PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The Chief of Russia’s Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina said she doesn’t see any pertinent or obvious reason to create a national digital currency, according to a report by Russian News Agency TASS. The regulator made the remarks at the Finopolis forum of innovative financial technologies.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

In today’s top payments news around the world, Globe Fintech Innovations has landed $175 million in additional venture funding, while Airtel has teamed with Amazon to launch a mobile-only video entertainment platform. Airtel runs throughout 18 nations in Africa and South Asia with a mobile network that covers over two billion individuals.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

“We’re excited about the immense potential this partnership creates for both entities, and to deliver innovative solutions for current and future UnionPay cardholders globally. Through our global strategic partnership with Wirecard , we plan to continue driving our international expansion forward,” Wang said. “We Asia-Pacific and Europe.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Fajardo added that the partnership will empower businesses by offering financial services that will help them create a positive economic impact. “As She added that the companies have a common goal of advancing financial inclusion in the country. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In a move that bolsters its financial technology presence in India, Uber has put an Uber Money team into place in Hyderabad. Uber Money in India would be reportedly based on Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the real-time payment system of the National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Maxime de Nanclas, COO and co-founder of Mobeewave, said, “Securing strategic funding from organizations with a proven track record of supporting innovation, especially financial technologies, will enable Mobeewave to continue to grow, [and] develop new product offerings and business partnerships.

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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. The company has rolled out its service in the U.K. and Sweden, it noted.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 13, 2016

While the CFPB has not yet held a public event devoted to FinTech or financial innovation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) recently held a Forum On Supporting Financial Innovation in the Federal Banking System to discuss the agency’s approach to FinTech and other innovative products.

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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. The technology will facilitate instant payments for merchants, businesses, FinTechs, government entities and individuals.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Analysts say easing startups’ access to venture capital follows efforts to ease companies’ access to innovative financial technologies. According to reports, the nation hosts 153 venture capital firms, citing data from Preqin, which have provided $3.5 “Nobody makes any money from these mid-term marks.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Pivoting from concerns and risks around financial technology innovation in the banking system, the U.S. Curry said officials are studying whether marketplace lending and other related innovations, including digital currencies, raise certain risks and comply with existing laws.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2016

The small nation is making a big push in support of FinTech innovation by reforming its payment laws. Singapore’s financial authority said it will look to consolidate existing legislation related to payment systems, stored value facilities and remittance businesses in order to create a new combined regulatory framework.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Company Co-Founder and Partner Dana Settle told Bloomberg that Greycroft plans to use the fresh funds to invest in retail-oriented businesses, although it's also interested in working with health technology, financial technology and grocery-related businesses. Salesforce Ventures .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2016

The small nation is making a big push in support of FinTech innovation by reforming its payment laws. Singapore’s financial authority said it will look to consolidate exiting legislation related to payment systems, stored value facilities and remittance businesses in order to create a new combined regulatory framework.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Money laundering has always troubled financial institutions, but today’s digital banking system creates additional complexities as fraudsters around the world take advantage of financial technologies to launder approximately $2 trillion annually. AML Strategies and Innovation Quirks. Changing AML with AI and ML.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The governor of the Bank of England said he doesn’t think new financial technologies (FinTechs) will cause central banks to be obsolete. The Swiss National Bank is also looking into digital currencies.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

With FinTech driving innovation and competition in the cross-border payments space, governments can no longer afford to ignore changing and heightening demands for greater speed, transparency and efficiency in global transactions. times global GDP in 2016.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

JPMorgan is setting up a financial inclusion lab in India through a partnership with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad’s (IIMA) Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE). According to FinTech Futures , the $9.5

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Banking Transformed Banking Transformed by the Financial Brand’s Jim Marous has new episodes several times a month and features executives from financial institutions, financial technology firms, authors, consultants, and other experts in the banking industry. keep me informed.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 26, 2019

