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DECEMBER 31, 2020

That’s because paper becomes the default method of payment when something goes awry — such as when banking credentials can’t be authenticated or identity cannot be verified. One is regulatory trends, where regulators are looking to increase competition in this field and drive innovation. The other is technological innovation.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This week, Mastercard announced plans to modernize its B2B payment ecosystem with Mastercard Track. The Mastercard Track Business Payment Service is said to be the first global open-loop commercial service created to automate payments between the world’s buyers and suppliers. With innovation comes new challenges.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Keeping payments infrastructures safeguarded against the growing threat of cybercriminals is a never-ending battle. That’s why payments innovation isn’t just about delivering a solution, but delivering one that can create efficiency and reduce risk in a secure manner. PYMNTS: What does innovation mean to you?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Spreedly , which works in accelerating global commerce via a secure, flexible platform for any payment type, has announced Christopher Hudel as chief information security officer (CISO), according to a press release. He said the opportunity is a good one because of the numerous ways the company meets payments and security needs.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The 12 startups demoing to try to win the “best in show” award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled. The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Fintel Labs, iGTB, JUDI.AI, KapitalWise, OpenDoor Securities, and Operant.AI Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., Exagens Corp.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

When it comes to payments, speed isn’t the only factor to consider in the deployment of real-time payments (RTP) systems. Security and compliance are also vital components in ensuring that payments are delivered safely and without delay. In the domestic payments space, the U.S. Rapid Growth.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

Whether embracing development and adoption of new payment rails or developing solutions for legacy versions, the latest in payments innovation is all about speed – even for corporate payments. New research reveals that B2B payments are is expected to account for the largest portion of faster payments volume in the U.S.,

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Image by Worawut/Adobe By Charles Potts As we turn the page to a new year, the innovation evolution continues. ICBA is leaning into it, bringing its ThinkTECH Accelerator program and innovation efforts in-house to provide community bankers with targeted solutions. Momentum around faster payments, real-time payments and FedNow.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

The financial services landscape is moving to upgrade existing payment infrastructures or create new systems to deliver faster and more secure payments. In the business-to-business (B2B) space, efforts to truly transform payments are fraught with challenges. All this, Today In Data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

firms make and receive B2B payments, even though more cost-efficient digital payment options have become available. This does not mean businesses are disinterested in newer payment innovations, however. Paper checks remain the primary method through which U.S. Recent PYMNTS research finds that 46.4

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PYMNTS

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. While it may take years, these good, innovative ideas often resurface when the time is right.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

percent of retailers have said they innovate to improve customer loyalty. That, in fact, is one of the main findings in the new Retail Innovation Readiness Index from PYMNTS, powered by FinTech firm AEVI. Things have changed, though, he said — one reason why that innovation finding carries such weight. “I Innovation Divide.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2017

Innovation is happening at the speed of payments — which, as it turns out, can be pretty fast these days. I travel three weeks out of four to meet our stakeholders in the markets they are in — customers, agents, regulators and employees. PYMNTS: What does a day in your life look like? My weekend, however, is at home.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Cautious shoppers may find comfort in debit, with fraud losses associated with the payment method declining over the past several years. This payment rail’s use is going strong in the United States, with debit card penetration reaching 78 percent in 2018. Around The Next-Gen Debit World. Card fraud is an ever-present threat.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The pandemic has forced businesses to pivot quickly to continue their operations — both domestically and internationally — with relative ease as the health crisis affects everything from supply chains to payment schedules. These digital changes should pertain to more than just payments themselves, however. trillion reported in 2019.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Norway ’s Vipps selection of Inside Secure to provide security for contactless payments. In Norway, Vipps has selected Inside Secure to help secure its contactless payment capabilities, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A managed security services provider h as also con cluded a $53 million Series B round to help accelerate research and development of its cloud security technology, among other uses. Venture capital funding landed at accounts payable (AP) and cybersecurity technology firms, among other innovators that raised money this week.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Innovations run the gamut from promo codes to coupons and quick-response (QR) scans in addition to other features such as delivery tracking. Overall, merchants in the $1 trillion accommodation and food services market see digital innovation as key for staying competitive in the space. percent — innovated to remain competitive.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 23, 2017

I’ve been working closely with BKM, the Turkish retail payments clearing company, for a few years now. They manage the Fintech Istanbul program, and are the powerhouse behind many of the innovations we’ve seen in Turkey from mobile wallets to contactless payments. million POS terminals in the market. debit cards and 1.7

