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MARCH 13, 2017

surveyed said their accounting software is integrated with an invoicing and payments solution. The statistics were published last week from BDRC Continental, which surveyed 100,000 U.K. small businesses. More than half use Twitter, too. Only about a fifth of SMEs in the U.S.

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APRIL 9, 2020

Reports have said the move by the payments messaging company positions the firm take on payments giants Visa and Mastercard. ” Reports noted the importance of SWIFT expanding into the SMB payments arena beyond high-value complex corporate transactions. Sila Raises Funding to Nix ACH. and Sweden, it noted.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

Alipay’s latest expansion — this time, to Luxembourg — shows not only the increasing reach of the China-based mobile payments ecosystem, but also stands as the latest example of companies in payments and FinTech gaining licenses to operate in Europe. There, PSD2 was designed to encourage FinTech and payments innovation.

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APRIL 23, 2020

To provide digital contactless payments, delivery and curbside pickup options for cannabis businesses, payment provider Hypur Inc. The collaboration builds on Hypur’s extensive network of financial institutions (FIs), according to an announcement. . is teaming with Salal Credit Union.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

FinTech AeroPay has launched a new suite of digital payment solutions intended for cannabis businesses, according to a press release. The tech will allow both B2B and B2C transactions and will encompass the entirety of the cannabis industry, according to the release, including in-person and online payments.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

To continue its fast international expansion, TIS (Treasury Intelligence Solutions) notched $20 million in additional financing led by Aquiline Technology Growth. The funding round for the corporate payments and cash flow management cloud platform also included participation from 83North, an existing investor, according to an announcement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

By buying Plaid, Visa would reportedly gain access to 200 million consumer bank accounts and 2,600 financial technology apps that would help the company further push into areas like real-time payments and digital wallets. As we explained to the DOJ, Plaid is not a payments company.

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a type of point-of-sale installment loan that partners with retailers to allow consumers to pay for their purchases in multiple equal payments. which is a huge draw to using BNPL as a non-cash payment method. What Are Some Buy Now, Pay Later Companies? Which one is best for me?

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JULY 10, 2020

That doesn’t mean these companies have the ability to easily adopt the same payments solutions that businesses in other industries can access. Speaking with PYMNTS, Muller highlighted the opportunity that the cannabis space has to adopt payments and other financial technologies that have leapfrogged over legacy solutions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Artificial intelligence, automation and cloud computing company Esker has integrated with Stripe Connect to help companies streamline the processing of payments across borders using a single provider, according to a press release. This will also accelerate the launch of new Esker products and simplify the onboarding of our customers.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

As part of those efforts, the lab is being used to explore “whether there is a role for a digital Australian dollar — that is, an Australian [central bank digital currency (CBDC)] — in the context of the bank’s responsibilities for issuing the currency and overseeing the payments system.”. The language is interesting — and noteworthy.

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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. While every organization is different, many business leaders came to realize some common pitfalls in their legacy operations that came to light in the midst of the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

-based corporate payments and treasury technology company AccessPay , reports in The Telegraph said on Sunday (Jan. Based in Manchester, AccessPay provides a digital platform for payments, cash management and treasury operations by integrating businesses’ back-end operations with their banks. and U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

These are indeed the days for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the world of payments, and that trend looks likely to hold into the 2020s. That raises several questions for financial institutions (FIs), FinTech firms and payment service providers as they figure out how to best navigate this changing world. Recent Trends.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

New payments infrastructure continues to gain traction with financial service providers looking to modernize their services for business clients. The Clearing House’s RTP finds expansion within the community bank arena, while abroad, the Bank of Thailand is planning its own infrastructure development to accelerate B2B payments.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The Federal Reserve’s buildup to faster payments innovation came to a head in August when it announced FedNow , its proposed real-time payments infrastructure under the draft Payments Modernization Act of 2019. House Committee on Financial Services Task Force on Financial Technology held a hearing Thursday (Sept.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

After all, if a company has worked so hard to develop some type of financial technology, why would they want to lend that technology out to just about anyone? Plus, there is a competitive edge to the tactic, enabling the owners of these technologies to see their solutions integrated into more services, reaching more end users.

