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JANUARY 28, 2021

They have provided critical support for those developing markets during the pandemic and will continue their importance after the pandemic is in the rearview mirror, a report by Oxford Economics , commissioned by Western Union , has found.

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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. In addition, Monese adopted Thought Machine’s cloud banking platform. Fusion Reveals Payments Platform Banks. Europe and South Africa.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

New payment rails are once again in the spotlight as real-time payments and cryptocurrency emerge as the top focuses for innovators. In this week’s look at payment rails innovation, the European Union begins paving the way for greater crypto adoption, while Mastercard expands its own crypto accelerator initiative.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

It was a busy week for payments and commerce news, and the new PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything. Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar. Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar. Bamboo Straws, Emerging Markets And The Lessons Of Selling Cross Border.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

With the global pandemic creating a market of volatility, corporate spend is down as businesses look to safeguard their bottom lines against macroeconomic headwinds. For some organizations, this may be good news for the bottom line. percent — or nearly $50 billion — for example, CNBC reported. Virtual Cards And Mobile Technology.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands are putting a new spin on athleisure wear , inspired by the CBD-based wellness trend. In restaurant technology, cloud kitchens have emerged as a new model driven by the rise of online ordering. sales the athleisure market generated as of 2016. sales the athleisure market generated as of 2016.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The British government is establishing a new Digital Markets Unit tasked with enforcing laws that apply to Big Tech companies, such as Google and Facebook , authorities announced in a press release. The new unit, according to the government's announcement, will fall within the U.K.'s The rules are set to take effect in April.

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The Financial Brand

JANUARY 4, 2024

This article Why New Market Conditions Require a Refreshed Approach to Banking Innovation appeared first on The Financial Brand. There's good news: Banks and credit unions may be uniquely positioned in 2024 to pursue radical reinvention.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Netflix Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has written a new book about building the video-streaming powerhouse that now has nearly 200 million subscribers globally, as of the end of July. But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years.

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JUNE 22, 2019

It seems every firm is trying to find a way into the expansive — and ever-growing — “health and wellness” market. In the last few years, wellness has become a dominant lifestyle value that is profoundly changing consumer behavior and changing the markets.”. Well, with innovation of course. The industry now represents 5.3

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APRIL 13, 2020

Jim McCarthy, i2c president, says disasters often breed innovation. Black Swans Are the Sandbox of New Innovations. A few innovators do come forward with good ideas, but often the environment can’t support them past the short term. But when the dotcom bust happened in 2001, our innovations also died.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

No matter how innovative they are, companies still need to get paid. And not many companies this year have combined business model creativity with payments innovation more than Beautycounter. While all the innovations and the business awards are nice to have, Renfrew is most proud of her work as a beauty industry activist.

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JULY 29, 2020

“Digitization has helped support remittance market continuity in the face of reduced mobility. We also believe money transfers relying on informal or unregulated routes are converting to formal money transfers, and may even help stabilize the market as travel restrictions likely remain.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

Innovation has been the name of the game for financial institutions (FIs) large and small in recent years. While the overall pace of innovation has cooled somewhat over the past two years, as FIs have been slower to market with new products, they are increasingly channeling their energies into tried-and-true product lines.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Increasingly, those value-added services are not only focusing on speed of payment, but also enhancing the data that end-users can access about their transactions, with new solutions from Bank of America and Scotiabank some of the latest to bring real-time rails to corporates. Visa Talks Payment Rail Innovation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

What makes the current developments so interesting and exciting is that “we're just seeing that they're at the end of the innovation growth cycle,” he explained. All of these new FinTechs and digital innovators are changing the landscape as the role of payments rapidly shifts in the broader financial services arena.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Launching into an emerging market can be a risky move for any global business. While spend in developing markets isn’t typically as high as, say, in the U.S., While spend in developing markets isn’t typically as high as, say, in the U.S., The Emerging Market Opportunity. Now, that confirmation can happen in real time. “So

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

PSCU has appointed Denise Stevens as senior vice president and chief product officer, while Scott Young will head the product delivery leadership team as vice president of innovation, PSCU announced today (Feb. Stevens will oversee product delivery and management, as well as its innovation teams. Young will report to Stevens. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Innovation is no longer optional – it’s table stakes to stay in the game. The good news: There is no shortage of innovative ideas and options for today’s FIs to offer to their customers: digital wallets, P2P payments, card controls, fraud and security protection, and loyalty and rewards perks among them.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 13, 2020

In this episode, editors discuss the following news developments: How the stock market plummet is affecting robo-advisors; Wirecard expanding internationally through a partnership with the Estonian banking platform Xolo; and Amazon’s move to offer cashierless checkout to […].

