PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

In fact, they make the timing of their product rollouts a crucial part of their innovation strategies. Only after observing their competitors’ missteps do they fully commit to the rollout of their innovations. percent of the top innovators in the financial sector said they observe market trends first. As much as 53.3

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Credit unions of various sizes were eager to roll out credit card innovation plans before the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset. These expectations also drove CU executives’ innovation agendas, with 91 percent voicing serious interest in developing card product innovations. Credit Innovation Planning Reset .

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 9, 2020

Upgrade customers can now order a credit card with a chip that enables contactless transactions, said Renaud Laplanche, co-founder and CEO of Upgrade. Customers can hover their cards over […].

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BankInovation

JUNE 23, 2020

made another push away from traditional card payments with an $825 million deal to acquire technology firm Finicity. Mastercard Inc. The purchase gives Mastercard more tools that help banks speed up credit decisions or improve account verification processes, using Finicity technology that lets companies share consumers’ financial data.

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BankInovation

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Wells Fargo is exploring new technology in the corporate credit card and legal servicing space.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2020

Brex, a corporate card and financial product startup aimed at businesses, plans to broaden its product ecosystem beyond bank accounts and cards.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 15, 2020

card companies just moved a step closer to gaining access to China’s $27 trillion payments market. The biggest U.S. China said it won’t take longer than 90 days to consider applications from providers of electronic-payments services such as Mastercard, Visa and American Express Co.,

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

won approval to set up a bank card clearing business in China, gaining access to a $27 trillion payments market as part of the nation’s financial opening. Mastercard Inc.

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Payments Source

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Transit systems want to use contactless and open payment systems to address ridership declines, an innovative strategy that nonetheless is riddled with pain points due to how transit has traditionally modernized.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Marqeta, the card issuing and processing startup supporting the capabilities of large companies like Kabbage and Square, sees 2020 as a big year for payments companies branching out into banking. If 2019 was the year of the challenger bank, 2020 will be the year payments companies move closer to bank territory.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 12, 2020

Splitit, a payments company that divides purchases into installments on customers’ existing cards, announced a partnership with Visa last week.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Following a recent backlash resulting from allegedly discriminatory underwriting methods for the Apple Card, lenders’ moves are facing scrutiny from regulators. Albert Chang, counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau‘s innovation office, said […].

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 12, 2019

On the heels of a $200 million debt capital raise confirmed this week, corporate card and financial product startup Brex plans to ramp up its product offerings for e-commerce entrepreneurs. The company currently offers credit cards for e-commerce companies, a product that was first launched in February.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Retailers, too, had to respond and revise their checkout experiences when fears over the new coronavirus lingering on surfaces led to consumers becoming reluctant to exchange cash with store clerks or insert payment cards into point-of-sale (POS) terminals.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 6, 2020

Marqeta, a card issuing and processing startup, is partnering with installment lender Afterpay to provide payments solutions for merchants in North America. Australia-based Afterpay operates in several countries, including the U.S., and allows merchants to give shoppers a digital layaway option through installment payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

“If you look at checks, ACH, wires or card-based payments, we in the industry were heavily focused on delivering solutions for the buy-side, which I think is critical,” Phalen explained. But just as importantly, we have to solve for the supply-side as well.”. Payment Rails Converging. Rethinking the Infrastructure.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

card startup Curve opened a New York City office in advance of its U.S. Welcome to the latest episode of our Weekly Wrap series, for the week ending Friday, Feb. In this episode, editors discuss the following news developments: The implications of banking startup Varo’s FDIC approval; How U.K. launch; and Wells Fargo’s […].

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The Financial Brand

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Leading traditional credit card issuer crosses the line into merchant-supported buy now, pay later lending. The post Card-Issuing Bank Takes on Fintechs with Its Own BNPL Plan appeared first on The Financial Brand - Banking Trends, Analysis & Insights.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 6, 2020

Marqeta, a card issuing and processing startup, is partnering with installment lender Afterpay to provide payments solutions for merchants in North America. Australia-based Afterpay operates in several countries, including the U.S., and allows merchants to give shoppers a digital layaway option through installment payments.

