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JANUARY 30, 2020

This payment rail’s use is going strong in the United States, with debit card penetration reaching 78 percent in 2018. Financial institutions (FIs) cannot simply expect the popularity of debit to persist unaided, however, and must continue to innovate to keep fraud rates at a minimum. The solution is.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

A managed security services provider h as also con cluded a $53 million Series B round to help accelerate research and development of its cloud security technology, among other uses. Venture capital funding landed at accounts payable (AP) and cybersecurity technology firms, among other innovators that raised money this week.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

Kount’s staff members will become a part of Equifax’s United States Information Solutions (USIS) business unit and will still be based in Boise, Idaho, according to a Friday (Jan. The deal, which is anticipated to close in Q1 of 2021, is subject to “customary closing conditions and regulatory review,” the announcement stated.

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APRIL 27, 2020

What’s more, all of this must be accomplished in complex regulatory and security environments, with the omnipresent threats of hacking and fraud. PYMNTS latest research series, Beyond The Card: Innovating The Next Generation Of Credit Solutions , a collaboration with i2c , sets out to chart this complex and evolving landscape.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

19) unveiled a major upgrade to Xoom , enabling customers across the United States to use the mobile payments app to send money straight to the bank account of a family member, friend or another recipient. PayPal is upping its mobile payments game. PayPal on Thursday (Nov.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The United States may have some of the world's best cryptographers working for the National Security Agency and other spy shops, but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is crowdsourcing at least part of its effort to beat the algorithms that cloak information about certain cryptocurrencies. Even the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

The critical question, then, is not whether retailers can comply with these rules, but how they will do so while remaining competitive, Nicholas Ahrens, vice president of innovation at U.S. Questions on how to keep data secure are expected, but those regarding usage transparency or which elements they can access are somewhat new. “We

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JULY 10, 2020

The end goal: to speed innovation toward new products and services while keeping fraudsters out. The need for both innovation and security comes at a time when open banking is gaining a foothold in the United States due in part to the pandemic. The Pandemic Is Speeding Innovation Up. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Pretty much everyone needs medicine at one or another, and that need is helping to drive retail innovation and attempts at disruption in the pharmacy business. After its parent company announced plans earlier this year to close 200 stores in the United Kingdom, Walgreens is looking to shutter 200 locations in the United States.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Countries with the most sizable count of BTMs are developed nations like Britain, Canada and the United States. Department of Homeland Security is running a contest for the development of a digital wallet, CoinDesk reported. But they have grown in popularity in markets that are not stable.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

5), AEVI and Secure Trading/acquiring.com said they have teamed up to offer a POS solution that focuses on white-labeled, standalone and semi-integrated hardware and services. This partnership will be at the forefront of this innovation.”. On Tuesday (Feb. The AEVI payment app is vendor-agnostic.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

But how much are FIs really investing in blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) compared to more foundational innovations? The latest Innovation Readiness Playbook looks at where FIs have been focusing over the past three years and what their plans are for the near future. When asked about specific innovations, 56.1

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APRIL 8, 2020

For all their shortcomings, paper checks provide a measure of comfort and security, especially in dealing with large sums. Yet, this sense of security is in many ways a false one. The Playbook focuses in particular on two types of innovations: virtual cards and eInvoices. Federal Reserve.

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JANUARY 1, 2021

s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) — chiefly for a new watchdog group — the proposed regulatory regime is intended “harness the full potential of digital markets, driving greater competition and innovation,” according to a CMA statement. The watchdog would be known as the Digital Markets Unit.

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APRIL 1, 2020

Customers today expect to be able to access financial services instantly, which can put pressure on CUs that need to stretch restricted technology budgets into innovative new features. percent reporting in the PYMNTS Credit Union Innovation Index that they would switch financial institutions (FIs) due to a lack of innovation.

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Governments and institutions in Europe, India and the United States are experimenting with IoT solutions to enhance city life, and the technology is expected to create between $4 trillion to $11 trillion in value over the next several years. Security and IoT growth challenges.

