PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

Wells Fargo announced on Tuesday (May 22) that Steve Ellis, head of the innovation group, will retire after nearly 31 years with the company. Before that, he started and ran the wholesale internet solutions group, which launched Wells Fargo’s Commercial Electronic Office (CEO) portal in 2000 and CEO Mobile in 2007.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Demand for digital solutions continues to accelerate, making innovation an imperative for community banks looking to excel in today’s evolving market. That’s why ICBA makes innovation a priority and provides community banks with the information and tools necessary to grow and succeed in today’s competitive landscape.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Banks' embrace of FinTech is often driven by consumers' growing demand for a more seamless and unified experience. This week's look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaboration and open banking initiatives finds treasury management in the spotlight. But corporates can benefit from industry collaboration, too. Tink & Enel X.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The seed of FinTech innovation often comes from a desire to do things differently. But as finance and payments tech expands, these traditional FIs are learning that perhaps the best way to meet the demands of their corporate clients isn’t to compete with FinTech innovators but to collaborate with them.

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Bobsguide

APRIL 30, 2022

Advisory Group will consist of senior credit traders from AllianceBernstein, American Century Investments, BlackRock, Invesco, MetLife Investment Management, PIMCO, and PineBridge Investments. To further develop corporate bond trading and advance market structure, global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.

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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

APRIL 29, 2020

The April 2020 New Payment Flows edition of PYMNTS’ Credit Union Innovation Playbook series, a PSCU collaboration, looks into the credit union (CU) space at a pivotal moment: Many concepts, from eating to shopping to traveling and, of course, how we pay, have changed forever. CUs value innovation that benefits members.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In PYMNTS’ latest B2B venture capital roundup, which yielded $75 million in new funding, startups embraced distributed ledger technology for B2B payments and supply chain management, with 80 percent of total funding landing at blockchain companies. Envoy Group. The $13 million raised for U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

In today’s top payments news around the world, Grab Financial Group said it has raised $300 million in a funding round, while the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) is introducing an open banking policy. Grab Financial Group Raises $300 Million For Expanded Finance Solutions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As banks look to streamline access to finance or make it easier to safely share financial information with apps, Barclays Business Banking and Wells Fargo are joining forces with FinTechs on digital initiatives. PYMNTS rounds up the latest partnerships and initiatives below. Barclays & Propel. Wells Fargo & Envestnet. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

Created in 2017, the API Standardization Industry Group has begun developing an application program interface (API) standardization “playbook” to help enhance support for payments and the business needs of financial institutions, companies, FinTechs and other industry stakeholders and participants.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Venture capital funding landed at supplier payment and compliance automation firms this week, among other B2B innovators that raised money. The round included new investors TransLink Capital, AV8 Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, Mindset Ventures and Ridgeline Partners. million Madrona Venture Group-led seed round. Strike Graph.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Innovation has always been important for community banks, but the driving force of digitization over the last decade has greatly sped up the pace, said Kevin Tweddle, chief innovation officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America ( ICBA ). Innovating for Community Banks. Community banking is no exception.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Australian digital identity management technology firm Identitii is joining a group of the nation’s largest banks to boost efficiency of digitizing data exchange for its financial institution customers. The tool deploys blockchain technology to enhance the movement of information via banks’ existing infrastructures.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Collaboration amid competition has been a hallmark of the financial services space, as traditional financial institutions (FIs) join forces with FinTech startups. The group, to be known as Alloy Labs Alliance, according to a press release , is being managed by FinTech Forge. Guidelines From The UK. and MarketInvoice.

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Bobsguide

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Driven by investor research and innovative design, Wealth InFocus is transforming digital and print client communications and increasing investor engagement with a simpler, intuitive and actionable experience.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

