Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

While large consumer-facing fintech companies like Square, Klarna, Affirm and others tout speed and efficiency of their user experiences, card issuing and processing startup Marqeta‘s technology supports their payment capabilities, with its APIs allowing […].

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PYMNTS

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

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Among the biggest debates is how to construct and operate the best card program possible – a decision that served as the foundation for a new PYMNTS interview with Jim Geeslin, head of strategy for Elan Financial Services , an agent credit card issuer. Do FIs want to navigate card programs through that?”. Near-Term Challenges.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

The traditional strategy of handing an employee a corporate card, hoping they make responsible purchases and depending on accurate expense reports has evolved into a market that embraces automation, artificial intelligence, mobility and an array of card products, from P-cards to virtual numbers.

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PYMNTS

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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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

To move forward, financial institutions are going to have to take a closer look at the user experience, Eric Hazard, CEO for fintech venture capital […]. EXCLUSIVE— With the help of APIs and other technologies, U.S. banks are mastering the use and sharing of data, but the next challenge is going to be even more technical.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Though commercial card innovation has recently hit an acceleration point, there is still plenty of room for progress. Power took one key friction point of the small business (SMB) credit card market to task. “Basics like credit card terms, and benefits and services, are the lowest-scoring factors in our study.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

Collaborating with FinTechs means FIs can create innovative tools and consumer-facing features, but it also throws the established banking world into flux. They are [already] being challenged by a lot of the FinTechs and the larger technology companies.”. Open Banking and the Customer Service Shift. SCA and the Future of Banking.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

This strategic collaboration will strengthen and extend our cloud services and capabilities for clients and FinTech partners, sparking innovation and creativity for the ecosystem,” said Ken Moore , a Mastercard executive vice president, in a statement. .

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The Paypers

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Lithuania-based cryptocurrency exchange WhiteBIT has partnered with fintech platform Checkout.com to improve user experience when topping and withdrawing money.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

based FinTech specializing in facilitating payments for small business accountancy firms, is partnering with BIN (bank account identification number) sponsor Moorwand to further streamline the payments experience for accountants and bookkeepers. We’re excited to be a part of bringing a better user experience to an underserved market.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

And as FinTechs continue to challenge banks, but also offer new opportunities within the B2B space, they’re advancing a corollary to the build vs. buy question: How about partnerships? Drilling down a bit into those innovation efforts, he said, FinTechs and software companies, in general, are trying to become payment companies.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Banks, FinTechs and small business solution providers have rallied around the effort to ease the digitization transition. Nikita Melnikovs , member of the board at card payments technology company DECTA , told PYMNTS in a recent interview that for many SMBs, the most obvious first step to the online migration may not actually be the best one.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

According to the company, one of the reasons for PayDirect’s development is the clunky state of the customer journey associated with card-based payments and the resulting low conversion. PayDirect is higher-converting, primarily because it just has a much better UX (user experience) than online card payments or bank transfers,” he explained.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

LendingClub makes unsecured personal loans to consumers, mostly to consolidate and pay off credit card debt and more recently to refinance auto loans. Tech and a great user experience alone didn’t turn out to be a great way to sidestep the merits of using good, old-fashioned credit, risk and lending models to do it.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

Though there has been an increasing spirit of cooperation between FinTechs and traditional FIs, there’s still a lot of ground to cover. To modernize payments and the user experience, Davis said it is critical to consolidate processes and data aggregation. Davis told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

European FinTech Revolut, which recently debuted in the U.S. with an app and debit card, is expanding its range of services into the realm of cryptocurrency trading with a big assist from Paxos. Paxos will hold crypto assets for Revolut’s users in the U.S., In a Wednesday (July 15) press release, Paxos Trust Co.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

billion: Amount of money FinTechs raised globally in 2018, according to Visa’s figures. 52 percent: Share of FIs that will concentrate on user experience over the next three years. 30 percent: Share of American consumers who report having used Mobile Card Services.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Instant collections from bank accounts via open banking rails provides a significantly lower cost alternative to cards for eCommerce merchants, as an example, and hence merchants can use incentive options at their disposal as one way to promote user adoption. API Aggregation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

