PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

With more financial institutions (FIs) turning to external third-party FinTechs to strengthen their small- to medium-sized business (SMB) and corporate offerings, the collaboration model is proliferating across national borders. This week’s look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaboration includes new partnerships in Australia, South Africa, India, Pakistan and across Europe, with many FIs bolstering the foundations of their SMB-serving infrastructures.

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SWBC's LenderHub

JANUARY 21, 2021

We’ve all been on Zoom calls this year in which real life has made its way into a business meeting. You see a toddler’s hand reach across the screen or a cat trying to jump onto a keyboard while someone is giving a presentation, and you realize—we’re all humans who are doing the best we can to adjust to and carry on with our lives in the midst of a chaotic year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

The pandemic has heaped more than a few stresses on employers, and adding workers has emerged as an especially challenging task. Hiring has slowed across many sectors, but the need to replace departing workers or add employees amid growth remains for some industries. The pandemic continues to keep social distancing rules in place, however, which means that virtual hiring has become the new standard. .

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Perficient

JANUARY 21, 2021

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses and consumers are reminded that anything can happen. Consumers are looking to the companies and resources they trust to understand relevant, rapidly evolving information and guidance. Brands have an opportunity to grow that trust by creating website experiences with up-to-date visuals, content, features, and functionalities consumers need to quickly navigate and find the information they are seeking.

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It's the time of year to give our close process some TLC. Join us in this one hour webinar where we discuss how to adopt leading practices and infuse technology into the month-end close process to improve our experience and increase our productivity during month-end and quarter-end close. Learning Objectives: This course's objective is to understand how the month-end close can be improved with automation and adoption of leading practices.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 19, 2021

John Minor is Chief Product Officer for PayNearMe. John shares his knowledge and expertise on QR code and why this formerly forgotten marketing tool has suddenly become on of the industry's favorite ways to pay.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2021

Blockchain-based global payments provider Ripple announced it has entered into an arrangement under which Malaysian mobile wallet provider Mobile Money, and bKash , a provider of mobile financial services to more than 45 million people in Bangladesh, will conduct transactions through the RippleNet network. “bKash and MobileMoney will gain access to a wide range of RippleNet’s features, including wallet-to-wallet transactions,” Ripple wrote in a news release announcing the deal.

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Perficient

JANUARY 20, 2021

Healthcare leaders have access to more healthcare data and technology than ever before allowing them to transform patient and member care. A one-size-fits-all-approach doesn’t work anymore and we’re being challenged to do more through personalized medicine. In season 1 episode 2 of the Intelligent Data Podcast , host Arvind Murali and his guest Juliet Silver, Perficient’s Chief Strategist of Healthcare , discuss the state of affairs in the healthcare industry including the “Triple Aim”, the COVI

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 22, 2021

Alexis Zukierman is the Business Development Manager at Intive, a global digital software and design company that accelerates digital transformation for products and services. Alexis shares his insight and knowledge of digital wallets and how providers can utilize this tool to gain a competitive advantage.

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Accenture

JANUARY 21, 2021

After a tumultuous 2020, the New Year brings more change and, for commercial banks that act boldly, new opportunities in Open Banking. As of February 1st, Australia enters the next phase of its Open Banking transformation when banks and other financial institutions are required to be ready to share business finance data across the industry…. The post Enabling Open Banking for Business Finance: 5 actions to take now appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Banque de France has successfully conducted its own central bank digital currency (CBDC) trial, with a blockchain platform for interbank settlement, CoinDesk reported. A statement from the bank said the pilot involved a settlement on a private blockchain, which U.K. startup SETL provided, of around 2 million euros (about $2.4 million), per CoinDesk.

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Perficient

JANUARY 20, 2021

It’s our job as marketers, designers, and strategists to develop and design inclusive web experiences and user interfaces. These experiences must aim to accommodate and benefit different audience needs based on their geographical location, culture, ethnicity, race, gender, age, language, sexual orientation, and so on, without seeing these factors as an obstacle to overcome in the strategy and design process.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 22, 2021

COVID-19’s impact on travel has been dramatic, and it has forced both consumers and travel executives to re-imagine what travel will look like going forward.

