PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2016

Bitstamp has stamped its name in the record books in the EU for being the first company of its kind to secure a national license to operate as a bitcoin exchange. “This is an unprecedented moment for the bitcoin and brings with it a new era of security and transparency to the industry,” the company wrote on its blog.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) — which uses tech like blockchain to verify transactions without the need for a centralized authority — is gaining traction as a way to revamp capital markets infrastructure by making it more streamlined, improving transparency, and reducing associated fees. But financial incumbents are also making waves.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Sports and fantasy sports gambling operations are a big deal in the U.S., The market has the potential to expand even further, too, as Puerto Rico is reportedly considering legalization. . with consumers betting more than $990 million in January alone.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Better Way to Calculate Value: Customers and Product If you lower deposit rates in this market, you will likely lose customers to competition that may be paying 5% or greater. If you know the cumulative lifetime value of each customer and each product, you are on the precipice of having one of the most profitable banks in the market.

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Perficient

APRIL 2, 2021

AI technologies, such as voice recognition and natural language processing (NLP), are being used to improve customer experience and to gain operational efficiencies. These technologies are also used to better target marketing in retail and customize trade recommendations in wealth management. Personalization of Customer Services.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

The Securities & Exchange Commission ( SEC ) has moved to freeze the assets of a $12 million cryptocurrency mining and multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme, Coindesk reports. In Hong Kong, 39 percent of new FinTech firms launched in the last year are now operating via blockchain, Cointelgraph reported.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

Looking back at a time when the market was moving toward mobile, Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates said his biggest mistake was not putting Microsoft in the position of Android as the largest “non-Apple” mobile operating system in the world. There’s room for exactly one non-Apple operating system and what’s that worth?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking to “modernize” the regulation of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in a bid to make those investment vehicles more innovative, and give them quicker entrance to the market. SEC Chairman Jay Clayton told CNBC last month that “progress is being made” in crypto ETFs coming to market.

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Abrigo

JULY 13, 2023

Avoid fraud losses from pig butchering scams FinCrime professionals looking to prevent pig butchering scams in the age of cryptocurrency can follow these steps to tighten security. Many victims are lonely or isolated and don’t understand cryptocurrency markets. Would you like other articles like this in your inbox?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The term was coined by Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba , and it refers to the broad umbrella of changes in retail as companies continue to adapt to the new world. Lotte started its eCommerce arm in 2016, allocating $25 million with an eye toward gaining 20 percent market share within three years.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

EMVCo announced a new streamlined approach to approving contactless mobile payment-enabled devices that operate with EMV Level 1 approved payment acceptance terminals. The centralized testing framework from EMVCo will significantly streamline the existing process to optimize product time to market,” he continued.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In today’s top payments news, Wells Fargo has selected former Santander head executive Scott Powell to be its new chief operating officer. operations. Wells Fargo has tapped former Santander head executive Scott Powell to be its new chief operating officer. He will also serve on the bank’s operating committee.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

which the institution plans to deploy in its corporate payments operation. However, participation from the traditional financial services sector isn’t necessarily a requirement when it comes to crypto adoption, even in the B2B payments market, according to BitRail Co-founder and Vice Chairman Cameron Chell.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

just secured more than $97 million through an initial public offering. The firm is the holding company for an array of FinTech companies operating in supply chain finance, invoice finance and the dynamic discounting market. An alternative lending conglomerate based in the U.K. reports noted.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

Apple is facing Russian scrutiny following a cybersecurity complaint that it is taking advantage of its controlling market position, Russia’s anti-monopoly watchdog told Reuters on Thursday (Aug. Apple said the removed apps used a “highly invasive” technology – Mobile Device Management (MDM) – that violated the App Store policies.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Yet many firms struggle to gain access to the capital that helps them launch or sustain operations. One way to secure funding is to use invoice financing. To that end, Netherlands startup Finturi earlier this month said it had secured $2.2 To that end, Netherlands startup Finturi earlier this month said it had secured $2.2

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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BankUnderground

JULY 18, 2023

And it was then that the Bank of England engaged in an unprecedented financial stability motivated government bond market intervention. In addition to gilts, large asset sales were also observed in corporate bond markets, especially from pension funds themselves. We find that the majority of margin calls came from repo.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

This research has found a distinct lack of market readiness amongst all key stakeholders,” the EPA said in the report. The report, titled “Issuer Declines,” found that 75 percent of issuers surveyed will be ready to comply with the rules, but a smooth operational transition may be a bit tougher. spanning 13 issuers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

LendingClub reported that loan originations were up double digits in the fourth quarter of 2018 , marked by growth in personal loans and auto loans in what the company termed as dynamic and competitive markets, and amid rising interest rates. In reference to its servicing portfolio balance, that tally was $13.7 While the $181.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

The second was the rise of cryptocurrency (though during his remarks he tended to refer to it as Convertible Virtual Currency or CVC). When it came to technology, Blanco was specifically interested in – and concerned about – two main areas. The first is the rise of mobile gaming and gambling. “What you do saves lives.”

