PYMNTS

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. “Banks are technology companies,” Rio Tinto recently told PYMNTS. Preparing For The Future.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Hitachi is teaming up with a regional bank in Japan to introduce anti-fraud ATMs. The machines are designed to stop users from being conned into transferring money from their bank accounts at an ATM by preventing transactions from completing if it detects the person is using a mobile phone, Bloomberg reported.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The move comes as part of a larger targeting of Southeast Asian markets, according to TechCrunch , starting with beginning selected regional services in Singapore in the first quarter of 2017. Southeast Asia certainly has the population Amazon seeks in its international investments: The region is home to over 600 million consumers.

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Perficient

MARCH 3, 2021

There are some families without high speed internet, but La Puerta is mobile friendly and is intended to make the college journey seamless for students and parents.” We were honored to collaborate with MiHC to develop the La Puerta portal at no cost,” said Joel Stanesa, general manager of Detroit operations, Perficient.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Currently, there are 57 real-time payments rails operating in more than 72 countries, with even more under construction. Different regions have their own unique payment rails, and no two abide by the same regulatory framework. Other initiatives are being spearheaded across regions. So, what’s the problem?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Make that leather wallet a mobile one, wielded on smartphones. As many as 72 percent of bridge millennials say mobile apps are important for accessing bank accounts. One of the first neobanks in the region, Nubank , traces its genesis back to 2013, having raised hundreds of millions of dollars to expand across several financing rounds.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

It also aims to enable banks, mobile money operators and other providers to connect with one another at a low cost. We believe in our mission to address financial inclusion by making real-time national, regional and global payments accessible to everyone,” said Ambar Sur, founder and CEO of TerraPay.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

As Davis noted, larger banks, including regional players, tend to have their own technology platforms — and direct integrations into their own networks — to enable mobile and contactless payments. The competitive landscape, she told PYMNTS, shifted “the moment that the banks and Apple ended up on a stage together [for Apple Pay].”

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

But drill down a bit, and cash usage has varied from country to country and region to region, depending on what phase of the pandemic (and lockdown) these countries are in. “On He noted that Diebold Nixdorf has augmented its payment choices with an ever-broadening mix of payment vehicles, such as NFC payments with mobile wallets.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2017

To do this, the startup’s mobile solution captures smartphone geolocation information for package deliveries. This is both ineffective and incredibly frustrating for customers who think ‘mobile first’ throughout the region.”. Today, fetchr operates in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Americans are going out to eat more often — and they’re using their smartphones, tablets and other mobile and connected devices to help them do so. These skyrocketing QSR sales are mostly the result of increased interest in, and adoption of, mobile and remote ordering capabilities. Consumer behaviors in the U.S. Growing Ticket Sizes.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

1), and it was ostensibly put into place to tamp down on fraud and stop the illegal sales of mobile phone cards. 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. The new requirement went into effect Sunday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

Marriott CEO and President Arne Sorenson said on a Monday (May 11) earnings call that, overall, “negative trends appear to have bottomed in most regions around the world. He noted that occupancy levels in the region are currently a bit more than 30 percent, which is higher from the lows of below 10 percent in mid-February.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. There were 441 FinTechs operating in Mexico in 2019, a 14 percent increase from 2018. Open Banking And Digital Readiness.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

As a region, Asia has seen $4.5 That means the region is becoming a sweet spot for FinTech investment. But, in Asia, the funding rounds that stretched across India, China and other nations — lured by the buying power of billions of consumers tied to their mobile devices — grabbed a relatively higher pace of fund flows.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

The company had launched an online marketplace for 34 countries in the region last year and recently acquired a minority stake in the eCommerce solutions provider with which it collaborated on the effort. Visa is also putting focus on consumers in Africa. Find more about these stories and the rest of the latest headlines in the Report.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

As reported from Daily News Egypt , a consortium of banks in the region expects a number of FIs, including those in Egypt, to embrace FinTech. In an interview with Reuters, Finxact CEO Frank Sanchez said the company will use the funding to grow operations and technology. Finxact’s own offerings operate in the cloud. “I

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

Since Gojek launched its app in 2015, it says it has brought hundreds of thousands of merchants onto its platform, providing access to more than 170 million customers in Southeast Asia nations. Gojek is a digital and mobile commerce company in a region where most transactions are made with cash.

