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

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The age of digital currencies might be fully upon us, but key questions swirl about how to issue and regulate cryptos – especially stablecoins. Regulators and lawmakers, however, can latch onto digital currency efforts as they must monitor and also supervise such stablecoins. In a paper that debuted Tuesday (Nov.

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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. Could you please tell us a bit about banking sector in Turkey?

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 22, 2017

Regulation is still shaping banks’ strategic thinking, says a new study by The Economist Intelligence Unit. The unit surveyed 200 global banking executives to investigate the challenges retail banks face in the years to 2020. In North America regulation was the top concern.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Afterpay has pushed back against the Reserve Bank of Australia’s potential regulation of its fees. Afterpay has a market capitalization of around $10 billion. A majority of its revenue comes from merchant fees, which comprise around 3 to 6 percent of transactions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

Retailers are finding success in the complex, highly regulated wine industry , and are looking to top off loyalty as coronavirus orders flow. Wine Insiders , in one case, has combined edgy technology and innovations, and supplemented traditional marketing channels with digital advertising.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

It was supposed to be a thriving retail center in Milwaukee when it was built seven years ago. The DEO “seeks concepts and an operator to program the space to boost innovation and entrepreneurship, demonstrate creative placemaking and feature the Made in Fairfax Network. But it never happened. Starting Jan.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

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. The Headwinds Creating The Innovations Gap . But they all tend to have three things in common.

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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. "One The other is technological innovation.

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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. OA: As president of Western Union Global Money Transfer, I oversee our global person-to-person money transfer via our combined digital and retail walk-in agent network that connects more than 200 countries and territories.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

In today’s top payment news, retail remains a bright spot in the markets, Ant Financial has rolled out a strategy for digital evolution in China, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a suit against a Cincinnati-based bank. Payments Stocks Plummet While Retail Remains A Bright Spot. and EU.

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Abrigo

APRIL 19, 2016

banks incorporate “responsible innovation” as they adapt quickly to these advances, but what exactly does that mean? In a recent whitepaper (download), the regulator outlined the general approach it will take as it evaluates innovative products, services and processes that OCC-regulated banks may offer or perform.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Retailers are dutifully speaking with their payment service providers (PSPs) and industry partners to adhere to these shifts, but they must also keep their customers’ experiences in mind. retailer trade group, Retail Industry Leaders Association ( RILA ), told PYMNTS in a recent interview. Retailers And Data’s Role .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The United Kingdom’s regulator on competition and antitrust concerns has signaled that eCommerce giant Amazon’s stake in food delivery service Deliveroo may need additional examination. Deliveroo, for its part, stated that it has been working with regulators on these issues. Reports came from CNBC Wednesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

I think if you look at Amazon, although there are certain benefits to it, they’ve destroyed the retail industry across the United States so there’s no question they’ve limited competition,” Mnuchin told CNBC. And, in the process, they have hurt small businesses and stifled innovation.”.

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BankInovation

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Open banking regulation is in the works — finally. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced in October 2022 a plan to propose a rule in 2023 requiring financial institutions to share consumer data upon request by the consumer. One year later, on Oct.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 5, 2023

AML Compliance Ten qualities of a successful BSA officer Hiring a Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Officer for a financial institution involves looking for a unique experience level and skillset that ensures compliance with the BSA and related regulations. But what makes an exceptional BSA Officer?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

In 1946, the year the verdict was reached, A&P was the country’s largest retailer and, obviously, its largest grocery chain. But here’s the rub: The guilty verdict was made on the basis of A&P’s use of supply chain innovations to lower prices to consumers. Regulators didn’t destroy A&P in the end. Lower prices.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

One of the biggest retail stories as we head into 2020 is how India is a battlefield of digital commerce, along with a hotbed of retail innovation. The eCommerce retailer is said to be working with Catamaran and has started hiring workers for the operation per unnamed sources, Reuters reported. Amazon’s Moves.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