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Accenture

JANUARY 22, 2021

Over the past decade, banks have focused on building lifelong relationships with their customers. With COVID-19, customers are experiencing one of the most stressful financial times in recent memory, through no fault of their own. This is a “make or break” moment for banks. How customers are treated right now will shape the customer relationship…. The post The Paradox of Human-Based Collections and How to Overcome It appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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Automation is changing the game for commercial lenders, offering a clear path to competitive advantage in 2025. Rising costs, outdated workflows, and manual data entry slow growth and impact borrower satisfaction. Automation addresses these challenges, reducing costs, speeding up loan cycles, improving accuracy, and elevating borrower experiences. With market uncertainty easing, now is the time to act—waiting until loan volumes rebound leaves lenders unprepared and struggling to compete.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

The shift to digital commerce has opened up new markets for companies across all verticals and sizes. But reaching a broader range of consumers, accommodating their payment preferences, and satisfying regulatory and tax issues in unfamiliar territory introduces a host of new operational challenges for these companies. Olivier Schott , co-founder of Scalefast , told PYMNTS that many firms pivoting to eCommerce channels may not have the resources on hand to meet those challenges.

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Perficient

JANUARY 19, 2021

The main purpose of automation within your business is to deploy your application into different environments such as Dev/QA/Production with the push of a button or without manual intervention. Automation reduces the risk of deployment errors, reduces the number of development hours for deploying code changes in multiple environments, and help to deploy the changes more frequently in development and QA environments and comprehensive testing as soon as possible after changes are made.

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Jack Henry

JANUARY 19, 2021

Many communities, especially in Louisiana, are still in recovery mode from the 2020 hurricane season, and that there’s still a lot of hard work ahead. Our thoughts and well wishes remain with all of those impacted during this very difficult year. As I reviewed past articles I’ve written on the Atlantic hurricane season and its effect on financial services, I used the word “observations” instead of “lessons learned” because when some of those observations are of the same challenges repeated time

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Payments Source

JANUARY 19, 2021

The 46th president's agenda for financial regulation is already moving ahead, based on the people he's chosen to put in key roles.

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Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) clients are more likely to use additional treasury services and maintain larger deposits. However, poor customer experiences—particularly if they delay deposits—can compel RDC clients to take their business elsewhere. This eBook makes the case for outsourcing RDC operations to a proven managed services partner. This approach helps Treasury Departments with limited resources provide excellent client experiences that result in higher retention and productivity rates.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

The pandemic is causing fluctuations in the global economy, and supply and demand shifts are causing many businesses to face liquidity stresses and limited credit access. These factors are putting companies to the test, especially in how they handle their corporate finances. There have also been shifts in how customers pay for goods and services, with s ocial distancing policies making contactless transactions essential and pushing consumers toward payment methods such as bank transfers and dig

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Perficient

JANUARY 22, 2021

One of the great things about Perficient is the chance to work with people from all over the world; it’s this diversity of perspectives that lead to our ultimate innovation. Here, you could be working on a client project with people on another continent or sitting in the office next to someone who came from halfway around the world. Our “Think Global, Act Local” approach is represented in our culture, too.

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Jack Henry

JANUARY 21, 2021

As accounting scholar Robert S. Kaplan once said, “If you can measure it, you can manage it.” And when it comes to measuring the efficiency of core banking processes, he could not be more on point. Here are three steps to guide your organization through the challenges of improving the efficiency of your core banking processes.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 20, 2021

Payoneer, an online payments specialist, is in talks to go public through a merger with FTAC Olympus Acquisition Corp., a blank-check firm, according to people with knowledge of the matter. FTAC rose as much as 29% on the news.

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With automation, you’ll reduce errors and save valuable time, allowing you to focus on what really matters: strategic analysis and insightful decision-making. Picture accurate financial reports ready at your fingertips, giving you the confidence to tackle business challenges head-on. Embracing automation not only boosts productivity but also elevates your role from number cruncher to closing rockstar.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Corporate finance teams were not simply tasked with finding ways to continue operations in a remote work environment as a result of the coronavirus crisis. For some organizations, the processes that broke down and the bottlenecks that intensified as a result of the COVID-19 disruption finally lifted the veil on some of the biggest problems in financial workflows — as well as the biggest opportunities to modernize.

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Perficient

JANUARY 18, 2021

In an era where everything is considered digital, what really makes something digital? In Season 1, Episode 1 of the What If? So What? podcast , hosts Jim Hertzeld and Kim Williams-Czopek share their research on what makes something digital or not. They discuss examples of things that are definitely digital and some that aren’t quite the same – like whether or not bowling is a sport.

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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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Payments Source

JANUARY 19, 2021

E-commerce merchants may need more data to ensure they are not turning down sales from first-time online shoppers.

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In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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