Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Chinese and Australian regulators are partnering up on fintech. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) and the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) have agreed to share fintech information with the other party.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

FinTech firm MatchMove has struck a deal to acquire a “strategic stake” in eCommerce solutions company Shopmatic, according to reports. Shopmatic said it helps business owners increase their sales by accessing new markets through online channels and point-of-sale solutions. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2020

Gartner’s Digital IQ Index for 2019 surveyed 80 banking and financial brands, including national banks, regional banks, online banks and fintech startups. It examined 1,200 data […].

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 25, 2018

PREMIUM - The digital and innovation strategy behind Fifth Third, one the largest regional banks in the country, is simple: build, buy, partner. That strategy has worked well for the bank.The company told Bank Innovation that it has invested $100 million in fintech over the past 22 months and that it expects to make about […].

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Brexit may dominate the headlines when it comes to the United Kingdom, but FinTech funding proceeds apace, and financial backers show a continued sanguine attitude about the space. based FinTechs said they have garnered more than 200 million pounds. FinTech trade body, said that as much as $3.3 FinTech Efforts in Estonia.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

Beyond product and strategy, payment methods come with highly regional preferences. merchants — is assuming everyone uses credit cards for online payments. A recent study by GoCardless analyzed payment preferences for subscriptions, memberships, bills and installment plans in 10 countries and found a number of regional quirks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to Bertrand Theaud , founder of Hong Kong-based FinTech Statrys , the proliferation of family-owned SMEs across Asia continues to propel cross-border trade volumes in the region. Yet these smaller companies struggle to access the kinds of financial products and services larger enterprises wield to finance that trade.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Chinese law makers suspended regulatory approval for new micro-lenders in the region on Tuesday, as well as restricted new approvals, issuing a notice on the matter yesterday that sent U.S.-listed listed Chinese stocks tumbling.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

In China, the central bank has said that it will offer up a three-year development plan for the domestic FinTech sector. The reports state that the FinTech firms in that country “should take the approach of [Chinese president] Xi Jinping’s socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era as the guide.”

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While AOBA 2022 had its share of execs wanting to “fake it until they make it” with future innovation, credit is due to the bankers who are pouring real financial investment into new fintech experiments. In some respects, AOBA 2022 felt a bit like bank executives wanted to “fake it until they make it” with their future innovation and fintech.

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CB Insights

JULY 6, 2021

Future of Fintech is back for an in-person and online experience helping you understand: New Technologies: from AI to APIs, the tech making financial services better for consumers/the tech institutions must consider to drive digitization efforts. The post Future of Fintech 2021 appeared first on CB Insights Research.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

PayMongo, a FinTech startup that helps businesses and merchants set up online payments systems, has raised $2.7 The company serves businesses in the Philippines and other regions in Southeast Asia. million in a seed funding round, according to a report by TechCrunch.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Scandal-plagued German FinTech pioneer Wirecard counted among its payments processing clients an online casino that laundered money for an arm of “one of Europe’s most dangerous mafia organizations,” the Financial Times reported on Monday (August 3). ” Wirecard declined to comment for the FT article.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Open banking is often associated with the European Union (EU) almost by default as the region pushes the envelope further on regulation than anywhere, partly to encourage — but also to keep up with — imaginative FinTech innovators going to market throughout the Eurozone. FinTechs Flourishing. Similarities To The EU.

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The Financial Brand

JUNE 27, 2021

The post Two Emerging Trends Signal Trouble for Both Fintechs & Regional Banks appeared first on The Financial Brand - Banking Trends, Analysis & Insights. As a new normal begins both must take a fresh look at what they are doing with mobile apps and beyond or get beaten by large national banks.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

A group of Nordic banks have selected Mastercard to overhaul its financial services operations for the region. Nordic bank-backed initiative P27 was launched to update the region’s aging infrastructure with a platform that enables real-time payments from different markets. Deep Dive: The Road to Real-Time Payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

As a region, Asia has seen $4.5 That means the region is becoming a sweet spot for FinTech investment. That is a greenfield opportunity for linking mobile devices with financial services in the region. The global investment activity in the space stood at $19.1 In China alone, the investments for the year came in at $2.7

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

In Latin America, such a company exists in the form of MercadoLibre , a triple-threat regional financial powerhouse based in Argentina. It is one of the region’s fastest-growing companies, having just turned in a stellar first quarter in a region that has more complexities than any of its northern neighbors.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 1, 2019

Built by central bank Banco de México, CoDi will allow customers to make payments online and in person through smartphones free of charge using QR codes. The post Fintech In Mexico: 80+ Startups Bringing Financial Innovation To The Region appeared first on CB Insights Research. Want the full expert post?

