Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – Greenlight Financial Technology, a fintech startup for kids, has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round today, Bank Innovation has learned. Greenlight Technology is a combination of P2P and PFM features on a mobile app, and is unusual in that it focuses on children.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2020

the British financial technology company headquartered in London, has added American Express to its open banking platform. Before this addition, Revolut shoppers could access American Express balances and transactions only through Amex’s online banking service or app. Revolut Ltd.,

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Continuing its development of financial technologies on its platform, social media firm Facebook has joined a Visa program that enables the network to access its Token Service for payments, Visa announced today.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 30, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— As open banking sweeps through Europe with the launch of PSD2, GDPR, and other regulations focused on transparency, North American financial institutions might want to consider looking to blockchain or artificial intelligence for their own compliance challenges.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

PEPSI promises to rival not only the two credit card giants, but also other financial technology companies including Google , Apple , Alipay and WeChat Pay. . A so-called “scheme manager” will be the central governing body, the online news service reported.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

EXCLUSIVE—Speedy, flashy financial service through mobile or a wearable is all well and good, but the product has to respond to changing customer needs as well. That’s why financial technologies provider Kasasa has come up with a loan product that will allow users to “take back” some of their funds.

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Payments Source

JUNE 27, 2017

is buying a stake in Swedish payments technology firm Klarna AB and forming a strategic partnership, as both companies aim to expand outside their core markets.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 23, 2017

trillion in student loan debt, having financial services that could help with the process is a serious concern for both bank customers and banks. Financial technology and chatbot provider Personetics wants to help. EXCLUSIVE—With over 44 million U.S. borrowers looking to repay more than $1.4

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2019

When Swedish banking firm Klarna became Europe’s most valuable financial technology startup last week, it was only the latest sign that digital finance has escaped the troubles afflicting legacy lenders. Its latest fundraising gave Klarna, which facilitates online installment payments, a $5.5 billion valuation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

Financial technology provider Fiserv has devised a technology that allows individuals to accept payments on consumer-grade smartphones and other digital devices, as well as handheld business point-of-sale (POS) systems. The system will come fully online in the city by 2021, according to the MTA.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

While Ant calls itself a financial technology company (FinTech), China’s financial regulators are starting to view it as being more like a bank. That’s based on possible proposals from Chinese regulators to curb market concentration in the country’s online payments market.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

Among the ongoing trends in retail is the funding for online used car platforms, and the ongoing rise of eCommerce and digital payments in Latin America. Consumers who want to sell their cars via that platform reportedly seek an online price estimate. “If The latest news from SoftBank confirms the growth of used cars online.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Open banking lets third-party financial service companies to have access to a consumer’s banking transactions and other financial data from financial institutions (FIs). Revolut said its new open banking offer was developed with TrueLayer , a London-based financial technology (FinTech) company. banking license.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

banks and financial technology firms have worked together to create a set of guidelines to improve the relationship between FinTech startups and financial institutions (FIs). USD) a year into financial technology companies. has been a hotbed of FinTech startups.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Financial technology may be evolving at a rapid pace, but well, so is financial crime — meaning that the security of online and mobile payments is a constantly developing area and nowhere more so than biometrics. This is obviously of interest to financial institutions across the globe, like the company Read More.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Citi is leveraging a newly formed strategic partnership with Cachematrix to create an online investment gateway for money market funds (MMF), Citi announced in a press release on Tuesday (Oct. Cachematrix is excited to power Citi’s Online Investments portal with our best-in-class financial technology.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 8, 2019

Riskified, an Israeli startup that provides anti-fraud services for online transactions, is seeking to raise as much as $200 million, according to people familiar with the company’s plans.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

Credit unions (CUs), as much as other financial entities, are seeing a boom in competition as banking moves to online and mobile channels. Customers today expect to be able to access financial services instantly, which can put pressure on CUs that need to stretch restricted technology budgets into innovative new features.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2017