Dave Girouard, CEO and founder of Upstart, testified before Congress’ Task Force on Financial Technology for its hearing on the use of alternative data in loan underwriting and credit scoring. Girouard spent eight years as the president of Google Enterprise, where he presided over Gmail and Google Docs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

government seems to be accepting the positive impact that digital currencies and blockchain could have on legacy financial systems, according to Business Insider. House of Representatives, asking the government to establish a national policy for technology. A non-binding resolution was passed on Monday (Sept. 12) by the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

Department of the Treasury report on how to encourage more FinTech, payments executives were mulling over the report, wondering if it would lead to any concrete improvements and giving their ideas to PYMNTS about how to best improve payments innovation and entrepreneurship. FinTech Improvements. Additionally, the report calls upon the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The People’s Bank of China announced that it will certify 11 types of financial technology hardware and software used for digital payment and blockchain services. Blockchain’s future is here, but we must remain rational,” he said, according to state-run news outlet the People’s Daily. billion won (about $9 million US) in funding.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Digital financial technology company Wirecard and online travel agency Ctrip are rolling out multi-currency Visa cards to Ctrip customers in China, Wirecard said in an announcement. The card will support currencies from Australia, Japan and the U.S.,

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

Lauren Saunders, Associate Director of the National Consumer Law Center, said in the hearing that even for products “clothed in shiny fintech garb,” more consumer protection measures need to be in place for BNPL products and asserted that many of their “abusive profit models may be built on late fees from struggling consumers.”.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 2, 2017

I was chairing a panel where Romana Kumar, Head of Global Transaction Banking for the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), was discussing their trial of Ripple. There was quite an interesting discussion about how this worked, as Ripple has been added to existing infrastructure?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

“The young demographic in India give[s] an edge to adopt and build on new financial technologies, and I believe this will play a vital role in making India a global blockchain innovation center to also spur cryptocurrency adoption throughout the larger public in the country,” said CEO Changpeng Zhao of Binance in a press release.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

“We’re proud to deepen our relationship with Phillips 66 and to leverage its powerful market presence, which has expanded nationally over the last few years,” said Jay Collins, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Small Business and Channel Partnerships at WEX in a press release.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Powell added that the Fed meets “with a broad range of financial sector firms all the time on financial technology.”. There’s just a tremendous amount of innovation going on out there,” he said. The funds will be used to pay for the creation of the coin itself, which is set to launch in the first half of next year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Money laundering has always troubled financial institutions, but today’s digital banking system creates additional complexities as fraudsters around the world take advantage of financial technologies. Between $800 billion and $2 trillion USD is laundered each year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In other news, the SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) announced that it is joining forces with the Swiss National Bank (SNB) on a proof of concept to look into how digital central bank money could be used in the settlement of tokenized assets between market participants. “As

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

According to PYMNTS’ Credit Union Innovation Index , 65 percent of CU members said they chose a CU as their primary financial institution (FI) because they trusted it, as opposed to 45 percent of non-CU members who said the same. percent in the U.K. Payday loans can have interest rates as high as 5,000 percent, however.

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Abrigo

MAY 20, 2015

It’s not just the technology industry that is constantly evolving – many other industries must also remain adaptable to the changing landscape of the American consumer. An innovation like that can make the Apple Watch and Bitcoin seem archaic in comparison. One such industry is banking.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The Asia-Pacific region is a rising star in FinTech innovation, but this week, the blockchain spotlight landed on Singapore as more distributed ledger initiatives from the private and public sectors took major steps forward. We’re now transacting on a global basis in this space, which is ripe for innovation and improvement,” he said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The small nation made a push in support of FinTech innovation by reforming its payment laws. Singapore’s financial authority said it will look to consolidate existing legislation related to payment systems, stored value facilities and remittance businesses in order to create a new combined regulatory framework.

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William Mills

MARCH 8, 2018

Metro Atlanta has established itself as a major hub for the fintech (financial technology) industry. According to the American Transaction Processors Coalition, more than 70 percent of all payments on a global scale currently pass through companies headquartered in metro Atlanta, earning the city the moniker “Transaction Alley.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

It’s all hands on deck as companies across industries take measures to aid the national and global response to the coronavirus pandemic. Both categories stand to gain from automated financial technologies. The second are firms that are attempting to operate as normal to hit their earnings and expansion goals. ”

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