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Weekly Wrap: Visa acquires Plaid and retailers embrace fintech

Bank Innovation

In this episode, editors discuss the following news developments: The overlap of retail with financial services, and reflections on the National Retail Federation annual conference in New York; Visa’s acquisition of Plaid and what it means […].

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Walmart offers a new BNPL option: report

Payments Dive

The fintech One now offers buy now, pay later financing at the store chain, presenting competition for Affirm, which has partnered with the retail giant since 2019.

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Young Consumers Love to “Buy Now, Pay Later” – Here’s What to Know About the Explosive Fintech Trend

Perficient

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a type of point-of-sale installment loan that partners with retailers to allow consumers to pay for their purchases in multiple equal payments. When online shopping, if a retailer has a partnership with a BNPL platform, the customer can choose it as their payment method when placing their order at checkout.

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The Bank-FinTech Collaboration Model Goes Global

PYMNTS

With more financial institutions (FIs) turning to external third-party FinTechs to strengthen their small- to medium-sized business (SMB) and corporate offerings, the collaboration model is proliferating across national borders. Reports said the bank’s digitization effort aims to enhance its SMB, corporate and retail operations.

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UK Retail Banks Draft FinTech Alliance Guidelines

PYMNTS

banks and financial technology firms have worked together to create a set of guidelines to improve the relationship between FinTech startups and financial institutions (FIs). The new guidelines, developed by the British Standards Institute (BSI), aim to address issues that interfere with FinTech firms and banks forming alliances.

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How does MiFID II and FinTech work?

Chris Skinner

I don’t blog about this much these days, as my audience is firmly in the retail and payments technology space, but I still keep close track of the investment markets, clearing and settlement, … The post How does MiFID II and FinTech work? appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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The Digital Shift In Retail And Payment Methods

PYMNTS

In retail technology, Yotpo is helping brands capture the digital shift by making a compressed marketing stack for online shopping. 40%: Approximate share of people who would be “extremely” or “very” likely to bring their banking relationships to Big Tech or FinTechs. 75M: Amount of Yotpo’s recent funding round.

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