Sat.Jan 16, 2021 - Fri.Jan 22, 2021

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The Bank-FinTech Collaboration Model Goes Global

PYMNTS

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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Transacting vs. Conversing: The Value of Authentic Communication in Collections

SWBC's LenderHub

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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Deep Dive: How Digital ID Verification Can Help Firms Streamline The Remote Hiring Process

PYMNTS

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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Iterative Design for Quick Turn-Around Projects

Perficient

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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Leverage Trellis Court Data To Identify More Investment Opportunities

Finance teams find Trellis to be particularly effective in conducting comprehensive due diligence on both individuals and businesses. With our court data solution, financial experts can access critical litigation insights, making it an invaluable resource for informed decision-making in the financial sector.

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QR Code: It's cool again

Payments Dive

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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Malaysia's Mobile Money, Bangladesh's bKash Team With Ripple On eWallet Remittances

PYMNTS

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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[Podcast] Healthcare Data is Changing Consumer Care

Perficient

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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Digital wallet adoption: how providers can sustain a competitive advantage.

Payments Dive

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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Enabling Open Banking for Business Finance: 5 actions to take now

Accenture: Banking

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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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Banque De France Has Finished CBDC Trial

PYMNTS

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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A Strategic Perspective: Emphasizing Inclusivity on a Global Level for Web Design

Perficient

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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6 ways consumers and fintech are changing the travel industry

Payments Source

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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The Paradox of Human-Based Collections and How to Overcome It

Accenture: Banking

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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Book of Secrets on the Month-End Close

Based off SkyStem's popular e-Book, the book of secrets to the month-end close will be revealed in this one-hour webinar. Learn leading practices when it comes to building a strong and sustainable month-end close that has room to grow and evolve. Learn about the power of precise estimates, why reconciliations are critical to closing the books, how and when to automate, and how the chart of accounts play into your close process.

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Helping Brands: D2C Brands Tap New Business Models To Shorten 'Time To Commerce'

PYMNTS

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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How to Set Up Automated Deployment with CI/CD Pipelines through Azure

Perficient

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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Lessons Learned from the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season

Jack Henry

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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Biden's plans for payday loans and crypto take shape

Payments Source

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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The Role of Automation in Commercial Lending

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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APIs, Data Analytics Bring Cash Flow Control To The Back Office

PYMNTS

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 Colleague Fights Food Insecurity in Mr. Pleasant, Michigan Community

Perficient

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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Improving the Efficiency of Your Core Banking Processes Is as Easy as 1, 2, 3…

Jack Henry

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 startup Payoneer in merger talks with SPAC

Payments Source

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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Outsource With Confidence for RDC Program Success

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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Pandemic Wake-Up Call Drives Integrated B2B Platforms

PYMNTS

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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[Podcast] What If Everything Really Is Digital?

Perficient

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 Awards 2020: Winners announced

Bobsguide

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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E-commerce shops struggle with false declines as more shoppers come online

Payments Source

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

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!