PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Headlines are filled with reports of service outages and data breaches , and both banks and consumers are contending with rising fraud concerns as digital banking takes off. Fraud threatens everyone, yet customers rely on their banks for protection. The Technology Gap That Fosters Fraudsters.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Most fintech companies are fine, but they’ve stopped blowing off econ class for mimosa brunches. Especially in fintech, which had the roughest semester last spring. Fintech is still alive and well, Gonzobankers, and fintech deals are still happening. Banks Bought More Fintechs (Until Sum mer Break Started!).

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. of bankers are either strongly interested in or already working with fintechs in digital account opening. The benefits of fintechs. By Elizabeth Judd.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Singapore-based FinTech platform Nium is expanding into the Middle East, the company announced on Monday (Oct. FinTech across the Middle East is also set to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 30 percent, and expected to raise over $2 billion in venture capital funding by 2020.".

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Checkbook has joined Visa 's FinTech Fast Track program and launched Virtual Cards , a program that will expand the reach of real-time payments, according to a press release. Virtual Cards were created by Checkbook to reduce the fear of losing a wallet or being a target of credit fraud, according to the release.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

The B2B space is ripe for transformation, where outdated payment processes mark accounts payable (AP), and where technology can make all the difference as corporates choose their banking partners to satisfy their payment needs. Banks And FinTech Firms Together.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

In the latest Digital Fraud Tracker , PYMNTS examines how fraudsters are utilizing mobile and app-based channels for fraud attacks, as well as why fraudsters are still relying on phishing as a major fraud strategy even as they increase their use of new technologies and techniques. Around the Digital Fraud World.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Robinhood’s $200 million fundraise this week may be the talk of the FinTech town, but B2B FinTechs saw their fair share of fresh investments, too. six FinTechs were able to secure a share of the next round of RBS grant money , with the winners including small business banking and biometrics company Onfido. In the U.K.,

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Gonzobanker

JULY 9, 2021

The fintech market is smokin’ hot right now. Fintech is no different. Q1 2021 was the largest funding quarter on record, according to CB Insights , with fintechs raising $22.8 Banks and fintechs are in a heated mashup and seeking niches. Fifth Third Bank is acquiring healthcare fintech Provide.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Banks lost about $4 billion to account takeover (ATO) fraud attempts last year and fraudsters have been reluctant to abandon the scheme as this year progresses. Fraudsters made off with account numbers and other personal details, which could later be used for different synthetic identity fraud or related schemes. market debut.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

An explosion of FinTech innovation has jump-started traditional financial institutions’ (FIs) digitization efforts. Yet, each of these strategies to modernization is a double-edged sword, exposing a bank — and, thus, its partners and customers — to a new breed of fraud risks. In the U.K., billion for small businesses alone.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

In a recent report, CrunchBase looked back at how VC investors reacted to the market downturn over a decade ago. ” As investors and startups remain on-edge about exactly how this will play out, only a few B2B technology startups announced their own investments this week. .” Arkose Labs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Financial institutions are in the midst of becoming more mobile, with many of those legacy operations opting to — or at least considering — working more closely with FinTech providers to upgrade services, retain customers and acquire new ones. The debut of 5G promises to add another tool that can aid such efforts. Latency Advantages.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This has become a larger problem for FIs as they must not only deal with protecting customers from fraud, but also guard against bad actors armed with 4.1 Account opening fraud is a favorite tactic among such cybercriminals, many of whom rely on these credentials to pose as legitimate customers. billion stolen credentials.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

We break down all the B2B FinTech funding rounds below. ’s AimBrain deploys biometric authentication technology to combat fraud for FinTechs and financial institutions. is TrueLayer, which provides a developer platform for FinTechs to streamline access to bank APIs that are PSD2 compliant. EaseCentral.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

Financial Institutions (FIs) that adopt open banking allow third parties like FinTechs to integrate with their application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide personalized financial management and payment apps that draw on bank customers’ data. We need to manage risk appropriately, but open banking is a good thing,” Davies said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

A new report by business banking market research and analysis firm East & Partners suggests corporations aren’t opposed to changing banks as a direct result of new FinTech solutions businesses want to use. Researchers announced East & Partners’ new report, “Financial Technology and the Corporate,” on Monday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

There’s one thing banks and FinTechs can agree on: Those old-fashioned merchant onboarding processes take way too long. But nimble FinTechs have been able to move much faster to address that compared to their lumbering legacy competitors, and that has often left traditional banks to watch as merchants turned to the FinTechs instead.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2020