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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). Last month, PYMNTS reported EedenBull rolled out its commercial card platform to banks to take advantage of improved B2B payment capabilities.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

The Mexican central bank and Amazon are in talks to introduce a government-approved mobile payment system, according to reports. 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 beta is scheduled to be released this month.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Now, with 2021 underway, organizations will begin to demonstrate the progress they've made as they move from digitizing workflows to optimizing payments and finance. Now that financial technology is available to businesses, chief financial officers (CFOs) have more options in their toolkits to take action.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

The firm’s Business Leaders Outlook report, published earlier this month, found that the majority of SMBs expect revenue, sales and profit increases in 2019, with executives turning to hiring activity and technological innovation as drivers of their success. However, financial transformation is complex. Looking Ahead.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Since there’s no way back, the payments industry is now cutting new pathways. Companies are adjusting their AP practices to better suit work-from-home operations, according to recently released results of a survey taken from May to June. The firms were especially interested in deploying automated and advanced learning technologies.

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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. Before this appointment, Piazza was serving as the bank’s Chief Operating Officer. […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

And yet, the same legacy challenges remain to operate globally. In a conversation with PYMNTS, Nader discussed the role payments plays in helping (or hampering) a company’s global growth ambitions, and the value of an efficient global payments strategy on giving smaller companies a competitive edge that had once been out of reach. .”

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 2, 2017

The background to this was announced in a press release on 1st February 2017: Ripple’s Distributed Financial Technology fits within NBAD’s existing infrastructure and offers a secure end-to-end payment flow providing transaction immutability and payment integrity. They make regular payments from Abu Dhabi to Muscat, Oman.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Mediterra Capital is expanding its portfolio with a big new investment that will give the top Turkish private equity firm a stake in the country’s fast-growing digital payments sector. PayCore has been pushing to expand globally from its home base in Turkey, having acquired Mastercard Payment Transaction Services Turkey Bili?im

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JUNE 23, 2020

GME) one of the largest payment financial technology companies in South Korea, according to a Tuesday (June 23) announcement by MoneyGram. Money transfer company MoneyGram International Inc. has partnered with Global Money Express Co.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Amid the market uncertainty of the pandemic, small business owners often have to do more with less, and they're expecting the financial technology solutions they use to do the same. Before the pandemic, concern was growing over the issue of late B2B payments and the struggle among small businesses to get paid on time.

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William Mills

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

William Mills Agency is thrilled to see so many of our clients represented in Arizent (formerly SourceMedia) and Best Companies Group’s annual 2020 Best Places to Work in Financial Technology list. This annual survey and awards program is designed to identify, recognize and honor the best employers in the financial technology industry.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Mexico’s new government, led by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is setting its sights on financial technology to get the country out of poverty. The payment system, called CoDi, is slated to launch in March.

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JULY 7, 2020

B2B payments are undergoing a vast digital transformation, with solutions providers stepping up to offer more speedy options as companies look to expand internationally. Developments From Around The World Of Smarter Payments. For more on these and other smarter payments news items, download this month’s Tracker.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

SWIFT and Microsoft have partnered with Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) to finalize the trial of Cloud Connect, a new payments solution, BNY Mellon announced in a press release on Tuesday (Sept. Cloud Connect hosts SWIFT infrastructure and enables payment transfers via Microsoft Azure. SWIFT announced on Monday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Small businesses (SMBs) are rarely early adopters of new financial technology (FinTech). It seems that’s the journey for cross-border payments, which are in the midst of a digital disruption as innovators focus on addressing a range of friction points, from sluggish speeds to high costs.

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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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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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JUNE 29, 2020

billion accounting scandal, but restrictions on the collapsed German payments company will stay, Reuters reported. “We We cannot lift the restrictions without reassuring ourselves that the firm has been able to satisfy all our concerns, for example that all clients’ money is safe,” the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Today in the payments news roundup, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Task Force on Financial Technology held a hearing to talk about the FedNow development and its U.S. payments ecosystem implications. Uber Turns App Into ‘Everyday Operating System’. payments ecosystem implications.

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