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JANUARY 26, 2021

Visa has debuted a new global partnership with TransferWise after working together on the new Visa Cloud Connect program, allowing FinTechs a new way to securely connect with the cloud, according to an emailed press release Wednesday (Jan. The secure connection will help do away with costly local connections. the release said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Cequence Security. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California. Contrast Security.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

With the acquisition, Visa hopes to boost its 'network of networks' strategy, reducing the time to market and costs for issuers and processors who need to access innovative operating solutions, the release says.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Innovation is both genesis and lifeblood for companies, especially within the payments space. PYMNTS: How would you define Applause’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: How would you define Applause’s approach to innovation? Our approach to innovation is two-fold. Innovation is only valuable if it’s usable.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2020

Credit card giant Visa has filed an application for a U.S. 100 for User A in America, 200 pesos for User B in Mexico and so forth) in order to perform transactions in a secure, fast and reliable way.”. A central entity may maintain exclusive rights to create or destroy currency in a region such as a nation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

Visa and Wirecard are collaborating on a digital fleet card program, the companies revealed in an announcement on Thursday (June 21). The solution will be available to businesses across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa before rollout in other geographic regions. This is costly and time-consuming.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Coverage includes the launch of Wirecard and Ctrip ’s multi-currency Visa cards for customers in China. Digital financial technology company Wirecard and online travel agency Ctrip are rolling out multi-currency Visa cards to Ctrip customers in China, Wirecard said in an announcement. In addition, U.K. ”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Our customers increasingly rely on us to provide solutions that help make their systems safer and more secure,” said Johan Gerber, executive vice president, security and cyber innovation, Mastercard. Threat Scan is part of our multi-layered security strategy to secure the payments ecosystem,” said Johan.

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JULY 25, 2017

Bank is offering a new service to corporate card managers in need over overseeing company cards around the world. Bank has launched a single platform through which commercial card managers can manage card programs regardless of where those cards are. Bank issued the corporate card.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

This week’s look at the latest bank-FinTech tie-ups shows Banking-as-a-Service and other FinTech players embracing smaller regional and community banks to elevate small- to medium-sized business (SMBs) and corporate banking offerings. Five Star Bank Taps Corserv Card Tech. Finastra Chosen by Community FI. payment schemes.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

percent of all cards issued globally by the end of 2017 were EMV-enabled. In addition, the number of EMV payment cards in circulation around the world increased by 1 billion over the previous 12 months — to a total of 7.1 Regionally, the EMV chip card adoption rate is highest in Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean (85.7

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2017

Rivals Visa and PayPal have shaken hands over a joint plan to issue debit cards in Europe. Expanding our partnership into Europe provides greater consumer choice and benefits merchants,” said Bill Sheedy, CEO for the Europe region at Visa Inc. “By customers already have access to PayPal debit cards.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

James Anderson , executive vice president of global commercial and B2B solutions at Mastercard, said the idea was to build a new, secure kind of payment rail. and will be available in all regions by the end of next year, the release says. The A2A features are already available in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

With the investment, MatchMove, which is also based in Singapore, will be able to extend its “banking-as-a-service” wallet capability to Shopmatic’s ecosystem spanning over 435,000 eCommerce small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and individual entrepreneurs across the region.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Tomorrow, Nanu said, particularly in light of its new partnership with Visa as part of the FinTech fast-track program in the Asia-Pacific region, the goal will be to not only offer more remittance services, but change the nature of the remittance product and experience. Serving Consumers And Business. The Customer As Issuer.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Payment service provider PayFort , which is based in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, has changed its name to Amazon Payment Services, a letter from Managing Director Omar Soudodi stated, and it will now offer installment payments. In June, PayFort debuted its #StartUpStayUp initiative for Middle Eastern small businesses.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A value card gives VIP guests immediate access to winnings. The card is reloadable and can be used on any service (gaming, hospitality, entertainment and ATMs) at the resort, in brick and mortar retail worldwide, and online. . Going cashless also aids cost-cutting by way of more efficient operations. There are more than 2.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

Cross-border payments platform Currencycloud and Hyundai Card, South Korea’s digital pioneer company, recently announced an exclusive partnership to enable the launch of Korea’s first mobile remittance service provided by a credit company. The service launches soon and will be available through Hyundai Card’s Global Remittance application.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. The pandemic has sped up the digital roadmap for everyone in financial services, providing for more innovation in the last few months than had been seen during several years. Innovating The ATM Beyond Cash. The Flaw In Demonizing Big Tech.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Payments 2016: The Year Of EMV-Enabled Cards. At the transaction level, consumers began to feel like they were more protected from fraud with the introduction of the EMV chip card. Throughout 2016, financial institutions continued to roll out new EMV-enabled cards to their consumers. Worst of Times.