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The Financial Brand

JUNE 29, 2021

The post Walmart & Green Dot Turning Pre-Paid Cards into Checking Accounts appeared first on The Financial Brand - Banking Trends, Analysis & Insights. Anticipation about the mega-retailer's banking ambitions stokes fears, but the evolving role of hybrid fintech/neobank Green Dot is key.

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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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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Corporate card and financial product startup Brex is best known as an enabling platform for businesses, with a focus on startups. The three-year-old company, which is reportedly valued at $2.6 billion, initially spread the word about its offerings through word-of-mouth referrals. But that’s quickly changing.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 25, 2019

Card issuing and processing startup Marqeta may not have picked the sexiest part of the payments ecosystem to disrupt, but it’s looking to catch the same wave as challenger banks and fintech lenders that are raking in funds by the hundreds of millions as they expand into new geographies. Marqeta uses open APIs to allow […].

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Brex, a corporate card and financial product startup aimed at businesses, has raised $615 million in combined equity and debt since its founding in 2017.

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Cisco

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Venmo solved a problem of an individual wanting to pay another individual (or even small business) without having to use cash, check or even debit/credit card. Venmo, just like Google, has become a proper noun AND a verb. Open banking made this possible.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

The July/August Credit Union Tracker looks at how the credit union market is pushing back against regulation and pursuing new innovation strategies, how regulatory changes are creating opportunities for credit unions to expand into new markets, and how one credit union is stepping up to assist members displaced by a natural disaster.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 24, 2020

Brex, a corporate card and financial product startup that has raised $315 million in equity and reached a reported valuation of $2.6 billion since its 2017 founding, is optimistic about venture capital funding for tech companies, despite current market volatility.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

“We do not think in a traditional sense that one bank account equals one user equals one card. This is similar to the card aggregation solutions that fellow FinTech Curve offers. Rather, we think you as a user can have as many bank accounts as you want so you can budget easily and keep a good overview.”.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 8, 2019

Japanese mobile payments app Kyash is making a play for consumer wallets with a Venmo-style digital and physical debit card that handles merchant paym.

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The Financial Brand

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The post Gen Z, Millennials and COVID Fueling Rise in Hybrid Credit Card Alternatives appeared first on The Financial Brand. It's both a payment and lending challenge — banks must match fintechs' point of sale 'buy now, pay later' service or they'll lose share.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

PYMNTS’ Credit Union Innovation Playbook found that nearly 50 percent of the 2,000 CU members polled said they want their financial institutions (FIs) to focus on loyalty innovations, such as rewards offerings, in-app coupons and card-based cash back programs. percent supported having their CUs innovate and 17.3

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Bank Innovation

JULY 11, 2019

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BankInovation

AUGUST 11, 2020

The credit-card giant is in advanced talks to buy Kabbage Inc., provider of credit cards to those […]. American Express Co.’s s small-business aspirations just took another step forward. a person familiar with the matter said, a deal that would make AmEx a bigger lender to mom and pop shops.

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BankInovation

JULY 14, 2020

The Afterpay card — and what we’re bringing to the market — is a virtual, contactless Visa card that is stored either in customers’ Apple […]. The Australian point-of-sale lending company, which launched online in the U.S. in 2018, announced the expansion into physical stores today.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

Challenger banks are beginning to offer more robust suites of services beyond the mobile apps and prepaid cards with which they started. Legacy Banks and the Innovation Game. Such institutions are working to raise the necessary capital to expand their products and customer bases as they enter new markets.

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BankInovation

JULY 23, 2020

Capital One is leaning into its technology investments and digital roadmap as it looks to rebound from the economic disruption of COVID-19 amid declines in revenue across its credit cards and commercial and consumer banking lines.

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BankInovation

MAY 27, 2020

Pasadena-based Green Dot, founded in 1999, has made money from reloadable prepaid cards for years, but with a growing number of companies offering financial products for underbanked consumers, Green Dot is trying […].

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