PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

The Mexican central bank and Amazon are in talks to introduce a government-approved mobile payment system, according to reports. The system would involve users paying for online purchases using QR codes, and it would be the first time Amazon offered the technology in the country. The beta is scheduled to be released this month.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since Ubisoft is already a leader in the games industry, and shows commitment to probe blockchain as a viable technology for games, we are very excited to be announcing our first cooperation of this kind with them,” said Nicolas Gilot, Co-CEO of Ultra, in a statement.

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DECEMBER 6, 2020

will hire 200 people before launching publicly in early 2022, Bloomberg reported. Bloomberg reported that Charles Wong , who will be chief executive of the new digital bank, said in an online briefing Friday night that the 200 new hires will work in technology in general — and in some cases, financial technology in particular.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

New payment and financial technologies are quickly emerging from the FinTech community, all with the promise of expediting payments and reducing the distance between cross-border trading partners. The fear of non-payment, in particular, tends to be the smaller merchants’ worst nightmare.

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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. Payments giant Mastercard, based in Purchase, N.Y.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

Financial technology innovation has opened the doors to massive transformation of corporate finance departments. For middle-market organizations, the largest barrier to efficient financial close processes remains the struggle to obtain high-quality data. Transformation Through Data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

“Companies are adjusting their AP practices to better suit work-from-home operations, according to recently released results of a survey taken from May to June. financial executives found that 91 percent were investing in financial technologies intended to help with newly remote operations. The poll of 325 U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

s proposed Libra, CoinDesk reported. This is a good chance for Europe to strengthen its international standing and to become a global standard-setter, with European companies leading new technologies for digital finance,” he said. A decision on its coins, seen as a competitor of Bitcoin, is expected this year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

GME) one of the largest payment financial technology companies in South Korea, according to a Tuesday (June 23) announcement by MoneyGram. Last month, Dallas-based MoneyGram reported its digital transactions grew by 57 percent in the first quarter, compared to Q4 of last year. Money transfer company MoneyGram International Inc.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2020

Boost Payment Solutions , a global provider of B2B payment technologies, announced a strategic collaboration with BMO Harris Bank on Thursday (June 25). The New York-based financial technology company has teamed with BMO Harris Bank to deliver integrated, automated processing for its corporate card customers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Mastercard and Norwegian financial technology (FinTech) company EedenBull have agreed to expand their partnership to the Asia Pacific region, the firms announced Monday (June 29). Last month, PYMNTS reported EedenBull rolled out its commercial card platform to banks to take advantage of improved B2B payment capabilities.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

percent, it was only the seventh-most important priority among CUs, which are instead focusing on open banking options that offer anti-money laundering (AML), data security and instant payments technology. digital transformations reshaping CUs’ role in the financial space, and how open banking could change how CUs do business.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

As reported this past week, per Yahoo Finance , Ireland wants to see as many as 50,000 people employed directly within the country’s international financial services sector, with a target date of 2025. Separately, Ireland-based FinTech Prepaid Financial Services has been granted an eMoney license by the Central Bank of Ireland.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

By buying Plaid, Visa would reportedly gain access to 200 million consumer bank accounts and 2,600 financial technology apps that would help the company further push into areas like real-time payments and digital wallets. However, Visa rejects the Justice Department’s claim that that would create an illegal monopoly.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The shares were from the company’s technology holdings, according to Rakuten, and the sheer amount of them raised concerns among analysts about overvaluation in the sector. Rakuten’s sales come on the heels of its operating loss of 40 billion yen, or $360 million, last quarter.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2018

Zelle made a difference to the bottom line of financial technology provider Fiserv, the company reported on its earnings call yesterday. It was also noted that several banks — Fiserv serves some 13,000 financial institutions — saw a boost in transactions due […].

