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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

With the global pandemic creating a market of volatility, corporate spend is down as businesses look to safeguard their bottom lines against macroeconomic headwinds. What's more, the market lull may offer a moment to focus on innovation for the future as commercial payment habits shift — perhaps permanently.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

New payment rails are once again in the spotlight as real-time payments and cryptocurrency emerge as the top focuses for innovators. In this week’s look at payment rails innovation, the European Union begins paving the way for greater crypto adoption, while Mastercard expands its own crypto accelerator initiative.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 8, 2017

I sit on the judging panel for the FinTech 50, now in its fifth year, and the final list was revealed yesterday. It also reveals new collaborative partnership models being forged between FinTechs across Europe, as well as between FinTechs and banks.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 17, 2017

In a mood for some fintech inspiration? At the TechCrunch Disrupt 2017 event, currently taking place in New York, Bank Innovation came across a gauntlet of bright, shiny new fintechs. Here are five of our favorites: Spendwallet While major banks are busy building NFC-enabled digital wallets, this fintech […].

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Chris Skinner

JULY 21, 2017

The problem is that old systems and legacy technologies stop the bank moving forward into the nimble and agile future on offer today, and this is exactly what FinTech start-ups believe they can exploit as it is clearly a weakness for the large banks. Some call them legacy, others call them handcuffs, but whatever they are is a problem.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 19, 2020

How will banking and fintech business models be impacted by this unprecedented coronavirus pandemic? What is the role of innovation in response to these rapidly unfolding events? How will banks and startups work together?

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

What makes the current developments so interesting and exciting is that “we're just seeing that they're at the end of the innovation growth cycle,” he explained. All of these new FinTechs and digital innovators are changing the landscape as the role of payments rapidly shifts in the broader financial services arena.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 16, 2018

Fintech, or the marriage between finance and technology, is several decades in the making. For market participants, this means a world of possibilities. While it’s nearly impossible to predict what the latest fintech breakthrough will deliver, at […].

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MARCH 19, 2020

The current climate of innovators appears to be up for the challenge, however. FinTechs and banks continue to develop new solutions to address many of the biggest pain points of global business payments, from speed to foreign exchange. Accelerating Ecosystem Innovation. “There’s just so much inefficiency.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In this week's roundup of bank-FinTech collaboration and open banking initiatives, Citi embraces the unlocking of account data to third-party FinTechs, while WEX weighs in on opportunity for banks to take advantage of partnerships. Plus, one FinTech offers a new spin on the open banking model to drive financial inclusion.

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JULY 11, 2022

Here are critical facts to know about some of the most popular BNPL service platforms: Afterpay: Afterpay was founded in Australia in 2014 but was acquired by fintech Square earlier this year. Fintech enthusiasts should also keep a close watch on Apple’s newly unveiled BNPL system, Apple Pay Later. According to Kristen E.

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APRIL 20, 2023

blockchain​, digital wallets​, money center banks​, emerging payment solutions, digital lending​, economic turmoil​, and fintech disintermediation). They want to have meaningful relationships with technology partners who will bring innovative ideas and proven experience to the table.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Fintech lenders are making significant gains in the personal loan space, according to a recent TransUnion report, which follows the staggering growth of fintech lenders in the market over the past few years.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

London's FinTech sector has been going strong this year, even in spite of the pandemic, with $3.6 The pandemic has dealt blows to many markets, but so far, London's FinTech market appears to be coping well, the release stated, with data suggesting that around 95 percent of the U.K.'s billion in investments.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

As bank-FinTech collaborations evolve, more traditional financial institutions (FIs) are not only implementing services and technologies developed by FinTech partners, but they’re also lending their own expertise to augment FinTech solutions. In another bank-FinTech tie-up, J.P. Tyfone Connects FIs To Payrailz.

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MARCH 5, 2025

” podcast, Jim Hertzfeld had the pleasure of speaking with Efi Pylarinou, a renowned FinTech expert, speaker, and author of “ The Fast Future Blur. Efi shares her journey from Wall Street to becoming a leading voice in financial technology and innovation. Subscribe to the “What If?