The European Commission is hoping to consult with the public concerning the growing market of financial technology as the agency looks to manage policies in the sector. Last year, the commission setup its financial technology task force in response to the effects of digital innovations changing the banking industry.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

That arm of the financial technology (FinTech) giant offers a virtual credit card. Ant Group is best known for its wildly popular payment and loans app Alipay , which has both online and mobile platforms. The company said that the move was an effort to promote more “rational” spending habits among users, Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

N26 has brought Dr. Jan Kemper on board as its new CFO as the Germany-based financial technology firm eyes a future possible IPO. Goalsetter, the financial technology upstart, has landed $3.9 Had the deal gone through, it would have likely been the largest merger of online firms in Southeast Asia.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

OnDeck Capital has created a unit that will provide technology and services for banks lending to small businesses over the internet. Raj Kolluri, the financial technology executive, was appointed the head of ODX’s product and technology, joining ODX from SS&C Primatics, the software company, noted Reuters.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 21, 2018

The acquisition of software provider Mulesoft by financial technology provider Salesforce will go a long way towards opening the banking ecosystem in the United States, as Salesforce integrates the former’s API capabilities into its platform. The acquisition, with a potential $6.5

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Financial technology provider Wirecard will be updating its mobile payment app, boon, with new features including P2P capabilities. Up until this point, boon has worked as a typical payment app, used to transact inside stores.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

FinTechs are helping companies understand and optimize their total cost of payments acceptance through technology. Big online eCommerce, gig economy or other merchants “tend to have a lot of different payment services that they use,” he told PYMNTS in an interview.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 8, 2022

SaverLife is a national non-profit sponsored by some of the nation’s leading financial institutions that uses financial technology to improve the financial health of low- to-moderate income consumers by incentivizing savings through prizes, rewards, expert resources, and gameplay.

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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. And we do this within a few seconds.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

To that end, earlier this month FinTech firm SoFi made the leap beyond San Francisco to Hong Kong, having bought online brokerage firm 8 Securities. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. But the expansion, giving rise to the new SoFi Invest will offer “automated investing” and financial education. As many as 34.2

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

When online shopping, if a retailer has a partnership with a BNPL platform, the customer can choose it as their payment method when placing their order at checkout. Apple is planning to make this service available at both online and retail stores – if you can use Apple Pay for it, you can use Apple Pay Later for it.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Intuit is known for making online tax filing service TurboTax, which is used by millions of people. Intuit would gain a strong standing in the world of online personal finance by acquiring Credit Karma. The deal will push the bookkeeping software giant more into the realm of consumer finance, people familiar with the deal said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

The system would involve users paying for online purchases using QR codes, and it would be the first time Amazon offered the technology in the country. The system is called CoDi, and its goal is to bring more people into the financial sector. CoDi will let users pay online or in person through mobile devices using QR codes.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2019

This is up from 35% in 2017, and way up from 18% in 2013, according to Financial Technology Partners’ 2018 Annual Fintech Almanac. Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic investor.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Fresh off its January announcement to acquire payments processor First Data Corporation, financial technology vendor Fiserv seems to be banking on a breakout year for the bank-backed P2P payment service Zelle.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2018

Zelle made a difference to the bottom line of financial technology provider Fiserv, the company reported on its earnings call yesterday. It was also noted that several banks — Fiserv serves some 13,000 financial institutions — saw a boost in transactions due […].

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2017

Piazza, a 30-year financial technology veteran, who has been serving Citi in a variety of roles since 1988, will lead the group’s efforts in mobile, payments, and general fintech innovation. Citi Group named long-time executive Yolande Piazza the head of Citi Fintech today.

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Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Ant Group was dealt another blow by more regulations to contain risks in the country’s burgeoning online lending industry as Jack Ma’s financial technology giant prepares for its initial public offering.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Toronto-based D+H, which provides financial technology to many of the world’s largest banks, has joined Bank Innovation Israel as a sponsor. D+H’s history in the financial services industry spans nearly 150 years, and the company generates more than $1.5 billion in annual revenue.

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