PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Below, PYMNTS looks at some of the other payments and financial technology companies that are either innovating on top of existing rails or looking to bypass those legacy networks altogether with entirely new solutions. Sila Raises Funding to Nix ACH. Billhop Eases B2B Card Acceptance.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2020

OneConnect Financial Technology and China Merchants Port Group ( CMPort ) will work to create a blockchain-based system with Shenzhen customs to serve the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. OneConnect is the financial arm for Ping An Insurance, the largest insurer in China.

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Bobsguide

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Banks are depending on the cloud to build better systems for the future, but legacy technology is holding 62% of them back. The growing need to overhaul these systems is what powered GFT’s leap on the 2022 IDC FinTech Rankings. Financial companies are doubling down on IT.

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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

APRIL 7, 2020

While some firms are adjusting the assembly lines of their manufacturing warehouses to produce much needed personal protective equipment, FinTechs have found themselves in a different position to provide valuable assistance. The second are firms that are attempting to operate as normal to hit their earnings and expansion goals.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

If money is a vote of confidence, via investments, then confidence is strong in the tech sector, and specifically for FinTechs. Unlike the broader VC market, early-stage FinTech companies have continued to attract a solid flow of capital in the U.S., But there can be a sea change afoot that can mix things up a bit. The way it will go?

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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

AUGUST 30, 2016

Singapore is preparing for a FinTech revolution. The small nation is making a big push in support of FinTech innovation by reforming its payment laws. “It would also give MAS the flexibility to address emerging risks, such as cybersecurity, interoperability, technology and money laundering and terrorism financing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

With more countries and regions embarking on the modernization of their payments systems to capitalize on real-time technologies and customer demand, the market opportunity is significant,” said Paul Stoddart , Mastercard president of new payment platforms. ACI is a payment-systems company headquartered in Naples, Fla.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2016

Singapore is preparing for a FinTech revolution. The small nation is making a big push in support of FinTech innovation by reforming its payment laws. “It would also give MAS the flexibility to address emerging risks such as cyber security, interoperability, technology, and money laundering and terrorism financing.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

But the faster payment systems are showing advantages, too, he said. All of these new instant payments systems around the world are being built on the ISO 2002 standard,” said Waterhouse. We've got a common messaging framework, this data rich environment where also we’re operating 24/7. So that is certainly an aspiration.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Clearing House's real-time payments offering, the RTP ® network, continues to gather steam with financial institutions (FIs), FinTechs and their business customers in this week's Payment Rail Innovation roundup. Pakistan Preps Instant Payment System. Wells River Savings Bank Joins The RTP Network.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

The firm’s Business Leaders Outlook report, published earlier this month, found that the majority of SMBs expect revenue, sales and profit increases in 2019, with executives turning to hiring activity and technological innovation as drivers of their success. Looking Ahead.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

These firms collectively known as FinTechs or Financial Technology firms are disrupting the banking industry by dis-intermediating across a banking customer’s financial value chain. What can banks learn from the FinTechs?

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Urs Bolt

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Fintech to facilitate inclusive financial system establishment in China, say experts. Leveraged by tremendous customer data, Chinese Fintech companies have an edge over their Western counterparts in innovation applications.”. China could improve its regulatory technologies. Financial Services. Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

From shifting use of various payment rails like ACH and cards, to deployment of FinTech technologies, to changing supplier payment habits, the report offers a glimpse at the current state of B2B payments – and where the industry may be headed. But how businesses reshape their payment practices varies. Payments Rails.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

These firms collectively known as FinTechs or Financial Technology firms are disrupting the banking industry by dis-intermediating across a banking customer’s financial value chain. What can banks learn from the FinTechs?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

That raises several questions for financial institutions (FIs), FinTech firms and payment service providers as they figure out how to best navigate this changing world. Legacy payment providers are looking for ways to innovate in the ways that [FinTech firms] do, and to avoid duplicative costs.”. Recent Trends. Basic Question.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

Reports on Wednesday (July 13) said Taylor has founded a company to provide financial institutions with a blockchain-based operating system. Dubbed Vault OS, the solution is geared towards banks that need to update their systems with secure technology, he said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

Financial technology innovation has opened the doors to massive transformation of corporate finance departments. While flashy corporate FinTech is exciting, innovation efforts have rarely focused on a mainstay of corporate finance teams: the financial close process, a crucial, but continually outdated function.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

These firms collectively known as FinTechs or Financial Technology firms are disrupting the banking industry by dis-intermediating across a banking customer’s financial value chain. What can banks learn from the FinTechs?

