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Today In Payments Around The World: Mynt Lands $175 Million In Funding; Airtel Teams With Amazon On Video

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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. India’s Airtel Closes Amazon Deal to Launch Mobile-Only Videos.

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Innovation & Insight Day – some Highlights; and a Goodbye

Celent Banking

Last week was busy for Celent: on Monday we hosted our annual Innovation and Insight Day at Carnegie Hall (more on that later). With more than 400 registrants, we had to improvise with an overflow room that streamed video of the main stage (thanks to all who helped us accommodate this nice problem).

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VCs And SPACs Raise $1B+ To Invest In Cloud, AI And More Despite Pandemic

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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 . The SPAC Attack.

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Bitcoin Daily: Binance Denies Reports Of Police Raid; Blockchain Expands To Gaming Payments

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Paris-based Ultra , which has created its own blockchain, announced that French video game giant Ubisoft will become the first major gaming system to test out payments on its blockchain for gamers.

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Disbursements In The Time Of Instant Money

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As is laid out in the January 2020 PYMNTS Disbursements Tracker ®, instant money and alternative payment options are transforming everything from medical claims to how we license images and video. Mastercard teamed up with Galileo Financial Technologies to do the same for freelancers. Now, Please.

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What Can Banks Learn From The FinTechs?

Insights on Business

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. I am interested in hearing your thoughts and your organizations experience on this topic.

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How Visa, FIS, TCH, SWIFT, Nacha and Circle See The Future of Faster, Real Time Payments Rails

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The real innovation cycle is where you layer on the program ability of money as a data type on the internet,” noted Allaire. Said Kresse, “It’s great to have a competitive marketplace where you have all sorts of different financial technology players, challenging each other to get better and to raise our game.”

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