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JANUARY 18, 2018

But according to a new report from EY, it would be unfair to say that regulation is the only driving force behind large banks’ changing market strategies. In its Global Banking Outlook 2018 survey , EY assessed 221 financial institutions across 29 markets. Optimism Up. Cybersecurity.

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MARCH 2, 2020

A trillion-dollar market cap later, it’s hard to argue Amazon’s effectiveness, quote attribution notwithstanding. It’s really difficult, the banking ecosystem is not fast and that’s just reality,” Jim McCarthy, industry expert and former innovation head for Visa, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Innovation has become such a buzzword that it can be applied to countless solutions and initiatives, from emerging 5G mobile technology and the rise of “smart factories” to using blockchain to trace and track food supply chains to deploying kiosks to personalizing the ordering experience. The State of Innovation. points to 19.3,

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JULY 24, 2020

It’s a model based on the concept of collaboration and cooperation, two ideals that have become instrumental in the financial services arena’s payments innovation efforts. ” That global reach also had the CU prioritizing global payments innovation from the get-go. in markets like Kenya, mobile payments are the norm.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And in payments innovation, tokenization and data vaulting take the sting out of payment card industry (PCI) compliance. 6.8B: Estimated size of the global tokenization market by 2027. . 6.8B: Estimated size of the global tokenization market by 2027. consumer’s whole paycheck. All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

It was also indicative of a growing trend of B2C merchants expanding into the B2B realm in an effort to take advantage of a surging market. According to Goldman Sachs, the B2B payments space will see volumes topping nearly $200 trillion by 2028, more than five times the volume of B2C payment flows.

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JULY 14, 2020

We know from past data that a very high percentage of first-time buyers become repeat customers, so our customers likely have increased the overall market for their solutions. If the increase in the sale of digital goods is lasting, which I believe it will be, failure to invest and innovate will likely result in falling behind.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has appointed Goldman Sachs alum Robin Vince as its new vice chair and CEO of global market infrastructure as of Oct. In his new position, Vince will oversee BNY Mellon's Clearance and Collateral Management, Treasury Services, Markets and Pershing businesses, the release says.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

The good news, said Carter, fresh off her most recent trip to the National Retail Federation (NRF), is that merchants and are very well aware that retail — and the role of physical retail in it — is changing. The latter is innovative; the former is, well, just a tweak. Testing Innovation . The answer, she noted, is complex.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Key Takeaways Trepp's head of Commercial Real Estate Finance outlined the current CRE market and looked at the future of CRE during Abrigo's recent ThinkBIG conference. This post by Hayley Collier , Trepp's Marketing Communication Specialist, was originally published on Trepp's blog and can be found here. The pandemic's impact on CRE.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

While the coronavirus crisis certainly accelerated the drive toward digital, the mid-market's commerce digitization push was well underway before the pandemic hit. With B2B eCommerce proliferating, the market is rapidly evolving to make way for new business and payment models in response to customer demand.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The PYMNTS Weekender is here to catch you up on the latest news at the end of another busy work week. Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year marketing campaign rolled out by American Express in 1987 to convince consumers that it was worth paying a yearly fee for one of its charge card offerings. Trackers and Reports.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Few things travel as quickly as bad news, such as a negative story or juicy anecdote about rude or incompetent customer service (which, after all, gives people the basic human joy of shouting down real or perceived injustice, a long-standing use of popular narrative). percent of retailers have said they innovate to improve customer loyalty.

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JUNE 16, 2020

As a next step in the direction of a digital-first, omnichannel experience, David’s Bridal is teaming with mobile wallet marketing automation platform Popwallet. We are always looking for new and innovative tools to connect with her and we will not stop looking for new ways to surprise her, to delight her, and to serve her.”.

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JULY 1, 2019

When it comes to technological innovation, however, the smaller players have long been outgunned by larger FIs and their sizable IT budgets. Today, small banks are more aggressive and ambitious in their innovation strategies than medium-sized and large FIs. This is changing — in a big way. percent to higher than that of large FIs.

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JULY 10, 2020

The legal cannabis market’s financial services challenges are, by now, well-known. Just as in other markets, eChecks, ACH, paper checks, wires and credit cards all come with their various benefits, as well as their pain points, from high processing fees to a lack of security. But current legacy rails can make this difficult.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

And in innovation, Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) is making it simpler for companies and FinTechs to create functions for sending and receiving payments in addition to managing banking data. 3.6T: Projected size of the "embedded finance" market by 2030. Salesforce predicts that a digital surge could strain holiday shipping.

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