Chris Skinner

JULY 5, 2017

If nothing else, I love Turkey for their cheesy adverts: In this latest update BKM, the ACH for most of the retail banks, provides the story of Troy, the first and only national payments scheme of Turkey. In this growing and dynamic market, payments have been one of the major drivers of growth and innovation.

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JULY 1, 2016

Singapore is on a mission to build up a Smart Nation by utilizing innovation and technology to create opportunities and strengthen communities. Between 2011 and 2015, the government allocated $16 billion to help accelerate Singapore’s research, innovation and enterprise landscape. Innovation On The Rise.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Aiming to beef up security in connected and driverless cars , a group of lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives that would put the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in charge of studying security issues for cars and trucks that are connected and eventually driverless.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological change. According to a new study from the National Restaurant Association and Technomic, 22 percent of consumers used kiosk ordering last year. Contactless Payments.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Gauthier said studies show that consumers have what’s called a “decision-making budget” — how much energy they can put toward making decisions — but COVID-19 is pushing that to the limit. “We And we see it as one of our responsibilities to bring those innovations to our merchants.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The Chief of Russia’s Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina said she doesn’t see any pertinent or obvious reason to create a national digital currency, according to a report by Russian News Agency TASS. The regulator made the remarks at the Finopolis forum of innovative financial technologies.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2017

Hackers are on the lookout for new ways to attack, and now it looks like developing nations may be a favored conduit. Looking for new hotbeds of innovative malfeasance? Here’s a study in contrasts: U.S. Go beyond the West, young cybersleuth.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Retail trends and innovation can come from unlikely places, and that seems to be the case now when it comes to pets and CBD, two hot areas of commerce that are intersecting. According to a Brightfield Group study cited by the Bloomberg report, “the CBD market could be worth almost $24 billion in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The report addresses drivers for innovation, the need for omnichannel retailing, as well as payment security and consumer trust. According to the study, SMBs are losing all that money each year via cash payments. The stats we’ve seen come out of this study are part of a wider trend. We know that cash is in decline.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Source: PYMNTS.com longitudinal study of over 40,000 consumers (data from the most recent panel on Nov. consumers — 47.2 23-25, 2020.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Here are some the latest developments: Study: New COVID Restrictions Could Permanently Close A Third Of US Restaurants. The National Restaurant Association called October’s sales decline a “troubling sign for the industry.” Which, in turn, has made more restaurateurs discover more novel approaches to serving their customers.

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JUNE 15, 2020

As the growing app economy has brought innovation throughout 175 nations, Apple said Monday (June 15) the App Store ecosystem fostered $519 billion in sales around the world just last year. The app store counts nearly a million apps in its catalog and half a billion individuals each week visit the marketplace from 175 nations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

At a time of increased consumer use and acceptance of the new COVID-era digital lifestyle, the pressure is mounting on large, legacy lenders to accelerate their innovations – or become obsolete. In remarks made at the annual Sibos global financial services conference on Monday (Oct.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 10, 2019

ABA study shows banks are reporting more cases of EFE. According to the National Council on Aging (NCOA) this heartless crime is most likely under-reported due to the victims’ fear, shame and embarrassment. What the ABA study determined is that financial institutions of all sizes continue to focus on elder fraud prevention.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

While the seamlessness of Amazon Go may have grabbed the most attention, the experimental retail model has spurred other retailers to innovate. Currently, about a quarter of the nation’s 4.3 But a recent study found that wasn’t the case. New Developments. Unattended Retail Can Boost Sales. million to 4.5

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 21, 2017

I’ve blogged about how I see leadership in the developing (developed now) economies of China and India, and the new innovation models of emerging economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, but not quite in the way in which I see them now. The more I think about it, we have three major FinTech models, each with their own unique blend of thinking.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

A New York State politician announced the creation of what he called the nation’s first cryptocurrency task force, to “study how to properly regulate, define and use” the currency, according to a Facebook post and reports.

