PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In Europe , as has been seen elsewhere, banks and other financial institutions (FIs) must grapple with payments modernization but are burdened by legacy systems and infrastructure. The continued acceleration of digital and mobile payments affects both domestic and international payments.”. Expectations are changing, too.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

It’s one thing to want to improve or innovate. What’s harder — and what really makes the difference — is figuring how, where and when to innovate, a task that must take into account various factors and even wildcards that keep popping up in the growing and global digital economy and its various ecosystems. B2B Payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Middle Eastern finance group Emirates National Bank Dubai (NBD) has deployed a centralized international payments hub on Tata Consultancy Services ' TCS BaNCS For Payments, according to a press release , which will help to boost payments in numerous countries across the world.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

As PYMNTS readers know, the role and appeal of FinTech is increasing significantly as consumer demands rapidly change, and technology and regulatory efforts encourage further innovation in digital payments and global transactions. an effort that was already operating in Europe and Asia-Pacific. “The FinTech Partnerships.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

According to the new Simplifying Cross-Border Payments Playbook , there are five key criteria that an ideal cross-border payment solution should meet: speed, security, compliance, transparency and ubiquity. Currently, there are 57 real-time payments rails operating in more than 72 countries, with even more under construction.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

Disruption keeps hitting the travel industry, whether via digital payment or commerce, and the latest example of that comes from a U.K.-based Multiple Payment Struggles. As PYMNTS research has demonstrated , four out of 10 travel operators struggle to manage multiple payment service providers. Payments Cost.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2019

As 5G deployments start, the people who run hospitals and medical offices, along with companies that supply healthcare devices and payment services, are starting to figure out what the quicker speed and other features of the new mobile network technology will do for them. 5G Payments Impact. 5G Wearables. Take wearables as an example.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Mastercard has added a new Account-to-Account (A2A) service to its Track Business Payment Service , to help businesses exchange data more efficiently and perform payments across multiple rails, a press release says. and will be available in all regions by the end of next year, the release says.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Managing and executing payments globally can be a sticking point, though, as companies must grapple with fund flows across banks and supply chains , where fees accrue and processing times can be slow. Beyond the cost of the transactions themselves, there’s a palpable drag on operations. Additionally, the transfers take many days.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Want to understand payments innovation in Latin America ? One may indeed be a bit hungrier than before, but according to what NovoPayment CEO Anabel P é rez told Karen Webster during a recent PYMNTS interview, they can now understand one of the fundamentals of innovation in Latin America. Latin American Progress.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 24, 2017

USAmeriBank is now live on financial service firm Finastra’s payment hub, which will enable the regional bank to implement new payment services and rails. This is the culmination of payment plans the bank, an offshoot of USAmeriBancorp Inc.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The innovation economy requires more than caffeine and collaboration for fuel. WeWork also wants to make a bigger name for itself as an enabler of innovation. Innovation Program. Coffee Meets Bagel has recently set up operations in Seattle — its first office outside San Francisco — and used WeWork space for that.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Banks, businesses and consumers fundamentally altered how they interacted with each other in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic — and regulators tasked with making sure their data and payments are kept safe took notice. Why Pandemic-Driven Online Payment Spikes Are Pushing Middle Eastern Regulators To Confront Privacy Questions.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2018

experiment with Venmo or Apple Pay, payments in China have reached the point where even large transactions are routinely processed via the smartphone, even tuition payments. Western Union, which operates a money transfer service in the region via a partnership with Chinese payment solutions provider Geoswift, has allowed […].

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

B2B payments are an instrumental component of global trade and of setting the stage for currencies to operate as global instruments of cross-border trade. In a chat with PYMNTS, Moon emphasized the role of cross-border B2B payments in the ability of the RMB to remain a strong contender in global payments.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – The Nordic countries, in the northern reaches of Europe, comprise a small region with a small population (about 26 million across 7 countries), but disparate payments infrastructure prevails despite a mobile-friendly populace.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Payments don’t always have to be just about the cards. The two of them operate a program that enables airlines to accept instant online bank payments for consumers’ ticket purchases. Combine such trends with the emergence of PSD2 and open banking, and it’s not hard to imagine even more innovation to come for airline payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Western Union (WU) is bridging small businesses (SMBs) and entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico to cross-border payment services, the financial institution (FI) said on Monday (March 11). EDGE launched in 2016 to promote global trade for SMBs by offering accounts payable and accounts receivable connectivity, invoice presentment and payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

