PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

If data within the Internet of Things (IoT) is not secured properly, it puts people’s overall safety in jeopardy — and it’s not just about loss of sensitive personal data. In fact, according to UL , the even greater threat is that an attacker could take over the functionality of poorly secured devices. Pros and Cons of Regionalization.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Compliance and risk? Automating that compliance is now a “need to have.”. The age of technology is, of course, well upon us, with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) a key conduit to making sure that at least some business operations — once the province of spreadsheets and reams of paper — can be streamlined. Plugging In To Plugins.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2018

But the recent thefts, along with other attempted and completed cyberattacks, demonstrate why payments officials in the region are expressing fresh concern about financial security there. Evidence of that comes from Swift’s Latin America Regional Conference , held earlier this month in Miami. Fraud is a Top Worry.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Faced with a growing number of transactions to process in real time, payment service providers (PSPs), financial institutions (FIs) and FinTech firms also need to make sure the security of these smarter payment systems is up to par. Regulators in regions such as Europe are changing the ways they look at cross-border transactions.

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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. Finastra Chosen by Community FI. payment schemes. Faster Payments scheme.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

Credit unions and regional or community banks have stepped in to fill the banking gap, making barriers to accessing much needed financial services lower than ever before for marijuana businesses. Today, however, the banking challenge has largely been solved. According to Muller, data is often at the heart of this issue.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Plus, Pioneer Bank sues over MyPayrollHR scandal, Procurement Partners secures new funding, and ImagineTime partners on FinTech for accountants. Through 100 percent invoice integration, the service boasts improvements to savings, and offers a compliance audit feature that can help vendors cut spending.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

Currencycloud is connecting regional banks to advanced FX and global payments technologies, while the firm’s founder, Nigel Verdon, is also targeting Banking-as-a-Service with his new startup, Railsbank. But many of these businesses are also looking ahead to drive financial services efficiencies beyond coronavirus disruption.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Engagement platform Personetics also secured $85M from Thoma Bravo Digital banking provider Apiture announced a fundraising round led by Live Oak Bank, Pinnacle Bank, and BHG Financial Digital banking provider Backbase raised $128.6M Industry expert John Meyer digs deeply into the implications of this industry-changing rollup deal here.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have worked to keep up with this migration. The pandemic has refocused scrutiny on the open banking ecosystem’s privacy and security. 1 to adjust their standards in compliance.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Thomson Reuters said the selection underscores the strength of its screening platform and its position in the regulatory technology market. For any regulated firm to thrive in the long term, consistent investment needs to be made in the risk, compliance and control functions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

What’s more, companies must also work to remain compliant with the laws in place across the different regions where they operate. In addition, how can they remain confident that they are in compliance with existing AML laws? How can they rest assured that their trading partners are trustworthy and who they claim to be? In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

In the April edition of the Payments And The Platform Economy Playbook , PYMNTS examines how regulatory compliance changes are impacting the growth of the sharing economy. The Playbook also looks at how payment services and other third-party platforms are working with shifting compliance demands to participate in the global sharing economy.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A former cryptocurrency exchange and its founder are facing charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the agency announced in a press release on Wednesday (Feb. Montroll operated an unregistered online securities exchange and defrauded its users by misappropriating their bitcoins.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Takeaway 3 With effective technology, the bank can continue to grow its portfolio without necessarily adding staff. At the same time, asset-based liquidity options at some community banks have been constrained by large unrealized losses in available-for-sale securities. I don’t want my veteran bankers writing a credit memo,” he said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

According to the new Simplifying Cross-Border Payments Playbook , there are five key criteria that an ideal cross-border payment solution should meet: speed, security, compliance, transparency and ubiquity. Different regions have their own unique payment rails, and no two abide by the same regulatory framework. What’s Changing?

