Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Just this week, Finovate host Greg Palmer surveyed the event’s audience on what the biggest challenges of digital transformation projects were for incumbents, according to Fintech Futures. As Ron Shevlin , our chief research officer, blogged : “Banks need to stop playing innovation charades. bank’s fintech partners. The results?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The real estate industry is a popular target for FinTech innovators, particularly when it comes to new services and products that target renters and homeowners. The opportunities of real estate FinTech are vast, and innovation is far from slowing down, according to Ian M. Back-Office Innovation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We imagine if presented with an iPhone, penicillin, an automobile or just a ballpoint pen, even the original scribe would have been forced to concede that exciting innovations might be coming up on humanity’s horizon in the intervening 30 centuries. 30), the card network announced just such a FinTech partnership. So today (Sept.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

But as of 2020, it is a subject upon which seasoned experts can disagree, in a world where traditional banks and FinTechs are operating in parallel in the market – and, in many cases, are offering similar services for consumers. But the FinTechs, Baird noted, are adapting and innovating around that issue. Baird said. “As

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

It’s one thing to want to improve or innovate. What’s harder — and what really makes the difference — is figuring how, where and when to innovate, a task that must take into account various factors and even wildcards that keep popping up in the growing and global digital economy and its various ecosystems. FinTech Partnerships.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 21, 2017

There’s an old joke about the guy who’s lost driving in the countryside who stops to ask a pedestrian how to get to the city. The pedestrian replies: “oh, if you want to get there, I wouldn’t start from here”, and this is exactly how banks feel today. Not bad for a six-year-old start-up.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Small business finance is one of the most competitive, innovative and challenging markets in which to operate. We have tremendous demand for our product, we’re growing and we’ve had a lot of success delivering value back to SMB customers,” said Fundbox’s Jordan MacAvoy, VP of marketing. Market Progress.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2017

With the financial services space shifting from a competitive nature to a collaborative spirit between traditional banks and emerging FinTechs, one major stakeholder in the payments industry has quietly been an integral part of this co-op: the Federal Reserve. Louis, as its new payments strategy director.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But beyond its analysis to help you in your product journey, data can help transform your marketing efforts, offering insights into customer interests and behaviors to better align your offerings with their expectations. Data analysis and performance marketing do not have to be in-house skillsets. The results?

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 15, 2019

For most of the past decade, the fintech sector seemed to have nothing but blue skies ahead. But over the last 12 months, warnings that first signaled in 2016 have been flashing brighter. CEO scandals, pulled IPOs and sinking stock prices, have taken the luster off previously high-flying brands. Big banks have finally woken up […].

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

It’s a statement borne out by the new Credit Union Innovation Playbook , a PYMNTS/ PSCU collaboration. It’s a powerful starting place and a statistic that gives greater insight into how credit unions in general are crushing loyalty. Collaborating with FinTechs could be a an excellent way to level up their offerings to the consumer.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

Those are some of the common myths of innovation , and they apply to the payments world. Moving past those myths, and finding deeper truths about payments innovation, was the underlying result of a recent PYMNTS webinar, featuring Karen Webster and Amir Wain, founder and CEO of i2c , an integrated commerce and smart payments firm. “

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Want to understand payments innovation in Latin America ? One may indeed be a bit hungrier than before, but according to what NovoPayment CEO Anabel P é rez told Karen Webster during a recent PYMNTS interview, they can now understand one of the fundamentals of innovation in Latin America. Latin American Progress. Front Row Seat.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

The corporate expense management market doesn’t look like it once did. While this industry is largely reliant on corporates’ adoption of innovative technology, it is also instrumental to getting issuing banks in on the movement.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Canadian FinTech Neo Financial said that it has raised CAD $50 million in a Series A funding round that included $25 million in funding and $25 million in debt facility financing. The company added that it is actively hiring and has 70 positions open across finance, marketing, operations, product and technology.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

It’s also opened up conversations about how professionals get paid. While there has been some innovation in wage payment mechanisms as more employers shift away from the paper check toward direct deposit and payroll cards, little has changed about the timing of those payments. ACH Innovation Breaks The Mold.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Innovation is oxygen in payments. For financial services firms, innovation is spurring speed, killing friction and fostering loyalty among customers. That, itself, begs the question: What is innovation, really? explained there is wide variation in the definition of innovation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

FinTech firms are tracking the evolution of digital commerce and payments while tapping into the experiences of their leaders. He believes the B2B market is on the brink of a shift from paper to electronic payments. AvidXchange Chief Operating Officer Steve Boehm, for instance, got the chance to live life at a web 1.0