Department of Justice’s first case of alleged PPP fraud, small businesses quickly came to realize that government relief will not be the silver bullet they need to survive the market downturn. FinTech Eases The Business Model Shift. Even the B2B arena is facing pressure to switch gears and collaborate with FinTechs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As legal cannabis spreads, the industry is a big opportunity for FinTech, as industry players struggle to manage intense compliance requirements and limited access to traditional financial services. based B2B software-as-a-service and data solutions provider focusing on supporting corporates’ compliance and anti-fraud efforts.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

In today’s top news, China’s economy grew by its slowest rate since 1990, Alphabet reached $1 trillion market value, and attempted check fraud spiked 43 percent. Alphabet Market Cap Hits $1T. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, reached $1 trillion market value, joining Apple, Amazon and Microsoft in hitting the milestone.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Finding Friendly Ground With FinTech Firms. That is a big revelation — fundamentally, it means that when people are planning their future, saving for retirement or planning a loan for a home, they are willing to trust that to a FinTech simply because of ease of use and access,” she said. It can be a better offering going forward.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Faced with a growing number of transactions to process in real time, payment service providers (PSPs), financial institutions (FIs) and FinTech firms also need to make sure the security of these smarter payment systems is up to par. Regulators in Ghana and Uganda are exploring changes to their remittance rules to keep payments secure.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2017

API technology is opening new doors for the world of financial services, a trend that cultivates cooperation and collaboration between FinTechs and banks, once considered competitors. But newer technologies on the market are making it more difficult for everyone to get on the same page about how to use the tool.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Such a scenario stands as a terrifying example of not only the sophistication of criminals, but also the threat of fraud in a real-time payments environment. Ron Plesco, principal of Cyber Security, and Bob Ruark, principal of Banking and Financial Services Strategy and KPMG’s FinTech leader in the U.S. . –

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

one of the largest FinTech hubs of the world today, initiatives like Open Banking demonstrate the opportunity for regulatory mandates to encourage innovation and competition — even in markets where such regulatory mandates don’t exist. With the U.K. Open banking today isn’t isolated to Europe and the U.K., he told PYMNTS.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As can be seen, the conference largely revolved around payments, artificial intelligence, fintech partnerships/management, regulation, and fraud/identity in its various forms. Fraud & Identity: By far, the largest number of vendors and conversations were over fraud and identity.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The China Securities Regulatory Commission , China’s security watchdog, is setting up a technology regulation bureau and will announce Yao Qian as its new department chief, the Chinese business publication Caijing said on Wednesday (Dec. 11), as reported by Coindesk. Yao was the head of China’s central bank digital currency initiative. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

However, in this week’s Commercial Card Innovation roundup, it wasn’t the point of friction that technology firms were addressing. Visa and American Express (Amex) turned their attention to promoting virtual card adoption as a technology that enables greater visibility and security in B2B transactions. customers mid-2020.

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Insights on Business

JUNE 3, 2019

Because of this, traditional rules-based fraud detection systems have become outdated and no longer work. Today, real-time payments require real-time fraud detection. Modern payment fraud schemes require modern prevention. Data-science-project-turned-fraud-prevention-solution vs. purpose-built-fraud-prevention-solution.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The World Blockchain Trade Consortium (WBTC) officially launched this week in Singapore with the aim to utilize blockchain technology to lower costs, reduce risk and increase funding to SMEs. When we created Invoice Check, we approached a lot of fintechs and stakeholders in the industry. and Portal Finance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2018

Fraud detection startup Sift Science has raised $53 million in a series D round, bringing its total amount raised to $107 million. Founded in 2011, Sift Science plans to use this latest round of funding to grow its fraud detection and prevention product globally. Clients include Twitter, Airbnb, Twilio, Instacart, Zillow and Yelp.

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Bussman Advisory

MAY 8, 2021

The latest edition of the FinTech Ecosystem Newsletter is here : The post Twitter adds ‘tip jar’? to pay for good tweeting | WEF on blockchain use in capital markets | HSBC voice biometrics prevents £249m attempted fraud appeared first on Bussmann Advisory AG.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Digital payments are growing ever more widespread, with the global digital payments market increasing by more than 50 percent in the past three years to hit $4.7 This puts them at risk of losing customers to more agile FinTechs that lack these issues. trillion in 2020. trillion in transaction value by 2023.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

Today, APIs have become a popular way for banks to share this financial data with other services and have given rise to more possibilities for FinTechs in how they meet their customers’ needs — and more debate about the security of such facilitated information-sharing.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

Oversight Systems has updated its Insights On Demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to provide managers with quicker ways to identify expense report fraud. businesses lose $1 billion every year due to employee expense fraud. In an announcement on Tuesday (Jan. Oversight cited data from JPMorgan, which estimated U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Faster payments pack a lot of potential – technologically speaking and in terms of usefulness. But with the power of faster payments comes the potential for faster fraud. billion: The estimated global value of the blockchain market by 2024. billion: The estimated global value of the blockchain market by 2024.

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