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B2B Payment Innovations Keep Suppliers In Mind

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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. With innovation comes new challenges. The latest Securing B2B Payments Report shines a light on risk and security issues. .

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Scottsdale Community Bank: Making microloans

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“[Small businesses] need a place that will listen to their financial needs and to their dreams of being independent, having financial security, contributing to the community and providing resources for their families.” Expanding the lemonade stand Something So Worth It—a nonprofit organization in Phoenix, Ariz.,

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Construction Payments: Building The House With Virtual Cards

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A series of payment innovations are promising to put an end to some common B2B payment frictions, including online portals, same-day ACH and automated accounts receivables (AR). A recent partnership between consulting firm CGI and invoice payment solution provider Ordo aims to make invoice processing safer and more secure.

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Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention

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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. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted.

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Community Banks Accelerate FinTech Integrations

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The Peoples Community Bank is broadening its existing relationship with banking technology provider Finastra , the firms revealed this week in a press release , with the financial institution (FI) looking to accelerate its own innovation and product rollouts. payment schemes.

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Fed’s Powell Has No Plans To Issue Digital Currency

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Right now, the Federal Reserve is not developing its own digital currency,” Williams said when asked his thoughts about bitcoin at an economic outlook luncheon in Phoenix, Arizona. Central banks could face difficult trade-offs between strengthening security and enabling illegal activity,” Powell said.

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Alphabet’s Waymo To Sell Lidar Mapping Sensors To Partners

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beginning with robotics, security, agricultural technology, and more ?— ?so The licensing of the technology is one way for Waymo to create revenue going forward, in addition to its nascent autonomous ride-sharing business called Waymo One, which was launched in Phoenix in December.

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