PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Valdis Dombrovskis , the EU’s executive vice president of the European Commission for an Economy that Works for People, told attendees of the Digital Finance Outreach 2020 , a series of events for the 27-nation bloc on financial technology companies, that Europe must become the leader in crafting rules for digital finance.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

While some geographies have opted to collaborate with the private sector to develop their own national instant payment networks, others are adopting solutions like RippleNet and SWIFT gpi to modernize their banks’ capabilities. Hungary announced earlier this month that its new instant payments system is now live across banks in the nation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

Report: India’s National Payments Corp Vulnerable To Security Breaches. National Payments Corp. The audit determined that personal information held by the main digital payments system in the country operated by the RuPay card network was vulnerable. of India (NPCI) discovered over three dozen security risks in 2019.

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MAY 25, 2021

Popular Bank Senior Vice President and Director of National Healthcare Financing Andrew Boland joined fellow industry leaders for the Environmental Banker Association (EBA) panel discussion How COVID Changed Senior Living & Care Underwriting. Industry leaders agreed that adaptability is the key to survival. Watch the full discussion here.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the move in September and didn’t say what was going to happen to existing phone customers. The technology has had its fair share of controversy, especially in the region of Xinjiang, where it has been used to spy on the area’s Uighur Muslims.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

As many teams within businesses big and small had continued to rely on paper and manual processes, AP operations were tasked with migrating to a work-from-home environment quickly. Accounts payable (AP) teams and other financial functions of the enterprise were some of the hardest hit by the disruption caused by the global pandemic.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Saving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral. Main Streets will have to change to receive the social proof and vibe that made them so successful. The rollout of Apple Pay has long been viewed as Apple’s attempt at supplanting shoppers’ utilization of tangible cards for in-store purchases as their main payment method.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 13, 2017

I knew exactly what he was getting at, as the banks I deal with in USA, UK, France, Germany and other European nations are always fretting over the challenge with their old systems. The main reason is that China was not a card-based economy. These peoples have largely been ignored by technology but that is changing.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

Recognizing that Main Street is being hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, Mastercard committed $250 million over the next five years to support small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), according to a press release. Mastercard said it will also provide U.S. Small Business Administrator, in the release.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2020

Neobank Niyo has partnered with the National Payments Corp. It’s our constant aim at NPCI to reach out to the vast unbanked population with technology innovation,” said Kunal Kalawatia, head of marketing at NPCI. Niyo’s employee payroll solution, Niyo Bharat , gives blue-collar workers a salary account.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Well-funded and organized fraud operations, meanwhile, continued to amass more capital, manpower and technology. For the benefit of these businesses, my hope is that they recognize that they can no longer afford to continue operating at the status quo. It’s important for everyone that Main Street gets back on its feet.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

and five other nations identified 100 million potentially fraudulent transactions between March 11 and April 28, for example. The health crisis is also dramatically altering merchants’ approaches to customer engagement and interaction, leading many to shut down brick-and-mortar channels and devote their resources to online operations.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Agora Services To White-Label Technology. Banking technology company Agora Services recently announced its plans to white-label its offerings for smaller financial institutions (FIs) with a focus on small business and teen banking solutions. The business payments technology company is rolling out Pay Direct for U.K.

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MAY 5, 2022

Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers 8. Banking Transformed Banking Transformed by the Financial Brand’s Jim Marous has new episodes several times a month and features executives from financial institutions, financial technology firms, authors, consultants, and other experts in the banking industry. BankTalk 3.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The coronavirus could have wide-reaching effects on medical facilities, eCommerce retailers, technology and the economy as a whole. In other news, airlines are reportedly putting jet fuel to waste by flying empty planes because of European rules that make operators lose their flight slots if they don’t fly their planes, MSN reported.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

Transformation that would have unfolded over five years was compressed into less than five months,” said Sunil Sharma , Cargomatic’s chief product and technology officer, in a recent interview with PYMNTS. Perhaps the best-known example, he said, was the infamous toilet paper shortage that occurred in the first several months.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. To improve the quality of their earnings, banks need their number one focus to be on making their operations more efficient. To the extent projects improve operating leverage and the total experience, so much the better.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

Can Main Street SMBs Cross The PPP Cash Chasm? Main Street USA: 58 Percent Of Main Street SMB Retailers Say They May Not Survive The Pandemic. Main Street USA: 58 Percent Of Main Street SMB Retailers Say They May Not Survive The Pandemic. Trackers And Reports. It might not be sufficient, however.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