Connected and self-driving cars and truck stand as some of the next big frontiers when it comes to retail and retail innovation, but challenges to that future — real and potential problems that could slow down progress when it comes to autonomous vehicles — are increasing appearing on the horizon.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Regulation might be in the future. But social media is also driving retail innovation, and those trends are going to help shape commerce in the all-important fourth quarter and beyond into the 2020s. One recent example of the intersection of social media and retail comes from Facebook-owned Instagram.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Banks are innovating their application programming interface (API) platforms to allow for more third parties, while online merchants are prepping for a potential loss in revenue due to the security frictions that SCA might bring. Both banks and regulators are re-examining how exactly SCA will affect the financial ecosystem.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 18, 2019

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which took effect in May of last year, gives customers the right to know what data institutions keep about them, the right to demand that institutions delete personal data and the right to be forgotten. The GDPR bogeyman is now preoccupying bankers in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Also, as big tech moves into the financial services industry, regulators call for more “vigilant monitoring” of its data use. Regulators Call for ‘Vigilant Monitoring’ of Big Tech’s Financial Data Use. PayPal’s Schulman: Why Payments’ Biggest Innovations Are Yet to Come. Goldman Plans to Launch Robo Advisor Next Year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

And in bank regulation, open banking is developing at a fast clip in Brazil, while the pandemic may have sped up the digital banking shift in many markets beyond the region. The firm’s hardware looks nothing like a punching bag – it comes with six circular lights embedded in its surface, which users punch as they blink to get a workout.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

From 7-Eleven to H&M , retailers are adopting digital payments and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to bring more convenient experiences to their customers. And retailers with brick-and-mortar locations in North America are starting to accept Chinese mobile payment systems.

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NCR

JUNE 29, 2017

The region – and in particular large, fast-growing economies such as China – has proved to be a fertile breeding ground for innovation for the sector. ” One of the key reasons for this is a much more positive regulatory environment, which is now working to stimulate payment innovation rather than stifle it.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 5, 2016

Equity Crowdfunding is in the cambrian explosion phase, with three drivers being a) the change in regulation in USA (Jobs Act) and b) the lack of high growth tech public stocks to invest in and c) the push by central banks globally to incentivise us all to take more risk with our investments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Merchants’ Guide to Navigating Global Payments Regulations , powered by Ekata, dives deep into this complex and unsettled topic, from possible abrupt retail impacts to long-term open banking repercussions. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) turns two in May, and just like a toddler, it’s messing things up­ (for some).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Layoffs in the retail sector have soared high this year. The number of layoffs has already well surpassed April’s projection of 37,000 retail positions cut by year’s end. The retail sector lost over 43,600 jobs as of mid-August alone, a number already towering over the 30,273 retail jobs shed back in 2010 and previous estimates.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Those two retail trends have recently collided in Southeast Asia, where Carro, an automotive marketplace and financing provider, reportedly has bought Jualo, an online marketplace for used goods from some 300 product categories. The deal is not the only recent news involving the online retail sales of automobiles. Retail Waste.

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NCR

MARCH 7, 2018

Over the last few years, a range of new competitors have emerged looking to take on legacy financial institutions by offering more agile, innovative banking solutions to consumers. However, these firms have long been barred from offering full financial services in the US due to regulations mandating the separation of commerce and banking.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

Retailers in the physical world are at a real disadvantage when it comes to knowing the customers in their stores, and what they do once they get there. The list goes on, but suffice it to say, the jokes about digital retailers knowing more about customers than they know about themselves didn’t appear in the culture out of nowhere.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

This is designed to promote competition and innovation by supporting new entrants into the marketplace,” Nanopay CEO Laurence Cooke told PYMNTS.com in an interview. Even so, the retail framework has been in draft and still needs to find a regulator – and people must be trained as well. But that could potentially change.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Finally, one Western European country has decided to take a slower approach when it comes new digital payment regulation. And with the growth of the Internet of Things comes more regulatory pressure and concerns. billion: Number of customer records at risk after a recent breach due to password flaws.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

That’s just one example of how POS innovation is filtering down to the world of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) everywhere — and how, in turn, better POS technology and deployment are making for richer consumer experiences.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Managing inventory, B2B payments and a plethora of food and beverage vendors can be a headache for any kind of restaurant, bar or retailer. But in the alcohol beverage arena, unique regulations — many of which date back to the era of prohibition — have added an extra layer of complexity to the supply chain.

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