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New Payment Rails Take On Real-Time B2B Friction

PYMNTS

Blockchain startup Clear is embracing distributed ledger technology to facilitate high-volume B2B transactions, with a focus on the telecommunications sector, a market in which telco partners must exchange a high volume of payments and data while ensuring compliance to complex agreements between each other. In the U.K., In the U.K.,

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US Finance Crimes Org Calls For Private Sector Innovation

PYMNTS

The Innovation Hours Program will provide financial technology (FinTech) and regulatory technology (RegTech) companies and financial institutions the opportunity to present their new and emerging innovative products and services to FinCEN,” the organization said in the release. “The FinCEN expects to hold events in the Washington, D.C.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

So, when the community bank’s leadership learned of a fintech that needed a bank partner to launch a credit-building tech product, they were intrigued. That meeting four years ago led to the launch of Lead Bank’s Credit Builder Account program, which is accessed through an app developed by Self Financial, a fintech. Metro City Bank.

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Fast & Furious: Keeping up with changes in the Payments industry

Insights on Business

The disruption has been introduced by fast-moving fintechs such as PayPal, Apple Pay and Venmo, among many others. This represents a big risk to traditional banking institutions and with the fintechs nipping at their heels, a first mover advantage may become critical to their long term success. Disruption.

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The Periodic Table of Tech In Canada

CB Insights

Startups headquartered in the Toronto metro area dominate the table, with over 40 tech companies featured. Fintech: The financial technology category has the greatest number of startups in our table.