PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2020

Philippines payments startup Voyager Innovations has closed a funding deal worth up to $120 million from existing backers, according to a Monday (April 6) statement from Voyager. Voyager Innovations runs the payments platform PayMaya Philippines. Vea, founder and chief executive officer of Voyager Innovations.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

bank Standard Chartered is expanding its network of innovation labs with the launch of an eXellerator lab in Shanghai, reports said this week. The latest lab will aim to promote collaboration between the bank’s employees, corporate clients and FinTech partners to develop new financial services for businesses.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2017

The average small business considers itself a “moderate” user of technology, according to the PYMNTS.com SMB Technology Adoption Index. Only 13 percent say they’re willing to jump on the innovation bandwagon. surveyed said their accounting software is integrated with an invoicing and payments solution.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

Innovation is good, but flexibility and agility count, too — as does striking while it’s hot. DBI) , an employee benefits administrator, by financial technology services company WEX. Earlier in January, WEX announced a partnership with voice technology company AI.io The deal comes amid a busy period for WEX.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

FinTechs are helping companies understand and optimize their total cost of payments acceptance through technology. Big online eCommerce, gig economy or other merchants “tend to have a lot of different payment services that they use,” he told PYMNTS in an interview.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

With speed being the most obvious value proposition of real-time payments capabilities, it’s not difficult to imagine that corporate payers would be eager to embrace faster payments functionality in their accounts payable (AP) departments. And for many firms, that’s exactly what they’re beginning to do.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Managing and executing payments globally can be a sticking point, though, as companies must grapple with fund flows across banks and supply chains , where fees accrue and processing times can be slow. Comparing this industry between five years ago and now, there’s a lot of technology that makes it easier to do business,” said Wong.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Reports have said the move by the payments messaging company positions the firm take on payments giants Visa and Mastercard. ” Reports noted the importance of SWIFT expanding into the SMB payments arena beyond high-value complex corporate transactions. Sila Raises Funding to Nix ACH. The company recently announced $7.7

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Are community banks missing the chance to climb aboard the faster payments train? In late July, the Federal Reserve Faster Payments Task Force released its much-anticipated report on how to strengthen and operate the U.S. faster payments system. faster payment system. faster payment system.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

With the current state of economic upheaval, the ongoing pandemic and the great digital shift, corporates and financial institutions are racing to digitize and modernize payment flows and back-end processes. That’s strong growth for something that is a mature payment product,” said Larimer.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2017

Tencent Holdings will be increasing its investments in financial technologies like artificial technologies and in payments, the company stated during its earnings call yesterday. The decision to enhance these types of investments comes after the company reported a record net income of about $2.7

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Let's Talk Payments

MAY 24, 2016

If there is one region to lead the world into the next generation of financial technology innovation, it is Asia. Despite common belief spread by media coverage that the western.

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Payments Source

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Policymakers and industry officials should join forces in creating regulations and standards for cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence and other innovations before they become more widespread.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Continuing its development of financial technologies on its platform, social media firm Facebook has joined a Visa program that enables the network to access its Token Service for payments, Visa announced today.

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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 26, 2020

London-based global payment provider Checkout.com has purchased Pin Payments, an Australian startup, the companies announced Tuesday (May 26). Founded in 2013 by Grant Bissett and Dominic Pym, Pin Payments serves more than 12,000 businesses across Australia and New Zealand. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 17, 2018

Americans prefer paying with EMV chip cards to swiping their cards or even paying with cash, according to a recent survey from financial technology solutions provider Fiserv. According to the report, released last week, 36% of the people surveyed said they preferred EMV chip cards to other payment methods.

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Cards Payments Survey Financial Technology 199

Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The Products entries for 2017 fall broadly into four sub-categories: Payments Product — for launching the best consumer or business payments product. Product Innovation — for demonstrating the ability to launch multiple innovative products. I look forward to seeing you there.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The Products entries for 2017 fall broadly into four sub-categories: Payments Product — for launching the best consumer or business payments product. Product Innovation — for demonstrating the ability to launch multiple innovative products. I look forward to seeing you there.

