PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

percent of retailers have said they innovate to improve customer loyalty. That, in fact, is one of the main findings in the new Retail Innovation Readiness Index from PYMNTS, powered by FinTech firm AEVI. Things have changed, though, he said — one reason why that innovation finding carries such weight. “I

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Morgan is focused on enabling payments for the millions of small businesses that are the lifeblood of Main Streets across the U.S. – Those latter two firms have been in the in-store POS market for quite some time (Square, for example, since 2009). and, by extension, the U.S. As reported this week, J.P. percent/10 cents and 2.9

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

s exit from the bloc next year, the EU’s executive is set to propose a draft law aimed at boosting the FinTech market throughout the region. The proposed law would bypass the mixture of regulatory approaches FinTech firms currently have to deal with, as well as review how firms handle cybersecurity and cyber threats.

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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

APRIL 1, 2019

At the end of the day, he noted, trust is the critical element at credit unions, and the main differentiator between credit union customers and other banking customers. It’s a statement borne out by the new Credit Union Innovation Playbook , a PYMNTS/ PSCU collaboration. That is, if they choose the right FinTech.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

In other news, European FinTech SIA is partnering with WizKey to create a platform to allow credit negotiations on blockchain for banks, financial operators and funds, according to a press release. Diokno, Philippines’ Central Bank (BSP) governor in the release.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

New Zealand is a country that can be easy to overlook when it comes to FinTech. These are indeed exciting times for FinTech, payments and financial services in New Zealand. The overarching approach has been to bring API standards to bear so that financial firms can speed the time it takes to bring new products and services to market.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

When it comes to innovation, though, are CUs investing in the technologies their members want, or are they putting their money into innovations that don’t align with their members’ priorities? The findings highlighted a disconnect between the innovation priorities of CUs and the ones important to their members.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The ongoing struggle, supposedly existential in nature, that pits upstart, relatively young FinTech firms against arrogantly complacent banks for supremacy in this new and growing world of digital payments and commerce. Instead, as PYMNTS has regularly reported, the situation is much less black-and-white than the article suggests.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated the digital roadmap for everyone in financial services, giving rise to more innovation in the past few months than had been seen over the course of several years. Increasingly, in the jockeying to get new products and services to market, FIs are finding value in partnerships struck with FIs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Not innovating is not an option. Perhaps in the early days of digital banking and mobile apps, innovative technology was a “nice to have,” but that is no longer the case. The Bank Innovation Readiness Index , in collaboration with payments solutions provider i2c , provides evidence to back that up.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Morgan’s EMEA Head of Wholesale Payments Shahrokh Moinian, technological innovation is helping to unlock more opportunities for corporate treasurers to step up to this newfound strategic role of mitigating risk within their organizations. The other is technological innovation. According to J.P. That’s our No.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Payments FinTech WEX is introducing a new corporate payment solutions team as it moves to reorganize its business, the company said in a statement on Monday (April 13). Aquilina previously spent almost eight years working in commercial card products at Mastercard prior to joining the Portland, Maine-based WEX.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

Contradiction, confusion and, glaringly, the absence of promised government cash has intensified the crisis now gripping American businesses, from Main Street to Wall Street. FinTechs, he said, have raised their hands to say, “Let us help. Treasury – to scale suddenly in risk-heavy environments, McCarthy said this is FinTech turf: “….

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 24, 2018

Standard Chartered, headquartered in London, is expanding its global digital footprint from Hong Kong to the west coast of Africa. The bank, which has $663.5 billion in assets and operates mainly in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, announced in June that it would begin work on developing a disruptive new business model for the Hong […].

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Southeast Asia is now front and center on the world’s FinTech stage, and it’s no accident. Regulatory efforts to promote FinTech innovation, a bustling climate for blockchain and interest from other markets eyeing the region for expansion have all led to Southeast Asia’s impressive standing in this space.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Operational innovation is vital in a highly competitive financial services sector, with a new community of digital banks and other firms vying for market share. Drivers for Operational Innovation. These terms look good on paper, but what do they mean in practice for operational innovation?

