PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

But FinTechs and financial institutions are increasingly crafting partnerships designed to help them both thrive in this global world of digital payment and commerce. That was one of the main messages in a recent PYMNTS interview with David Budzevski, executive director, head of merchant acquiring products at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

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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

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

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

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

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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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. NPCI will assist workers with using the local payment network Rupay, which operates with ATMs, point of sales (POS) devices and eCommerce sites.

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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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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers 8. Breaking Banks Breaking Banks , billed as the #1 global fintech podcast and radio show, began in 2013 and is hosted by media firm Provoke.fm. Weekly episodes highlight innovators and industry players driving innovation in the financial services industry. BankTalk 3.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 24, 2018

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 […]. Standard Chartered, headquartered in London, is expanding its global digital footprint from Hong Kong to the west coast of Africa.

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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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Celent Banking

JANUARY 22, 2015

Peer to Peer (P2P) lending is one of those situations and banks have started to experiment with it, taking P2P lending to main street. For example in Argentina it was the first P2P lender to operate with the approval of the regulator, under a trust structure where Afluenta administers the trust and the money is out of its estate.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

The volatility of cryptocurrencies and their existence in what’s often a grey area of regulatory compliance make businesses operating in this sector an unattractive target for traditional financial institutions. FIs themselves struggle with fully understanding how this industry operates, too. According to Karalevi?ius,

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Chris Skinner

MAY 30, 2017

Here is how he saw things … Fintech in Rwanda: the place where Telcos are surpassing Banks in the financial sector Telcos dominate in the financial sector of Rwanda Last week I participated in the leading fintech conference in Africa “Dot Finance”, which took place in Kigali, capital of Rwanda.

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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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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Fintech is booming. In 2013, according to a report by Accenture and CB Insights , total investment into Fintech was just less than $4 billion. Yet neither can institutions continue without any change to the operating model. They need to start looking at Fintech startups as an opportunity, not a threat.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

Lloyds will look to both of these providers to help it create digital banking tools for its customers that will allow it to compete with the rising number of online-only FinTechs and challenger banks grasping at established FIs’ market share in the United Kingdom. FinTechs Curve, Neat On Why Infrastructure Is Key To Digital Transformations.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2019

The second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is changing how banks share data and interact with third-party providers and FinTechs, which are now relying on open banking information and application programming interface (API) access to build out new products. payments and financial innovations. payments and financial innovations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

UK FinTech GoCardless Raises $95 Million Led By Bain. FinTech GoCardless has raised $95 million in a Series F funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Fiserv To Acquire FinTech Ondot Systems. The FinTech Fiserv has signed a deal to acquire Ondot Systems. Main Street SMBs Wax Optimistic On Surviving The COVID-19 Age.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

With a robust community of technological innovators, and a drive toward the digital economy, India currently stands as an exciting market in FinTech. According to Mittal, there are three main factors that small businesses in India need to succeed: a “strong network, access to finance and simplified business support functions.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

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. One main factor driving banks to develop faster and more convenient payments infrastructure is that greater numbers of consumers are demanding it.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

million in combined funding, B2B FinTechs remain resilient in today’s current market. Investments ranged across geographies and industries, but the biggest highlights landed on trade financing and early wage access innovators, as startups bolster their value by supporting small businesses’ and employees’ financial recovery.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

FinTech company SPEZA announced that it will be able to accept China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP), the world’s first sovereign digital currency. The digital asset solutions provider, exchange operator and regulator, based in Malaysia, will also accept all major digital assets listed on SPEZA Digital Asset Exchange.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 22, 2017

I blogged a year ago about TechFin, the incumbents’ view of applying technology to existing banking services, versus FinTech which seeks to transform the financial system. It is notable that Ascend may be based in Thailand, but also operates in Indonesia, The Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

But across the Pond – regardless of the initial claims last week that Britain had occasioned its own Independence Day via the Brexit vote — for FinTech, freedom is just another word for lots and lots left to lose. payments firms can innovate and tailor their technologies to a large stage, the continent. and the rest of Europe.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) got their clocks cleaned by the pandemic, and turning to their traditional lending sources, they’ve encountered sclerotic systems and outdated policies not conceived for the needs of the recovering Main Street merchants of 2021. Meanwhile, for many, their primary banking relationships went fallow.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2017

Between keeping business users happy, integrating new technologies into the app, and preparing for an upcoming consumer rollout, Curve’s new head of operations, Rona Ruthen, has a lot to do.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That was the main message of a recent PYMNTS interview with Peter Spee, vice president of strategy and general manager, Americas, at AEVI , a FinTech player that wants to bring acquirers closer to their merchants. The new Retail Innovation Readiness Index from PYMNTS, powered by AEVI, found that 65.4

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Accenture

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Connecting more than 8,000 decision makers and thought leaders across the industry, Sibos 2017 in Toronto was once again the platform where the global financial community explored the disruptions and opportunities in payments driven by innovation, technology and new business models.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Small businesses have landed at the center of B2B FinTechs’ and financial service providers’ latest collaborative efforts. In this week’s roundup of open banking initiatives and bank-FinTech tie-ups, PYMNTS finds a renewed push to strengthen SMB banking experiences including financing, account management and more.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

The pandemic is continuing to throw typical business operations for many industries into flux, resulting in disastrous financial consequences. The hope is that these changes will offer SMBs the adaptability they need to keep their operations moving throughout the ongoing pandemic. How the Pandemic Is Driving SMB Lending Innovation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

It's about digitizing how the whole business operates.". And with those changes came a need to adjust financial strategies, with treasury departments embracing the opportunity to wield real-time data and optimizing account structures to support a more efficient way to operate the entire business. Georgakopoulos said J.P.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

BaaS makes it easier for businesses and FinTechs to develop capabilities for sending and receiving payments and managing banking data through application programming interfaces (APIs), cloud-based systems and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Around The BaaS World. About The Playbook.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

In banking and in financial services generally, we’re seeing new technologies emerge every day, in both customer-facing and operational capabilities. That’s main reason banks are going to the cloud is to gain quickness, agility and nimbleness. Look at ATMs or computerized banking—these technologies where innovations to help cut costs.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

Financial institutions are constantly on the hunt for an edge when it comes to mobile banking and other innovations, and that’s playing out with new, emerging 5G mobile network technology. As that mobile technology gets closer to mainstream introduction, the potential 5G ecosystem for FinTech and mobile banking is gaining clarity.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Payments is in a state of constant change, with decision points shifting as fast as each innovation, disruption and tweak in consumer behavior. That raises several questions for FIs, FinTech firms and payment service providers as they figure out how to best navigate this changing world.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Didi Chuxing has captured about 30 percent of the market where it operates since launching in Mexico in 2018, Didi employees told Reuters. In August , SoftBank Group initiated talks with two startups in Mexico — online used car site Kavak and FinTech Konfio.

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