PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the bid to hasten their digital transformation, when it comes to innovation , financial institutions (FIs) may benefit from an “app store” approach as they weigh existing and new solutions. In a nutshell: If banks don’t innovate in a way that is imaginative and proactive, they will lose customers.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2023

Photo by Rido/Adobe Maximizing each step in the innovation journey, including the fintech evaluation process, will set you on the right path to a fruitful fintech partnership. By Charles Potts, ICBA When it comes to innovation, understanding how we do it may be even more important than why.

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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.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Deutsche Bank has opened a new cash management business in Australia, which will add to its global portfolio, according to a press release. Deutsche Bank now operates a global network of cash management services in 35 locations with 14 in the Asia Pacific, the release stated.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

As bank-FinTech collaborations evolve, more traditional financial institutions (FIs) are not only implementing services and technologies developed by FinTech partners, but they’re also lending their own expertise to augment FinTech solutions. In another bank-FinTech tie-up, J.P. Tyfone Connects FIs To Payrailz.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

However, figures show that a majority of executives are in the midst of digital transformations, where 83 percent of financial services executives surveyed say that they’ve innovated with payments technology this year. But that’s likely to change — and move toward a tipping point — as more FinTechs endeavor to become middleware integrators.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Lithuania wants to become a global FinTech powerhouse. In recent years, the market has gone from one struggling with high financial illiteracy and limited card acceptance, to a bright spot in Europe for FinTech innovation. Regulation is perhaps the strongest driver of Lithuania’s FinTech-friendly environment.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2020

FinTech service provider WEX has introduced a new ClearView Snap capability with Amazon Alexa to help fleet managers look at insights and improve decision making by way of a verbal conversation with the chat function, according to a press release. In related news, WEX announced a new corporate payment solutions team in April.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

Belgium, which is home to many European Union (EU) institutions, is also a burgeoning FinTech hub. The country has the fifth-highest number of FinTech deals in Europe, according to an analysis from Belgium-based European FinTech platform B-Hive. ” FinTech firm recovr is among the startups based in Belgium.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In the continued drive for collaboration between the FI and FinTech, between governments and financial services providers, efforts this past week focused on the Middle East and support for new initiatives. The portal contains APIs that, as reported, “enable developers to quickly build innovative services that securely connect to select U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Spend controls were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to feature and program launches. This week’s commercial card innovation tracker includes a rollout of the next generation of authorization controls from Comdata Inc., Finaxar Teams With Visa On SMB Spend Management.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Technology may be enabling automation in small business (SMB) accounting and financial management, but rather than cutting out the need for human accountants in the field, this tech disruption is supporting a change in the profession. This means that in the SMB FinServ space, there is a significant market opportunity to target the accountant.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The great digital shift is transforming credit cards into money management tools. Through the expanded program, cardholders will also be able to manage their accounts, review their transaction history, check their balances and complete other activities – all in a digital environment.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

Renaldo Adler , industry principal of asset management for Trimble Transportation, said the new ideas are intended to bolster services for the new COVID-19-based environment for businesses. "As That will allow for better information on repairs and help them spot maintenance trends across their vehicle base.

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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 fact, design is central to our mission of helping wealth management firms innovate in an era of digital disruption.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Such is the case in financial services, where “ FinTech ” is often used to describe financial technology vendors. “A A firm that offers financial technology is not necessarily a FinTech,” said Provenir Managing Director Paul Thomas, who thinks the distinction between the two needs to be clearer. The Promise of FinTech.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Beyond simply rendering information into bits and bytes, he said the purpose of digitization also revolves around understanding the trends being conveyed by that data. This has historically been on the dashboard of the treasurers, but there’s been a lot of effort to just get data as opposed to having time for analysis,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

With corporate travel still on pause, commercial card innovation has taken a different direction. This week’s look at the latest initiatives explores how FinTechs are wielding the corporate card in ways other than business trips, from accessing credit for accounts payable to financing employee lunches. Nium Uses Cards For Credit.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Banks and FinTechs have been both competitors and collaborators in the financial services space. In recent years, banks have even seen greater competition in the lending market from new FinTech players that can quickly approve loan applications and distribute funds to lenders. New tools for new FinTechs. An ‘API-first’ strategy.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

Though having a choice in financing products is vital for small and medium-sized businesses to manage their cash flow, not all tools are the right fit for every business. “We’re in the business of cash flow management ,” noted McDonald.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

Founded in 2016 in Gothenburg, Sweden, Minna enables customers to manage subscription services via their bank’s app. While subscription management is an issue for consumers, it’s also an issue for banks because there’s a risk that extra money can be taken from the bank account as the data ties are cut between the merchant and customer.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Innovate Finance, which represents 300 UK fintech companies, says venture capital investment fell from $1.2bn (£970m) in 2015, to $783m last year. “Our members tell us Brexit has had a chilling effect on investment,” Innovate Finance chief executive Lawrence Wintermeyer told the BBC. . Flight to safety?

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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 22, 2020

The panel included: Doug Bergeron , managing partner at Hudson Executive Capital ; Ian Drysdale , executive in residence at Great Hill Partners ; Amit Jhawar , venture partner at Accel and Rick Roberts , analyst and portfolio manager at Vulcan Capital. on a state by state basis) will impede innovation, he warned. Data Privacy

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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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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Last week, the Federal Reserve Board published a paper on partnerships between community banks and fintech companies, “Community Bank Access to Innovation through Partnerships.” The Fed’s publication of the paper is another indication of the increased attention that regulators are paying to bank relationships with fintechs.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Those market conditions present interesting obstacles and opportunities for everyone in the banking FinTech space. Reports last week said the merger aims to create a FinTech “powerhouse” as both Misys and D+H evolve their services to meet the more sophisticated demands of the industry. The company will merge with DH Corp.,

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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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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

After a difficult first quarter, fintech funding rebounded in a big way in Q2’20. Free Download: State of Fintech q2’20. Fintech funding rebounded in Q2’20 but deal activity continues to fall. Below, we answer some of our readers’ most pressing questions from the webinar on the state of fintech. First name.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

From the back-office bean counter to the overseer of cybersecurity and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, the modern corporate treasury has undergone an extreme makeover in recent years that goes well beyond its historic roots in cash management. The other is technological innovation. managing director at Melissa, told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

But mobile devices are an increasingly important part of a small business’ financial management strategy, adding another channel on which banks and FinTechs must innovate to disrupt and improve SMB finances. “No one wants to wait to get back to the office or their home office to get this information,” he noted.

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Bussman Advisory

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This week’s must-know stories in the FinTech, AI and Digital Asset space: Sam Altman’s back. Here’s who’s on the new OpenAI board and who’s out Asset managers expect fund tokenization within 1-3 years Binance DOJ settlement $4.3 More information on www.bussmannadvisory.com.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2017

HSBC along with its subsidiary First Direct has partnered with London-based fintech startup Bud to test one of its open banking apps.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Banks are finding it more difficult than ever to ignore potential FinTech partnerships that could better serve their corporate customers. When it comes to corporate treasury, business clients demand robust solutions and services from their banks, and FinTech players are stepping in to help. Managing Risk.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

There is a mountain of friction in commercial payments today that seems to have held the industry back from the kind of rocket-pace innovation propelling retail and consumer payments into the future. It’s thinking about how to get information to corporates and consumers on a real-time basis.”. Thinking Beyond the Payer.

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