And yet, some industry experts have observed that AI is not yet being used to its full advantage in vendor management—one of the thornier problems that community banks are wrestling with today. If a community bank has just a handful of vendors, managing those vendors is fairly straightforward. AI and innovation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Norwegian banking group Eika Group has invested in FinTech EedenBull to help its banks with new and innovative payment solutions to serve customers, according to a release. The FinTech is in the process of introducing its payments and spend management programs in over 65 banks all around the Nordic region.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Banks and FinTechs continue to discover new opportunities in unlocking corporate clients’ financial data, with banks embracing data integration for their own product development initiatives, and FinTechs finding new ways to collaborate with each other. Mastercard Taps FinTech for Biz Card Boost.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In the coexisting — and sometimes colliding — worlds of FinTech and traditional financial services, a bit of collaboration often evolves. As reported by Bloomberg , the regulator at the helm of Singapore’s financials has embraced an effort to “bring together” FinTech firms and banks there.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Brazil’s unicorn FinTech and payments startup EBANX is trialing a digital wallet, called Ebanx Go, with 10,000 consumers on a test basis, the company announced on Wednesday (Jan. The digital wallet offering is intended to solidify the FinTech’s reach in the Brazilian payments market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This week's look at the latest in open banking and bank-FinTech collaboration finds financial institutions (FIs) exploring both partnerships and acquisitions to strengthen their offerings for corporates, while third-party service providers have also boosted their data-sharing capabilities to empower those financial service provider tie-ups.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Most people who know the name Branch Rickey know him as the president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who played a key role in helping Jackie Robinson break the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In a speech to a YMCA group in 1915, Mr. Rickey said: “There is no luck. Luck is the residue of design.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The company has reportedly been hiring numerous product managers and engineers. Its new FinTech team could ultimately have more than 100 workers. The company’s push into FinTech will help broaden its lead over rival service Lyft, and its offerings will look to help increase customer engagement and loyalty.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Shifting employee landscapes, changes in workers’ demands over how and when they get paid, and technological innovation have combined to open the floodgates for payroll FinTech. Speeding Up Wages. Among the largest, she said, is an accelerating pay cycle. “Gone are the days of paper pay slips to your door,” she said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

And one question worth posing is: What will happen to FinTech ? Specifically, what will happen to London’s standing as a FinTech hub? The city has long been known as a financial center (especially in Europe) and more recently as FinTech. But one clue as to how FinTech may fare is where the talent goes. and to the EU.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The latest global FinTech collaboration ties together Singapore and Dubai in a deal designed to encourage innovation in digital payments, online and mobile commerce, and related areas. The agreement … sets out a process to share and use information on innovation in their respective markets.”. According to U.K.-based

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

Norwegian banking alliance Eika Group is teaming up with EedenBull , India’s FinTech startup BharatPe notched $15.5 Kudi Co-Founder and CEO Yinka Adewale said the company will be “hiring engineers, product managers and product designers,” according to the reports. million in Series A funding, The Hindu BusinessLine reported.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2019

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde issued a warning over the weekend about the impact artificial intelligence may have on the financial system across the globe. But it has also led to two firms controlling more than 90% of the mobile payments market.”

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Bank Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

It is this revolution that has led us to present Bank Innovation Build, our newest conference, on Nov. There is a revolution going on inside banking. And that’s not just a cheap cliche. Allow me to explain: A few days ago, Dana Maor, a senior partner at McKinsey, wrote that the consultancy believes “that […].

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2018

Swiss financial regulator FINMA is planning to soften anti-money laundering rules for smaller FinTech firms in an attempt to help the country become a tougher competitor in the money management sector. ” But advocates still say that in order to truly compete in the market, there needs to be more innovation in the country.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 2, 2020

Vanguard Group and Ant Financial’s joint venture is rolling out a new robo adviser to target the Chinese fintech giant’s 900 million users, a first step in winning a slice of the nation’s fast growing asset management business.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

trillion gap in global trade finance — continues to be used as a driver of FinTech innovation as technology startups look for ways to address friction in global trade financing. Standard Chartered is the latest bank to embrace FinTech collaboration to tackle the trade finance gap, having announced Tuesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

In addition, African challenger bank Vista Group has selected banking software company Temenos to help with its digital transformation, and Australia FinTech firm PayRight has notched more than $30 million in financing. As its stands, Ecentric counts retailers and Tier-1 banks in its portfolio.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Globe Fintech Innovations of the Philippines, the FinTech arm of Globe Telecom , landed $175 million in additional venture funding this month. Now, Globe Fintech, known as Mynt , is reportedly on the hunt for more cash — and looking to get a valuation over $1 billion. and China-based Ant Group.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

EXCLUSIVE — Standard Bank Group, the largest bank in Africa, has joined the INV Fintech accelerator program as a partner, INV announced today. INV is the sister accelerator of Bank Innovation. Standard Bank, headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, joins several financial services companies as INV partners.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

venture capital sphere this week: VC funding for FinTech startups in Q1 alone hit $1.2 leads the rest of the world in the total value of FinTech investment due to the large amount of funds available to invest in the market, with investors focusing on late-stage, clear front-runner FinTech companies,” said KMPG U.S. “The

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