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

What should be their strategy for Digital Banking transformation and what they can learn from FinTech innovation? These firms collectively known as FinTechs or Financial Technology firms are disrupting the banking industry by dis-intermediating across a banking customer’s financial value chain.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

FinTech company SPEZA announced that it will be able to accept China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP), the world’s first sovereign digital currency. The digital asset solutions provider, exchange operator and regulator, based in Malaysia, will also accept all major digital assets listed on SPEZA Digital Asset Exchange.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Beyond the cost of the transactions themselves, there’s a palpable drag on operations. Comparing this industry between five years ago and now, there’s a lot of technology that makes it easier to do business,” said Wong. “This high cost significantly affects an SME’s margin. Additionally, the transfers take many days.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

As part of those efforts, the lab is being used to explore “whether there is a role for a digital Australian dollar — that is, an Australian [central bank digital currency (CBDC)] — in the context of the bank’s responsibilities for issuing the currency and overseeing the payments system.”. The language is interesting — and noteworthy.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FinCEN ) is launching an initiative called the FinCEN Innovation Hours Program, as a call to private sector companies that have developed tech to fight money laundering and terrorist financing, the organization said in a release. FinCEN expects to hold events in the Washington, D.C.

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William Mills

JUNE 7, 2016

William Mills Agency, the premier public relations and content marketing firm focusing on the fintech industry, today announced that they have been chosen to provide strategic public relations services and content marketing to Paragon Application Systems. Located in Holly Springs, N.C., About Paragon.

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William Mills

JUNE 7, 2016

William Mills Agency, the premier public relations and content marketing firm focusing on the fintech industry, today announced that they have been chosen to provide strategic public relations services and content marketing to Paragon Application Systems. Located in Holly Springs, N.C., About Paragon.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

s Bacs and Faster Payments systems, for example. Meanwhile, DeLuca said, financial institutions may only now just be beginning to realize that they can’t depend on their ownership of the payment rails and infrastructure to keep business customers loyal. “We do a lot of business in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

FinTech service provider WEX signed on with Phillips 66 to handle exclusive private label and universal fleet card services, Verdict reported on Wednesday (Aug. WEX focuses on delivering financial technology services across multiple industries including fleet, travel and healthcare.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The IBM team will present on a variety of topics ranging from AI to the future of payments to the current trends in financial services. For those in marketing, data and analytics roles who have business operations responsibility. Building blocks for a fintech world: Hands-on workshop. How to create fintech apps in the IBM Cloud?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Considering the mind-bending level of competition in the FinTech space today, the rise of the API may raise some eyebrows. After all, if a company has worked so hard to develop some type of financial technology, why would they want to lend that technology out to just about anyone?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

to fully embrace real-time payments for both B2B and B2C activity,” Bottomline Technologies Vice President of Product Management and Strategic Solutions Jessica Cheney told PYMNTS in a recent interview , pointing to the previous rollout of Same-Day ACH and an acceleration of FinTech innovation in the country.

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Banking 2020

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Banking institutions must engage with emerging financial technology (FinTech) companies or risk being left behind by an industry that is currently undergoing one of the largest transformations ever seen.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 2, 2017

The background to this was announced in a press release on 1st February 2017: Ripple’s Distributed Financial Technology fits within NBAD’s existing infrastructure and offers a secure end-to-end payment flow providing transaction immutability and payment integrity. The payments system works on sludge. Amazon works on speed.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

One of the largest factors that sets credit unions (CUs) apart from large banks and FinTech providers is their emphasis on member relations. Ventura County Credit Union will purchase LA Financial Credit Union, giving the combined CU 120,000 members and $1.3 billion in assets. CU members are known for their loyalty, with 60.8

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

As part of those efforts, the lab is being used to explore “whether there is a role for a digital Australian dollar — that is, an Australian [central bank digital currency (CBDC)] — in the context of the bank’s responsibilities for issuing the currency and overseeing the payments system.”. The language is interesting — and noteworthy.

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