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Regions Bank announced in its recent earnings call that it is leveraging IBM Watson to help customers get answers to their customer service questions over the phone and to help bankers improve the speed and accuracy of their answers. What does this look like in practice? The result? Thinking Outside the Box.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

On the one hand, this is good news, Bayliss told PYMNTS in a recent interview, because a phased supervisory period presents an opportunity for all the stakeholders in the payments and commerce ecosystem to make sure they are technologically and operationally prepared to roll out the best possible version of technology that supports SCA.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

The technology giant is collaborating with enterprise IT consulting firm Publicis Sapient to develop end-to-end solutions for Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank in an effort to expand access to trade finance in the region, the companies said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

FIs have made strides in establishing know your customer (KYC) and anti money laundering (AML) policies, but these changes are routinely challenged by emerging technology and cross-border transaction costs. It did this in hopes that such groups would implement their own high standards and raise the bar for stricter compliance requirements.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Some companies have been able to adjust quicker than others, leading to the first-ever fines issued and collected for breach of GPDR within the region. Around The Data Protection And Security World. The regulation is now slated to roll out in July 2020, rather than the February 2020 deadline previously proposed.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Many want more options and control when it comes to their security. percent of customers agreed that mobile transactions would be more secure if the consumers themselves had more control over their authentication options. In fact, one recent study found that 71.2 The banks include ABN Amro, ING, Rabobank, Tridos Bank and Volksbank.

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Cisco

MAY 10, 2022

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Digitally transforming operations, operating models and technologies to compete in a changing industry structure. Optimizing risk, compliance and security. Too often cloud adoption can just happen, and security teams are asked reactively to make it secure and compliant.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

billion-strong, high-spending consumers and their willingness to adapt to new technologies, trends and products may represent the economy of the future for many banks and businesses, but it is notoriously difficult for firms to enter and compete in this market. Confronting the Chinese Privacy Myth . he remarked.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Travelport , which enables corporate travel agencies with point-of-sale (POS) technology, is repositioning itself in response to heightened awareness and adoption of virtual cards (v-cards) in the business travel space. With this agreement, we look forward to improving the hotel billback solution for our customers in the region.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Enterprise IT consulting firm Publicis Sapient will develop end-to-end solutions for AGTB in an effort to expand access to trade finance in the region.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

Compliance and regulatory issues remain top of mind, of course, but so does the overall experience of both buyers and sellers. Expectations can differ from region to region regarding timing of payments, taxes, currencies, regulatory differences – and we look at all of those variables.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

Among the enduring promises of computer technology is that it would give the “little guys” — all those Davids struggling to compete in a world full of corporate Goliaths — a new source of strength. Today, if you want to launch a financial services product, very, very few (of them) are regional anymore,” he said. Compliance is key.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

The PSD2 -related regulation counts itself among a raft of those set to become law across the continent, focusing on boosting online commerce security by requiring cardholders to provide two forms of identification to verify their identities when transacting. A September to Remember. Those under €30 ($33.93

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Understanding who one is doing business with is the first step to mitigating a myriad of risks, including non-compliance, non-payment, violated contracts and more. “They already want these regional specialists around the world, and they also want to diversify suppliers in their supply chain across many different parameters.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The bumpy road cryptos face under scrutiny from regulators (we’re looking at you, Libra ) was a springboard into a larger discussion between Zac Cohen, general manager at Trulioo , and Karen Webster on the challenges FIs and others face when deploying new technologies. Identities, in turn, must be secured, verified and reusable.

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Abrigo

JULY 22, 2022

Takeaway 1 Cryptocurrency has been able to offer good interest rates on high-yield savings accounts and secured loans with no credit check. . As recently as last fall, consumers could stash certain digital assets in a savings account and earn upwards of 10% interest, or even use cryptocurrency to secure a loan without a credit check.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

“It is our strategic direction to enhance our digital technology capability, to deliver a better customer experience,” said Thanachart Bank EVP of Retail and Small Business Banking Anuwat Luengtawekul in a statement. Beehive first launched in 2015 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to link SMBs to its marketplace lending solution.

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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. Buyers and sellers expect both speed and security with payments, and not offering both factors is one of the top reasons that customers report leaving a marketplace.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2018

And with that, governments and security solution providers are stepping into the fray with the aim of combatting fraudsters. In the May Digital Identity Tracker , PYMNTS examines how players from around the space are looking to safeguard consumers, from new security software to newly debuted regulations from governments around the world.

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