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Mastercard, Rockefeller Foundation Launch Online Data Platform For Non-Profits

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They intend to build on the legacy of the original DATA.org website—launched in 2002. The philanthropy organizations also revealed today a $10 million “impact challenge” to crowdsource data science initiatives and solutions for organizations in the non-profit, civic, and government space.

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How Visa, FIS, TCH, SWIFT, Nacha and Circle See The Future of Faster, Real Time Payments Rails

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All of these new instant payments systems around the world are being built on the ISO 2002 standard,” said Waterhouse. The real innovation cycle is where you layer on the program ability of money as a data type on the internet,” noted Allaire. But the faster payment systems are showing advantages, too, he said.

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Former Worldbank CEO On ClearBank’s New Core Banking Infrastructure And Driving FinTech Innovation

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that he sold to RBS in 2002. that resulted in the reduction in the number of clearing banks to four, the incredible rise in FinTech innovation in the U.K. and the dearth of anyone innovating in core banking systems — or even talking about establishing a new clearing and settlement bank that might expedite FinTech innovation.

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Interac Says Canadians Are Using Its Service At Record Levels

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Interac eTransfer is leading secure, real-time money movement innovation in Canada,” said Mark O’Connell, president and CEO, Interac Association and Acxsys Corporation, in the press release. “We

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simPRO Taps Square To Power Field Service Payments

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Founded in 2002, simPRO secured $31 million in growth capital in 2016 as part of an aggressive product innovation and expansion strategy. “By partnering with Square’s trusted payment platform, we are simplifying the billing and invoicing process for our customers.”.

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Speed Dating: Invoice-to-Cash In The Digital Age

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In 2002, the New Jersey Technology Council named him “CFO of the Year.” Karen Webster is one of the world’s leading experts on payments, commerce and retail innovation, and a strategic advisor to CEOs and Boards of multinational players in those sectors. Ed received his B.S. in accounting from Lehigh University.

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IBM again a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integrated Risk Management

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IBM RegTech Innovations. Initially founded in 2002 to address the opportunity created by the Sarbanes Oxley Act, OpenPages’ client adoption was so strong over the coming years that by 2005, OpenPages was ranked 29 th on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Wheeler, Jie Zhang, Earl Perkins.