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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Mastercard and ACI Worldwide are teaming up to “provide a wide range of real-time payment solutions globally.” This will address the opportunity created as the “account-to-account payments market continues to quickly expand,” a press release said on Tuesday (Sept. ACI is a payment-systems company headquartered in Naples, Fla.

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JUNE 24, 2020

Businesses are digitizing more rapidly these days, often tapping into new overseas markets and expansion opportunities created by COVID-19. They are also exhibiting increasingly robust cross-border payments capabilities, with a focus on simplicity and ease of operations internationally. Analysis, Compliance, Speed.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Regulators want to have a greater stake in the way sharing platforms operate. Many of these regulators also now expect sharing and payment services to comply with shifting data regulations, like GDPR. Around the Payments and the Platform Economy. Why Hostelz.com Stopped Accepting Payments.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

The Bank of Lithuania has suspended the majority of activities of payments company SatchelPay , reports said Tuesday, barring the Lithuanian company from issuing electronic money or providing part of its payment services. The Industry Spread reported Tuesday (Aug. The Industry Spread reported Tuesday (Aug.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Middle Eastern finance group Emirates National Bank Dubai (NBD) has deployed a centralized international payments hub on Tata Consultancy Services ' TCS BaNCS For Payments, according to a press release , which will help to boost payments in numerous countries across the world.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has appointed Goldman Sachs alum Robin Vince as its new vice chair and CEO of global market infrastructure as of Oct. In his new position, Vince will oversee BNY Mellon's Clearance and Collateral Management, Treasury Services, Markets and Pershing businesses, the release says.

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MAY 20, 2020

Accomplishing this task poses a unique set of challenges, however, particularly when it comes to real-time payments. The 27 EU member states have their own financial systems, and many have also implemented their own domestic real-time payments rails. The ECB sees TIPS as more than just another real-time payments solution, however.

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MAY 23, 2018

EVO Payments Inc. 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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OCTOBER 7, 2019

The acquisition will expand NCR’s service to 1,000 restaurants in the region. NCR said it will operate three local offices with the Midwest POS staff and management. “We In today’s competitive market, having direct support from NCR best enables us to provide more solutions to our existing customers and grow our client base.

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MAY 4, 2020

Payment orchestration platforms (POPs) are suddenly everywhere as solution-shopping for the great American reopening gets underway in earnest. The lure of new markets and customers is powerful, and a global presence is now available to the smallest of online retailers, but there’s a right way to expand into overseas territories.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Chaves also said the company will earmark a percentage of the proceeds to accelerate financial inclusion in the region. Founded in 1999, based in Argentina and registered in the United States, MercadoLibre is an eCommerce platform and digital payment solution that operates across Latin America.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Commerce is increasingly crossing borders and currencies, digitally, affording firms of all sizes, and across all verticals, opportunities to tap into new markets. Beyond the cost of the transactions themselves, there’s a palpable drag on operations. This high cost significantly affects an SME’s margin. The Rise of Open Banking.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

One of the lessons that was driven home at the recent American Banker Small Business Banking Conference in Nashville was the difference in marketing between large national banks and community banks, particularly deposit marketing. The data would indicate not marketing to a new customer is a mistake. There is a reason for this.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

The Central Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has confirmed it will abide by the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMIs). Regionally operated payment systems in Jamaica will consequently be regulated more closely.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Banks, businesses and consumers fundamentally altered how they interacted with each other in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic — and regulators tasked with making sure their data and payments are kept safe took notice. This is also the aim behind several regulatory changes taking place in other MENA markets, notably Egypt.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

11), Visa executives laid out a roadmap to displacing cash and checks across the global stage, digitizing payments through click to pay, tap to pay, digital wallets and cross-border flows – along with capturing a sizable slice of B2B spend, too. At its investor day presentation Tuesday (Feb. B2B Potential.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

To open up new currency options and new markets for cardholders of JCB across Asia, Flywire and JCB International, Co., JCBI) have unveiled a partnership that provides international students with a new way to make cross-border tuition payments.

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APRIL 10, 2020

Intimidated by the scale and cost of a massive technological overhaul, large financial institutions (FIs) may approach their digital transformation (DX) journeys gradually, targeting various areas of operations to modernize one-by-one. Modernizing Corporate Payments. “They need to move in that direction.”