The pandemic triggered seismic shifts in the way people behave and interact with traditional forms of payment. As businesses around the world start to reopen, we have seen guidance recommending contactless payments to avoid unnecessary touchpoints between customers and retailers. Accelerating the Speed of Innovation. In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The pandemic has exposed glaring points of friction in any number of verticals – including banking, where it’s apparent that legacy systems and processes were not designed to handle real-time anything, and certainly not payments. economy is proving to be a tailwind for faster payments and processes. That said, the U.S. The Three Is .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

Banks across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region expect real-time payments to come with some major benefits to their businesses, according to new analysis from ACI Worldwide and Ovum. More than three-quarters expect faster payments to save them money.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Chaves also said the company will earmark a percentage of the proceeds to accelerate financial inclusion in the region. Founded in 1999, based in Argentina and registered in the United States, MercadoLibre is an eCommerce platform and digital payment solution that operates across Latin America.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

(JCBI) have unveiled a partnership that provides international students with a new way to make cross-border tuition payments. Flywire is a payment solution for international students and educational institutions around the world.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Innovation is both genesis and lifeblood for companies, especially within the payments space. PYMNTS: How would you define Applause’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: How would you define Applause’s approach to innovation? Our approach to innovation is two-fold. Innovation is only valuable if it’s usable.

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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

MAY 4, 2020

Payment orchestration platforms (POPs) are suddenly everywhere as solution-shopping for the great American reopening gets underway in earnest. Merchants need to offer international customers their preferred payment methods to best cater to them, yet they must do so in a way that is fast and secure for their businesses,” the report states.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Digital banking and payments firm i2c is partnering with next-generation commerce firm Sightline Payments to deliver cashless, mobile and omnichannel programs to over 45 gaming resorts, state lotteries, digital gaming and sports betting sites across eight states, i2c announced on Wednesday, Feb. There are more than 2.5

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2019

NACHA and its Payments Innovation Alliance announced that it is working with the U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC) to expand the Faster Payments Playbook. The Playbook is an educational and online decisioning platform that will enable banks, credit unions and businesses to develop a faster payments strategy.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The move toward faster payments is an inexorable one. As reported earlier this month, Hong Kong’s newly debuted Faster Payments System (FPS) has seen its share of controversy, at least at the outset. Separately, Crédit Agricole ’s Italian operations brought instant payments to current account activity through partnership with SIA.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

Amy’s payments industry insight and unique experience in properly scaling a company will be valuable assets to our growth strategy,” said Paytronix CEO Andrew Robbins. “I Paytronix clearly delivers value to the market by enabling operators to drive incremental sales and deliver safer environments for staff and guests.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Regulation has undoubtedly acted as a catalyst to major financial services trends in areas like small business (SMB) lending, faster payments and, most recently, open banking and collaboration with FinTechs. According to the results, banks argue that innovation, not just regulation, is behind the wheel of progress. Optimism Up.

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Bobsguide

JUNE 22, 2022

Interswitch, Africa’s leading integrated payments and digital commerce company, and Compass Plus Technologies, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software, have announced a partnership to further strengthen Interswitch’s payment card processing capacity in Africa.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Amid the seismic changes that have refashioned the payments landscape over the last few years — as large players get ever larger (such as the $22 billion Fiserv-First Data deal) — there is an opportunity for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies and digital marketplaces to monetize payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Think, perhaps, of all those World War II and post-war era mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists who created, via one relatively obscure innovation or another, the digital infrastructure of today’s internet, the basis for today’s payments and commerce industries. Global Payments. Now he is stepping down.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

If for nothing else, Uber and Lyft will be remembered for one big thing: making payments all but invisible via a seamless transaction process that was pretty much revolutionary. Instant Payments. However, a company that can offer such payment options can gain an edge over its competitors. Role of Data.

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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. And to that end, we’ve seen growing engagement and co-operation across the industry.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Mastercard and Norwegian financial technology (FinTech) company EedenBull have agreed to expand their partnership to the Asia Pacific region, the firms announced Monday (June 29). Based in Norway, Scotland and Singapore, EedenBull calls itself a “technology-agnostic innovation company built by banking, payment and technology professionals.”.

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