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The Invisible Engines Of Banking Innovation

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Consumers take a somewhat binary view of the features and functions that come packaged as innovative: They either believe those innovations can solve problems and, therefore, embrace them or the consumers go somewhere else that offers legacy features and functions. Beauty In Banking Is More Than Skin-Deep.

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Fave: Inside Southeast Asia’s Merchant Super App

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Mobile payments penetration has historically faced a gap in Southeast Asia , Joel Neoh , founder of leading regional online-to-offline company Fave , told Karen Webster. For example, many merchants worry about the costs associated with card payments, although such fears are diminishing rapidly as interchange fees across the region fall.

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dlocal CEO: Helping Global Merchants Tap Emerging-Market Opportunities

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consumers in these geographies are quickly opening up lucrative possibilities for global merchants thanks to the availability of lower-cost smartphones and wireless broadband, the ongoing adoption of eCommerce and the move on the part of many countries to innovative their national payments infrastructure.

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Why Simple (Innovation) Sells

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Rudolf Booker , CEO and founder of Payvision , joined PYMNTS for the latest segment in the Commander in Chief series to explain why sparking innovation in payments may mean looking outside the payments industry itself to bring about real and lasting change. PYMNTS: Define your company’s approach to innovation. RB: Just do it!

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Podcast: Cloud migration ‘a must’ for FIs

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Financial institutions are prioritizing cloud migration as cost reduction and innovation continue to be top of mind. “We We definitely see cloud migration as a must,” Rodrigo Silva, regional director for the Americas at Temenos, tells Bank Automation News on this episode of “The Buzz” podcast.

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Chinese P2P Lender Blames Gov’t For Growth Decline

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While the industry has expanded quickly to a large and complex scale over the years, regulatory directions keep changing and different regions have different rules.”. We hope regulators can give the industry a clear and definite timetable, and give guidance and a ray of hope for companies that stick to compliance,” Guo said.

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Why B2B Payments Innovation Is Key To China’s Global Standing

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But China is also pressing for payments innovation, SWIFT noted, as industry players like Alibaba promote digital payments and more China-based financial institutions (FIs) join SWIFT’s global payment innovation (gpi) initiative. RMB usage made up 1.61 It could be key to the broader Chinese economy too.