PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Among the most recent headlines, in Asia this past week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the National Bank of Cambodia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), that Business Times said will boost partnerships on FinTech and financial services innovation.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The OCC’s announcement that it will establish an Office of Financial Technology to “bolster the agency’s expertise and ability to adapt to a rapidly changing banking landscape” should come as no surprise to those who have been following recent pronouncements of Acting Comptroller Michael J.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

bank Standard Chartered is expanding its network of innovation labs with the launch of an eXellerator lab in Shanghai, reports said this week. The latest lab will aim to promote collaboration between the bank’s employees, corporate clients and FinTech partners to develop new financial services for businesses.

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Let's Talk Payments

MAY 24, 2016

If there is one region to lead the world into the next generation of financial technology innovation, it is Asia. Despite common belief spread by media coverage that the western.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

. “We are one of a few players in the world focusing on that space,” said AccessPay CEO Anish Kapoor, adding that the company addresses the friction associated with back-end corporate financial technologies operating in siloes. Corporate payments have not seen the same level of innovation as consumer payments.

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Let's Talk Payments

MARCH 23, 2017

Financial technology startups – often called FinTech(s) – have been at the forefront of financial innovation, prompting the traditional banking sector to recognize these new innovative technologies and agile business.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Mastercard and Norwegian financial technology (FinTech) company EedenBull have agreed to expand their partnership to the Asia Pacific region, the firms announced Monday (June 29). Under the terms of the new deal, Mastercard will support EedenBull’s product development and digital services.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 31, 2015

Last week was busy for Celent: on Monday we hosted our annual Innovation and Insight Day at Carnegie Hall (more on that later). With more than 400 registrants, we had to improvise with an overflow room that streamed video of the main stage (thanks to all who helped us accommodate this nice problem).

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

A panel established to grow the United Kingdom’s (UK) financial technology (FinTech) sector plans a review of the industry to identify opportunities for growth, the government announced Tuesday (July 21). Tech-based solutions in financial services have experienced wide scale adoption in the U.K.,

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 27, 2017

INV Fintech, this site’s sister accelerator, announced a partnership today with Shanghai-based JadeValue, an incubator and investment fund, to enhance financial technology startups in both the United States and China.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2016

As President of Trulioo, Jon Jones is passionate about protecting consumers and businesses from all facets of fraud and subsequent loss — but he doesn’t believe that doing so effectively has to come at the expense of technological innovation. In many ways, RegTech can be viewed as an innovation enabler.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 14, 2018

Most veterans of the financial technology space can confess to some cynicism about new technology and products. Consumers, especially those with genuine day-to-day financial struggles, don't seem to see much improvement. We're all still waiting for blockchain and mobile payments to transform the financial system.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

PYMNTS explores these stories and others in this week’s Payment Rail Innovation Tracker. ” “Supporting real-time payments through the RTP network is an important step for us,” he continued. And when it comes to legacy rails, the U.S. Federal Reserve has introduced a new effort to combat payments fraud.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Such is the case in financial services, where “ FinTech ” is often used to describe financial technology vendors. “A A firm that offers financial technology is not necessarily a FinTech,” said Provenir Managing Director Paul Thomas, who thinks the distinction between the two needs to be clearer.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Product Innovation — for demonstrating the ability to launch multiple innovative products. The second is the use of open APIs as the core foundation for digital-only banking models. Third-party developers then create value-added client-facing applications using the bank’s exposed API services.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Product Innovation — for demonstrating the ability to launch multiple innovative products. The second is the use of open APIs as the core foundation for digital-only banking models. Third-party developers then create value-added client-facing applications using the bank’s exposed API services.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Maxime de Nanclas, COO and co-founder of Mobeewave, said, “Securing strategic funding from organizations with a proven track record of supporting innovation, especially financial technologies, will enable Mobeewave to continue to grow, [and] develop new product offerings and business partnerships.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Entrepreneurial individuals could find all the tools they need to innovate consolidated in one place, which meet all of their data requirements and analytical needs. That’s why we often refer to it as the “Innovation Exchange”.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Innovate Finance, which represents 300 UK fintech companies, says venture capital investment fell from $1.2bn (£970m) in 2015, to $783m last year. “Our members tell us Brexit has had a chilling effect on investment,” Innovate Finance chief executive Lawrence Wintermeyer told the BBC. . Flight to safety?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Treasurers from the largest corporations are more likely to invest in newer financial technologies, found a new report from East & Partners and Contentive Media. Across geographies, Asia holds the highest percentage of treasurers directly investing in financial technologies, according to the report.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The real innovation cycle is where you layer on the program ability of money as a data type on the internet,” noted Allaire. Noted Kresse, “RTP and other new payment rails provide us the opportunity to carry remittance direct from system to system.” You give us a message. There need to be governance models.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