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. Growing interest in open banking typically coincides with the expanding use of online financial platforms and tools.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Moving ahead, authorized institutions are able to set limits of their own when it comes to FinTech driven decisions aided by technology. As reported, the Banking Made Easy Initiative traces its genesis to last year and had sought in part to minimize “regulatory frictions” encountered in onboarding and online finance activities.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials. Together, Visa and Razer FinTech have the opportunity to transform the payments experience for not only the gaming community, but many of Southeast Asia’s unbanked and underserved consumers as well,” said Chris Clark, Visa’s regional president for Asia Pacific.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2022

Caribou , an online insurance comparison engine, has raised $115M in a Series C. q1 2022 brought a -18% decline in quarterly fintech funding. .</p> q1 2022 brought a -18% decline in quarterly fintech funding. .</p> q1 2022 brought a -18% decline in quarterly fintech funding. hbspt.forms.create({.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

million was placed with B2B FinTechs this week. Also operating in India, supply chain financing FinTech Cashflo revealed $3.3 Cashflo said it aims to create India’s largest invoice discounting online marketplace and will use the funding to expand its product offering and grow its team. Aspire Financial Technologies.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Though FinTech has, in many ways, heated up the competition with banks, traditional financial institutions (FIs) widely began to realize in 2018 that their best strategy to remain competitive in today’s financial services landscape is often to collaborate with (not against) those FinTech firms.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 10, 2016

AI Anticipates Customer Needs Andy Hernandez, Head of eBusiness, Regions Financial Corp. “The use of Artificial Intelligence to anticipate the customer’s needs will be an area of growth not only in 2017 but throughout the foreseeable future. Simply put, we want to break down barriers for customers by consistently Read More.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2018

Lending FinTech GreenSky has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO). In addition, shares in online lenders LendingClub and OnDeck Capital were recently down 86 percent and 77 percent, respectively, from their IPO prices.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

In looking ahead at the near-term emergence of FinTech markets, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration said in its “ 2016 Top Markets Report Financial Technology ” that Asia will hold sway over other regions. percent and online borrowing at 5.6 percent and online borrowing at 5.6

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

For FinTech firms, doing the chasing all on their own is a losing proposition. SaaS, the distribution model where providers offer a central location for their customers, can offer FinTech firms a way out of inefficient processes, say some supporters. FinTech firms can browse and research what they need and pick it up on the fly.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 10, 2018

EXCLUSIVE—With mobile banking services offered at the majority of financial institutions, innovating the digital space is becoming more important in the fintech ecosystem, especially for smaller players like regional banks or credit unions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Agashe said the 50,000 very small community banks and credit unions (CUs) spread throughout India’s rural regions don’t count as “banks” in the official tally. And it’s gotten an even bigger boost by the pandemic, which pushed Indian consumers into their homes, transacting online far more often and less interested in handling cash.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Mastercard is teaming up with FinTech startup Juvo to help the “underbanked” in Latin America and the Caribbean to build credit histories so they can engage in a wider range of financial services. Juvo was a participant in Mastercard’s FinTech startup program, Start Path.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

There are now many online, nationally-focused lenders that are capable of an entire virtual relationship. Further, the competition is not just another bank that might make a loan or take a deposit, but it could be a credit union, insurance company, retail store, or a fintech. The same picture emerges for domestic deposits.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Standard Chartered and Amazon.ae , the company's United Arab Emirates website, are launching a new installment payments method for customers, according to The Fintech Times. Trust and convenience are key when it comes to payment methods, and we will continue innovating on behalf of our customers in this space.".

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

The movement toward linkups between traditional financial institutions (FI) and FinTech firms seems an inexorable one — in the cross-selling of corporate services into consumer bases that embrace individuals and, typically, small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). However, looking elsewhere beyond U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

In the case of Dubai-based ride-hailing and delivery platform Careem and its efforts to modernize payments in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, add “timely” to the list. Just how important that ability is became quickly evident during the global pandemic, as the MENA region shut down like the rest of the world.

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ABA Community Banking

JANUARY 8, 2020

Regions Bank exemplifies the latter mindset. The post Podcast: A Continuous Cycle of Tech Investment at Regions Bank appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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