PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

FinTech startup Qupital announced that it has closed a $15 million Series A, led by CreditEase FinTech Investment Fund ( CEFIF ). The funding also had participation from Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund and MindWorks Ventures following their initial investments in the company’s seed round.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A company that operates quietly in the background of popular financial apps and platforms is taking steps to become more visible.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

Emailage , the online fraud prevention startup that uses email addresses to assess risk, is expanding its operations in the Canadian market. The company recently brought Julien Phipps onboard as a senior business development director. That’s where companies such as Emailage come in. Emailage can serve various verticals.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

That unit serves thousands of big companies and governments across the globe, managing $4 trillion in flows each day. He has already driven tech innovation at Citigroup, pushing for the creation of Citi Smart Match, a tool created in conjunction with High Radius, one of the bank’s FinTech partners.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

PYMNTS’ Credit Union Innovation Index found that CU members may not prioritize the latest technologies as much as bank and FinTech customers do, but they still value easy-to-use mobile apps and online capabilities. SAFE has been delivering on-demand experiences since 2016, when it launched a targeted marketing function on its mobile app.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

European FinTech Revolut, which recently debuted in the U.S. According to New York-based Paxos, the API-based solution is designed to enable companies to “integrate cryptocurrency buying, selling, holding and sending capabilities into their own applications.”. Paxos will hold crypto assets for Revolut’s users in the U.S.,

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

NovoPayment, an enabler of digital financial services, announced Wednesday (November 28) the expansion of its Developer Hub to include new partner-integrated application protocol interfaces (APIs), enterprise customer functionalities and an enhanced user experience. million end-points.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Financial services application program interface (API) platform FI.SPAN is collaborating with B2B payments company Beanworks to create a corporate payments hub , the companies announced Thursday (Dec. FI.SPAN will integrate third-party FinTech services into the hub, the firms explained, and deploy APIs to facilitate payment processing.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At the same time, digital banks are looking to capitalize on their growing small and medium-sized business (SMB) customer base, with open banking and bank-FinTech collaborations an important part of that strategy. Open banking may seem like an inevitability in any market, but in China, the path to unlocking bank data may be more complicated.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In the fourth quarter, the two companies aim to work with "business and corporate cards, travel cards, fleet cards and procurement cards, among other corporate payment solutions" to aid businesses of varying sizes and sectors to move cashless payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

FinTechs continue to push the envelope to see how far open banking frameworks can go in improving the SMB banking experience, and increasingly, SMB lending is shifting to the center of these collaborative efforts. ’s experience is quickly influencing the way SMB lenders approach open banking in other markets like the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

FinTech Spend has announced it has expanded its Spend Visa Card to Canada where cryptocurrency users can use crypto like a debit card anywhere that Visa is accepted, according to a press release. Users who sign up for the Spend Wallet can load all their crypto into it, and have it directly linked to the Spend Visa Card.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

The level of market volatility hitting the U.S. It also opened the door for a boom of FinTech innovation and a flood of alternative lenders targeting the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) segment. “It’s not the largest market, and there are a lot easier markets to go after,” said Diamond.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

To get a sense of the changing needs and expectations of enterprises, said DeLuca, financial institutions (FIs) should recognize the significant influence that the consumer and retail markets have on corporate treasurers. We’re seeing a lot of demand for intelligent cash flow forecasting,” he remarked. The Use Cases.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Entersekt , the push-based authentication and mobile app security company, announced that it has appointed FinTech veteran Christian Ali as its country manager of Canada. The news comes as Entersekt continues its expansion into the United States and Canadian markets.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

However, banks — as unhip as they might seem — have an advantage for which all companies strive: trust. Banks and [FinTech firms] have been looking for secure ways to bring the convenience and user experience that people love about apps into the world of financial services. Customer Relationships.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Atlanta-based company noted in a press release that its Activate Enterprise NextGen ATM platform is designed to make it “easier and faster to offer new digital services through the ATM.”. on Monday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

