PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Blockchain is increasingly being separated from cryptocurrency, with an eye toward disparate use cases — some done at the national level. As reported this past week in the Cleveland Scene , one of Cleveland’s largest blockchain firms, Votem , shuttered doors abruptly amid a lack of funding.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester said in a speech this week that a digital dollar could conceivably be a form of money transfer that would enable the Fed to disburse money to all individuals in America. Notably, China’s central bank is already developing and testing a national digital currency in the Asian nation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

In the Midwest, the new banks reportedly include the Educational Community Alliance Credit Union in Ohio, the MidAmerica National Bank in Illinois, the Republic Bank of Chicago in Illinois and the State Bank of Waterloo in Illinois. The system lets clients make in-store or online purchases through the mobile app.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

First National Bank of Milaca. Greater Cleveland Community Credit Union. Lamar National Bank. The system lets customers make online or in-store payments, all using the mobile app. First Bank of Boaz. First Central Credit Union. Grand Savings Bank. Greenleaf Wayside Bank. Hatboro Federal Savings, FA. Iowa Falls State Bank.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 9, 2014

KeyBank , based in Cleveland, announced at Open World that it intends to use non-core systems components of Oracle Banking Platform (“OBP”) to enhance and modernize its mobile and online channels. National Australia Bank’s new entity, UBank , is a digital-only bank that NAB created as part of its bank transformation using OBP.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Over the first half of 2014, these banks, with an approval rate of just under 60 percent, beat out large national banks (31 percent), large regional banks (45 percent) and online lenders (38 percent). Its goal was to capture the perspectives of small businesses with less than 500 employees across ten states.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales continue to increase year over year — while some project online holiday sales at $98 billion, new estimates from the National Retail Foundation project that this year’s online holiday sales could reach $117 billion. That’s where CardinalCommerce comes in.

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