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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

21) a collaboration to help FinTechs and other financial-affiliated businesses with fast issuing of debit cards and bank accounts for customers, without expensive startup fees or long-term contracts. FinTechs, for example, can leverage the new initiative to create debit cards and bank accounts more easily.

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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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Bank Innovation

MARCH 19, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— Most consumers in the United States stubbornly cling to their plastic payments, even as customers in other countries — see China — increasingly embrace at a steady rate mobile and other digital forms of payment. This could be due to the fact that, as many in fintech have stated, the card infrastructure in the.Read More.

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JULY 26, 2019

A Japanese FinTech company is applying for a banking charter in the United States, according to a report by American Banker. The eCommerce firm Rakuten currently runs a shopper rewards program in the States, and said would file the necessary paperwork on Friday (July 26) with Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, British FinTech GoCardless has landed $95 million in a Series F funding round, while Australian buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Openpay has officially launched in the U.S. UK FinTech GoCardless Raises $95 Million Led By Bain. BNPL Provider Openpay Launches In US.

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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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Perficient

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A biometric payment is a point-of-sale technology that authenticates payments by pairing a payment card with a physical identifier of the cardholder. Both Visa and Mastercard rolled out pilot biometric payment cards in 2022. To use this offering, cardholders enrolled a fingerprint to have securely stored on their card.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The credit card partnership market is off to an aggressive start in 2019, given issuers’ robust activity in the first half to try to fuel new growth amidst a leveling-off in receivables. Already, 10 new credit card programs launched in the second quarter of 2019 (Figure 1), compared to the 16 launched in 2018, based on our analysis.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Understanding the preferred, locally sourced alternative payment methods (APMs) can make or break a merchant’s eCommerce initiative, and credit cards do not always pass muster. -based firm looking to do business in those far-flung markets. To that end, PPRO Group , which focuses on cross-border ePayments, has opened an Atlanta-based office.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, BlockCard is teaming with peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful for a new crypto debit card, while the Federal Reserve Board has modified the terms of its Main Street Lending Program (MSLP). Ternio’s BlockCard Teams With P2P Bitcoin Marketplace Paxful for Crypto Debit Card.

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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. And they don't have ATMs, don’t issue debit cards and offer very limited services beyond being places for consumers to interact with a cashier to deposit or withdraw funds at a counter.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

In addition, Central JD Fintech is introducing the Dolfin wallet in Asia , and AMS Public Transport Holdings Limited along with AlipayHK is launching a minibus mobile payment system also in Asia. Coverage includes the roll out of a new payment solution from Canada ’s Lightspeed.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Following a formidable start for its “ buy now, pay later ” service in the United States, Klarna intends to roll out in Australia and other markets next year. The course has been popular with millennials who have a preference for debit cards over credit cards. But there’s also other things like, where’s my package?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

Plutus , a British FinTech startup, is providing rewards via its credit card to customers who buy from the eCommerce store of Nike , Cointelegraph reported. Users have to utilize the Plutus Visa card as they shop through the web to get the benefit. The rewards are made with Pluton, the native digital currency of the company.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Square , the FinTech payments company headed by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, announced on Thursday (Oct. Square was founded in 2009 in Silicon Valley and has offices in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Ireland, Spain, and the U.K. Square said the pandemic has triggered a move to card payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Also last week , Wirecard Card Solutions Ltd. operations to Railsbank , the London-based FinTech. The agreement includes the company’s card technology, clients and assets. A Deutsche Bank spokesman declined to comment. announced plans to sell its U.K. Financial terms were not disclosed. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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APRIL 28, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) are now working to extend services into customers’ homes, for example, and consumers are making fewer credit card payments amid uncertainty over what their employment statuses and budgets might be when the bills come due. The Paytm cards can be used both in-store and online. Around the Next-Gen Debit World.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The favored narrative about banks and FinTech startups is generally not a love story. Whereas FinTechs are undoubtedly newer and faster – risen from the digital age to put banks out of business – they aren’t always able to take deposits or keep some of those associated warranties. Usually, it is more of an all-out war story.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Daylight is just the latest member of Visa’s Fast Track program, an initiative that provides FinTechs looking to get off the ground with a bank sponsor and external payments processor. These firms need to find a bank sponsor,” Angelos said of the FinTechs in Visa’s Fast Track program. They need to get an external processor.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Canaan, for its part, put forward its inaugural earnings report after going public last November in the United States. In other news, bitcoin shopping app Fold has become a part of Visa’s FinTech Fast Track program, which will accelerate its integration with the payments firm, per an announcement. The company said it had $114.7

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

Visa has signed a deal to purchase FinTech firm Plaid for $5.3 Plaid uses a unified application programming interface (API) to link FinTech apps with people’s bank accounts. Plaid uses a unified application programming interface (API) to link FinTech apps with people’s bank accounts. billion, according to a report.