That’s because those threats are relatively localized, and don’t take into account the risk of hackers (especially those backed by organized militaries and nation-states) taking down key infrastructures. The thinking and technology behind such a business activity can help with efforts to construct better cyber defenses. Big Mindsets.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

And technology — in this case, mobile point-of-sale technology — can serve as a kind of matchmaker. That was one of the main messages in a recent PYMNTS interview with David Budzevski, executive director, head of merchant acquiring products at Commonwealth Bank of Australia. New Payment Flows.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

In the inaugural Digital Banks And The Power Of The Cloud Tracker® , PYMNTS examines how cloud-based tools are becoming part of banks’ digital transformations worldwide and how they are overcoming obstacles that can come with implementing these technologies. Developments Around The Cloud Banking World. The bank has designated $3.7

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Cisco

AUGUST 11, 2020

The first half of 2020 has demonstrated the remarkable adaptability of the financial services industry in the face of simultaneous disruption to economic, operational, and customer behavior conditions. Not surprisingly, technology solutions that enable business continuity in this environment are in high demand.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

Chief Operating Officer Ro Bhatia told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Brands that are either expanding existing DTC operations or have only sold through a marketplace can use channels like Amazon without creating potential conflicts in their path to selling directly to consumers. Going DTC Without Creating Conflict .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

To tackle this issue, companies are looking to infuse AI with a bit of humanity, help consumers better connect with computer-operated services and offer improved insights. For example, Amazon, Westpac and National Australia Bank are teaming up to bring voice-activated AI to Australian banking customers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

And even though loyalty tends to focus on those consumers who are already, well, loyal — to a brand or chain or specific QSR operator — businesses in this sector can’t ignore such programs because, as Robbins told Webster, there is always a competitor looking to steal away customers. The main driver of all that?

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

Possibly Unit 180, which Reuters reports is a “special cell” within the country’s main spy agency. In addition, reports the newswire , cyber industry observers and researchers have said that they have found “technical evidence” that links North Korea with this month’s WannaCry wave of cyberattacks, which hit 300,000 computers in 150 nations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Not to ruin your holiday spirit, but let’s start this story with the cold and brutal truth: One of the largest risks that payments and commerce operators face in 2019 is being called to account by government officials, regulators or media about a failure to secure their organizations from cyberattacks. and other places.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One small business owner, factory operator Vinod Gupta, told CNN Money “it’s been a terrible year.”. These struggles are due, in part, to restrictions on the technology and tools they can afford. Ninety percent of our business has been wiped out,” Gupta added. Where there were 15 workers before, now there are three.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

It’s a landscape that has created an opportune environment for technological innovation. But how can a five-year-old digital native really stack up against companies that have been operating for decades — or even centuries? Ditching the Legacy Baggage.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In recent months, the council has expanded its membership roster to include heavyweights such as the Federal Reserve and electronic payments and banking solution provider ACI Worldwide , boosting the council’s mission of developing a national faster payment system. Bursari Helps Public Schools Adopt Faster Payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

Harbert invests in emerging growth companies that are attacking high growth addressable markets and have the leadership, technology platform and operational infrastructure to deliver market differentiated results,” Bob Crutchfield, general partner at Harbert Growth Partners, said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

Thanks to the digital economy and its supporting technology, we can say we are in the “golden age” of this and that. That’s the story told in a new PYMNTS interview with Jason Hardy, chief operating officer at AgeChecker.Net. a national push is afoot to raise the minimum age throughout the country to 21 for tobacco purchases.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

As new PYMNTS research documents, over the past year, 18 Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) arenas have deployed biometric solutions by CLEAR.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) reported results that beat on the bottom line, and missed Wall Street expectations slightly on the top line, driven by banks’ continuing need to modernize their payments infrastructure and embrace digital offerings. Adjusted Q4 earnings of $1.60 bested consensus by 2 pennies; revenues of $2.17

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Out of necessity, restaurants are turning to a wide range of new technologies to deliver on changing ordering preferences. It’s no wonder more than three-fourths (78 percent) of operators considered off-premises programs strategic priorities. . percent of Taco Bell locations featuring the technology, while only 7.3

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Investment in Intelligence of Things (IoT) is expected to surge in the coming years, with companies projected to increase spending on the design, creation and operation of IoT solutions from $186.1 Recently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology drafted a report advising federal agencies on IoT security.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The nation saw four startups take home investment out of a total of seven investment rounds. Wholesalebox said it will use the funds to expand operations into new markets and scale its technology infrastructure. But the largest venture capital funding round went to an accounts payable automation firm in the U.S. B2B Payments.

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