Bobsguide

JANUARY 18, 2021

It's with great pleasure that we announce the 2020 bobsguide Awards. Given the levels of fluidity in markets and the increased rate of innovation required of the fintech community last year, the judges delayed many of the assessments as late as possible. Here, we have.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

And, in digital banking, banks are innovating with their strategies for fraud protection and anti-money laundering (AML). 96 percent: Share of retail banks that plan to develop services focused on real-time payments by 2020. sales the athleisure market generated as of 2016. sales the athleisure market generated as of 2016.

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BankInovation

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Prepaid payments are primed to be the main innovation rail for the Canadian payments market, as developments in automated banking and consumer technology make headway and market size grows. The Canadian prepaid market in 2019 had $3.74

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

New payment rails are once again in the spotlight as real-time payments and cryptocurrency emerge as the top focuses for innovators. In this week’s look at payment rails innovation, the European Union begins paving the way for greater crypto adoption, while Mastercard expands its own crypto accelerator initiative.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The business of banking is reaching a critical inflection point as ‘challengers’ take market share and incumbents implement strategies to accelerate their digital transformation efforts to enhance customer journeys.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2020

The following is an excerpt from How 35 Execs Are Powering The Great Digital Shift Of 2020 (And Beyond) , contributed by David Nachman , CEO at FastSpring. The opportunities I see emerging in the second half of 2020 are centered around business reinvestment in growth, product development and business model adaptation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

billion in venture capital investments between January and September 2020, according to a press release from London & Partners emailed to PYMNTS. The pandemic has dealt blows to many markets, but so far, London's FinTech market appears to be coping well, the release stated, with data suggesting that around 95 percent of the U.K.'s

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

“Digitization has helped support remittance market continuity in the face of reduced mobility. We also believe money transfers relying on informal or unregulated routes are converting to formal money transfers, and may even help stabilize the market as travel restrictions likely remain.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

What makes the current developments so interesting and exciting is that “we're just seeing that they're at the end of the innovation growth cycle,” he explained. All of these new FinTechs and digital innovators are changing the landscape as the role of payments rapidly shifts in the broader financial services arena.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

"As we transition to a new year and a new environment, where the rollout of vaccinations globally begins to create a prospect of some stability, we must draw on the lessons of 2020 to build a more productive and prosperous world," says Kohli. No one underestimates the scale of the challenges we still face.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

While the healthcare industry has long embraced technology, the demand to innovate and adapt quickly has grown exponentially in 2020 and into 2021. This has created an even greater demand for healthcare companies to incorporate more innovative technologies and build custom products to stay competitive within the market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

PSCU has appointed Denise Stevens as senior vice president and chief product officer, while Scott Young will head the product delivery leadership team as vice president of innovation, PSCU announced today (Feb. Stevens will oversee product delivery and management, as well as its innovation teams. Young will report to Stevens. “We

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Last week, the American Banking Association (ABA) held its annual Bank Marketing Conference in Denver, receiving rave reviews. The theme was – developing your marketing superpowers. Amid the brewery networking, superhero costumes, and fun, some fantastic bank marketing lessons were had, and not just for bank marketers.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This Year was brought to you by the number 2020 and the letters W, T and F” – Big Bird (more or less). Sit back and enjoy our take on the best and worst of banking in 2020 as you celebrate the holidays. Most Oft-Heard Statements of 2020. ” – Hunter Thompson. Well, HST and Big Bird had it right. So, let’s go!

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Risk management platform Feedzai announced a 44 percent increase in growth for the first half of the fiscal year for 2020, which a press release says was one of the company’s most successful so far. The deals sometimes concerned big players, including “some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world (e.g.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Image by Worawut/Adobe By Charles Potts As we turn the page to a new year, the innovation evolution continues. ICBA is leaning into it, bringing its ThinkTECH Accelerator program and innovation efforts in-house to provide community bankers with targeted solutions. billion in 2020 revenues.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. The growing popularity of DVD rentals in the early 2000s introduced more competition into the market, making them more affordable for more consumers. I Don’t Want To, But I Have To’.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

No matter how innovative they are, companies still need to get paid. And not many companies this year have combined business model creativity with payments innovation more than Beautycounter. While all the innovations and the business awards are nice to have, Renfrew is most proud of her work as a beauty industry activist.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

It will likely alter global markets and regulations as the financial ecosystem becomes more digitized. PSCU reported that the hike in mobile wallet credit purchases among its CUs’ members was nearly 48 percent by August 2020, while mobile wallet debit purchases climbed 22 percent during the same period.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

