PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

At a time when surging coronavirus counts are once again muddying the outlook for consumers and business owners, MerchantE Chief Financial Officer Shim Steinmetz says the crisis has also provided a silver lining of sorts to nimble FinTechs that can solve merchants’ cash crunch problems. Don’t Put Too Much Faith In Credit.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2019

FinTech is helping to transform daily consumer life in Nigeria and other developing markets. One recent example comes from Kuda, Nigeria’s first digital-only bank with a standalone license. . Other examples include FairMoney and PalmPay.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

Organizations large and small were forced to migrate to online and cloud-based solutions to keep operations moving, often with significant friction. As CFO, Chana explained his strategy for guiding the enterprise toward a more resilient future through FinTech adoption and a forward-looking viewpoint. Digital Roots. Eyes Forward.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

22), the executives talked about how financial companies had nothing to fear from these types of partnerships, and PayPal Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready said the idea that banking institutions have something to lose from such tie-ups is a misconception. . “I For example, Amazon is considering teaming up with some banks, including J.P.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2019

The twist is, that gap in small business banking innovation led external FinTechs to step in and today, small business banking is a highly competitive, and highly innovative, area of financial services. In India, Visa recently announced a partnership with FinTech Open to introduce new small business banking services. Now, the U.S.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Operational innovation is vital in a highly competitive financial services sector, with a new community of digital banks and other firms vying for market share. Drivers for Operational Innovation. Ongoing conversations between IBM and CFOs over the years have identified key activities that can help progress operational efficiency.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While AOBA 2022 had its share of execs wanting to “fake it until they make it” with future innovation, credit is due to the bankers who are pouring real financial investment into new fintech experiments. In some respects, AOBA 2022 felt a bit like bank executives wanted to “fake it until they make it” with their future innovation and fintech.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

Providing robust services via mobile channels is especially important now, as the COVID-19 pandemic has caused businesses to operate remotely and consumers to stay at home as much as possible. Such vigilant security means FinTechs must vet new customers and continually review existing ones for changes in their money laundering risk, he said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Financial services providers that slack on regulatory compliance and fail to safeguard their operations against money laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal activities may face damaged reputations and significant fines. A report found that the U.S. imposed a full $23.52 billion and the Middle East levied $9.5 million. .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

And the prospect of “no deal” Brexit has some FinTech firms seemingly anxious about what lies beyond the horizon, and scrambling for contingency plans. That need would become apparent as British firms would not be able to operate any longer throughout Europe with domestic licenses. That’s a nod to Brexit, of course.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Collaboration and not competition, Visa’s Senior Vice President, Global Head of FinTech Terry Angelos told Karen Webster in a discussion on the recent advancements and updates to Visa’s Fast Track program , is quite evident — particularly when one observes that a number of Visa’s partners are many that, on paper, might appear to be competitors.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The delicate balance between bank-FinTech competition and collaboration continues to teeter in the U.S. In a market without Open Banking regulations, FinTechs continue to enter in to the market, collaborating with bank partners to offer their own financial services — which often compete directly with other financial institutions.

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William Mills

APRIL 21, 2020

Scott Mills met virtually with Terry Ammons, Partner at Wipfli LLP, to discuss how Terry is seeing fintechs make adjustments due to COVID-19. Terry works closely with dozens of fintechs across the country and is supporting companies through these difficult strategic changes firsthand. Watch the full interview below to learn more.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In this month’s feature story Nicolas Dinh, chief operating officer of a year-old money management and payment app provider STACK explained how startups can keep customers safe and prove their security abilities. Deep Dive: How FinTechs, FIs Can Arm Up Against Fraud. To read the full story, download the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

10), Craig Moore, CEO of business financing platform Beehive , not only made the case for more P2P lending in the Middle East (the company is based in the United Arab Emirates), but also gave a larger view of the FinTech situation in that region as a new decade dawns. But in a new PYMNTS interview on Tuesday (Dec. But that’s not all. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

Visa, management said on the call, will capitalize on what was termed a FinTech-driven evolution that is currently shaping financial services, as well as growing Visa’s core payments business. In one recent example from late last year, The Clearing House released a template designed to help banks link with FinTech firms, and connect to APIs.