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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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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

billion accounting scandal, but restrictions on the collapsed German payments company will stay, Reuters reported. “We We cannot lift the restrictions without reassuring ourselves that the firm has been able to satisfy all our concerns, for example that all clients’ money is safe,” the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Ant Group 's initial public offering (IPO) could be delayed by six months and its valuation reduced by quite a lot after its delay this week, a report from the Financial Times says, as new regulations come into play.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Treasury Department has released a report entitled “ Assessing the Impact of New Entrant Non-bank Firms on Competition in Consumer Finance Markets.” The report was issued in response to President Biden’s July 2021 Executive Order on promoting competition.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The shares were from the company’s technology holdings, according to Rakuten, and the sheer amount of them raised concerns among analysts about overvaluation in the sector. Rakuten’s sales come on the heels of its operating loss of 40 billion yen, or $360 million, last quarter.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Creation of the new unit would be part of a much larger overhaul of the financial technology company and subject to approval by Chinese authorities, who pulled the plug on the company’s massive initial public offering late last year, according to Bloomberg. To operate beyond Chongquing, Ant would be required to apply for new licenses.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Automated business payments processing firm AvidXchange is launching a new fundraising round that could give the firm a $2 billion valuation, The New York Times reported on Monday (Dec. Investment bank Financial Technology Partners is advising AvidXchange on this fundraising round, according to sources. 9), citing sources.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Our customers need financial technology tools that align with their personal and business needs,” Wells River Savings Bank Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officers Judy Lavely said in the announcement. Sweden Considers Implications Of Digital Currency.

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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. But numerous attempts to locate Reynolds since then have been futile, and he has not responded to requests from investigators.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 30, 2016

Aspire was created in 2015 with a vision of re-imagining the technology infrastructure in the alternative and asset-backed lending markets. Integrated loan processing, reporting and analytics tools. Lecker has over 25 years in the ABL industry in a variety of IT, finance, and operations roles. Why it’s great. Presenters.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the European Union’s (EU) financial watchdog, plans to examine how German regulators handled oversight of Wirecard AG , the collapsed payments company that is facing a series of criminal allegations. It reported nearly $4 billion of debt to creditors, after it revealed that $2.1

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Compliance startup Chainalysis works with law enforcement officials and financial institutions (FIs) to ensure that their cryptocurrency operations are within regulations. The company announced a $30 million Series B investment round this week, led by Accel, said reports in Fortune. Open Financial Technologies.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

financial technology startup backed by Goldman Sachs , is expanding overseas. Investing.com , citing a Reuters report, said that the company, which helps other startups issue payment cards, has set its sights on London and has already hired five employees and signed up customers. than the startups operating out of the U.S.

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

Since Square purchased Afterpay, customers can get an Afterpay card to use with participating retailers that operate with Square, which lets customers use Afterpay for in-store purchases. Affirm says on its website that it sometimes reports users’ payment history to Experian, and it “may report loans with delinquent payments.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Mexico’s new government, led by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is setting its sights on financial technology to get the country out of poverty. The report noted that banking systems embedded on mobile phones are popular in emerging markets, including in China, India and Kenya , driven in part by private-sector FinTechs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Chinese conglomerate Tencent is the latest to step into the blockchain trade finance space via its FinTech unit Tencent Financial Technology, according to reports in China Daily on Friday (Nov. Tencent is collaborating with Linklogis to build the solution, reports said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

landed on the board, too, as alternative lending, small business banking, back-office financial management and accounts receivable technology enticed backers. But it was a Singapore startup building out a holistic suite of small business financial services that landed the largest round this week, by far.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2019

Reuters reported. It has created an operating system that helps create and upgrade software applications for financial institutions — much like the way consumer apps get updated on phones. As it stands, almost 200,000 desktops at over 1,500 banks as well as buy-side firms tap into the company’s operating system.

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The FTC has sent its annual letter to the CFPB reporting on the FTC’s activities related to compliance with the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Regulation B. Big data report. In June 2016, the FTC launched a series of forums exploring emerging financial technology and its implications for consumers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2020

The Financial Times (FT) reported there was one conversation between the two men that took place on Braun’s 50th birthday in November and an earlier talk in September. Once a rising star on the world stage, the $28 billion financial technology giant declared insolvency last month, the equivalent of a bankruptcy filing in the U.S.;

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, executives of PayPal and Mastercard touted partnerships between financial technology companies and banks as a positive way to gain customers’ trust and innovate new ways for customers to interact with their finances. On Tuesday (Jan. On Tuesday (Jan.

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