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JULY 10, 2020

The legal cannabis market’s financial services challenges are, by now, well-known. Credit unions and regional or community banks have stepped in to fill the banking gap, making barriers to accessing much needed financial services lower than ever before for marijuana businesses. Augmenting Legacy Infrastructure.

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JUNE 29, 2020

The pandemic has drastically affected how consumers are shopping and paying for even routine purchases, and this in turn has altered how businesses are accepting their payments. The health crisis has brought about changes to this rule, however, and these may have long-term implications for payment standards and regulations.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Western Union (WU) is bridging small businesses (SMBs) and entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico to cross-border payment services, the financial institution (FI) said on Monday (March 11). EDGE launched in 2016 to promote global trade for SMBs by offering accounts payable and accounts receivable connectivity, invoice presentment and payments.

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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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Want to understand payments innovation in Latin America ? As Pérez put it, more concisely: “Every time you enter a new market, you need to create a new recipe, even though the ingredients might be the same.”. Times are brightening for digital payments and commerce in Latin America. Latin American Progress.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

The drivers of this modest change are that we now include the sentiment and uncertainty effects and that financial markets have responded notably to recent trade news.”. The region operates with “an economy which is largely based on trade,” Kocher noted, making it a prime target for bank-FinTech innovation.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

Payments firm Sokin is integrating local payment rails from Currencycloud to help boost its money transfer service around 150 different countries with 35 different currency options, the company announced Tuesday (Aug. Users can make unlimited payments for $2.99 Users can make unlimited payments for $2.99

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JULY 24, 2020

The July Payments Powering the Platform Economy Report examines how international eCommerce platforms work to create transaction experiences that are compelling and secure for users in each market they serve. Around The eCommerce Payments W orld. Visa is also putting focus on consumers in Africa. Read more in the Report.

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APRIL 10, 2020

“In times of uncertainty, it’s important that we help our clients mitigate risk by offering flexibility, redundancy and resilience,” Ryan Frere, executive vice president, global payments at Flywire , told PYMNTS. The following is an excerpt from Black Swan , contributed by Flywire Executive VP of Global Payments Ryan Frere.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The pandemic has exposed glaring points of friction in any number of verticals – including banking, where it’s apparent that legacy systems and processes were not designed to handle real-time anything, and certainly not payments. economy is proving to be a tailwind for faster payments and processes. That said, the U.S. The Three Is .

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JUNE 24, 2019

The parties rarely meet in person, presenting a trust issue that can become an even bigger problem when employers have to make payments across borders as payment preferences vary between regions. dollars, while a remote worker in India would prefer to receive payment in rupees.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

One recent report found that 57 million freelancers are expected to operate in the U.S. The freelance market is also expanding in Europe, with one study indicating that gig economy workers conduct approximately 20 percent to 30 percent of all jobs in the region. Freelance Flexibility And Cross-border Payments.

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MARCH 4, 2019

Wirecard and Cimple Marketing have teamed with Estonia-based cruise ship operator Tallink Grupp to enable shops on its 14 vessels to accept China’s top three payment options.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

But FedEx Business Insights also found that intra-regional exporting is a major force behind SME growth today, perhaps serving as a stepping stone for small businesses that may have their sights set on global growth ahead. The digital economy is driving this optimism,” the report said.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Xoom is now offering clients in the U.S., is accelerating market convergence for the Santiago Exchange. Volante Technologies Accelerates Market Convergence For Santiago Exchange. Canada, Europe and U.K. Volante Technologies Inc.,

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JUNE 22, 2022

Interswitch, Africa’s leading integrated payments and digital commerce company, and Compass Plus Technologies, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software, have announced a partnership to further strengthen Interswitch’s payment card processing capacity in Africa.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

If for nothing else, Uber and Lyft will be remembered for one big thing: making payments all but invisible via a seamless transaction process that was pretty much revolutionary. Instant Payments. Speed is among those factors that are rapidly increasing in importance, no matter the geographical market, product or service.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Treasury departments need to modernize as they grapple with the pandemic — streamlining the way cash is handled, how strategic decisions about cash flow are crafted and how payments are made. According to Sridhar Kanthadai , APAC head of wholesale payments at J.P. The trend is away from paper, but true digitization does not stop there.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Though they may work as far as the other side of the world, remote workers still expect the same level of security, trust and speed in payments. Around the Payments and the Platform Economy. The growth of online payments is prompting new ways for consumers and businesses to interact with each other.

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