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Metro Bank Introduces Cash Delivery Service For SMBs

PYMNTS

Metro Bank has launched an app called MCash for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to pick up and drop off cash as needed, according to reports on Monday (Dec. Metro Bank’s customers will make about 250,000 trips to either deposit or take money out every year, an activity that totals about £30 million of deposits every month.

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Metro Bank Links With ezbob For Same-Day SMB Loans

PYMNTS

To provide a digital lending offering for small business clients, Metro Bank has collaborated with banking software provider ezbob. Metro Bank Chief Commercial Officer Paul Riseborough said, according to reports, “We know quick, reliable access to finance is crucial for small businesses to seize opportunities to grow.

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How A Retail Incubator Could Produce The Next Big Innovation

PYMNTS

The myth of the lone (and possibly mad) scientist died out a long time ago, as the industrial age led to teams of researchers working together (or at healthy cross purposes) to enable innovation. The basic idea behind LISNR is to send data securely via audio. “For Science and invention are collective pursuits. That’s the tech part.

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Challenges for the neo-challengers: Four hurdles to overcome

Accenture

In my frequent conversations with clients across the UK and Irish banking industry, one of today’s hottest topics is the rise of the challenger banks such as CYBG, Metro and AIB UK, and particularly the neo-challenger banks providing digital-only services, like Monzo, Atom and Starling. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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Visa Invests In LISNR To Boost Mobile Payments Growth

PYMNTS

“We are excited about our growing relationship with Visa and are looking forward to continuing to drive innovation in financial services.” In June, LISNR participated in the METRO Target Retail Accelerator , certified by Techstars. The opportunity gave LISNR an innovation boost via the collective effort of incubation.

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“Record breaking”: What 2017 holds for the UK payments market

NCR

The market will be particularly active in the UK, where efforts to open up the banking system to more players are expected to bear fruit in terms of encouraging competition and innovation, with more payment services providers gaining access to key systems. million) and £4 million upfront for access to the market. million ($3.12

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Picking The Gig Economy’s Winners And Losers

PYMNTS

And what has been striking, all agreed, is the players who are succeeding now are taking the digitization plans, security initiatives and omnichannel expansion visions already in the pipeline and hitting the accelerator on getting those products into the market ahead of schedule. “It’s

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