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Abrigo

JUNE 14, 2017

Many banks and credit unions have found a path to growth via partnerships with fintechs. Technology partners offer much more than just software to banks; a fintech partnership provides delivery channels, convenience, corporate governance , advisory services, and industry data. For example, are your response times slow?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Efforts in the Middle East by banks and other financial institutions to embrace FinTech are on the rise. As reported from Daily News Egypt , a consortium of banks in the region expects a number of FIs, including those in Egypt, to embrace FinTech. Finxact’s own offerings operate in the cloud. “I Outside U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Payments FinTech Sila offers an Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform to help companies more seamlessly integrate compliant payments capabilities within their solutions via application programming interface (API), with an integrated stablecoin, SILA. Sila Raises Funding to Nix ACH. Billhop Eases B2B Card Acceptance. ”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

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. For FinTech firms, doing the chasing all on their own is a losing proposition. Plugging In To Plugins.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The ongoing struggle, supposedly existential in nature, that pits upstart, relatively young FinTech firms against arrogantly complacent banks for supremacy in this new and growing world of digital payments and commerce. Or, as a recent CNBC article put it, quoting a source, “a mass extinction event.”. The subject? Not So Black-and-White.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

FinTechs are helping these companies gain an understanding of these innovative solutions. The FinTech, however, aims to explain to them that they don’t need to be an expert in those topics. As an example, one of the clearest uses of these advanced technologies is machine learning. Another use case involves invoice ingestion.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

A report earlier this month from Accenture has estimated that the range of financial sector upstarts — from challenger banks to FinTech firms, to new tech firms coming into financial services — will disrupt top-line growth for entrenched financial institutions (FIs). For banks, the landscape is getting crowded.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Lights out for the FinTech charter idea? The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) debuted a special purpose charter in 2016 that would have given FinTechs a leg up on competing with traditional financial services companies. Of course there are ways for FinTechs to broaden their services. As reported , the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Those market conditions present interesting obstacles and opportunities for everyone in the banking FinTech space. Reports last week said the merger aims to create a FinTech “powerhouse” as both Misys and D+H evolve their services to meet the more sophisticated demands of the industry. The company will merge with DH Corp.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

And, he noted, banks and FinTechs are going to need time to negotiate their relationships with each other, and with consumers the world over. Why Banks Need FinTechs. And increasingly, banks are starting to think of FinTechs not as the enemy, but as potential partners. Why FinTechs Need Banks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

He uses the friendly, in-person relationships of a credit union as an example. He points to his own kids as an example. He said if you step back and look at how kids operate today, chatting with 3,000 friends on social media and instantaneously texting, it’s just a different generation. “So

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

million SMBs operate across the country and account for 64 percent of new jobs. Only 35 percent of such businesses make it past their first decade in operation. Many FinTechs are using these ML applications to accelerate their financing approval processes. FinTechs that harness ML to process loan applications were approving 57.2

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

Tencent also operates WeChat, the wildly popular messaging app. At the time Naspers said proceeds would go toward growth opportunities in global classified, online food delivery and FinTech. The FinTech market is attractive to investors because the financial industry has long been in need of disruptions. percent from 33.2

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Gonzobanker

MAY 4, 2020

All the capital flowing into the digital fintech space is helping to solve banking industry challenges. As the industry’s appetite for digital technology grows, the capital that’s been flowing into mostly digital-focused fintech is solving real industry challenges right now. operations with a soft landing of customers to Varo.

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As we wrap up an unpredictable and sometimes tumultuous year in both the fintech industry and the world, we’re looking back at the last 12 months of IBM FinTech blogs to pick out some of the more popular and insightful posts of 2017. Some even say that blockchain will be the most influential FinTech technology of 2018.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

For example, in the newly released J.D. Most banks operated in specifics, and were responding to current (50.6 percent of CU members expressed willingness to switch from a CU to a FinTech, due to easier and more convenient services. Along with digital transformation, innovation has been a buzzword for some time. Power 2019 U.S.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 29, 2017

A lot of data is being generated and collected on a daily basis thanks to social media, IoT, and online customer behavior (Upstart, for example, uses this method for its underwriting decisions). Customer data is (arguably) the most valuable asset in many industries, financial services included.

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Perficient

MAY 5, 2022

Two-plus years later, banks and credit unions continue to feel the pressure to transform their credit and lending operations. As an example, for one client, we implemented a “treat-people-right-and-they’ll-pay-you-back” plan that meets today’s heightened customer expectations. And for good.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Banks and FinTechs are going in on blockchain technology , as two separate reports released earlier this month conclude. Analysis from Corporate Insight and Infosys Finacle say banks and FinTechs are readying increased involvement and investment in distributed ledger technologies.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

But mobile devices are an increasingly important part of a small business’ financial management strategy, adding another channel on which banks and FinTechs must innovate to disrupt and improve SMB finances. One of the biggest impacts of mobile-based services will be the shift from weekly or monthly processes to operating in real time.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Corporate treasurers have said they’re interested in a slew of cutting-edge FinTech solutions that experts believe will disrupt financial business management. These professionals widely agreed that positive disruption is on the horizon as a result of FinTech.

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