PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

That can hold especially true in wealthy countries, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as discussed in a new PYMNTS interview with Evans Munyuki, chief digital officer of Emirates NBD , a UAE banking group. It will have a mobile app, and provide different services necessary to carry out banking needs. New Venture.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) and merchants in the European Union (EU) have had some time to get used to both the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Around The Data Protection And Security World.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Banks, businesses and consumers fundamentally altered how they interacted with each other in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic — and regulators tasked with making sure their data and payments are kept safe took notice. Regulators in countries like Egypt have only recently rolled out their data protection rules.

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CB Insights

MAY 5, 2022

Open , a digital bank, has raised $50M in a Series D. q1 2022 brought a -18% decline in quarterly fintech funding. .</p> q1 2022 brought a -18% decline in quarterly fintech funding. .</p> q1 2022 brought a -18% decline in quarterly fintech funding. Download the report to learn more.</p>

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

Legacy banks have their work cut out for them if they want to survive another century as key players in the digital banking world. This is driving legacy banks to take a closer look at their own products and strategies, with many rising to the challenge. Around the Digital Banking World. About the Tracker.

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CB Insights

MAY 9, 2022

Neo Financial , a Canadian digital bank, has raised $145M in a Series C. q1 2022 brought a -18% decline in quarterly fintech funding. .</p> q1 2022 brought a -18% decline in quarterly fintech funding. .</p> q1 2022 brought a -18% decline in quarterly fintech funding. hbspt.forms.create({.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Digital banking was a key driver for Bottomline Technologies during the quarter, too, CEO Rob Eberle said during the firm's earnings call , also on Thursday. According to Eberle, bank-FinTech collaboration has become an important factor for traditional financial institutions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2021

Plaid’s Deposit Switch Streamlines Digital Bank Account Funding. The FinTech says Deposit Switch comes with immediate and backup processes for consumers who are implementing recurring account funding. NEW DATA: Five Key Features for Improving Mobile Banking App Satisfaction.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 29, 2019

Fintech startup Plaid Inc. a region it believes could eventually match the U.S. Founded in 2012, San Francisco-based Plaid helps customers and banks transmit data back and forth. is expanding its footprint into the U.K., in terms of revenue, despite political uncertainty.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Other reports highlight consumers’ changing perceptions regarding the privacy of their personal information, finding that 56 percent of Americans would like more control over their own digital data. For example, a September report found that the number of open banking users in the U.K. Open Banking, Privacy And Consumer Trust.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

B2B FinTechs continue to step up to introduce new solutions for their customers with an eye on helping business owners survive this market crisis and persevere into the future. There are unique challenges for SMBs operating in Belgium and the broader EU that banking solution providers should consider, said Czuba. .” ”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

“Consumers are now leaning heavily on digital banking to meet their financial needs. Banking app downloads have increased 60 percent since the pandemic became widespread, with banking app revenue growing 17 percent,” according to PYMNTS’ May 2020 Digital-First Banking Tracker® , a collaboration with NCR.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

The European Union’s financial authorities are monitoring how the pandemic may be affecting banks’ and FinTechs’ compliance with rules such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2), for example. Around The Data Protection World.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

In the July Digital-First Banking Tracker® , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of digital-first banking, including the long-lasting effects brought on by the pandemic, the shifting attitudes surrounding ATM use, and how the digital banking development field is reaping dividends from the financial industry’s sea change.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Open banking has been picking up steam in Latin America for more than two years. Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. Open Banking And Digital Readiness.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

You’d be forgiven for thinking that, in banking, the deal is dead. NCR Digital Banking Senior Vice President and General Manager Doug Brown told Karen Webster there will be an acceleration of deal making on the other side of the pandemic, particularly as financial institutions (FIs) recalibrate and expand their digital efforts.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2018

Coverage includes Oracle ’s decision to bring its FinTech Innovation Program to Brussels. Currently, consumer awareness for this particular technology is at a very niche stage,” Zebi Data India Founder and CEO Babu Munagala said in statement from 6Wresearch. Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

About 40 percent of all ATO attacks now count as high-risk, meaning banks of all shapes and sizes must reexamine how they think about data protection, security and the tools they use to guard against emerging threats. Arou nd the Digital Banking World. digital bank Monzo. market debut. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

In today’s top digital-first banking news, Goldman Sachs has selected FinTech startup Marqeta to power digital checking accounts for Marcus, while California credit card startup X1 notched $12 million in a funding round headed up by Spark Capital. Plus, the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book report noted that the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