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Innovation Lending Boston Trends 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

and EU like Open Banking and PSD2 that require such cooperation, APIs are emerging as an essential piece of the equation for payments innovation. In the January PYMNTS.com B2B API Tracker , powered by FI.SPAN, the numbers present a picture of the B2B payments ecosystem embracing APIs to become faster, more agile, and more global.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

APIs allow banks and technology providers to coordinate development much more easily, enabling the creation of innovative new products and services for functions such as B2B payments. The European Union (E.U.) banks provide each other access to transaction data and account information to enable open banking.

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Bobsguide

MAY 25, 2022

London — May 16, 2022 — Mindtree , a global technology services and digital transformation company, and Finastra , a leading financial technology provider, today announced a partnership to bring Finastra’s Fusion Payments To Go payments technology to banks in the Nordics, the UK and Ireland, as a managed service.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

The basis of innovation is not the desire to create something new or even the inspiration to do so. Innovation occurs where there is a problem and a person with the tools to solve it. Anyone can have a good idea,” Lowthers said; innovation is about what you do with it. PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

These are indeed the days for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the world of payments, and that trend looks likely to hold into the 2020s. 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. Recent Trends.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 16, 2018

EXCLUSIVE—The legacy infrastructure of most banks leaves something to be desired, and payments technology provider Baton Systems wants to use the cloud, APIs, and distributed ledger technology to help.

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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. Mobile Wallet Provider Mynt Pulls in $175 Million in Funding.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun was arrested Monday night (June 22) in the latest chapter that has rocked the German payment services provider. NEW DATA: How Credit Unions Are Innovating To Help Micro Businesses. Airbnb CEO Sees Potential For 2020 IPO Amid Bookings Rebound. Visa On Its 1 Billion Token Milestone — And What Lies Ahead.

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Payments Survey Innovation Fraud 159

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Any sudden shock to the system like we have observed with the pandemic exposes both vulnerabilities and opportunities, especially for payments. Payments are going to really exist in the context of our behaviors, of our expectations, of our norms, how we’re conducting the rest of our lives,” said Bottomline’s Eberle.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

Amy’s payments industry insight and unique experience in properly scaling a company will be valuable assets to our growth strategy,” said Paytronix CEO Andrew Robbins. “I Porter nabbed the 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Financial Technology category for the Central Texas region.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

SWIFT and Microsoft have partnered with Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) to finalize the trial of Cloud Connect, a new payments solution, BNY Mellon announced in a press release on Tuesday (Sept. Cloud Connect hosts SWIFT infrastructure and enables payment transfers via Microsoft Azure. SWIFT announced on Monday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

-based corporate payments and treasury technology company AccessPay , reports in The Telegraph said on Sunday (Jan. Based in Manchester, AccessPay provides a digital platform for payments, cash management and treasury operations by integrating businesses’ back-end operations with their banks. and U.S.,

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Let's Talk Payments

MARCH 23, 2017

Financial technology startups – often called FinTech(s) – have been at the forefront of financial innovation, prompting the traditional banking sector to recognize these new innovative technologies and agile business.

Innovation 98

Innovation Fintech Financial Technology Technology 98

PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2018

Mid-sized financial institutions looking to stay competitive could learn a thing or two from both their larger and smaller counterparts. Other key takeaways from the latest Innovation Readiness playbook: The best-performing FIs focus on consumer engagement. gauges where banks are on the road to becoming innovators.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Just because businesses are interested and willing to adopt payments innovations doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. Other key players in the adoption curve include government entities and financial institutions, says Bottomline Technologies Managing Director of Digital Banking Norm DeLuca. Value Propositions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

DLT would also help in terms of cross-border payments, he said. Many EU residents have to wait a long time for payments to work their way through the region’s banking systems, and that the “correspondent banking model” is outdated and too pricey. The ECB has been open to the idea, and could already be experimenting.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

In today’s top payments news around the world, Mynt is reportedly seeking more funding following a $175 million round, while WeTrade Group is seeking to raise roughly $121 million in its transfer from the OTC board to Nasdaq. Ant-Backed Mynt Seeks More Funding On Heels Of $175 Million Round. billion market cap. TransferWise, a U.K.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2017

Piazza, a 30-year financial technology veteran, who has been serving Citi in a variety of roles since 1988, will lead the group’s efforts in mobile, payments, and general fintech innovation. Citi Group named long-time executive Yolande Piazza the head of Citi Fintech today.

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