It enables FinTechs and app providers easy access to approved consumer data to deliver financial products and services, Galileo said. Last month, Galileo launched what it called a faster and less expensive way to create debit cards. Dubbed Galileo Instant, it allows businesses to introduce debit card programs in as early as two weeks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This new software expands the user experience and expands digital capabilities of ATMs,” said Frank Hauck , president and general manager, NCR Corporation , in a statement. “In NCR says its new, next-generation ATM also offers contactless card support, an increasingly important service amid ongoing concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Visa and Natixis Payments have launched Xpollens, a complete white label “Payments in a Box” service for retailers, corporations and Fintechs. Xpollens helps organizations integrate the whole range of payment services, from cards to instant payments, according to a press release. However, offering new payments services is complex.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

One thing holds true for the changing scop of payments and FinTech: Businesses and consumers alike need to prepare for the continued, swift shift to mobile. This includes prioritizing a truly seamless experience and choices like in-store pickup, curbside delivery and expedited shipping at no additional cost. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

Small businesses, particularly those launched by younger entrepreneurs, are often assumed to be a key driver of B2B FinTech innovation as business owners seek sophisticated, automated technologies to run their businesses. One of the biggest lessons would perhaps come as a surprise to many in the SMB FinTech space.

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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. And according to Ronny Yakov , CEO of The OLB Group , QuickBooks is often an ideal place to start.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

They’ve gotten used to what Shields termed “ease of use and delightful user experience” — being able to find and buy what they want using any number of payments options. Those partnerships also can open up opportunities for FinTechs, said Shields. A bank cannot do everything,” she said. Forging Partnerships With FIs .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Mastercard is collaborating with four eCommerce retailers — WHSmith.co.uk, Funky Pigeon, Cult Pens and The Card Gallery — to offer the Pay by Bank app to online shoppers, Mastercard announced in a press release on Friday (Oct. ’s Faster Payments service to give users the option of paying for goods with their bank account.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

The initial beta APIs on offer will help those within the Visa ecosystem to create digital cards on demand and add digital services. Essentially, he noted, providers can come to the platform to build out the end-user experiences they desire.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

Silicon Valley payments FinTech Brex opened its first international office, a technology hub in Vancouver, Canada with a 40-person workforce, the company announced on Tuesday (March 3). The new hub will target software engineering and user experience processes. It has also launched a corporate credit card for startup companies.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

corporate expense management solutions provider Fraedom , which was recently acquired by Visa , will be providing its commercial card technology to U.S.-based “Our new suite of commercial card services will enable them to achieve enhanced operational efficiencies and help ease customers’ day-to-day needs.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As the open banking business model permeates into the B2B financial services market, FinTechs and traditional financial institutions continue to find new use cases for API integrations and connectivity to elevate the business-user experience. In the latest demonstration of FinTech-to-FinTech integration, U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

may be the world’s hotbed for challenger banks, but it’s not the only market witnessing a surge in bank competition and industry evolution as a result of FinTech pressure. In small business banking, the friction points that threaten the user experience are quite similar in Latin America to the friction faced in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

“I am very excited to unveil our new brand, which captures our ambition and capability as both FinTech and travel tech specialists. “A seamless user experience in all digital channels is vital,” said Stephane Druet, head of marketing and product strategy at CellPoint Digital.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

In a statement, Triumph Business Capital President and CEO Steve Hausman said the trucking and fleet industry is in need of a FinTech boost. “Online FinTech lenders have raised service-level expectations, even in trucking,” he said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

After all, an ACH and a check are the same thing, operationally – minus the inconvenient, inefficient paper or the fees associated with using cards. Harris said the jump to ACH payments that Dwolla specializes in has the advantage of being familiar to companies. That’s setting up 2021 to be pretty exciting for all, noted Harris. “I

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2017

Zeta, the FinTech startup that offers digital employee benefits for tax optimization, announced Tuesday (April 11) has inked a deal with National Payments Corporation of India’s (NPCI) payment platform, RuPay. We are happy to extend RuPay card platform for salaried individuals across sectors through Zeta.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

“This collaboration with Alibaba.com will greatly benefit Qupital and our customers, especially as a new, fast-growing FinTech company,” added Qupital Founder Winston Wong. As a result, our clients can expect a seamless user experience that leads them to more efficient day-to-day operations.”.

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