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2017

There’s no disputing that the pace of innovation in consumer payments over the last several years has been quick and its reach broad. There’s been an abundance of innovation in where consumers shop, what they use to pay when they buy and the devices they use to enable those payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Providing onboarding services in the Latin American market is both an exciting opportunity and a challenging one. And there is no shortage of interest in the region in that ability, with particular interest coming from the financial services sector, the cryptocurrency markets and in the healthcare vertical. A Diversity Of Needs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Citi ’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) announced that it has expanded its Citi Payment Insights offering to more than 20 new markets, making it available in more than 70 markets. This reduces delays, friction and costs, all within a comprehensive, convenient and secure solution.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Around the world, banks and FinTech firms are addressing challenges associated with enabling fund disbursements in real time — and some markets are developing real-time networks faster than others. have expressed a vested interested in real-time payments, the U.S. Why Cash Security Deposits Should Be the Exception to the Rule.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The Central Bank of Iceland (CBI) is debuting a new instant pay platform with partnership with SIA , a European company specializing in high-tech payment services and infrastructures, according to a press release. In October, SIA was bought by Italian digital payment company Nexi for $5.4 billion.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Federal Reserve System has appointed its Payments Security Strategy leader, the agency announced Friday (Dec. He will lead the Fed’s initiative to address payments fraud risk and boost the security of payments in the U.S. Treasury and financial market, among other responsibilities.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2017

With the financial services space shifting from a competitive nature to a collaborative spirit between traditional banks and emerging FinTechs, one major stakeholder in the payments industry has quietly been an integral part of this co-op: the Federal Reserve. Louis, as its new payments strategy director.

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Payments Dive

AUGUST 17, 2017

Across the globe, financial institutions are under mounting pressure to meet high consumer expectations, capture and retain market share, and secure mobile transactions – all at the same time. Some are lagging, while others are upgrading technologies and investing in innovation and testing departments. So, how did we get here?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

In fact, credit unions that focus on data analytics are more likely to pursue a wider range of innovations than those that do not. percent of CUs that focused on data analytics also focused on real-time payments, compared to 66.7 As it turns out, though, data analytics and security often go hand in hand, as 36.4 For example, 91.7

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Innovation can be a blanket term in the banking world. Is artificial intelligence (AI) for anti-money laundering (AML) compliance innovation? Is real-time global payments expanding to new markets? percent of all FIs consider both their core and IT systems effective for innovation, while 19.7 Nearly half (46.7

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

Signal is exploring the idea of adding cryptocurrency payments into its messaging app by integrating MobileCoin , a cryptocurrency supported by the Stellar blockchain, Platformer reported. MobileCoin complements the privacy-focused app in that it is “more resistant to surveillance,” according to a 2017 Wired report.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

A group of payment players announced Tuesday (Nov. Faster Payments Council (FPC), aimed at working toward a ubiquitous payment system that enables Americans to safely and securely pay anyone, anywhere and at any time with near-immediate funds availability. 13) that they created a new organization, dubbed U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

It was only (relatively) recently that B2B payments finally secured significant attention and investment from innovators. “Toward the end of this year, we started to see more of a shift in investment toward the B2B side,” said Reetika Grewal, Silicon Valley Bank’s head of payments strategy and solutions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In marketing, Amazon and Walmart are busy getting ready for what could be the largest shopping week of the year, with Prime Day and other events approaching. Data: $5.5M : Amount of funding recently secured by social impact commerce platform ShoppingGives. consumers stating that security is important when shopping online.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

one of the largest FinTech hubs of the world today, initiatives like Open Banking demonstrate the opportunity for regulatory mandates to encourage innovation and competition — even in markets where such regulatory mandates don’t exist. Now, innovators are coming in and saying, ‘Well, actually, we can change this.’”.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

EXCLUSIVE -Fintech startup Token has inked a major partnership with payment processor Marqeta and Mastercard that tremendously expands its reach in the online retail space, just in time for the holidays. “By And that is a huge market because […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. When most people asked “what’s next?”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In today’s top news, the stock market takes its biggest hit since 2015 due to mounting fears over the coronavirus, and an ex-Microsoft engineer is found guilty of stealing $10 million in digital currency. Coronavirus Decimates US Stock Market $1.7T stock market is taking a hit due to mounting fears over the coronavirus.

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