PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Financial institutions are in the midst of becoming more mobile, with many of those legacy operations opting to — or at least considering — working more closely with FinTech providers to upgrade services, retain customers and acquire new ones. The debut of 5G promises to add another tool that can aid such efforts. Digital Demand.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It may be an open road for open banking as, three years after the rollout of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), bank-FinTech collaborations and new initiatives unlocking bank account data continue to flourish. Visa Launches FinTech Collaboration Initiative In Europe. Poland's mBank Taps Treasury Pricing FinTech.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The FinTech said it is improving user experience on its Paymode-X AP Automation platform and utilizing AI for enhanced invoice data capture. Paymode-X Invoice Automation aims to help companies automate and digitize the invoice lifecycle and reduce manual processes with “AI-powered data and image capture.” .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

In an interview with PYMNTS, Avi Cohen , co-founder and CEO of FinTech company The Floor , said boosting digital offerings and bringing new ones to market demands quick decision making as banks seek to improve user experience and user engagement. Now, he said, “innovation needs to also be incorporated internally. “Can

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Insights on Business

JULY 17, 2019

In the current complex regulatory environment (see Figure 1), and with growing costs associated with reporting, Know Your Customer (KYC), sanctions and the like, it is important to have effective and user-friendly governance, risk and compliance (GRC) tools that staff will readily adopt and use.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

Banks are required under PSD2 to develop API portals that provide their customers’ data to interested third parties, thus enabling such entities to build and offer competing products and services. They are [already] being challenged by a lot of the FinTechs and the larger technology companies.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

With more and more FinTechs introducing their own banking services, the competition is heating up. Small business lending platform BlueVine is the latest FinTech to take this path, having taken the wraps off of its banking solution this week with the launch of BlueVine Business Banking. Plus, the U.S. TrueLayer Launches in Australia.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Ternio , a global FinTech platform, has integrated with Plaid , a financial data company, to help Ternio BlockCard bank accounts access faster and more secure connections to financial accounts, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

And in that evolution, DeLuca explained, software has moved from systems that simply kept records or initiated transactions toward systems that deliver an enhanced, more engaging experience. FinTech firms like Bottomline have invested in user experience (UX), user interface (UI), usability and, of course, data management.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

Emailage , the online fraud prevention startup that uses email addresses to assess risk, is expanding its operations in the Canadian market. Already, there are many new FinTech startups in a few of Canada’s major cities and the different tech hubs. That’s where companies such as Emailage come in. Emailage can serve various verticals.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

They’ve gotten used to what Shields termed “ease of use and delightful user experience” — being able to find and buy what they want using any number of payments options. Building A Trusted Data Exchange . The more data an enterprise shares with the bank, the better the level of service the bank can provide.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

But as of 2020, it is a subject upon which seasoned experts can disagree, in a world where traditional banks and FinTechs are operating in parallel in the market – and, in many cases, are offering similar services for consumers. But the FinTechs, Baird noted, are adapting and innovating around that issue. Baird said. “As

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

As one-person operations, they often lack the resources and know-how to manage professional finances in a compliant and efficient way, yet they have more complex tax, payments and cash flow management needs than the average individual. Dan Hogan, chief financial officer and chief operating officer of newly-launched U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Accurate and reliable data is a critical piece of modernizing the AML regimen,” he said. Detecting potentially suspicious activity more quickly through the use of data also provides more meaningful and actionable information to law enforcement agencies that are facing rapidly evolving threats with limited resources.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

They are not always fast followers of newly introduced products and services from their larger banking brethren who operate on a national scale. Though there has been an increasing spirit of cooperation between FinTechs and traditional FIs, there’s still a lot of ground to cover.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Over the years, that surge in competition gave way to a more collaborative spirit between traditional financial institutions (FIs) and FinTechs as both sides worked to digitize and modernize SMB financing. It is now not only a competitive advantage, but an essential requirement for lenders to operate digitally, said Marceau.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Among the numerous ways small businesses have been affected by the global pandemic, the sudden race to launch online operations has been among the most profound — and may ultimately be among the most long-lasting changes to the SMB community. The User Experience Focus. ”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As the open banking business model permeates into the B2B financial services market, FinTechs and traditional financial institutions continue to find new use cases for API integrations and connectivity to elevate the business-user experience. In the latest demonstration of FinTech-to-FinTech integration, U.K.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As 2023 winds down, community banks and credit unions have worked hard to attract new customers and members and retain existing ones by streamlining processes and improving the end-user experience. Ironically, data for making lending and credit decisions for the financial institution can also be one of the toughest assets to harness.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

