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Regional Banks Guide Corporates To Future-Proof Accounts Payable

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Of course, what the pandemic also proved is that future-proofing isn’t always entirely possible. ” The most savvy businesses are those that turn to their financial service providers to not only adopt technologies, but support the integration of those tools within the rest of their back-office workflows, he added.

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SoftBank Earmarks $1B For eCommerce, Healthcare And FinTech In LatAm

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Its investment in Latin America this year will target eCommerce, healthcare, FinTech and other industries, as it looks at about 650 firms in the region. Softbank’s move into Latin America is also looking at artificial intelligence (AI) startups that apply the technology to food-related businesses, particularly plant-based food.

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APIs Streamline Cross-Border SMB Payments

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To that end, Benjamin Wong, CEO and co-founder of the Singapore-based cross-border payments platform TranSwap , told PYMNTS that technology – and the platform model – can help make SMB expansion efforts a bit smoother. Wong pointed to the U.K. They may also be expensive or have fees that are hidden and are not transparent to customers.

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Big Bank Bids Headed For Hill Hearings?

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Waters, of course, serves as chair of the House Financial Services Committee. And digital remains a siren call for banks of all sizes, and for regional players. banking operations continues the consolidation among regional players being necessitated by low interest margins and the digital arms race in banking.

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Is China The Roadmap — Or Red Flag — For Digital ID Verification?

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China represents what he termed a “world of its own,” marked by mature and advanced technology unseen anywhere else in the world. Beyond the technological advances, of course, China’s push toward a digital economy comes as the government has also digitalized the national ID card, which must be wielded by every citizen over the age of 16.

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A Tale Of Two Payments Regions: UK And Germany

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But, of course, no two consumers are exactly alike – especially when comparing consumers across different regions of the world. “The overarching goal of the study is to start comparing consumer trends in order to start predicting consumer behaviors in terms of how technology is influencing payments adoption.”

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LatAm’s RobinFood Says It’s A Tech Company That Sells Food â€Ĥ And It’s Working

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Colombia-based RobinFood — Latin America’s fastest-growing chain of “cloud” restaurants — credits proprietary technology, the explosive growth of FinTechs and pandemic-led lifestyle changes as the secrets of its success. Despite low average incomes, Latin America offers a huge overall market size and growth potential. Try It, You’ll Like It.

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