PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Cequence Security. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California. Contrast Security.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Understanding the competitive banking landscape helps community banks set proper pricing, respond to rival marketing, and compete more effectively. Traditionally, community banks would compare their financial performance and health to similar-sized banks in their region. The same picture emerges for domestic deposits.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Corporates aren’t prepared to tackle the headwinds of market risks, according to two separate reports released last week. Overall, organizations did not score well, according to Kevin Hewitt, FTI Consulting’s chairman of the EMEA region. One-third of companies acknowledge their data security practices are sub-par.

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JUNE 29, 2020

Canadian payments service RevoluPAY , for one, recently received a Pan-European revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) banking license that allows it to provide solutions for businesses in the European market. Data privacy and security continue to be top priorities for many regulators, too. however, notably SCA.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Indonesian wholesale eCommerce market Ula has announced that it has secured $10.5 Abheek Anand , managing director at Sequoia India, said the investment made sense because of the often troubled and inefficient supply chain in emerging markets like Indonesia’s. The round was led by Sequoia India and Lightspeed India.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ongoing security concerns have prompted the Federal Reserve to further scrutinize big tech firms that serve the banking industry, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Thursday (Nov. Can we look at their overall compliance management program?”. 21), citing a senior official.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Payments company Ixaris has teamed up with travel industry company Sabre to expand into new European markets, with plans to eventually reach the Americas and Asia Pacific markets, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Tala, the consumer lending app in emerging markets, announced Monday (Oct. In a press release , Tala said the undisclosed investment from PayPal will help the company bring visibility and access to underserved regions in emerging markets across the world. 22) a strategic investment from PayPal.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2018

made an impressive stock market debut on Wednesday (May 23), with share prices up as much as 26 percent after the company began trading on NASDAQ. Barclays, Cowen Group, Goldman Sachs, PKO BP Securities, Regions Securities and William Blair are also acting as book-running managers for the proposed offering.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Bankers need to manage credit relationships to ROA/ROE and not credit spreads. Market Intelligence We analyzed the last 1000 loans priced on our hedging desk, and the credit spread, and size are plotted below. The national and regional banks originate about 85% of all domestic loans, and community banks hold the remainder.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

22) that showed double-digit percentage gains in volumes, driven by online commerce and increased traction among mid-market firms doing business and taking payments across the globe. Continuing a trend seen in past quarters, volume churn was less than 1 percent, said management. million euros. million euros.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2017

7), Bluefin Payment Systems announced its new partnership with international online payments and fraud and data management solutions provider First Atlantic Commerce (FAC). RM: FAC is the first payment processor to provide a PCI-validated P2PE solution to the LAC market through Bluefin’s decryption-as-a-service model, Decryptx.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

The phrase “what you see is what you get” is becoming particularly relevant to the growing homesharing market. Security and the Homesharing Platform. The company also works with several security providers to ensure users’ payments remain safe. The less [user] information we store, the better.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Currently listed on the OTC under the symbol WETG, the membership-based eCommerce platform WeTrade has a market cap of $1.7 Funds raised from the Nasdaq listing will be earmarked for research and development, marketing, staffing and investments.

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FICO

JULY 31, 2019

As TPRM or third-party risk management grows in importance, so does cybersecurity risk assessment as part of it. The latest Assessment of Business Cyber Risk (ABC) report from the US Chamber of Commerce and FICO discusses four steps for improving third-party cybersecurity risk management. regions, cloud)?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank (AGTB) was awarded the first digital banking license and Category 1 status from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), Islamic Business & Finance reported on Wednesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2020

We see our mission, to make it easy to do business anywhere, reflected in Tokopedia’s journey,” said Finance Manager Kenny Ho at Alibaba at the time. Bloomberg reported America’s largest internet corporations are eyeing Asia where the region is exploding with smartphones and tech-savvy residents. billion funding round for Tokopedia. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2020

Marcello Baricordi , Visa’s general manager for MENA, said “enabling secure, immediate movement of money for gig economy workers, like Careem captains, is especially vital as we support economic recovery efforts.”. He said as the pandemic fuels digitization of payments, convenient and secure cashless solutions are key.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

Enterprise Security. Reports said the key differentiator for AimBrain in the market is its ability to provide plug-and-play solutions so banks and FinTechs can deploy its services all at once or singularly; it also enables a business to enhance its biometric authentication measures should any red flags arise. Corporate Accounting.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Payment service provider PayFort , which is based in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, has changed its name to Amazon Payment Services, a letter from Managing Director Omar Soudodi stated, and it will now offer installment payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

