PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

For all of the innovation that's occurred in the banking landscape, it's often consumers – not corporates – that benefit from the latest technologies. Corporates are seeking modern user interfaces (UIs) with a consistent user experience across channels, including mobile platforms. The Drive To Upgrade.

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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

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

APRIL 26, 2019

Citigroup ’s Global Head of Payments and Receivables Manish Kohli is relying on technology to increase its payment business. Our strategy has to be very simple,” Kohli told his team recently , as he laid out his mission to ensure that the payments industry keeps up with the pace of technology development.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In payments, the readiness is all, to quote Shakespeare. As evidenced by the Bank Innovation Readiness Index , done in collaboration between the two firms, more than 200 banks and financial institutions are in varying stages of preparedness when it comes to payments innovation. Data Point Number One: 64 Percent.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

With speed being the most obvious value proposition of real-time payments capabilities, it’s not difficult to imagine that corporate payers would be eager to embrace faster payments functionality in their accounts payable (AP) departments. And for many firms, that’s exactly what they’re beginning to do.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

However, CUs are not the only financial institutions (FIs) looking to offer digital banking innovations to their members. FinTechs are also emerging as major CU competitors. This puts FinTechs and CUs on a collision course, with each racing to innovate new products that will grab members’ attention and patronage.

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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. PYMNTS’ own research has found that consumers are more willing than ever to switch banks in pursuit of better apps and user experiences.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

When it comes to technological innovation, however, the smaller players have long been outgunned by larger FIs and their sizable IT budgets. Today, small banks are more aggressive and ambitious in their innovation strategies than medium-sized and large FIs. This is changing — in a big way. percent to higher than that of large FIs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

In Mexico, the pandemic is moving the needle toward digital payments — specifically mobile payments — to become more widely embraced by businesses and consumers alike. Call it a way to solve the “chicken and egg” problem that is so firmly entrenched in payments. The costs of entry are relatively low,” maintained Diaz. “If

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

At a high level, the same consumers whose day jobs are to manage a company’s payments and financial controls have become accustomed to the seamless and highly personalized commerce opportunities that are available in their daily lives. The consumerization of B2B payments is taking its cue from contextual commerce.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Banks today recognize that they must embrace innovation to survive in a world being rapidly transformed by digital technology. In fact, just 22 percent of FIs believe they have access to both effective core payment processing and IT infrastructure, the two systems that form the backbone and nervous system of bank payment systems.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, executives of PayPal and Mastercard touted partnerships between financial technology companies and banks as a positive way to gain customers’ trust and innovate new ways for customers to interact with their finances. On Tuesday (Jan.

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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Just because businesses are interested and willing to adopt payments innovations doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. Governments and banks have a lot to do with developing an ecosystem that supports adoption of payments technologies for both consumers and corporates, and DeLuca sees some stark differences between the U.K.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 11, 2019

While large consumer-facing fintech companies like Square, Klarna, Affirm and others tout speed and efficiency of their user experiences, card issuing and processing startup Marqeta‘s technology supports their payment capabilities, with its APIs allowing […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

While this industry is largely reliant on corporates’ adoption of innovative technology, it is also instrumental to getting issuing banks in on the movement. According to the executive, the key is to work “with banks, not against them” – a sentiment that has become a mantra for many in the FinTech market.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

The challenge for the bank will be remaining competitive when the interest rate is ultimately dialed back and the offering itself – namely its features and user experience — need to steer the ship. The focus for us has to be customer experience,” Dickinson explained of the pause due to speed of growth.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

Commercial payments firm Bottomline Technologies is rolling out advancements to its invoice automation platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI), the company announced in a press release on Tuesday (Oct. Bottomline is also updating the Paymode-X AP Automation solution to work more seamlessly with users’ back-office systems. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Watchers of the B2B payments space already know how overwhelming the power of inertia can be. I think one of the most interesting things in terms of how [the pandemic] has revolutionized and accelerated all things digital payments is that companies historically are really slow or hesitant to adopt new payment modalities,” Harris said. “An

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

While large consumer-facing fintech companies like Square, Klarna, Affirm and others tout speed and efficiency of their user experiences, card issuing and processing startup Marqeta‘s technology supports their payment capabilities, with its APIs allowing […].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Mastercard is teaming up with Network International , which works in digital commerce for the Middle East and Africa, to help drive the adoption of commercial payment services in that region, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It may be an open road for open banking as, three years after the rollout of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), bank-FinTech collaborations and new initiatives unlocking bank account data continue to flourish. Visa Launches FinTech Collaboration Initiative In Europe. Poland's mBank Taps Treasury Pricing FinTech.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Visa and Currencycloud, an enterprise-class payments platform, announced on Tuesday (June 4) a partnership to drive more innovation in cross-border and travel payments. Currencycloud exists to take the complexity out of international payments,” stated Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Innovation happens when you least expect it. Those we call “innovators” are simply the ones who endeavor to solve the problems in front of them by any means necessary. Only later do others look at them and call them “innovators.” PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? The conversation is excerpted below.

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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? PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing you’ve ever done? JB: Innovation often means taking a risk.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

To move forward, financial institutions are going to have to take a closer look at the user experience, Eric Hazard, CEO for fintech venture capital […]. EXCLUSIVE— With the help of APIs and other technologies, U.S. banks are mastering the use and sharing of data, but the next challenge is going to be even more technical.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Being resourceful entrepreneurs, more SMBs began exploring the universe of FinTech payment offerings last spring and adding app-driven, platform-based solutions to solve imminent cash flow problems. For faster forms of payment. Even B2B payments now need to be delivered with a better user experience, and much work remains.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

CellPoint Mobile, which specializes in digital commerce and payment solutions for airlines and travel companies, today rebranded as CellPoint Digital with a new website and product offerings, the company said in a press release on Tuesday (Sept. We started out with a radical, mobile-first solution.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

With more and more FinTechs introducing their own banking services, the competition is heating up. Small business lending platform BlueVine is the latest FinTech to take this path, having taken the wraps off of its banking solution this week with the launch of BlueVine Business Banking. Plus, the U.S. TrueLayer Launches in Australia.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

Founded by Lamine Zarrad and George Kurtyka in 2017, Joust aims to help independent professionals find more financial stability and avoid late payments amid the irregular payment system for freelance work. Our platform not only saves time, but also reduces uncertainty and mitigates the risk of late and non-payment.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2022

Onbe CEO Bala Janakiraman expects that innovation to continue as more organizations embrace the digital transformation that working remotely requires. As the CEO of a corporate disbursements FinTech, I’m particularly inspired by the ways businesses have transformed their payment processes.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

But could merchant incentives help fuel this ongoing effort at digital payments innovation? That was one of the questions raised in a new PYMNTS interview with Ireti Samuel-Ogbu, Citigroup ’s head of payments and receivables for Europe, Middle East and Africa. The discussion took place as more attention shifts to open banking.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Cashfree , one of India’s biggest business payments platforms, has announced that it has launched a new suite of payment products aimed at lending companies and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), to facilitate easier loan disbursals across all platforms, according to a press release.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

While FinTech innovation has opened up the doors for small- to medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) to access more sophisticated solutions to manage money, software fatigue has business owners overwhelmed by a barrage of siloed systems. And according to Ronny Yakov , CEO of The OLB Group , QuickBooks is often an ideal place to start.

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MAY 19, 2020

FinTech startup unicorn Brex has closed a $150 million funding round led by previous investor DST and new investor Lone Pine Capital, Brex said in a statement on Tuesday (May 19). It instituted a rewards program and integrated contactless payments with Apple Pay and Google Pay.

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