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Mastercard, Samsung Tie-Up Lets Consumers Pay On Demand

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Mastercard is partnering with Samsung to bring digital technology to emerging markets and accelerate connectivity and smart devices, Mastercard said on Thursday (March 12). Mastercard Labs created the platform, which will be rolled out to the Samsung Knox team in the Middle East and Africa early this year.

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BI Ignite 2019: HSBC Bank USA’s Innovation Head Prefers Fintech Partners to Building In-house

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When it comes to innovation, banks in 2019 should look to partner first, buy second and lastly build, Jeremy Balkin, head of innovation at HSBC Bank USA said at BI Ignite 2019 in Seattle earlier this week. It makes more sense for banks to make a strategic investment in fintech companies than to try and build […].

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The Bank-FinTech Tie-Up Evolves

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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. Airwallex Taps Deutsche Bank.

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Samsung Pay Crosses 1.3 Billion Transactions, But Falls Short of Apple Pay

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As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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 Samsung Eyes Blockchain Smartphone?

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Said sites including thenextweb.com , Samsung, no small player in mobile devices, submitted three trademark requests in Europe that offer up some clues into blockchain-focused phones. In the world of blockchain phones, another name may crowd the pantheon.

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Mastercard Leads Investment In Mobile FinTech Mobeewave

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“This is a major market validation of our payment acceptance platform, and highlights Mobeewave as an industry leader in the FinTech space.”. Earlier this year, Mobeewave entered an international partnership with Samsung Electronics to make its“platform available for commercial use on more than 250 million Samsung devices around the world.”

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Fintech Unfiltered: Inside HSBC Bank USA’s Lofty Innovation Strategy for 2018 [Podcast]

Bank Innovation

As a part of its retail transformation strategy, HSBC Bank USA spent over $130 million on innovation projects in one year on its U.S. operations. These projects range from less visible, but equally important, system upgrades on the back-end and more visible ones like installing Softbank’s robot Pepper in its New York flagship.