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AUGUST 4, 2019

The study, detailed in the paper “Anti-Money Laundering in Bitcoin: Experiments with Graph Convolutional Networks for Financial Forensics,” explains how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to identify illicit transactions, as well as transactions associated with money laundering, sanctions violations or terrorist financing. “On

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JANUARY 25, 2021

a circumstance that almost certainly relates to the pandemic’s severity in the nation. Our latest study is based on a survey of more than 2,000 consumers and 500 merchants in the U.K., PYMNTS’ latest research shows that the shift toward digital shopping channels has been particularly strong in the U.K.,

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Chris Skinner

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Another presentation that was enlightening was delivered by Jean Claude Gaga, CEO of RSwitch Ltd, the national e-payment switch of Rwanda.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 24, 2024

Looking at the Math of an Average Business Savings Account – Case Study Let’s take one of the most underutilized products in banking: the business savings account. Your banker smartly cross-sells them a savings account and pays them the current national average of 59 basis points.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

They did a study in which they gave consumers two different buckets of popcorn to taste — one stale and one fresh. These are the results of the thirteenth study PYMNTS has conducted since March 6. Each study examines consumer behavior about the shopping and dining behaviors of a national sample of now roughly 30,000 U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

Over the past eight weeks PYMNTS has cast a weekly global spotlight on one of the many tech hubs fostering innovation and tech advancements across the world. Tel Aviv Fuels Israel’s ‘Startup Nation’ Reputation. businesses find partners in Israel to drive their innovation agendas forward.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Toll Gates Are Needed To avoid repeating such scenarios, of that rather dire history, Hsu advocated for regulators and the industry to proactively identify points where growth and development should pause to ensure responsible innovation and build trust. The evolution of electronic trading provides a valuable case study to consider.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In years to come, it’ll be hard to find anything as studied and surveyed as COVID-19’s effects on commerce. Payments Innovation Leads the Way . As Mastercard EVP of Products and Innovation Jess Turner recently told PYMNTS, “consumers want cards, they want them quickly, and they want those cards [delivered] in a digital way.”.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Power's annual National Banking Satisfaction Study, beating last year's winner PNC Bank by a few points, but the rest of the contenders stayed in the same place as last year. JPMorgan Chase took the number one spot in customer service in J.D.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Remittances to developing nations continue to grow, which has spurred many global markets to pursue efforts to enable more efficient cross-border payments. World Bank data shows that remittances to low- and middle-income nations reached a record high last year, with migrants sending $529 billion to their home countries. innovations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But a study from the National Restaurant Association found that just 18 percent of restaurants offer mobile ordering via their own apps, while 43 percent of consumers want such methods. Even so, innovators from third-party apps to restaurant chains themselves are offering mobile options that extend beyond delivery.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Retail Federation ’s annual convention may have come and gone but the sentiments, strategies and lessons learned from facing nearly a year of pandemic-led changes by some of the world’s largest merchants are going nowhere fast — especially when it comes to their embrace of increased digitalization.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Pacific National Bank (PNB), meanwhile, is using cloud core banking tools to support and launch a new digital-only financial brand which it is calling FACILE. How N26 Is Using Cloud Core Banking for Nimble Mobile Innovation. CaixaBank will then tailor that data to provide more personalized insights to their customers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

PYMNTS fielded a national consumer study of 2,806 U.S. More than anything, though, this study sought to quantify how many U.S. In this, PYMNTS’ 14 th study of a national sample of now roughly 40,000 consumers since March on their sentiment about COVID and the digital behavioral shifts it has caused, we learned a lot.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

And the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced that they have signed an operational agreement on the BIS Innovation Hub Centre in Switzerland. Robertson recently agreed to return about C$12 million of assets to Quadriga as part of a settlement.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The nation is forming a Direct FAST industry group, where the members will include traditional financial institutions (FIs), FinTech firms and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The movement to open that FinTech access, said the minister, brings “greater convenience to consumers” as those individuals use their eWallets.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And so a sheepherding innovation – and new vocabulary word – was born. The group’s connected commerce behaviors are well-documented in the annual PYMNTS/Visa How We Will Pay 2019 study released just today. How We Will Pay 2019 is an annual national study of more than 5,000 U.S. Connected Devices: Why Less Is More.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

But the tech upgrades might soon be taking a radically different turn, according to “ How to Build a Better Robot for Quick-Service Restaurants ,” a new study published in the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research by Ball University Professor Dina Marie Zemke. Customers can only be won over once with novelty, the study found.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

PYMNTS fielded a study to a national panel of 1,062 U.S. Nearly every respondent in our study — 99 percent of them, in fact — defined a bank the same way the dictionary does: as a place to store their money, access their money and borrow money if needed. percent of bridge millennials’ primary FIs are national banks, but 8.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the most recent Disbursements Tracker , PYMNTS discusses how moving to digital disbursements can alleviate these pain points, but businesses also have compliance and infrastructure costs to consider as they innovate their payment processes. Around The Disbursements World. Israeli financial startup Refundit recently raised $9.8

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