PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Blockchain is increasingly being separated from cryptocurrency, with an eye toward disparate use cases — some done at the national level. The move by Germany would follow at least some initial forays into exploring blockchain use from regions as far-flung as Britain and Singapore. Bonds And Trade Finance Via Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

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. Startups are estimated to employ nearly 300,000 on the island nation. Singapore is poised to become the world’s first country to make the notion of a “Smart Nation” an actual reality.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Authorities in the Philippines are probing a law office and tour operator for potential connections to Wirecard , the payments provider disgraced after a global scandal, and Jan Marsalek , its former chief operating officer who has been on the run for the past several months, according to the Financial Times (FT).

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

PromptPay is operated by Thailand-based payments service provider National ITMX. PromptPay is the third such service rolled out in the region, following the release of FAST in Singapore and then DuitNow in Malaysia. More businesses may start using automated payment methods instead of relying on any hand-touching.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The remittance firm said it has grown its real-time digital payout abilities in a move that encompasses billions of bank accounts in 100 nations. Visa has wrapped up its acquisition of YellowPepper, the Latin American FinTech, in the first arrangement of its kind by the financial company in the region.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

According to an August study of digital banking by PYMNTS, banks are closing physical branches, reducing hours of operation and encouraging customers to use their websites or mobile apps to conduct transactions and reduce face-to-face interactions between customers and staff. On Monday (Oct. 5) NCR Corp.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Red Dot Capital Partners has landed $200 million to invest in tech firms, Walmart announced it would sell its retail operations in Argentina to Grupo de Narváez. Plus, Amazon has opened three additional logistics hubs in Brazil. Amazon Opens Three More Brazilian Logistics Hubs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The move comes as part of a larger targeting of Southeast Asian markets, according to TechCrunch , starting with beginning selected regional services in Singapore in the first quarter of 2017. Southeast Asia certainly has the population Amazon seeks in its international investments: The region is home to over 600 million consumers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Making cross-border payments in the EU therefore requires interconnectivity between the regions’ various real-time payments rails. SCT Inst was developed in 2017 to establish operational guidelines by which all real-time payment rails in the EU are required to comply. Best-Laid Plans.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Currently, there are 57 real-time payments rails operating in more than 72 countries, with even more under construction. Different regions have their own unique payment rails, and no two abide by the same regulatory framework. Other initiatives are being spearheaded across regions. So, what’s the problem?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Digital banking firm Emirates National Bank Dubai (Emirates NBD) has rolled out its new businessONLINE platform, a new omnichannel platform for small businesses, a report from NSBanking.com says. The report says businessONLINE will work to "provide an all encompassing set of trade finance, cash and liquidity management solutions.".

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2017

As of today, Instacart operates in 41 U.S. markets and is slated to roll out to four more this week in Detroit, Columbus, Ohio, Las Vegas and the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas. However, TechCrunch said that there isn’t much likeness in context or operations. “We expansion prospects.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

News came this week that a (virtual) meeting between regulators and Big Tech – which would center on draft proposals that might impact their very operations on the Continent –has been postponed briefly from Nov. For Big Tech, there’s just a hint of a bit of a reprieve in Europe. 24 to Dec 2. Public consultation on the act ended in September.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2018

Users in the region are able to spend and acquire Dash through their mobile phones, which comes loaded with the Dash ecosystem. In other news, the Alabama Securities Commission (ASC) is working on “Operation Cryptosweep” with the North American Securities Administrators Association, AL.com reported.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

The top court of the 28-nation bloc ruled the transfer of personal data to platforms in the U.S. will face a potential disruption of their operations. Companies will have to choose between whether to move personal data to servers in Europe or stop doing business in the region. servers, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

As startups such as DadeSystems , FitPay and Jewel Paymentech expand across devices and functions, Tipalti , AvidXchange and Emailage announce new growth for their local, national and global footprints. The Sydney office currently serves as the base of operations for the APAC region. Chargehound. DadeSystems. AvidXchange.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Middle Eastern finance group Emirates National Bank Dubai (NBD) has deployed a centralized international payments hub on Tata Consultancy Services ' TCS BaNCS For Payments, according to a press release , which will help to boost payments in numerous countries across the world.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In perhaps the most sweeping example, the member states of the United Nations have embraced, as part of “sustainable development goals,” a target to “provide legal identity for all, including birth registration,” by 2030. An ambitious goal, to be sure, and one that the U.N. The Micro Level.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

Latin America showed the strongest growth and offset declines in the Asia Pacific region and in the U.S. Westernunion.com is now available in 70 nations and represented 13 percent of total C2C revenue. domestic market. We also saw more leading global brands turn to Western Union for our unique cross-border capabilities. to $2.57.