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APRIL 24, 2020

bank technology firm securing $100 million to expand in the region. India’s KarbonCard , a FinTech that offers startups in India and Southeast Asia with corporate card solutions, secured $1 million in new funding from Orios Venture Partners, Whiteboard Capital, and others, according to YourStory reports. KarbonCard.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Payments don’t always have to be just about the cards. The airline industry, like so many other businesses, is coming to realize that consumers are setting the pace when it comes new and preferred payment methods — methods that go beyond traditional credit cards. At least that is the message UATP has been sending recently.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The Interac Debit payment system links cards to both checking and savings accounts and has been used by Canadians for 20-plus years. The solution accounts for 56 percent of all card transactions in Canada. The seven CUs are Access, Affinity, Assiniboine, Innovation, Prospera, Servus and Steinbach.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The move "represents an important strategic move for the future of our businesses, as we continue to evolve and innovate to provide merchants acquirers with future-forward payments solutions," Castles Technology Group CCO Jean-Philippe Niedergang said in the announcement.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Consumers around the globe have moved their purchasing online during the pandemic, and those in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are no exception. The region’s financial institutions (FIs) and merchants have needed to work swiftly to support unprecedented levels of digital payment and shopping growth. under the GDPR.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

UnionPay International CEO Cai Jianbo said his company is developing payment services for the future of the industry, and that the UPI Developer is meant to help partners’ demand for more innovation. UnionPay International has been releasing these products outside of China, in 43 countries and regions away from the mainland.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Since partnering two years ago, Visa and NovoPayment have advanced digital payments across the region. In addition, Visa Token Services was introduced to the region for payouts, peer-to-peer (P2P) payments and B2B money movement. It’s a testament of our proven enablement model and commitment to collaboration.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

While these regulations are aimed at increasing consumer trust by allowing them more transparency, many consumers in the region are still adjusting. These security concerns are also prompting many payment providers and merchants, such as Mastercard , to rethink their approaches to privacy.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

In a region where 80 percent of transactions are still carried out in cash, penetration remained low, and digital payments remained a tough sale. Critical to bringing digital payments into Latin America in general, and into WhatsApp in specific, is they must be secured via tokenization. Learn more: [link] pic.twitter.com/hlzkTJdOF9.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

The conversation happened as digital payments and multi-issuer mobile wallets become more popular, not only for that large, fragmented, highly populated region, but also for other areas of the globe — in some cases, as part of broader financial inclusion trends tied to the rise of mobile commerce and digital payments in less developed markets.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Some national and regional markets are more willing to accept AR than others. Those numbers look pretty different by region. Businesses worldwide cited insufficient ROI, security concerns, lack of budget and lack of knowledge as the top barriers to adopting AR. The global security concern figure is 87 percent.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The integration will help to grow Esker’s order-to-cash (O2C) solution by allowing for secure online payment capabilities around the world. “As As the most innovative player in financial technology, Stripe was the clear choice for us,” said Esker CEO Jean-Michel Bérard. Latin America, Asia and Europe.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2017

Through the partnership , Bluefin’s PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution will be used to help expand the data security for companies utilizing FAC’s payment gateway. PYMNTS: How will the partnership help to expand data security in the market? Here is an excerpt of the conversation. but unlike the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

James Allum, regional head for Payoneer Europe, said in the announcement, “We’re teaming up with ANNA to bring artificial intelligence to the world of international payments and to our customers. Payoneer also forged a partnership with commercial card startup Brex to help facilitate international business payments to contactors.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

Global payment and open banking technology company i2c has teamed up with corporate card provider Archa on a corporate credit program aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Australia, according to a press release. We look forward to helping Archa expand this innovative program to other markets.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Players in the sharing economy must contend with an increasingly complex online payments ecosystem as they move into new regions and attract participants to their platforms. This requires payment innovation that matches both owners’ and renters’ market-specific needs. The sharing economy 2.0

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