. “I am very excited to unveil our new brand, which captures our ambition and capability as both FinTech and travel tech specialists. “A seamless user experience in all digital channels is vital,” said Stephane Druet, head of marketing and product strategy at CellPoint Digital.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

Banks, and FinTechs particularly are blazing new trails for financial institutions (FIs) wishing to incorporate the best that digital-first banking has to offer, making integrations easier and outcomes better. Banks and credit unions collect an enormous amount of data for each of their users.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

“Statistics indicate that consumers still trust their banks more than, for example, tech companies when it comes to their financial lives,” said Richard Bailey, SVP of engineering at Entersekt , a South Africa-based FinTech firm that focuses on mobile authentication and app security software.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Among the biggest debates is how to construct and operate the best card program possible – a decision that served as the foundation for a new PYMNTS interview with Jim Geeslin, head of strategy for Elan Financial Services , an agent credit card issuer. Data Control . In fact, their slogan for the card is “Created by Apple, Not a Bank?.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

Small businesses, particularly those launched by younger entrepreneurs, are often assumed to be a key driver of B2B FinTech innovation as business owners seek sophisticated, automated technologies to run their businesses. One of the biggest lessons would perhaps come as a surprise to many in the SMB FinTech space.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

The company is betting that all kinds of companies — from FinTechs to eCommerce providers to wealth management platforms and iGaming operators — will adopt PayDirect to facilitate account verification, instant account funding, online payments and instant withdrawals. The challenge is in getting merchants and customers to try it.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

may be the world’s hotbed for challenger banks, but it’s not the only market witnessing a surge in bank competition and industry evolution as a result of FinTech pressure. While the company may be operating in a different market than the U.K., Europe, U.S. and other areas where open banking initiatives are taking off. “In

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The company will use the funding to build a bitcoin mining operation, which it claims to be the first bitcoin mining company in the U.S. “at Data shows that the top five known mining pools are all based in China. In other news, data from Hard Fork shows that bitcoin transaction fees have now exceeded $1 billion.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

Legacy accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) operations aren’t only inefficient, they’re costly. As AP and AR innovation progresses, FinTechs are also exploring how integrating AP and AR between buyer and supplier can elevate efficiencies and savings even further.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

Though the investments in a payments system itself may be huge, the costs of actually managing the transactions (which boil down, really, to data flows) are essentially zero. To get there — to spur increased user adoption — he said that the SPEI user experience has had to improve.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Super apps, or apps that aggregate online or mobile user experiences into one central location, have taken off globally. billion users. But with these benefits come newfound threats, chiefly in the form of data privacy and security. and its impact on data security. By Colleen Morrison.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Banking as a Service (BaaS) is poised to change the end user experience of corporates as they navigate the daily challenges of cash flow management, supply chain activity and the need to become digital-first. So far, corporate banking users are always left out in the cold.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

The entrance of non-bank FinTechs and alternative lenders, too, is adding new pressures on traditional FIs to up their digital games. They realized customer expectations have evolved to the point where they want an upgraded experience.”. Online lenders and alternative players were a wake-up call to banks,” explained Glover.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The interview happened during a time of expansion and aggressive future planning for the company, a small business and consumer micro-lending technology company that operates in Nigeria. More than 200,000 customers use FairMoney to access financing, with the company’s algorithm using data from a user’s smartphone to underwrite those loans.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Today, governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is being transformed by not only rapidly-evolving regulatory standards and growing costs of non-compliance, but also by the clear and present need for greater GRC adoption/engagement – by the first line of defense – while delivering added value by empowering business users.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 17, 2020

In the soon to be released What’s Going On In Banking study, Cornerstone ’s Ron Shevlin shows that both bank and credit union execs are most fearful of big tech (Amazon Prime, Venmo, Apple Card) primarily because of their great data reach and ability to drive customer experience. Experian recently reported.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Historically, he continued, banks have taken to focusing too narrowly on the back end of payments — the plumbing and mechanics, as DeLuca described it — rather than the front-end, end-user experience. Of course, the actual end user — the business — plays perhaps the biggest role in determining whether a market like the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Thus, in two separate announcements from one company, we might glean a sense of blockchain underpinning various user experiences in daily life. In a nutshell: Cryptos at the register — with a helping hand from the government — and decentralized networks transmitting voice and data, free of phone numbers.

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