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

or largely focused on the domestic banking market. Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers 8. If you have an interesting podcast to share, please send it to marketing@abrigo.com. Weekly episodes highlight innovators and industry players driving innovation in the financial services industry. BankTalk 3.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In today’s top news, Indian FinTech ZestMoney raises $15 million, the latest in a $63 million Series B funding round, and Federal Reserve Gov. Indian FinTech ZestMoney Raises $15M Led by Goldman Sachs. Indian FinTech ZestMoney Raises $15M Led by Goldman Sachs. Why Main Street SMBs Are a Greenfield for InsurTech.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

Innovation is often driven by two forces: the makers of technology pushing the market forward and the receivers of that technology bringing demand for better solutions. But Jemin Patel, director at eProcurement company ProcurePort , says the middle market can get lost in the shuffle.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One of the biggest tests for FinTech in the coming years is how well it can serve businesses that don’t have easy or efficient access to credit. FinTech Sandbox. Evidence of that comes from the nobli origin story — nobli is a concept incubated by LIFTlab, the innovation hub within the Central Bank of Brazil. FinTech Prognosis.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This prospective growth can largely be attributed to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the region’s main regulator, which announced in June 2018 that it would grant five digital banking licenses to third-party companies. What we see is an opening up of customer data as a ground-up [innovation] process led by the banks themselves.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 12, 2017

Further to my recent trip to Pakistan Business Recorder (their version of The Financial Times) interviewed me in depth about what is happening in FinTech. He is the Chair of the European networking forum: the Financial Services Club and sits on the advisory boards of numerous companies including Innovate Finance, Moven, and Meniga.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) is homing in on contactless payments that can access near-field communication (NFC), which enables users to pay for goods and services by waving their phones across terminals. There is also a concern that payment app innovation could be stifled.

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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.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2020

It’s our constant aim at NPCI to reach out to the vast unbanked population with technology innovation,” said Kunal Kalawatia, head of marketing at NPCI. Our main objective is to provide digital salary management, impart education on essential labor laws and provide secure financial solution opportunities to blue-collar workers.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 22, 2015

In this same line, Banco Galicia in Argentina has a very interesting offering – Galicia MOVE – aimed to college students based on a totally digital proposition, underpinned by the use of digital channels and a targeted marketing strategy. Galicia MOVE includes a savings account, a debit card and a credit card. Change or die.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 28, 2016

Earlier this week, I was kindly invited to join the panel on “what’s hot in Fintech” at Citi’s Digital Money Symposium, and it was one of the central questions we debated as a group. My colleague Stephen Greer has also discussed Bank-Fintech relationships on these very pages, for example, see here and here.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 7, 2017

Sørensen Chris Skinner needs no introduction in the fintech and banking space. We met Chris Skinner for a talk on the latest global banking trends and how banks mainly in Europe and North America deal with the challenges of their legacy systems and position and face the dramatic changes in the financial services market.

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ForwardBanker

MARCH 7, 2018

Deluxe Exchange 2018 (DX18) in Boca Raton last month was packed with exclusive, thought-provoking content, innovative solutions to industry issues, and dialogue that helped attendees navigate their day-to-day priorities and long-term business transformations. The post Learnings from the Main Stage at DX18 appeared first on Deluxe FS.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The new fund's main investor is RIT Capital Partners. London's financial services market, set for tumult no matter what with the advent of Brexit, has been further roiled by the pandemic, PYMNTS reported. London has the world's second-largest financial market and has proved a fruitful place for FinTechs.

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FICO

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This prestigious ranking of the top 100 players in risk technology is determined by Chartis Research , the leading provider of research and analysis on the global market for risk and finance technology. Driving innovation across a global organization. As we celebrate this win I have two main thoughts I’d like to convey.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

Sixty-eight percent cited the need to quickly bring solutions to market and 58 percent said they need to reduce costs or maintain profit levels. The following Deep Dive explores how each of these factors is driving FIs to embrace fresh, innovative payment solutions as well as the consequences they could face if they do not.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2020

“In this day and age, it is very important for community financial institutions to be able to compete with their main new competitors – challenger banks and national banks – and have access to the same technology that can be deployed in weeks not years.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 18, 2017

Focusing on commerce and mobile shopping led to a 56% year-over-year revenue jump for Ant Financial’s parent company Alibaba, and the company is going to keep that focus as it moves forward into the U.S. Alibaba’s revenue grew to about $7.4 billion, the company reported during its earnings yesterday, mainly due to the tight […].

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

By the numbers, 2019 is a good year for corporate card innovation. According to the Corporate Credit Products edition of the Innovation Readiness Playbook™ , 74 percent of FIs offer corporate credit products and 94 percent are currently developing new products or planning to do so within the next year. That compares to 68.6

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