptance for online grocery shoppers.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Our core products allow our users to take remote and contactless card payments during lockdown situations, and so in a very real way, this [license] will ensure Ireland’s entrepreneurs can keep trading and keep recovering,” Walsh said. The FinTech also has eCurrency licenses in Lithuania and the U.K.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In the fourth quarter, the two companies aim to work with "business and corporate cards, travel cards, fleet cards and procurement cards, among other corporate payment solutions" to aid businesses of varying sizes and sectors to move cashless payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Vilash Poovala , founder and CEO of FinTech Oyster , said online financial platforms, powered by open banking, can serve as alternatives for business banking in a country where business banking seems an afterthought. The world needs a FinTech operating system.”.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Technology Feature3 Fintech Feature Customers People Covid19 Security Cards Mobile Online Tech Management. As their investment in digital transformation increases, banking organizations are learning a valuable lesson that all comes down to trust.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

As online banking becomes more popular, countries are grappling with cybersecurity. In Denmark, the advent of digital banking also saw almost a 60% jump in card fraud, Bloomberg reported yesterday.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Payguru is a Turkish company currently working to give residents a way to pay for bus travel cards via text message, according to a report by Financial Times (FT). The way it works, since the company began testing it in the city of Kahramanmaras in 2018, is that users can send a text message and refill their cards via mobile phone.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

consumers did at least some shopping online as of April 11 — a figure that had risen to 35.7 Consumers are also changing how they pay for their purchases, with a recent study finding that debit card spend was up 11.7 Debit cards are also being used to more quickly pay workers who need fast compensation now more than ever.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Deutsche Bank, Mastercard and IDEMIA are teaming up to introduce what they said is the first card in Spain to tap motion code technology, FinTech Futures reported on Thursday (Dec. On the back of the card, a small screen will display the CVC, also known as the dynamic security code.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Community banks and credit unions are feeling the pressure to boost their digital card services or risk losing customers to megabanks and digital challengers, Ondot Systems ’ Chief Strategy Officer Todd Lesher told PYMNTS in a recent discussion. FinTech players are also grabbing deposits. Square announced $1.3

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The man was struggling to pay his bills, and an online lender had offered him a personal loan to pay off some 10 credit cards. Lara Briehl had a desperate client who was itching to accept an offer. Accepting, he thought, would help him escape crushing debt. The interest rate offered, however, was about 10 […].

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MARCH 22, 2018

UK-based fintech Revolut’s newest product is a “disposable” virtual card, a product that was designed with fraud protection in mind, the fintech announced today. The card, which sits inside Revolut’s mobile app, wipes a user’s details and resets them after every payment.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – With its first credit card out today, New York fintech Petal aims to serve the “credit invisible,” according to its CEO and co-founder Jason Gross, by granting credit cards sans credit score. Instead of focusing on credit scores, Petal looks at an applicant’s financial behavior.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Virtual credit cards are one of the more flexible electronic payment methods available, and the world continues its steady march toward greater digital payment use. Virtual cards can improve accounts payable (AP) processes, benefiting both buyers and suppliers by streamlining day-to-day payments, and providing greater control over cash flows.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Most fintech companies are fine, but they’ve stopped blowing off econ class for mimosa brunches. Especially in fintech, which had the roughest semester last spring. 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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

Business-to-Business FinTech-as-a-Service (FaaS) startup Rapyd has notched $300 million in a Series D funding round led by Coatue and including both new and existing investors. The London-headquartered FinTech is striving to enable businesses across the globe to quickly onboard and start tapping the platform’s full capabilities.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

FinTech SumUp is launching its first card for business payments, in partnership with Mastercard , SumUp announced in a blog post on Tuesday (Feb. The new SumUp Card will enable merchants to quickly access money and monitor finances while making necessary business payments. The card will also help U.K. Aside from the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

B2B transactions are increasingly shaking free of paper-based methods as companies have moved operations online this year. Tools like virtual cards are now drawing interest as businesses look for transaction methods that can deliver more speed, cost savings and transparency. IBM Payments On The Future Of Virtual Cards.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

The startup Flutterwave , which picked up $35 million last year in venture funding, has launched an online portal that will enable African businesses to set up online shops. The company told TechCrunch that its newly launched product, called Flutterwave Store, is not a shift away from the company’s core online payments business.

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PYMNTS

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. We’ve heard that a hundred times.”. Or consider Sears.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

European FinTech payments company myPOS , which works in offering affordable payments to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has new credit cards that it says will help SMBs in Europe access new benefits, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Cannabis software and delivery firm Blackbird is working with FinTech AeroPay to bring cashless payments to the cannabis industry, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. Blackbird customers will have access to an online pre-pay option for ordering items for delivery or curbside pickup.

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