Heartland Payment Systems has secured a strategic partner to bring its U.S. customers access to new markets with a deal that brings them secure international payment processing. ” For Computop’s customer base, this collaboration provides them with additional secure acquiring solutions in the U.S. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And while enthusiasm for expanding opportunities to access the Chinese market and its billion-plus consumers is as avid as it’s ever been — as evidenced by last week’s announcement of PayPal and UnionPay’s global payments partnership — the bigger commerce story has expanded beyond China in the last few years.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

“Latin America is a highly attractive growth market for us, and the acquisition of Omni will significantly expand our capabilities in this important region,” the firm’s Founder and CEO Lex Greensill said in a statement. FTV Capital recently announced that it has closed its sixth fund, and totaling $1.2 Authenticiti.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2016

A year after its creation, France-based Spendesk has launched its corporate expense management solution to the EU market, reports said Monday (May 31). “Corporate card management used to be a nightmare,” said Webedia Group Treasurer Ganna Verbytska, whose company is one of Spendesk’s early clients.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

It’s projected to be the future of marketing and commerce. The dedicated AR device market is projected to reach just under $660 million by 2018. And the combined AR/VR markets are projected to reach over $162 billion by 2020. Some national and regional markets are more willing to accept AR than others.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 10, 2023

Fair value accounting measures assets and liabilities at current market value instead of historical or amortized value. Nonetheless, with the recent collapse of sizeable regional banks, regulators, investors, analysts, accountants, and bankers are now scrutinizing the fair value of banks’ securities and loan portfolios.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Using RippleNet, Ripple's global payment network, the partnership will take advantage of the ripe market for cross-border payments, which a July Juniper Research study said will be worth $35 trillion by 2022, the release stated. Cambridge also said there is a new degree of transparency and certainty with the new partnership.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

the ability to send secure funds to 12 countries in Africa for a reduced fee, while Volante Technologies Inc. is accelerating market convergence for the Santiago Exchange. and Europe the ability to send secure funds to 12 nations in Africa for a reduced charge. Canada, Europe and U.K. Canada, U.K. Volante Technologies Inc.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Faced with a growing number of transactions to process in real time, payment service providers (PSPs), financial institutions (FIs) and FinTech firms also need to make sure the security of these smarter payment systems is up to par. Regulators in regions such as Europe are changing the ways they look at cross-border transactions.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

The inaugural edition of the Payments Powering the Platform Economy Report , a collaboration of PYMNTS and Payoneer , offers an in-depth examination of how tailoring payments to geographic markets helps online sellers connect customers with goods during periods of upheaval, or in the regular course of business. Cross-Border, Cross Your Heart.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Relationship focus helps CFIs Small banks can leapfrog competitors and better serve their communities by combining their unique advantages with smart management and partnerships. Declining deposits, higher cost of funds, and ever-increasing competition are just a few challenges these executives are managing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

.’s share of the global currencies trading market dropped to 37.1 New data from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has also confirmed what analysts have been eyeing in recent months, too: Asia is rising to the top of the global FX trading market. now accounting for 21 percent of the sector. China Rises.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

To open up new currency options and new markets for cardholders of JCB across Asia, Flywire and JCB International, Co., Its platform offers one point of management as well as payer engagement from billing and payment through reconciliation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

Crafting streamlined eCommerce checkouts for international customers requires merchants to tailor their payments experiences to the needs and preferences of each market. Managing a slew of PSP integrations is no easy or quick task, but businesses can turn instead to payment orchestration platforms (POPs) to ease the way.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In an interview with PYMNTS, Alastair McGill , general manager of Data Control Solutions at Broadridge Financial Solutions, said payments processing in Europe has undergone significant change over the last decade. The pace of change shows no signs of slowing down,” he said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

4) that it will offer consumer loans in Singapore along with wealth management products. Called “Thrive with Grab,” the strategy is designed to tap into the region’s vast market. More than 70 percent of Southeast Asians are underbanked, according to a Google, Temasek and Bain & Co.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

The bank is integrating Identitii tokenization technology to launch HSBC DART, a secure digital information exchange offered under its Global Liquidity and Cash Management (GLCM) business. “HSBC’s DART is an industry first,” said Identitii CEO Nick Armstrong in a statement.

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