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The 12 startups demoing to try to win the “best in show” award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled. Six of the startups come from INV Fintech, this website’s sister […]. The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., Exagens Corp.,

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MAY 1, 2020

these programs appear to have remained the same in most markets. The presence and curation of FinTechs is growing … and we are leveraging the technologies offered by FinTech players to enhance customer experience. FIs have long been the dominant players in the financial market. Similar to the U.K.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 11, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – German online lender Kreditech is making its way to India, Bank Innovation has learned. For this expedition, the fintech has teamed up with SaaS banking platform Mambu for providing short-term lending products specifically tailored to local consumers.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

EXCLUSIVE—Investors don’t need to wait for Initial Coin Offerings to reach their full potential: this way of raising capital is already redefining how businesses in certain markets can operate, Taynaah Reis, CEO for cooperative banking system company Moeda told Bank Innovation.

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MARCH 26, 2020

But as of 2020, it is a subject upon which seasoned experts can disagree, in a world where traditional banks and FinTechs are operating in parallel in the market – and, in many cases, are offering similar services for consumers. But the FinTechs, Baird noted, are adapting and innovating around that issue. Baird said. “As

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

I guess that this is logical as my last line was that government control of cryptocurrencies is “not so easy for cryptocurrencies that have … The post Regulating the cryptocurrency markets appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

Open banking regulations across Europe kicked open the door for a wave of FinTech competition, with consumer-facing personal finance management (PFM) right in the crosshairs of innovators’ efforts. “People were not believing in open banking so much as a big evolution. Connecting Accounting to Payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

A trillion-dollar market cap later, it’s hard to argue Amazon’s effectiveness, quote attribution notwithstanding. It’s really difficult, the banking ecosystem is not fast and that’s just reality,” Jim McCarthy, industry expert and former innovation head for Visa, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 8, 2017

Two distinct streams have surfaced in fintech: passive and active investment. But the active investment strategy for investors is far from dead in fintech. Betterment is the poster child for passive investment, recently booking $70 million in venture funding and has continued to enhance its services.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The use of physical checks for payment, for example, remains prevalent in markets like India, Thailand and Malaysia, and the movement restrictions during the pandemic meant “there was a crisis for our clients in terms of being able to collect payments,” said Kanthadai.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This will require being more inquisitive and innovative compared to previous years, as the adoption of AI and cloud technologies continues to expand. By integrating financial services into non-financial platforms, banks can tap into new markets and customer bases, generating additional revenue.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 22, 2022

Every bank wants to be “innovative,” but the truth is innovation is difficult. Add to that a bank’s resource constraints, compliance demands, budget goals, legacy IT infrastructure and talent gaps, and innovation for a bank is extremely difficult. The Problem of Bank Innovation. Framing Innovation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Bank-FinTech collaboration continues to thrive as more financial service providers place small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) front-and-center of product development. Bank-FinTech collaboration isn't all about FIs ingesting third-party products and services. Railsbank Lands Funding For BaaS.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Investors at Alcedo Digital Ventures provided the investment, which Envoy said will be used to accelerate company expansion in the Latin American market, as well as to develop new functionality around its NVOY Stellar cross-border payment solution.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

At a time when surging coronavirus counts are once again muddying the outlook for consumers and business owners, MerchantE Chief Financial Officer Shim Steinmetz says the crisis has also provided a silver lining of sorts to nimble FinTechs that can solve merchants’ cash crunch problems. Innovation Vs. Incumbency.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Smaller financial institutions will have to be more innovative and rely on third parties and as-a-service based solutions to specifically address the needs of the niche market they are servicing. Small Business Innovation. Small businesses remain an untapped marketing opportunity for the financial services industry.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The provision of licenses to several players will help support innovation and competition as all parties work to increase their customer base,” Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele said in a speech in Abuja on Friday. FinTech is helping to transform daily consumer life in Nigeria and other developing markets.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 27, 2020

In a week that saw the coronavirus pandemic amplify in the United States, the fintech sector continued to weather economic dislocation and uncertainty. But even amid this uncertainty, fintech companies began formulating strategies to help banking and consumers emerge from the crisis with better tools and solutions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

have established an $800 million fund to boost trade finance in emerging markets. Across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting supply chains, decreasing demand, and causing overall market anxiety,” said Paulo de Bolle , global director of IFC’s Financial Institutions Group, in a statement. The International Finance Corp. (

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Community banks are independent institutions fueled by the needs of their individual communities, so what constitutes innovation will look and feel different for every bank. As the popular saying goes, “Creativity is intelligence having fun”—and the same can be said for innovation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

That’s Visa Senior Vice President and Global Head of FinTech Terry Angelos reflecting on the impact of the rapid shift to digital for consumers and businesses around the globe who en masse began living many aspects of their personal and business lives in a mostly digital world — literally all at once, overnight. In the U.S.,

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