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DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma told Chinese regulators in November that he would give portions of Ant Group , the FinTech he founded, to the country's government in what so far has appeared to be an unsuccessful effort to make peace with authorities in the country, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

As cloud technologies emerge to help financial institutions (FIs) drive digital innovation, Finastra has introduced its Fusion Payments To Go offering for small and medium-sized banks. Linear Capital served as the head investor, while additional help originated from KZM & Company Group. Fusion Reveals Payments Platform Banks.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Ant Group 's initial public offering (IPO) could be delayed by six months and its valuation reduced by quite a lot after its delay this week, a report from the Financial Times says, as new regulations come into play. 3), one day after Beijing debuted a set of regulations that would have forced Ant Group to re-do its business model.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Benetton Group , an Italian fashion company, is teaming once more with retail market intelligence firm EDITED as an "essential platform" for its future three-year roadmap, according to a Wednesday (Dec. 16) announcement. “As

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Ant Group has won the nod from China's top security regulators for its Shanghai offering, the last hurdle to clear for the $35 billion dual listing, Reuters reports. Ant, the FinTech backed by China's Alibaba Group, plans to list simultaneously in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the next few weeks, according to sources quoted by Reuters.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

CPI Card Group announced that it has launched Second Wave cards for markets including transit, hospitality, entertainment and more. CPI revealed that the expansion of Second Wave into new use-cases and markets will allow more companies to incorporate environmentally-friendly solutions into their products.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

made good on its previously announced plan to allow group audio- and video-conference calls on its Echo devices, The Verge reported. The service appears to present a direct competitor to Zoom and Microsoft Teams in the market to provide group calls to relatively small groups of people. Amazon Inc. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has announced the creation of the Fintech Advisory Group to bridge the communication gap between the FinTech industry and consumer organizations, the organization said in a release. The group plans to hold its first meeting on April 1. Members will participate on a rotational basis.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

China’s Ant Group is mulling the creation of a new consumer loan unit that would allow it to continue making loans throughout the country while complying with new Chinese banking regulations. Ant Group had planned to go public for $35 billion, which would have made it the largest IPO in market history. On Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

A new advocacy group dedicated to direct-to-consumer retail was announced this week with representation from Google and several major retailers including QVC, Brooks Brothers and Lane Bryant. The Collective was conceived by Fayez Mohamood , co-founder and CEO of retail technology company Bluecore.

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MAY 29, 2018

is looking to buy NSO Group, an Israeli company that sells military-grade technology, for around $1 billion. Verint — b ased in Melville, NY — trades on the Nasdaq Stock Market with a market value of around $2.8 We provide companies with technology to optimize the customer-care components of their businesses.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Ripple , the blockchain startup, is heading up a new cryptocurrency lobbying group called Securing America’s Internet of Value Coalition. Coindesk noted that most of the members of the new lobbying group have ties to Ripple. Its founder is the former chief technology officer at Ripple. Coindesk pointed to Coil as one example.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To create and promote the adoption of a new royalty-free connectivity standard to make smart home products more compatible with security as a design tenet, Amazon, Google, Apple and the Zigbee Alliance unveiled a new working group. 18 announcement. .

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Bobsguide

APRIL 30, 2022

Advisory Group will consist of senior credit traders from AllianceBernstein, American Century Investments, BlackRock, Invesco, MetLife Investment Management, PIMCO, and PineBridge Investments. To further develop corporate bond trading and advance market structure, global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Many of the biggest points of friction that emerged in the spring could be solved through technology, according to Anne Miller , executive director at Project N95 , a new nonprofit described as the "National Critical Equipment Clearinghouse.". According to Miller, there are three categories of buyers in the PPE market. once again.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

Following the adoption of new rules intended to make it easier for companies to hold initial public offerings (IPOs), some Chinese technology companies newly listed on the ChiNext exchange board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange soared on their first day of trading, CNN Business reported. technology sector. "We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

He is the cliché of a profession that has a lot of suede sheen on it, but at least one company is in the market to bring used car sales into the digital future. “We It’s hard to imagine that there’s so much technology and innovation happening up and down the mobility spectrum except for in this market — and it’s a $1.4

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I am pleased to share with our blog readers that Kristen Larson, an attorney with almost two decades of in-house experience advising midsized and large national banks on financial services matters, has joined Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group. She is resident in the firm’s Minneapolis office.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 1, 2022

