Chris Skinner

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … Regulating the unregulated I was thinking about this question of how to regulate global technology platforms that don’t recognise national boundaries, mainly in the context of crypto and digital currencies.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Both Uber and its main competitor in India, Ola, hold more than 70 percent of their revenue from only five cities in the whole country: Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi-National Capital Region and Kolkata. The true competitors that are getting priced out, taxi and auto-rickshaw drivers, are still a force to reckon with.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Today protecting rapidly escalating volumes of faster-moving information has become one of the most pressing technology challenges for businesses and other organizations. Nowhere is this more consequential than in the cybersecurity undertaken by the nation’s financial sector, including community banks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

As far as made-up, non-holiday holidays go, you could probably do worse than National Burrito Day , which takes place on Thursday (April 4). Chipotle has also installed digital pickup lines in 1,000 locations, with the full rollout of that technology scheduled to be completed by the middle of 2019.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Tide India is poised to come online in Q1 2021 beginning with an alpha pilot offering based on its international technology stack. Currently, the firm has a technology hub in Hyderabad and a workforce of nearly 100 individuals in the nation who are mainly software programmers, according to the report.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

11, 2010, alleged that Apple’s FaceTime and VPN On Demand features were using its patented technology. Critics have charged that the company’s main purpose is to sue big companies for infringing on patents that it owns. national security.”. "On The original lawsuit , filed Aug. On four separate occasions.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 22, 2024

Compared to 2019, lower office attendance is one of the main drivers of lower space requirements by small businesses and corporations, a fact that has dramatically curtailed office lending. If you add these metrics, office attendance has stabilized nationally and started to trend higher in 2024. Current usage is pegged at 61.7%.

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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

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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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The work you’re doing every day puts real faces and names to the communities we’re fighting for, and it has been a privilege to be your representative at the national level. We hold the line for Main Street America, which needs us. We hold the line for Main Street America, which needs us.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

Behind the data lie a slew of lifestyle changes and demographic shifts, which may have positive ripple effects for the SMBs that line Main Street, and bode well for consumer spending trends overall. To that end, and in terms of the data announced by the National Association of Realtors, existing home sales grew by 9.4 million units.

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PopularBank

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

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

IrisGuard, an iris-recognition solutions company, and Patientory, a cybersecurity healthcare data solution firm, are collaborating to combine iris biometric technology with the healthcare focused PTOYNet blockchain network, to add another layer of security and authorization on the blockchain, and help with patient identity procedures.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

million storefront businesses that form the lifeblood of the U.S. economy are on a run and are seemingly gaining momentum. According to the latest findings of the PYMNTS Store Front Index , small businesses across the U.S. are continuing to build on their gains from 2016. The Index, which saw a decline in Q1 2016 when it fell from 115 points to 114.6

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JUNE 16, 2020

They spoke before the Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy Tuesday. Additionally, Kellerman called for a tax credit to encourage firms in the financial vertical to set aside 10 percent of their information technology (IT) budgets at a minimum toward cybersecurity.

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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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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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2020

In this day and age, it is very important for community financial institutions to be able to compete with their main new competitors – challenger banks and national banks – and have access to the same technology that can be deployed in weeks not years.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

According to news from Reuters , a document by the European Commission revealed that the law would enable the FinTech sector to grow through crowdfunding and common blockchain technology standards. “An In addition, the EU would work toward creating common standards for the blockchain technology that supports cryptocurrencies. “An

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Abrigo

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

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. Small Business Administrator, in the release. I hope this serves as inspiration for others to do the same.”.

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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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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Beyond the basics, there are new technologies, integrations, plug-in tools, and more. The latest in self-service functionality and technology was in place. As new issues are raised within the organization, or groups bicker over design details, teams can again and again come back to the two main themes: What will help us reach our KPIs?

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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

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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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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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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JULY 3, 2020

People’s United Bank, which operates across Connecticut, southeastern New York state, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire, recently demonstrated the growing interest of community banks to collaborate with FinTechs to expand their product offering — just as larger national and multinational financial institutions (FIs) do.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2018

The group’s main goal will be to “know, deepen and address the issue of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and blockchain, as well as increase public and private investments in this direction.” They will also be charged with creating technical and regulatory tools for the nation’s blockchain industry.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In other news, Malaysia’s Ministry of Education announced that it has formed a new consortium of universities that will use blockchain technology to prevent the issuance of fake degree certificates. And Venezuela is trying to lure the world’s oil markets to start using its national cryptocurrency, the petro.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

A diplomat who spoke to Financial Times said that with the upcoming adoption of 5G mobile technology, it’s a good time to question China’s motives for offering tech to other countries. “A However, the EU’s ambitions for more oversight are harmed by governments’ desires to manage potentially lucrative auctions of China’s 5G technology.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

Reports this week said the bill, the Main Street Cybersecurity Act, is an update to the existing Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 and would seek for the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop a set of voluntary guidelines for small businesses to mitigate and prevent cybersecurity risks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

After all, online sales no longer rely as much on younger shoppers who are more comfortable with the technology. He said “the older generation that couldn't [use technology] or is not willing to shop in stores is also adopting digital” — one of the main reasons the adoption of eCommerce has accelerated so much this year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2017

Moving at the speed of light was once reserved for the comic book hero Flash, but with nearly every industry going digital, technology may be giving him a run for his money. To help diversify its economy outside of oil and gas, Russian president Vladimir Putin is looking into investing in Ethereum , bitcoin’s main cryptocurrency competition.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

“Investment from the ‘national team’ [state-owned funds] means Face++ will receive much more policy support from the government, which will greatly benefit their development,” Leng Biao, professor of body recognition at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics said at the time. Qiming Venture Partners and Sinovation Ventures.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

Bank regulations hadn’t “sufficiently modernized to accommodate cloud and other innovative technologies,” according to a U.S. One of the main issues being revisited is Facebook’s purchase of Instagram and WhatsApp. to come up with a national privacy law have hit a wall, with Senators unable to agree on how strict the rule should be.

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APRIL 10, 2017

According to The New York Times , the Pentagon is worried about America’s most promising technologies being accessed by China through its investments in startups that focus on advancing areas of expertise, such as artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles and robotics. As Chinese firms continue to become significant investors in U.S.

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