to fully embrace real-time payments for both B2B and B2C activity,” Bottomline Technologies Vice President of Product Management and Strategic Solutions Jessica Cheney told PYMNTS in a recent interview , pointing to the previous rollout of Same-Day ACH and an acceleration of FinTech innovation in the country.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2020

Philippines payments startup Voyager Innovations has closed a funding deal worth up to $120 million from existing backers, according to a Monday (April 6) statement from Voyager. The money will be used to help Voyager’s expansion efforts in the Philippines. Voyager Innovations runs the payments platform PayMaya Philippines.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

“We have enjoyed working with Hoperun to develop this product, which marks a milestone for Ant Financial technology,” said Liu Weiguang, vice president of Ant Financial, in the press release. Hoperun and Ant Financial share a deep understanding of the financial industry, which is why we were keen to join hands to develop DCBP.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

The basis of innovation is not the desire to create something new or even the inspiration to do so. Innovation occurs where there is a problem and a person with the tools to solve it. Anyone can have a good idea,” Lowthers said; innovation is about what you do with it. PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

Simply put, that means consumers’ retail experiences tend to inform their expectations for financial services, said Jim Johnson, executive vice president of FI payments and wealth for FIS , in a new PYMNTS interview with Karen Webster. It will go as far as privacy government regulations allow us. They are making us better.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

“Throughout its history, Allegro Credit has built a reputation for service excellence and innovation,” CareCredit CEO Beto Casellas said in the announcement. We see an amazing opportunity to amplify our differentiated innovative offerings through Synchrony and CareCredit’s network, reach and scale.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Tell us a little bit more about your history prior to Monzo. And it gave me this grounding in how money works, how FinTech, financial technology works, and sort of, how money moves around the world…I worked for a dating website for a year, after I left GoCardless, which was amazing fun. What really stands Monzo apart?

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

Pay in 4 is not currently available for residents of Missouri, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, or any US Territories. Notable merchant partners include Best Buy, Home Depot, and Target. So, if there’s usually no interest being charged for BNPL purchases, how do these companies make any money? According to Kristen E.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration said in its “ 2016 Top Markets Report Financial Technology ” that Asia will hold sway over other regions. Of those companies named in the report as being among the most innovative: Coinbase for digital currency and Klarna and Adyen for the payment sector.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2020

Equifax , the Atlanta-based financial technology company, has purchased Ansonia Credit Data , a commercial credit data firm. Equifax said the addition of Ansonia’s data will complement its commercial databases of SMB loans, leases and credit lines including the Equifax Commercial Financial Network (CFN) and PayNet database.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

MGV’s Venture Fund I has already made three representative investments in financial technology startups in the UK: Nivaura, Railsbank and Gardenia Technologies. We are pleased to have new capital from substantial investors to support great, transformational businesses across Europe and the US with our highly focused fund.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

might be trying to emulate the less strict FinTech regulations in Europe, which boosted financial technology innovation. If the bill passes, national regulations on digital currency and blockchain might allow them to finally gain traction.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

Financial technology innovation has opened the doors to massive transformation of corporate finance departments. While flashy corporate FinTech is exciting, innovation efforts have rarely focused on a mainstay of corporate finance teams: the financial close process, a crucial, but continually outdated function.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As the most innovative player in financial technology, Stripe was the clear choice for us,” said Esker CEO Jean-Michel Bérard. The integration will help to grow Esker’s order-to-cash (O2C) solution by allowing for secure online payment capabilities around the world. “As

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Paytm, the eCommerce payment system and financial technology company based in India, has announced plans to purchase Raheja QBE General Insurance Co. The purchase price was not disclosed. Paytm said it is in the process of acquiring a 100 percent stake in the company.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Comparing this industry between five years ago and now, there’s a lot of technology that makes it easier to do business,” said Wong. There are many types of financial technologies that traditional SMEs can embrace, such as AI (artificial intelligence), machine learning and ePayments. Wong pointed to the U.K.

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