PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

It’s really difficult, the banking ecosystem is not fast and that’s just reality,” Jim McCarthy, industry expert and former innovation head for Visa, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. The Headwinds Creating The Innovations Gap . According to the latest edition of the Innovation Readiness report, only 22.3

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

A transformation toward contactless payments is underway at the nation’s credit unions as the public shuns cash and even physical cards to lower infection risks with COVID-19. It will likely alter global markets and regulations as the financial ecosystem becomes more digitized. The High Stakes Of Offering Contactless.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

Open banking regulations across Europe kicked open the door for a wave of FinTech competition, with consumer-facing personal finance management (PFM) right in the crosshairs of innovators’ efforts. “People were not believing in open banking so much as a big evolution. Optimizing Business Lending.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Payments is in a state of constant change, with decision points shifting as fast as each innovation, disruption and tweak in consumer behavior. Financial institutions (FIs) face the issue of whether to outsource their credit card programs or do it themselves – a decision that will maintain its importance in the coming new decade.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

For several years, while state-level legalization has expanded, access to traditional banks remains an issue thanks to their status as federally regulated entities. It’s why, said Muller, payment innovators in the cannabis market must keep a macro view while targeting micro use-cases and user populations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

“Mastercard’s Vocalink business is a demonstrated leader in the real-time payments ecosystem, and they will be a valuable partner for Payments Canada in the introduction and ongoing operation of Canada’s real-time payments system,” Tracey Black , president and chief executive officer of Payments Canada, said in a statement on Thursday (Nov.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, with all innovation comes great responsibility, especially when it comes to safeguarding those new products against fraud. It is no secret that the significant increase in fraud is one of the biggest concerns financial institutions face today. However, AML investigators identify many fraudulent transactions and patterns.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Compliance with oversight laws, especially those involving anti-money laundering (AML) or know-your-customer (KYC) regulations, is a perennial struggle for FIs of all sizes. Most customers bypass dealing with merchants entirely when trying to stage chargeback fraud, with 76 percent of cardholders going directly to the payment card issuer.

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Last month, Canada’s Competition Bureau released its final study on tech-led innovation in FinTech, offering regulators some thoughts on competition in the payments sphere, along with suggestions on where the competitive landscape could be improved. If Starbucks goes under, the individual has lost the $20 they have put on the card.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

B2B payments have a reputation for being slow to innovate , though the last couple years has challenged that notoriety. Still, according to the latest Mercator Advisory Group report on FinTech disruption, B2B payments will have to wait a bit longer to see true change from these innovations. Regulation Throws FinTech Off-Guard.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The credit bureaus were included in the CFPB’s scope of oversight in 2012, and she’s asked the agency to let her know what additional power it might need to better regulate the credit reporting agencies going forward. The credit score itself, the FICO score, was an innovation brought to market in 1989 by the Fair Isaac Corporation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Faster, faster, faster — that’s the motto driving so much of payments innovation today. As Nanu told it, the ongoing spread of faster payments can serve to not only build a stronger commerce and payments ecosystem for Asia and elsewhere, but make credit cards less important to the further growth of the world’s digital economy.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

The surge in gig workers and independent contractors has professionals, service providers and regulators engaged in new debates about what it means to be an employee or a small business. ACH Innovation Breaks The Mold. One of the biggest barriers to payroll innovation in recent decades has been the process’s reliance on ACH.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 8, 2018

Card provider Visa has dropped WaveCrest, a company that issued cryptocurrency-linked debit cards, from its network. WaveCrest, which granted physical debit cards linked to cryptocurrency wallets to its users in Europe, violated Visa’s operating regulations, according to a statement the company gave to CNBC last week.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their labs. Decomposers are the ecosystem wild card. Decomposer for innovator large or small, established or emerging. An Ecosystem By Any Other Name. Consumer for the end user.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Legal marijuana may have a massive payments problem, but that’s not stopping retail innovation in perhaps the newest area of legitimate commerce in the U.S. No one would ever mistake a marijuana dispensary for a food truck, but that is what one shop in Reno, Nevada calls itself when charging customers’ credit cards. and Canada.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 13, 2024