On July 18, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) announced the launch of a new Office of Financial Technology with the goal of advancing effective risk management as it evaluates fintech developments in the housing finance space. It also solicits feedback on how to maximize stakeholder engagement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

And now, for digital currencies, it’s a group effort — among central banks, that is. 21), at least some of those central banks are banding together to form a group that will study ways and means of issuing central bank digital currencies (CBDC). As for what may be underpinning a group effort …. But as reported Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

FairFX, a subsidiary of international payments firm Equals Group, has acquired Hermex International Limited (HermexFX) for £2 million ($2.4 million), Equals Group said in a press release on Friday (Aug. This acquisition further demonstrates the ambition of the Group to be a dominant force in the payments market.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

16) that merger talks with TCS Group Holding (Tinkoff) have fallen apart. . TCS Group Holding is the parent company of the Russian lender Tinkoff Bank. “We Yandex is considered Russia’s Google and its technology offerings and capabilities include a 15-minute grocery delivery service that was launched in January.

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Perficient

JANUARY 26, 2022

TD Bank Group recently announced its Q4 2021 earnings were up 31% from Q4 2020, despite the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. On its earnings call, the company elaborated that this in part was due to its dedicated, people-oriented approach to business.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Not every product launches smoothly (RIP Fire Phone ), not every new endeavor delivers (Amazon’s flirtations with offering a travel platform ended abruptly) and not every new market immediately yields. By and large, Italian consumers first encountered Amazon as a group that firmly preferred shopping in person and paying in cash.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In fact a new report puts the global market for social commerce at $89.4 Its commerce platform lets users create a variety of gear, including T-shirts, hoodies, yoga pants and smartphone covers, that could appeal to hardcore followers looking to express their passion for their favorite creators,” says Mobile Marketer.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

According to the NPD Group , COVID-19 brought the year’s good start to a halt, with March athletic shoe sales down about 40 percent compared to 2019 and taking a 50 percent hit in April. Fleet Feet has come up with proprietary technology to address that. More than one million Fleet Feet customers have used the technology.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 17, 2022

As technology buyers, banking executives need to up their game on tech purchases and technology performance management. For regional and community banks there has never been a more frustrating time to be a buyer versus a builder of financial technology. In 2021, the Standish Group reported that 83% of I.T.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The remittance sector is a popular one for emerging markets, and firms are noticing. The group, called Blockchain for Europe, is focused on growing the understanding of the technology and highlighting the “true nature” and potential of blockchain technology. percent of the population.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The benefits of utilizing e-commerce technology are readily apparent to us because they are personal: We find what we are looking for; we find it at a cheaper price; we can get it more quickly. Technology can also provide tangible benefits to a business, and in many cases, those benefits are financial. Assisting with compliance.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

In " A Look Forward: What Executives Wish for America and the World in 2021 ," Herrero discusses how his firm's community-based digital literacy and entrepreneurship programs are harnessing technology and connectivity to improve education provision and livelihood outcomes for previously disadvantaged groups.

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JULY 1, 2020

have established an $800 million fund to boost trade finance in emerging markets. Across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting supply chains, decreasing demand, and causing overall market anxiety,” said Paulo de Bolle , global director of IFC’s Financial Institutions Group, in a statement. IFC ) and Citigroup Inc.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

As Microsoft concludes its support for Windows 7 and companies need to upgrade their legacy devices, the PC market has reportedly had its first year of growth since 2011. Both firms have widely agreed on the direction of the PC market , but they differ a bit in their count of devices. The PC market wasn’t all good news last year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

Ride-hailing firm Be Group in Vietnam is launching two delivery services to compete with Grab and Go-Viet, Deal Street Asia reported on Monday (Aug. Unlike Grab and FastGo, Be Group has also registered itself as a transportation business. The company’s beExpress is designed to be a delivery and postal service for eCommerce enterprises.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

The Connected Commerce Council (3C), a small business advocacy group, has sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law requesting that Congress consider the importance of technology giants including Facebook, Amazon and Google in the small business community.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The same framework should be in place to improve technology used by regulators in efforts to strengthen supervision throughout the industry, the think tank also says. We should not deify artificial intelligence as it could go wrong just like any other technology,” Gang said. billion by 2023, up from an estimated $4.5

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Large investment and equity firm Carlyle Group has taken a majority stake in an artificial intelligence (AI) hiring firm called HireVue, according to a report by Bloomberg. Carlyle has been investing heavily in areas it considers vital to its continued growth, like telecommunications , worldwide technology and media.

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