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Cisco

JANUARY 10, 2023

It’s an excellent way to solidify the optimal operating model mix for hybrid work, digital first engagement, operational excellence and process automation, sustainability, and cybersecurity. To stay competitive, financial institutions are increasingly adopting cloud, mobility and the latest technologies.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2016

John Tait will assume the position of Managing Director of TNS’ Payments Division for the Asia Pacific region. Zirkel was the Chief Operating Officer of TabbedOut before joining TNS, a mobile payment app with CRM features for bars and restaurants. TNS also has operations in Indonesia, New Zealand and the Philippines.

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MAY 31, 2020

Uber has been approved by the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (FNE), Chile’s antitrust regulator, to acquire the Chilean grocery shopping app Cornershop, according to an FNE statement. Although Chile has now granted permission, Mexico regulators still have not.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

Beyond the confines of Europe, Cryptix , a blockchain service provider based in Zug, Switzerland, has said that it acquired Blocktrade, which operates as a digital asset exchange platform. Blocktrade, according to a release, has a European license in place to trade with tokens and digital coins.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

However, Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, executive director of the UAE’s National Electronic Security Authority, told CNBC that the country has been working with big tech platforms, especially Facebook-owned WhatsApp, on national security initiatives. This is what we know and understand from the telecommunication authority here in the UAE.”.

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South State Correspondent

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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MAY 13, 2019

for a loyalty offering, and cash transactions are still popular in Vietnam when compared to other countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region. Cross-border mobile payment solution provider Motion Pay Technology Inc. percent of the Vietnamese population has a mobile money account.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Other, Individual presentations (with just three of the main markets noted below) delved into the market specific opportunities by region and country, detailing total addressable markets that stretch into the trillions of dollars. Of the unbanked population, he said “that’s one-quarter of all adults in the region.” Asia Pacific.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

He came from a nation of some 1.4 Through most of the world, his name is all but synonymous with eCommerce and mobile payments — with the ecosystem constructed under the Alibaba umbrella. The plan is marketed on Alipay, its mobile payment app. Now he is stepping down.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

The deal was given the green light by the country’s central bank in July, and will cover the processing of debit card operations. The national payment gateway system was launched in December of 2017 to ensure that every debit card transaction in the country was handled using Indonesian technology.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 31, 2023

At around $75 per year for unique visitors, it’s multiple times more expensive to service customers compared to other alternatives such as online, mobile, or phone. The operative question is: given online and mobile banking, what is the new role of the branch? Branching is expensive – banks need to use the asset wisely.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

They leapfrogged all the traditional mechanisms and went straight to mobile adoption and biometrics , and that has a significant impact on how the digital identity market operates there, how people respond to it, and what their expectations are,” Cohen told Webster. But looking globally, a fragmented landscape frames the debate.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

According to the report, Glovo figures that it’s only the second privately held company in the nation to reach that level of valuation. Glovo ’s market focus is still fixed on the core regions where it already has operations, including South West Europe, South America and Eastern Europe and Africa.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

With the recent announcement by Tradeshift that the firm would be expanding its operations into Australia and New Zealand, the firm has brought its strategy to bear on a region that serves as a springboard to growth for its own clients in their pursuit of expanded supply chains and also proximity to Asia.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2020

Uber has been approved by the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (FNE), Chile’s antitrust regulator, to acquire the Chilean grocery shopping app Cornershop, according to an FNE statement. Although Chile has now granted permission, Mexico regulators still have not.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Entities such as the National Payments Corporation of India — an umbrella organization for operating retail payments in India — have been helping to guide electronic payments adoption. However, more developed nations have been relatively constrained by legacy technologies and entrenched ways of conducting commerce.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2017

PFG will introduce NCR Silver to its 36 Performance Foodservice distribution centers nationwide, which deliver food and food-related products to regional and national restaurant operators. Those customers will then be able to check out customers quickly and gain access to sales, inventory and employee scheduling reports.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

Azimo says it has received a license from the Dutch Central Bank to operate in the Netherlands, Cubic Transportation Systems has notched a contract for a mobile ticketing system in Ireland , and Bear Market Coffee in Ireland has gone cashless. Coverage includes Mexico ‘s Banco BASE selecting Volante Technologies Inc.

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