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Mastercard: Collaboration Is Key To Scaling Real-Time Payments

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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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Disruptors are forcing issuers to revolutionize user experience

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Financial services organizations increasingly need an unwavering commitment to customer experience in order to compete, or the competitor down the street will do it first, writes Chris Millner, a principal of financial technology and a payments consultant at North Highland.

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SMB Funding Embraces The Open Banking Way

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It may be an open road for open banking as, three years after the rollout of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), bank-FinTech collaborations and new initiatives unlocking bank account data continue to flourish. But it may not always be smooth sailing ahead. Visa Launches FinTech Collaboration Initiative In Europe.

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PayPal, Mastercard Champion Bank-FinTech Alliances

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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, executives of PayPal and Mastercard touted partnerships between financial technology companies and banks as a positive way to gain customers’ trust and innovate new ways for customers to interact with their finances. On Tuesday (Jan.

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Visa, Wave Team To Bring Instant Payouts To Micropreneurs

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Until recently, “now” was almost never an option, since it was always based on when the funds had cleared, regardless of how that payment was made. Today, now is very much an option, as Bill Sheley, global head of Visa Direct , noted in a conversation with Karen Webster and Wave Chief Financial Services Officer Les Whiting.

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Galileo, Plaid Integrate To Streamline ACH Transfers

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The Salt Lake City payment processing platform has joined with Plaid, a Visa subsidiary based in San Francisco, that builds financial technology platforms to connect bank accounts and initiate automated clearing house (ACH) transfers. businesses paying millions of 1099 or contract workers, Galileo said.

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Ant Financial Debuts Technology Brand For FIs

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Ant Financial , the financial services unit of Alibaba , is rolling out a new brand to provide financial institutions (FIs) with support for digital transformation. In a press release issued Thursday (Sept.

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