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How B2B Payments Balances Compliance With A Better User Experience

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one of the largest FinTech hubs of the world today, initiatives like Open Banking demonstrate the opportunity for regulatory mandates to encourage innovation and competition — even in markets where such regulatory mandates don’t exist. Achieving A Better User Experience. With the U.K.

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Accounts Receivable Realigns Its Focus To User Experience

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The last decade of B2B FinTech innovation not only led to an explosion of product options for businesses to manage a variety of processes, including accounts receivable (AR), accounts payable (AP) and accounting. According to McCarthy, the end-users of AR solutions aren’t the only users that technology providers have to keep in mind, either.

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Traditional FIs Drive Modernization Through FinTech Pairings

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In this week's roundup of bank-FinTech collaboration and open banking initiatives, Citi embraces the unlocking of account data to third-party FinTechs, while WEX weighs in on opportunity for banks to take advantage of partnerships. Plus, one FinTech offers a new spin on the open banking model to drive financial inclusion.

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Massachusetts Mutual To Buy FinTech RIA Platform Flourish

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Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) has agreed with Stone Ridge Asset Management , which has over $10 billion in assets under management (AUM), for MassMutual to acquire FinTech registered investment advisor (RIA) platform Flourish , according to a press release.

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Turning Compliance Burden Into FinTech-Regulator Collaboration

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Lithuania wants to become a global FinTech powerhouse. In recent years, the market has gone from one struggling with high financial illiteracy and limited card acceptance, to a bright spot in Europe for FinTech innovation. Regulation is perhaps the strongest driver of Lithuania’s FinTech-friendly environment.

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PayPal, Mastercard Champion Bank-FinTech Alliances

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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, executives of PayPal and Mastercard touted partnerships between financial technology companies and banks as a positive way to gain customers’ trust and innovate new ways for customers to interact with their finances. On Tuesday (Jan.

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New Canadian Digital-Only Bank Banking On User Experience

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The challenge for the bank will be remaining competitive when the interest rate is ultimately dialed back and the offering itself – namely its features and user experience — need to steer the ship. The focus for us has to be customer experience,” Dickinson explained of the pause due to speed of growth.