PYMNTS

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. What's more, the market lull may offer a moment to focus on innovation for the future as commercial payment habits shift — perhaps permanently.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Consumers’ desire to go contactless or cardless during the pandemic presents plenty of opportunities for FinTechs, banks and other card issuers to bring innovative credit solutions to market, but such investments much be approached strategically.

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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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Chris Skinner

MARCH 23, 2017

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. We may describe Turkish banking sector as strong, innovative, modern and well-regulated. million POS terminals in the market. As of January 2017, there are 58.8

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Video games are helping to drive retail innovation and growth, and that includes the hot area of subscription commerce. Gaming is figuring out the upsell,” Burkhart told Webster, “and utterly changing the entire market.”. This is only part of the innovation trend stemming from video games.

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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. What separates the two groups?

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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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PYMNTS

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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Bank Innovation

MARCH 19, 2020

What is the role of innovation in response to these rapidly unfolding events? For insights into these questions, Bank Innovation and INV Fintech, its sister banking innovation services platform, will present a special Zoom meeting on […]. How will banks and startups work together?

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PYMNTS

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. The International Finance Corp. (

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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. And online shopping and digital fraud are increasing simultaneously, but merchants can take steps to ensure that debit-based card-not-present (CNP) transactions are kept safe.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

Those are some of the common myths of innovation , and they apply to the payments world. Moving past those myths, and finding deeper truths about payments innovation, was the underlying result of a recent PYMNTS webinar, featuring Karen Webster and Amir Wain, founder and CEO of i2c , an integrated commerce and smart payments firm. “

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I presented on this topic, along with my colleague Scott Albahary – Chief Strategist for Financial Services here at Perficient and Jim Marous – Co-Publisher of The Financial Brand , to approximately 500 financial services industry folks. The approach we took, and you’ll see in the presentation, are real-world examples of digital trends.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

. “A potential client has to study the market and be very careful that who they are going to work with has the right solution for their needs — not only today, but also further down the road,” said McDonald. A Digitization Push. Factoring and supply chain finance are cash flow strategies that have been in place for decades.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

He went on to describe ChiNext as “a venue for speculation and said "falling stock prices, instead of rising, should be the sign of whether such market reform is successful.”. We hope the ChiNext board will better serve growing innovative and entrepreneurial enterprises," China Vice Premier Liu He said in a statement quoted by CNN Business.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Instead of paying legacy P2P solution providers, organizations can now get paid by a solution provider to go electric, which we believe is truly innovative in the AR/AP world today.”. Invoice payments remains a growing focus for B2B FinTech innovators today.

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PYMNTS

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. The International Finance Corp. (

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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

JUNE 12, 2019

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. That experience is one that is hard to gain as a vendor with new and exciting retail technology in the market.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We imagine if presented with an iPhone, penicillin, an automobile or just a ballpoint pen, even the original scribe would have been forced to concede that exciting innovations might be coming up on humanity’s horizon in the intervening 30 centuries. So today (Sept. 30), the card network announced just such a FinTech partnership.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

It’s one thing to want to improve or innovate. That’s the easy part, the stuff of daydreams, scribbles, memos, charts and PowerPoint presentations. Her observations cover a wide range of topics, but among the main themes is to look beneath the surface of technology, processes and innovation ideas. B2B Payments.

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Accenture

JULY 22, 2015

I’m excited to announce that we are now open for submissions to the Efma Accenture Innovation Awards for 2015. Presented at the Efma Convention in Amsterdam on October 28, 2015, these awards are a wonderful opportunity for banks to showcase. Read more.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

small business market (SMB) will reach $9 trillion by 2020, but also notes that 80 percent of SMBs still use paper checks to make payments. A majority (55 percent) of corporate professionals identified real-time payments as their top B2B payment service priority, according to the Real-Time Payments Innovation Playbook.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

Today, they simply aren’t adequate for the needs of the market — printing, cutting and handling checks is a hassle for firms that have gone remote and also presents a public health risk. Checks have mostly stayed around on the strength of being familiar, Healey noted, even if they brought little else to the table.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Justin Gianninoto, director of digital strategy, presented at PRSA NJ’s “Brand Storytelling & Content Marketing” seminar to discuss how to get results for your company or organization with great storytelling.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The European Union is examining the creation of a single data market that would reportedly challenge tech firms such as Google and Facebook, as Reuters reported. According to a proposal circulating that is slated to be presented later in the month, “currently a small number of Big Tech firms hold a large part of the world’s data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Fast-forward to the present, and Afterpay now counts more than 11 million active customers at 63,000 retailers – and most recently reported doing $2.1 One is regulatory trends, where regulators are looking to increase competition in this field and drive innovation. The other is technological innovation. According to J.P.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Retailers are turning to accelerators to drive innovation, and Target is taking its program to the international stage: It is teaming up with Germany’s wholesale and food specialist METRO AG for its cohort this year. The company also said that pitch sessions would be “regularly organized to let them present the evolution of their solutions.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The rise of video games, both online and mobile, is helping to drive innovation in retail. This is only part of the innovation trend stemming from video games. As that happens, video games continue to attract big money, which will lead to more retail innovation. Apple has stiff rivals in the gaming market. Larger Trends.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Shifting employee landscapes, changes in workers’ demands over how and when they get paid, and technological innovation have combined to open the floodgates for payroll FinTech. Speeding Up Wages. Among the largest, she said, is an accelerating pay cycle. Unlike the U.S., Unlike the U.S., A Higher Technological Standard.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The cross-border payments space presents a whole host of challenges for FinTech innovators to try to solve, with new solutions targeting everything from global eCommerce to international tuition payments. The October 2017 X-Border Receivables Report , released last week, outlines just how vast the cross-border payments market is today.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

They are also, according to most recent reports, still several years away from the market. All in all, according to Apple, the much-anticipated wearable, while actively under construction at present, will not be on the market until 2023 at the absolute earliest. Facebook Soon To Release Smart Glasses .

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We had two Financial Services Club meetings on the same night this week: one in London where Chief Executive of the Payments Council Maurice Cleaves talked about the landscape future for UK payments markets; and one in Warsaw where Lukas Dzuroska presented the top ten trends tracked in research by EFMA over the past year. …

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2019

The market for wearable tech that monitors everything from your heartbeat to your blood sugar is booming, and caregivers are receiving previously unseen insight into the everyday health of their patients. “The That move to digital records and 5G presents challenges for hospitals and medical offices, though. percent until 2013.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

podcast , we interview Jon Bostock, best-selling author, innovator, co-founder and CEO of Truman’s and learn how brands that innovate will win in a rapidly changing digital-first economy. In a world where retail has changed and consumers remain at home, how do brands reimagine the task of getting products to customers?

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 20, 2019

It’s time to move beyond merely presenting data and toward helping customers take informed action on their finances with that data, according to Jonas Karles, co-founder and COO of Minna Technologies, a PFM provider for subscription and recurring payment management. We've done the pie chart thing,” he told Bank Innovation. “We

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