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

One of the lessons that was driven home at the recent American Banker Small Business Banking Conference in Nashville was the difference in marketing between large national banks and community banks, particularly deposit marketing. Many banks fall into the “recency trap.” There is a reason for this.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 22, 2015

According to a recent survey from four Federal Reserve Banks, small regional and community banks have the highest approval rate for small business loans. The 2014 Small Business Credit Survey was a joint operation conducted by the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Atlanta, Cleveland and Philadelphia.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

As Davis noted, larger banks, including regional players, tend to have their own technology platforms — and direct integrations into their own networks — to enable mobile and contactless payments. They are not always fast followers of newly introduced products and services from their larger banking brethren who operate on a national scale.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

Marriott CEO and President Arne Sorenson said on a Monday (May 11) earnings call that, overall, “negative trends appear to have bottomed in most regions around the world. He noted that occupancy levels in the region are currently a bit more than 30 percent, which is higher from the lows of below 10 percent in mid-February.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Shah emphasized that it's not necessarily valuable to make such predictions, however, because the SMB lending ecosystem is quite regional: FIs in one area servicing many agriculture SMBs may accelerate their small business lending activity, while FIs in another, more metropolitan region may step back.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The 2020 outlook report from the National Restaurant Association was released today and it paints a picture of an industry dealing with the countercurrents of solid consumer spending and disruptive technology. In fact, by 2030, the National Restaurant Association expects that technology could completely change the face of dining.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

The United Nations said in January that it had evidence of bin Salman’s involvement in that plot, which Saudi Arabia called “absurd,” according to Reuters. Bin Salman denied the claim, saying it was rogue operators who committed the crime. Bezos said leaked texts between him and a girlfriend, done by a U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2017

This is both ineffective and incredibly frustrating for customers who think ‘mobile first’ throughout the region.”. Today, fetchr operates in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

technology by “any means necessary” and that there are about 1,000 related investigations currently ongoing in the country, through its 56 regional offices, according to a report by Reuters. . High-profile targets like the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and the Department of Energy’s National Laboratory were mentioned in the indictment.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

But drill down a bit, and cash usage has varied from country to country and region to region, depending on what phase of the pandemic (and lockdown) these countries are in. “On Fast-forward a few months, said Anderson, and there has been a noticeable drop in volumes across ATM fleets.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The latest news from the Open Banking ether stems from around the world, including the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions, as markets like Israel and South Korea take their first steps to develop and deploy Open Banking regulatory frameworks.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

It also aims to enable banks, mobile money operators and other providers to connect with one another at a low cost. We believe in our mission to address financial inclusion by making real-time national, regional and global payments accessible to everyone,” said Ambar Sur, founder and CEO of TerraPay. “Led

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Those banks that operate in affluent markets and target well-heeled clients benefit even further. Your competitors for this attribute are the regional and national banks that have become very quick to commit borrowers and fund loans, as long as the loan fits neatly in their lending “box.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Clearly there's regional saturation, which leads to consolidation.”. He said that traditional banks operate one step removed from the data hub that is the point-of-sale transaction. Lukies said the really fascinating part as this stage comes to a close is what will happen as the next phase gets going.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

But that increased good feeling is largely reliant on the nation not undergoing yet another round of lockdowns. Nearly a third of decision-makers for at-risk firms plan to lay off their employees and continue working alone, whereas 43 percent plan to operate their businesses from home.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

This region has the kind of energy that draws people to a place and helps them and their businesses thrive. That year, installations further south, in the region that includes Brownsville and Corpus Christi, supported an estimated 41,000 jobs and contributed about $4.6 Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And our team of industry experts is excited to connect, collaborate, and address the most pressing business needs of national and regional carriers. Personally, I am passionate about process optimization.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

That’s a wholesale shift that moves beyond prior efforts by corporates large and small to digitize day-to-day operations. Now, said Bose, “even the tiniest bit of analog” can disrupt operations. The Journey. In other cases, there are various mandates tied to disclosing beneficial ownership.

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