The major themes of fraud, artificial intelligence (AI), expansion of instant payments, open banking, and regulation were particularly relevant to your roles as executives, risk managers, compliance officers, and technology leaders. More states require greater disclosure and control over what banks and card processors can charge.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2017

The B2B payments industry is finally beginning to hustle when it comes to technological innovation. And as traditional financial institutions (FI) begin to recognize the value of collaborating with FinTechs, these banks can similarly shake their reputation for being innovation laggards and promote B2B payments progress while they’re at it. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The deal will see Paynetics work with corporate customers, who have previously relied on Wirecard for card issuing and payment services, to adopt Paynetics for the continuation of their existing card programs,” the announcement states. Terms were not disclosed in the announcement. and European markets.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Mastercard Intros Mobilized Virtual Cards; Defines Intersection Between Functionality And Security. The virtual card offers a strong value proposition for corporates in the form of enhanced security and control over spend. But without support for mobile wallets, v-card adoption can lag. Top Trackers And Reports.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar. Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Visa: Chip Cards Reduce Counterfeit Fraud By 87 Pct. Trackers and Reports.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 7, 2021

The CFPB has issued an approval order through its Compliance Assistance Sandbox Policy (CAS Policy) to Synchrony Bank in connection with a proposed “dual-feature” credit card (DFCC) program. The order has a 36-month duration. Once unsecured, the DFCC’s APR would be higher than the APR it had when secured.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

urged antitrust regulators to act fast in enforcement toward Google. The funding is being earmarked to launch credit cards-as-a-service in the U.S. as well as 21 European Union (EU) countries — sent a letter to antitrust regulators asking that they throw the book at Google as fast as possible.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. The network would run on a card issued by Barclays U.S.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

The volatility of cryptocurrencies and their existence in what’s often a grey area of regulatory compliance make businesses operating in this sector an unattractive target for traditional financial institutions. ius noted, this is often because the heart of the cryptocurrency industry is often at odds with the nuances of regulation.

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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 in co-brand Credit Cards in force compared to the previous year. 215 Crore in FY24.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Never mind the people who start rummaging around in their purse or wallet to pull out their cards after stepping up to the checkout counter. Yes, I know that for many of you, especially in California, this is old news and standard operating procedure – but hear me out. And then regulators are forced to backtrack. is nothing new.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). He added that Revolut strives to be “the best in class for customer experience, value and capabilities” and offer a full range of services from deposit accounts and overdraft protection to loans and credit cards. 11) that having a U.K.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

As a general rule, most startups aren’t too happy when the regulator comes around, and it is rarely indicative of good news. These days, however, Uber is spending its time, increasingly, in court and has even managed to allow things to break down completely in Austin such that it doesn’t operate there anymore.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

18), a San Francisco startup launched by sending roughly 60,000 credit cards to consumers living in northern California. This startup was a bank, and its innovation was a single card that could be used by consumers to purchase things on credit from many different merchants. Sixty years ago today (Sept. Today, Visa counts 3.3

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

These legislative initiatives are why Latin America, a market not necessarily known for its FinTech innovation, has one of the strongest penetrations of eInvoicing in the world. The fact that there are no regulations that require them to do so means it pushes eInvoicing lower on the to-do list,” King told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

What has shifted most during the pandemic are consumers’ views on the data privacy and online security standards attached to these digital transactions, Oren Paran , managing director for Israeli retail startup firm Retail Innovation Club , explained in an interview with PYMNTS. under the GDPR. Joining the Global Open Banking Push.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Now we have a couple of dozen neobanks doing the same thing, calling a prepaid card a neo bank account,” he said, warning that in the same way that subtleties between prepaid and debit were misunderstood, so are the nuances between debit and credit. But while some might think the mobile banking innovation trend is a U.S.-dominated

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

But in the alcohol beverage arena, unique regulations — many of which date back to the era of prohibition — have added an extra layer of complexity to the supply chain. The alcohol beverage industry has some unique regulations dictating how B2B payments are made between a retailer and a distributor. Navigating B2B Payments Compliance.

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