The hype cycle on blockchain and blockchain tech has become so frothy that companies have even changed their names to include it. In 2011, Buffett made a $10 billion investment in the company in support of then-new CEO Ginni Rometty’s turnaround plans. In short, there seems to be, literally, nothing the blockchain cannot do.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

CellPoint Mobile, which specializes in digital commerce and payment solutions for airlines and travel companies, today rebranded as CellPoint Digital with a new website and product offerings, the company said in a press release on Tuesday (Sept. We started out with a radical, mobile-first solution.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

Unfortunately, independent contractors have also frequently been left out of the picture for traditional banks and even newer FinTechs despite the recent influx of small business cloud accounting apps and other B2B FinTech platforms. Easing The User Experience. That means cutting out the jargon.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Cashfree , one of India’s biggest business payments platforms, has announced that it has launched a new suite of payment products aimed at lending companies and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), to facilitate easier loan disbursals across all platforms, according to a press release.

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William Mills

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Payrailz was founded to help financial institutions succeed by offering a smarter, faster and more engaging payment experience surpassing the current solutions available in the market. Digital payments and the user experience continue to be a big focus for the financial industry,” said Mickey Goldwasser, VP marketing at Payrailz.

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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. While the company may be operating in a different market than the U.K., Europe, U.S. and other areas where open banking initiatives are taking off. “In

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2018

Viva Republica, Korea’s FinTech startup and maker of financial services app Toss , announced Monday (June 18) it has completed a $40 million round of funding raising. That, according to the company, makes it easy for users to manage all the different facets of their daily financial lives.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Virtual bank Radius Bank — which services small businesses (SMBs), micro-firms and consumers — is rolling out a revamped digital banking platform and a mobile banking app, the company said on Monday (Dec. The bank has also raised limits for users to move money from their Radius account to an account at a different bank.

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 28, 2024

As the industry’s big tech companies go toe to toe with best-of-breed digital solutions, this era may be their last chance to prove they can remain competitive in the digital game: FIS is staking its hope on a credit Digital One or “D1” strategy. This is an area where speed-to-market competition will be important. #3.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The shift toward contextual banking has a tailwind in place as the financial institutions (FIs) that have been market leaders have been seeing strong deposit growth — and as corporate customers are growing those balances, they want to be able to see their account activity and cash balances visible within the same application on demand.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

A press release issued Monday (June 11) revealed OroCommerce is turning to the cross-border payments FinTech to provide payment services for its corporate customers via API. “Companies must focus on their core business and on acquiring new customers, ” said Motti Danino, COO of OroCommerce, in a statement.

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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. Natixis Payments is the biggest Visa card issuer in continental Europe, and along with Visa, has a lot of experience in integrating the latest payment initiatives into services in the EU.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Once it became clear that the pandemic wasn’t a temporary hiccup that companies could survive by hunkering down for a month or two, there came a push toward lasting change – a push that was finally strong enough to overcome the inertia. “I Building What The Market Needs Now. And adopt them quite quickly. I think it's here to stay.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

markets that could be slowing down the digitization of electronic B2B payments. and other markets, and it’s entirely different; they’ve gone much faster towards faster payments and towards ePayments, and it’s been spurred directly by government action.”. “In The adoption curve, especially in the U.S.,

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Banking leaders looking for the next wave of growth need to think differently about marketing to half the population. Traditional financial institutions that want to compete with fintech disruptors like Chime and X (formerly known as Twitter) need to up their social media game. Demographically, half of the U.S. Take a look at Chime.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

Yet for those banking partners, the fact that every corporate is at its own unique position in the digitization process presents a challenge as to which products to offer, and how to enable corporate clients to adopt them — a predicament that impacts everything from banks’ investments in infrastructure to their FinTech collaboration strategies.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Payment Rails is making its official step into the cross-border payments market through the launch of its application program interface (API) and payment platform, the company said Thursday (Dec. The firm’s co-founder and chief product officer, Ferhan Patel, said the tool aims to fill gaps left by companies’ own banks.

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