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MARCH 7, 2018

In 2017, in the United States, overall VC funding -- a barometer of startup activity and appeal.Read More. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Peter Brandt said on Twitter that the Securities and Exchange Commission would have declared XRP a security if it “understood cryptos,” per Cointelegraph. Other locations under consideration include Singapore, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and Japan.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

In the wake of the Capital One data breach that exposed data tied to 100 million individuals in the United States comes a warning that there really are not any places to hide. And, as noted in the study, technical limitations and complexity remain barriers to innovation for many FIs. No rest for banks amid the hackers.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

makes CVS Pharmacy the first national retailer to integrate PayPal and Venmo QR code technology in its point-of-sale experience at all standalone locations across the country," the release stated. "The partnership.

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APRIL 2, 2020

Competition for customers — especially millennials — from larger banks and FIs has long required credit unions to keep pace with their more innovative counterparts. This often means providing digital solutions and convenient banking options despite smaller technology and innovation budgets, however.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

The United States economy is steadily reemerging from the COVID-19 pandemic-induced shutdown. In the inaugural edition of the Next-Gen Payroll Tracker® , a partnership with ADP® , PYMNTS examines these trends and technologies and the role they can play in improving workers’ financial security and sense of wellbeing.

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JULY 22, 2019

Brazil is an advanced market — so advanced, according to Atassi, that one could argue it’s ahead of the United States in terms of the level of digital service consumers can routinely expect. The Latin American market isn’t going to slow down — not from an innovation standpoint, and not from a regulatory standpoint.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Entersekt , the push-based authentication and mobile app security company, announced that it has appointed FinTech veteran Christian Ali as its country manager of Canada. The news comes as Entersekt continues its expansion into the United States and Canadian markets.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

In the January Credit Union Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of CUs, including a retrospective look at the CU industry in the 2010s, an examination of hybrid cloud technology and a new synthetic identity security threat that could steal hundreds of thousands of dollars. Around The Credit Union World. billion in 2009 to $1.54

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Camilo : Beyond the basics, such as process certifications, security, and legal audits, one of the top considerations is a partner that’s purpose-led and wants the best for your business. How did an innovative culture take shape with our nearshore development team? There will be more autonomy, more mastery, and deeper engagement.

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JULY 31, 2020

Just google “COVID statistics” and it returns 4,770,000,000 websites with its own dashboard automatically reflecting the state you are in and United States population (assuming you are in US). This function will also play a key role in regulatory compliance and data security aspects of value of data.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

As politicians across the globe grapple with the pandemic’s continued economic fallout and the need to get stimulus funds to individuals, corporations and even local governments with speed and security, digital delivery of those dollars is likely to gain increasing traction. As reported in this space last month, the efforts are still nascent.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Fraudsters’ attempts to access systems and steal valuable information are becoming more innovative, and research suggests they are also increasingly successful. Phishing attempts threaten many firms’ security operations, often tricking employees into revealing email addresses, login credentials, passwords or other sensitive details.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

News came this week that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has filed suit against Ripple over its XRP cryptocurrency. billion unregistered securities offering, and named CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Co-Founder Chris Larsen in the suit. It’s an attack on the entire crypto industry and American innovation.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

PSCU’s recent 2020 Eye on Payments , which polled more than 1,500 CU members and other FI customers in the United States, found 70 percent of respondents decide how to pay for a product or service based on which safe options are available at the point of sale. To get the full story, download the Tracker.

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APRIL 3, 2019

The company has initially focused on catering underserved populations in Asia, but has also applied for a license in the United States. Separately, Bill.com , in addition to securing $88 million in financing, has launched a partnership with Mastercard to speed up accounts payable for joint business customers. Canada and Asia.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

21) that the company is expanding its contactless Tap To Phone (TTP) payment systems to more than 15 markets worldwide, with plans to bring the mobile tech to the United States sometime next year. In January, Bowman told PYMNTS that while TTP was reshaping retail , it also drove innovation in other industries. Touchless Uptake.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

In tech, innovation is everything. In innovation, intellectual property is, well, almost everything — it can be the hardware, the software, the processes that come from creative endeavor. That far outpaces the 22 percent that came from the United States, the runner up last year. And patents?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Sports are big business around the globe, so it comes as no surprise that retail innovation constantly takes place within that industry, and in combination with payments. However, mobile concession ordering apps like FanFood still encounter their fair share of security and logistical challenges. Working from the Bottom Up.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

PingPong is yet another innovative FinTech player that chose Luxembourg as its EU hub. The EU’s PI licensing requirements are especially stringent, with strict requirements on PI infrastructure, shareholder qualifications, Know Your Customer (KYC) and AML policies and information security programs.

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