PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

Real-time payments are imperative for running successful operations in today’s global ecosystem. Digital payments sent internationally are expected to move past $1 trillion in 2025, but getting to that point will require support from payment providers, regulators and other such firms still building out the necessary infrastructure.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

A group of big European banks is planning to challenge Visa ’s and Mastercard ’s positions as the world’s two largest payment processing networks, Electronic Payments International reported. . The launch, first reported by Les Échos, is expected to be revealed by the 24 banks as early as Thursday (July 2). .

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

With speed being the most obvious value proposition of real-time payments capabilities, it’s not difficult to imagine that corporate payers would be eager to embrace faster payments functionality in their accounts payable (AP) departments. And for many firms, that’s exactly what they’re beginning to do.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Mastercard and ACI Worldwide are teaming up to “provide a wide range of real-time payment solutions globally.” This will address the opportunity created as the “account-to-account payments market continues to quickly expand,” a press release said on Tuesday (Sept. ACI is a payment-systems company headquartered in Naples, Fla.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 29, 2019

BNY Mellon's three key financial technology executives added last month were given the directive to pursue investments and fintech partnerships in natural language processing, rule-based automation systems and robotic process automation (RPA), Bank Innovation has learned. The initiatives had previously not been disclosed.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

One financial technology firm currently navigating the process of securing a bank charter is Avanti Financial Group , and as it approaches market launch, Founder and CEO Caitlin Long said the firm is focusing on another area of financial services that has struggled to manage complex regulatory challenges: digital assets.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 17, 2018

Americans prefer paying with EMV chip cards to swiping their cards or even paying with cash, according to a recent survey from financial technology solutions provider Fiserv. According to the report, released last week, 36% of the people surveyed said they preferred EMV chip cards to other payment methods.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Managing and executing payments globally can be a sticking point, though, as companies must grapple with fund flows across banks and supply chains , where fees accrue and processing times can be slow. Comparing this industry between five years ago and now, there’s a lot of technology that makes it easier to do business,” said Wong.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

20), Ant Financial announced the launch of Ant Financial Technology, a unit designed “to support the growth of financial institutions by improving user experience and lowering cost.” The brand was announced at the 2018 Ant Technology Exploration Conference. In a press release issued Thursday (Sept.

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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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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Financial technology startups will enter the next decade with a little more street cred than the last time around. Nearly 60 upstarts focusing on financial services — from Stripe Inc. to Chime Inc. to Plaid Inc. — have garnered valuations of more than $1 billion in recent years, according to CB Insights.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 7, 2020

billion deal to acquire Galileo, a financial services API and payments platform that powers big names like Chime and Robinhood. Together with Galileo, we will partner to build on our companies’ strengths to drive even greater financial technology innovation, making those products and […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

With the current state of economic upheaval, the ongoing pandemic and the great digital shift, corporates and financial institutions are racing to digitize and modernize payment flows and back-end processes. That’s strong growth for something that is a mature payment product,” said Larimer.

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PYMNTS

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. The company recently announced $7.7

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Chris Skinner

JULY 21, 2017

They want to get to the nirvana of new technologies, but are stuck in a spaghetti of old systems. What we are seeing is many new companies launching capabilities built upon the latest internet-enabled technologies. They are very different to banks and are collectively known as FinTech, financial technology start-up companies.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 10, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – Fintech startup Greenlight Financial Technology has just added a new feature that helps kids understand tricky concepts like interest, APR and savings accounts. The feature allows the […].

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PYMNTS

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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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Finovate kicked off its 2017 Fall conference with demos from about 40 financial technology companies on its first day yesterday in New York.

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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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Chris Skinner

MARCH 26, 2018

I’ve been flying around a bit and was lucky enough to find myself onstage the other day, chairing the Ant Financial Technology Forum at Money20/20 Singapore.

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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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Payments Source

JANUARY 20, 2021

China proposed measures to curb market concentration in its online payment market, potentially dealing another blow to financial technology giant Ant Group and its biggest rival Tencent Holdings.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

and EU like Open Banking and PSD2 that require such cooperation, APIs are emerging as an essential piece of the equation for payments innovation. In the January PYMNTS.com B2B API Tracker , powered by FI.SPAN, the numbers present a picture of the B2B payments ecosystem embracing APIs to become faster, more agile, and more global.

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PYMNTS

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

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

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.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Jeremy Allaire , CEO of financial technology firm Circle , told PYMNTS that digital currencies are ready to transition from speculation to become a broadly adopted payments instrument. Allaire said this has been a long time coming.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 16, 2018

EXCLUSIVE—The legacy infrastructure of most banks leaves something to be desired, and payments technology provider Baton Systems wants to use the cloud, APIs, and distributed ledger technology to help.

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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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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

Open application programming interfaces (APIs) are playing an increasingly important role in the financial industry as the field grows increasingly digital. APIs allow banks and technology providers to coordinate development much more easily, enabling the creation of innovative new products and services for functions such as B2B payments.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

Treasury will allow two financial technology companies to issue prepaid Visa cards loaded with coronavirus stimulus payments. Reuters reported its sources confirmed MetaBank of South Dakota and Wisconsin-based Fiserv got the go-ahead following lobbying of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by payment industry groups.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

s first new payment and clearing system in more than 40 years is up and running. was moved between accounts at two different banks (there was only one customer with two bank accounts) via RTP, the name for a new “Real-Time Payments” system set up by The Clearing House. At 4:59:40 p.m. on Monday, $3.50 Progress in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

Ex-Wirecard CEO Markus Braun was arrested Monday night (June 22) in the latest chapter that has rocked the German payment services provider, the Financial Times reported. It processes payments and sells data analytics services. billion euros ($2.1 billion), prosecutors confirmed on Tuesday. billion euros ($2.1

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Bobsguide

MAY 26, 2022

Generation Life CEO, Grant Hackett OAM , said: “Working together with the GBST team, we have been able to improve and expand our financial technology capabilities to allow us to build out an innovative solution for the retirement income market.

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