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JUNE 25, 2020

The New York-based financial technology company has teamed with BMO Harris Bank to deliver integrated, automated processing for its corporate card customers. Boost said its focus on B2B payments positions it to serve BMO Harris Bank’s corporate card clients with technologies and programs that helps grow spending.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

11 to set up a bank card clearing business, providing it with access to a $27 trillion payments market. The People’s Bank of China said it has approved an application by Mastercard’s Chinese joint venture to run a bank card clearing business in the nation. Wells Fargo CEO Reorganizes Business Units.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The November Smarter Payments Tracker® examines how FIs and FinTechs are innovating to deliver more compelling cross-border and international banking offerings. It also looks at the role of Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) solutions in powering FIs’ and FinTechs’ efforts to cater to expatriates and immigrant workers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Many consumers in the United States were confident in their financial stability at the end of 2019, but this came to an abrupt halt by the end of 2020’s first quarter when COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. We surveyed 3,098 consumers, 100 CU decision-makers and 50 FinTech executives from across the U.S. Moreover, 89.4

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 23, 2018

I am pleased to announce that Chris Ford, an attorney who has led some of the country’s largest and most innovative Fintech and payment systems transactions, has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group. He will be based in the firm’s Washington, D.C.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

We have deep dives into virtual card adoption and self-service technology, as well as a report on Kobe Bryant’s legacy. Bank Is Doing to Drive Virtual Card Adoption. Accounts payable (AP) professionals and vendors still have reservations about adopting virtual cards despite their many benefits.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 7, 2023

In mid-May, a digital bank account for the 62+ crowd debuted in the United States. As the researchers at the Financial Health Network in a 2020 report put it: “As our aging population grows and financial challenges continually evolve, so too will the need for inclusive fintech solutions. Well, it happened.

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JUNE 9, 2020

The FinTech announced on Tuesday (June 9) that it is rolling out Vibe , a rewards program that enables customers to collect points that can be redeemed later for everything from their favorite latte at Starbucks to cosmetics and skincare products at Sephora.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Just this week, Finovate host Greg Palmer surveyed the event’s audience on what the biggest challenges of digital transformation projects were for incumbents, according to Fintech Futures. In doing so, Bank of New Hampshire is leading a trend in the United States on an important issue. The results? THAT IS WILD.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

Developers can literally come in, sign up and start building a card product,” said Gardner. The typical way of building a card product, by going to a bank and leveraging that bank’s platform, need no longer be the norm. Those modern companies, he said, want to build on top of modern platforms.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Brazil is now Uber’s largest market outside the United States, with São Paulo boasting more Uber rides than any other city in the world. In July, Uber partnered with Mastercard and financial institution BBVA to offer a debit card to drivers in Mexico to promote banking in what is mostly a cash country.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

That raises several questions for financial institutions (FIs), FinTech firms and payment service providers as they figure out how to best navigate this changing world. Legacy payment providers are looking for ways to innovate in the ways that [FinTech firms] do, and to avoid duplicative costs.”. Recent Trends. Basic Question.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Something particularly notable in the emergence of FinTech platforms all over the world, Matt Dill, Visa’ s Global Head of Strategic Partnerships and Venture told Karen Webster when they discussed the worldwide launch of Visa Partner. 30), the card network announced just such a FinTech partnership. So today (Sept.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

Payments are an omnipresent part of life for corporates and consumers alike, with the United States seeing 174.2 are made with cash , for example, and 63 percent of consumers have at least two credit cards. are made with cash , for example, and 63 percent of consumers have at least two credit cards. trillion in 2018.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

Today the United States celebrates Independence Day, with cookouts and fireworks and no dearth of parades. But across the Pond – regardless of the initial claims last week that Britain had occasioned its own Independence Day via the Brexit vote — for FinTech, freedom is just another word for lots and lots left to lose.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In today’s top news, Billtrust and South Mountain Merger Corporation have entered into a “definitive business combination agreement,” while Paya became the latest FinTech to join the ranks of publicly traded companies. Plus, i2C has become part of Visa’s FinTech Fast Track program. i2c Joins Visa's FinTech Fast Track Program.

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