.” The following is an excerpt from How 35 Execs Are Powering The Great Digital Shift Of 2020 (And Beyond) , contributed by Manish Kohli , global head of payments and receivables, Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions. To say these are unprecedented times would be a gross understatement. This has accelerated an expected trend.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

But according to a new report from EY, it would be unfair to say that regulation is the only driving force behind large banks’ changing market strategies. In its Global Banking Outlook 2018 survey , EY assessed 221 financial institutions across 29 markets. Optimism Up. North American banks are among the most optimistic, EY found.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are some of the main beneficiaries of these innovations, as they become more inclined to look into global eCommerce to add to their in-store sales. 55B: Square’s market capitalization. 45%: Decline in cross-border payments volume in May 2020. All this, Today in Data. Data: .

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Abrigo

MARCH 24, 2021

Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 BSA professionals should prepare for changes as new regulations and guidance from FinCEN unfold. Takeaway 1 The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AMLA) is the first significant change to the Bank Secrecy Act in nearly 20 years. Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AMLA) amends the Bank Secrecy Act.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Key Takeaways Trepp's head of Commercial Real Estate Finance outlined the current CRE market and looked at the future of CRE during Abrigo's recent ThinkBIG conference. This post by Hayley Collier , Trepp's Marketing Communication Specialist, was originally published on Trepp's blog and can be found here. The pandemic's impact on CRE.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands came in two flavors during 2020. The second flavor were the brands that had seen traction before the pandemic and flourished during it with innovative marketing, fresh business models and cool packaging. When those markets sparked a fan base and reorders, the company was born.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

There are bad days on the market — and in the wake of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus , which has spent the last month gaining more and more global ground, there have been more than a few of those of late. The market has had a crisis of confidence,” Willie Delwiche, investment strategist at Baird told the Associated Press.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And in retail innovation, Indonesia’s Blibli.com has opened a cashierless brick-and-mortar store location for its BlibliMart brand. Data: 10K: Maximum number of scooters that would be permitted in 2020 with D.C.’s 200B: Value of the grocery market in Indonesia. 200B: Value of the grocery market in Indonesia.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

market for initial public offerings (IPOs) had a banner year in 2020 despite the pandemic — or perhaps because of it. billion during 2020’s first nine months. Markets initially responded accordingly, with shares pricing at $24 — the very top of the stock’s $22 to $24 expected range. percent to close at $22.05.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

He is the cliché of a profession that has a lot of suede sheen on it, but at least one company is in the market to bring used car sales into the digital future. “We It’s hard to imagine that there’s so much technology and innovation happening up and down the mobility spectrum except for in this market — and it’s a $1.4

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

There seem to be countless sources of collateral damage associated with the unexpected appearance of COVID-19 in early 2020 – the shutdown of production in China, the ripples through the global supply chain, the virtual zeroing out of the travel and events vertical and the carnage on Wall Street. An Opportunity for Innovation .

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Bobsguide

JULY 28, 2020

New data from Innovate Finance found that UK fintechs pulled over $1.84bn (£1.4bn) in venture capital investments during the first half of 2020. The findings show that the UK fintech market is still growing despite coronavirus, with investments up 22 percent in the first half of the year.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Digital banking brand Varo has 1 million customers, and is pushing ahead with plans to become a nationally-chartered bank early next year, CEO Colin Walsh told Bank Innovation Tuesday.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 13, 2020

Welcome to the latest episode of our Weekly Wrap series, for the week ending Friday, March 13, 2020.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

have established an $800 million fund to boost trade finance in emerging markets. Across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting supply chains, decreasing demand, and causing overall market anxiety,” said Paulo de Bolle , global director of IFC’s Financial Institutions Group, in a statement. The International Finance Corp. (

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

In the meantime, we can build on the experiences of COVID lockdowns to accelerate the development of digital financial services tailored to the needs of individuals and businesses across our emerging markets. I see 2021 as a year of considerable opportunity for VEON.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

Braun faces charges of accounting fraud and market manipulation designed to artificially inflate the financial technology company’s balance sheet to make it look more appealing to investors and customers. Airbnb CEO Sees Potential For 2020 IPO Amid Bookings Rebound. NEW DATA: How Credit Unions Are Innovating To Help Micro Businesses.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The past few decades have seen unprecedented levels of innovation, especially in what Peter Thiel calls the world of “bits,” or software, internet, and mobile technology. Patent Analytics to see where innovation is happening next. Market Sizing Tools to visualize market growth and spot the next big opportunity.

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