The rise of open banking (and account aggregation) has shaped the conventional wisdom that banking will pivot toward innovation and service-oriented offerings. But, in truth, account aggregation is largely an activity that simply moves data from financial institution (FI) to FinTech.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

After a difficult first quarter, fintech funding rebounded in a big way in Q2’20. Free Download: State of Fintech q2’20. Fintech funding rebounded in Q2’20 but deal activity continues to fall. Below, we answer some of our readers’ most pressing questions from the webinar on the state of fintech. First name.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

FIS and Worldpay combined in mid-2019, Fiserv and First Data combined shortly thereafter and Worldline SA purchased Ingenico earlier this year. Clearly there's regional saturation, which leads to consolidation.”. That’s because FinTechs claim they can do it faster, better and more smoothly than their mainstream banking counterparts.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

My engagements with a number of global banks of various sizes over the past several months have been on one common agenda. What should be their strategy for Digital Banking transformation? What can banks learn from the FinTechs?

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

What will it take to make Latin America more digital — in payments, commerce, FinTech or even healthcare? Cash remains king in the region, with about two-thirds of consumers in Latin America preferring that payment method over credit, according to estimates.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Consumers have noticed the rising levels of fraud in digital banking, and they are not pleased. Around the Digital Banking World. Regulators as well as banks are searching for ways to keep launderers and other fraudsters out of online banking. In fact, one recent study found that 71.2 About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

Features such as these allow customers to perform a range of banking interactions that would be impossible at traditional ATMs, such as opening accounts and obtaining new credit cards. Alabama-based Regions Bank deployed advanced ATMs as part of its digital push, replacing human tellers at many of its drive-thrus.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Community banks and credit unions are feeling the pressure to boost their digital card services or risk losing customers to megabanks and digital challengers, Ondot Systems ’ Chief Strategy Officer Todd Lesher told PYMNTS in a recent discussion. It’s a story told by the data itself, Lesher said. Square announced $1.3

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Accenture

JUNE 17, 2019

Guest bloggers Ben Lopez and Charlie Arthy continue their series on achieving simplified, future-ready bank operations. . Collectively, Open Banking technologies, data-access methods and development methods allow simpler transformation of bank operations where modern systems can be built and executed on top of legacy systems.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Skype cofounder Niklas Zennstrom is a known advocate for European startups who has invested much of his fortune into promising startups across the region. Anne Boden, founder of digital-only bank Starling , believes that without regulation from the EU, London’s FinTech scene faces a damaged competition landscape as a result of Brexit.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

My engagements with a number of global banks of various sizes over the past several months have been on one common agenda. What should be their strategy for Digital Banking transformation? What can banks learn from the FinTechs?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Right now, at least as found recently in the PYMNTS/PSCU collaboration , “Credit Union Innovation Playbook: Challenger Banks Edition,” CUs face some competitive pressures. . As the survey of more than 4,000 CU members, CU leaders and FinTech executives showed, 41.4 They acquire a lending product, and then a digital banking platform.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

According to a report in Fintech Futures , the idea behind the project is to use permission-based blockchain technology so credit unions can reach more members that don’t have access to financial services. CULedger , a credit union, has inked a partnership with IBM to create blockchain services geared toward credit unions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) and merchants from other regions have been dipping their toes into the Chinese market, but open banking has compounded the difficulty involved in setting up operations. as they upgrade their online data and financial rules to support global digital banking innovations.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

My engagements with a number of global banks of various sizes over the past several months have been on one common agenda. What should be their strategy for Digital Banking transformation? What can banks learn from the FinTechs?

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

My engagements with a number of global banks of various sizes over the past several months have been on one common agenda. What should be their strategy for Digital Banking transformation and what they can learn from FinTech innovation? What can banks learn from FinTech Innovation?

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Latin America’s fintech scene is gaining momentum, with 80+ fintech deals closing for around $300M in 2016, and over 100 deals already closed in 2017. Using CB Insights data, we highlighted 75+ Latin American companies, from early-stage to late-stage, making waves across an array of verticals in financial services tech.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

He said that while small banks, credit unions (CUs) and regional players deeply fear being swept aside by the great digitalization wave that the pandemic has set off, their concerns aren’t actually unique to the financial industry’s smaller end. Third is digital customer acquisition and instant digital issuance. “We

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