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South State Correspondent

JULY 5, 2022

In a stagflation environment, as interest rates rise and cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), or net operating income (NOI)) decreases, the borrower’s capacity to service debt as measured by the debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) decreases rapidly. A loan starting at 1.20X DSCR dips below 1.0X

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Jack Henry

JULY 29, 2022

Headlines with references to “Open APIs” and “Shared Data” continue to appear in inboxes and popular topics with industry reports. We know that in today’s market, consumers don’t compare financial institutions (FIs) so much as they compare experiences.

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Independent Banker

MAY 31, 2022

Providence Bank chose to open a new brick-and-mortar site during the pandemic, when many other businesses were ceasing operations or shutting down altogether. It’s just a natural instinct that if you’re treated well by a bank, you refer your friends to that bank.”. community bank during the pandemic. By Ed Avis. Name: Providence Bank.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Several factors are influencing this: Cultural aversion to credit, lack of supply to ineffective marketing, difficulty in applying for credit and more. Delivering such payments-driven propositions to drive top-line growth and efficient operations for credit issuers requires banks and other payments players to, well, innovate.

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Abrigo

JUNE 5, 2023

In addition, even before the recent banking troubles, regulators have emphasized the financial institution’s responsibility to provide leaders with information on key areas of planning, operations, and risk management. the movement of money out of money market funds to CDs versus new deposit money coming in).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Clover Health , a tech-driven provider of Medicare Advantage insurance plans, plans to go public through a merger with a blank-check company called Social Capital Hedosophia, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday (Oct. The transaction, set to close in early 2021, values Clover at about $3.7

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

“Our Series B investment allows us to continue to scale our operations and deliver a world-class product experience that enables small businesses to thrive,” said Yoco Co-founder and CEO Katlego Maphai in the announcement.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

In a statement made in May 2018 to bond market investors and brokers, Greensill said the Scottish government approved a guarantee related to a power plant owned by Gupta’s GFG Alliance, noting that bonds were secured against that plant. However, Scotland denies that it approved that guarantee.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

billion in new funding, expanding to new markets and getting into new areas — most recently, coworking spaces. Now, the fast-growing operation is tapping into one of the growing trends in payments and commerce by offering online financing for its many partners. market share as this new decade looms.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2019

The word “subscription” appears more than 200 times in the Peloton S-1, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday (Aug. The documents generally also are a good place to see how a firm thinks about its chosen markets and the risks therein, and why it chooses certain business models over others.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

In a new PYMNTS discussion, Karen Webster and Zac Cohen, general manager at Trulioo , used that lawsuit as a stepping off point to talk about how criminals get past anti-money laundering and other laws designed to keep payments honest, and what above-the-board firms and operations can do to stop it.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

But that technology has also handed treasury new tools to become even more effective at giving clarity to an enterprise’s position in its market. Risk, in particular, is susceptible to fast-moving market fluctuations. Companies don’t always have a tight grip on that, though, the executive said.

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Jack Henry

AUGUST 21, 2019

Headlines with references to “Open APIs” and “Shared Data” continue to appear in inboxes and popular topics with industry reports. We know that in today’s market, consumers don’t compare financial institutions (FIs) so much as they compare experiences.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

It may seem like ancient history now — about four years ago, the idea that consumers, merchants, financial institutions (FIs) and payment service providers would rely on the selfie (that much maligned form of self-expression in the smartphone age) for digital security seemed silly.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2016

26) they seized around €1 million earlier in 2016 in connection with a operation that was being run on an online dark market. In a report by CoinDesk , a representative of Finland’s customs office said the online drug site was named Valhalla, which has been in operation since Oct.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The age of technology is, of course, well upon us, with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) a key conduit to making sure that at least some business operations — once the province of spreadsheets and reams of paper — can be streamlined. IdentityMind has come to market with two offerings: the KYC and ICO plugins. Plugging In To Plugins.

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