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Innovation in the accounts payable (AP) space continues to expand, with FinTechs looking to capture their piece of a growing market driven by businesses’ desire to digitize their operations. Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest examples of how AP innovators pull suppliers’ accounts receivable processes into the fold.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

How do you navigate the constant churn of innovations or disruptors? A barrage of new payments potential has shaped the market since the start of the pandemic. The financial services industry is acting on this digital demand, incorporating fintech solutions, instant payments offerings and crypto banking products.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Providing onboarding services in the Latin American market is both an exciting opportunity and a challenging one. And there is no shortage of interest in the region in that ability, with particular interest coming from the financial services sector, the cryptocurrency markets and in the healthcare vertical. A Diversity Of Needs.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

New Zealand is a country that can be easy to overlook when it comes to FinTech. But the story of how payments are evolving there can offer lessons for the rest of the globe, along with glimpses of how the relevant technology might play out in the 2020s. Open Banking will create the infrastructure for innovation,” van Dam said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

It’s an innovator’s job to look at the status quo and disrupt what has always been done in favor of progress. Increasingly, however, payment rail innovators are also introducing ways to bypass traditional banks altogether, with many in favor of distributed ledger technology to move money between businesses and across borders.

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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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Chris Skinner

MARCH 1, 2017

I was reflecting on a friend of mine who runs a FinTech start-up. But it gives you an insight into how hard starting a new firm is, FinTech or Tech or any really. How many of those are there in FinTech? Well, we’ve seen one and I wonder how many more are out there. America is still big on FinTech.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital and mobile technology, along with online marketplace models. So-called peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has certainly faced challenges in certain markets. But that’s not all. “We

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NCR

MARCH 9, 2018

Of the various trends and changes driving the financial services industry at the moment, one that has prompted a lot of discussion is the growing importance of collaboration between established financial institutions (FIs) and smaller, emerging service providers, most notably fintechs. Measuring success. Image: Rawpixel via iStock.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2016

In a payments landscape that is ever-changing and rapidly growing, having a focus on innovation that takes that same approach is significant. As Peter Read , President of Peoples Card Services , recently pointed out to PYMNTS, needs are never static, and neither should the payments innovation aimed at addressing them.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

While the European Banking Authority has created a “roadmap” on how to regulate emerging FinTech services, the body is not keen on creating a unified approach to cryptocurrency regulation — at least not yet, Reuters reported.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

These leaders are forming new partnerships—with fintech startups, financial service providers, and platform companies like Alibaba and Tencent — and exploring emerging technologies—such as AI, blockchain, and open banking—to help them develop a new transactional digital business fabric. Explore IBM Banking and Financial Markets Solutions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

have announced a partnership that they said will accelerate innovation across digital commerce and startup ecosystems. The collaboration promises to accelerate Mastercard Labs, the financial services company’s research and development arm that is dedicated to bringing payment solutions to market quicker.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That can be easier said than done, of course, but in a new PYMNTS discussion with Karen Webster, Laurin Nabuko Hainy, founder and CEO at FairMoney , gave a tour of the emerging payments landscape in Nigeria and offered lessons that can be applied to other developing markets. Our vision is to be a one-stop shop,” Hainy told Webster.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

As a result, there is no industry standard for how to manage inter-business payment flows, and companies are usually forced to expend precious time collectively negotiating just to settle their bills. With spiking investments in digital payment solutions, the B2B sphere appears to finally embrace innovation. We may soon have an answer.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

ICBA has a growing network of people and resources community banks can tap into as they continue their innovation journeys. The ThinkTECH Accelerator is one of several initiatives underway this year to foster community bank-enabled fintech partnerships. How do we filter and qualify solutions for our bank’s needs?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

He also offers advice for how to innovate in the field. Here is an excerpt of the conversation: PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? JB: I watch how people interact with their mobile devices very closely.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

One of the biggest shifts in banking that FinTech newcomers ushered into the market is the demand among customers for advisory services. Glover spoke with PYMNTS again about how this trend will carry into 2019 and what technologies might be able to help banks strike the balance. with FinTechs. from individuals to?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

Innovation can sometimes be seen as a solution looking for a problem, but it’s time to stop thinking of technology as bells and whistles and start looking at it as a necessary element of doing business for a changing consumer base – and up against a changing landscape of challenges and threats. How do you manage security and risk?

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