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Marqeta Teams With Goldman Sachs To Power Marcus Checking
Thursday 14th January - 10:30 am
FinTech startup Marqeta has been tapped by Goldman Sachs to power digital checking accounts for Marcus.
Marqeta said that Goldman Sachs “will leverage our modern card issuing platform” to introduce digital ...New Toshiba Commerce System Offers Retailers ‘Amazon Go At Scale’
Thursday 14th January - 4:03 am
For many retailers, the digital shift was hobbled by legacy IT systems and integration complexities. Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions CEO Rance Poehler told Karen Webster that its new commerce platform, ...Grab Financial Group Raises $300 Million For Expanded Finance Solutions
Wednesday 13th January - 10:11 pm
Southeast Asian FinTech Grab Financial Group announced in a press release that it has raised $300 million in a Series A funding round.
The round was led by Hanwha Asset Management, ...PSCU Extends Payment Processing Collaboration With Fiserv
Wednesday 13th January - 6:00 pm
FinTech credit union service organization (CUSO) PSCU said Wednesday (Jan. 13) that it has extended its payment processing arrangement with Fiserv. The partnership between the two entities started in 1989, ...Today In Payments Around The World: Mynt Lands $175 Million In Funding; Airtel Teams With Amazon On Video
Wednesday 13th January - 4:33 pm
In today’s top payments news around the world, Globe Fintech Innovations has landed $175 million in additional venture funding, while Airtel has teamed with Amazon to launch a mobile-only video ...Tim Cook Will Allow Parler’s App Store Return With Compliance
Wednesday 13th January - 4:23 pm
Social media app Parler can return to the App Store if it complies with Apple’s terms of service, Apple CEO Tim Cook said on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street on ...Qualcomm Inks $1.4 Billion Acquisition Deal With Chip Startup NUVIA
Wednesday 13th January - 3:14 pm
Qualcomm has signed a $1.4 billion deal to acquire NUVIA, a data center chip developer launched by former Apple executives.
Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm president and CEO-elect, said in a press release ...FinTech Rapyd Closes $300 Million Series D Led By Coatue
Wednesday 13th January - 9:39 am
Business-to-Business FinTech-as-a-Service (FaaS) startup Rapyd has notched $300 million in a Series D funding round led by Coatue and including both new and existing investors.
“The demand for online payments has ...FinTechs, FIs Uniting Over Distributed Banking For Disbursements
Wednesday 13th January - 9:30 am
Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards recently told PYMNTS that “Historically, banks have viewed FinTechs through an ‘us versus them’ lens — and rightly so, because, in so many cases, the ...Toshiba Rolls Out Unified Commerce Platform For Retailers
Wednesday 13th January - 8:01 am
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions unveiled its ELERA unified commerce platform that will let merchants operate without the bounds of traditional retail IT infrastructures, according to a Wednesday (Jan. 13) announcement ...Surcharges Re-Enter The Merchant Transaction Fee Debate
Wednesday 13th January - 4:02 am
As COVID has battered the economy and changed the way merchants do business, the time has come for them to analyze their clients and customers to see if recouping some ...Today In Payments: Demand For Personal Computers Highest In 10 Years; Curve Notches $95 Million Series C For US Expansion
Tuesday 12th January - 3:00 pm
In today’s top news, personal computers recorded their largest sales numbers in 10 years in 2020, and the FinTech Curve raises $95 million. Plus, Walmart is creating a FinTech startup ...P&G Leads Parade Of Connected Products As CES 2021 Becomes Smart Home Show
Tuesday 12th January - 12:13 pm
If necessity is the mother of invention, then marketing is the art of creating needs you never knew existed. Nowhere is that dynamic more prevalent right now than at CES ...Mobile Wallet Provider Mynt Pulls In $175 Million In Funding
Tuesday 12th January - 11:22 am
Globe Fintech Innovations of the Philippines, the FinTech arm of Globe Telecom and the operator of the mobile wallet GCash, has landed $175 million in additional venture funding. In a ...Walmart Eyes FinTech Expansion With Ribbit Capital Partnership
Tuesday 12th January - 11:06 am
For Walmart, FinTechs are in sight — but where to from here?
As reported, Walmart is working with Ribbit Capital to create an as-yet unnamed FinTech that would, the companies said ...Investment Managers Grapple With A Convergence Of Finance And Compliance
Tuesday 12th January - 8:00 am
Juggling financial workflows is often an area of significant friction for any young business, with digital solutions opening up new avenues to optimize and automate. For investment managers, however, managing ...Open Banking Matures As FIs Eye Commercialization
Tuesday 12th January - 8:00 am
More jurisdictions around the world are making headway in their open banking plans, and as this week’s roundup reveals, markets’ initiatives are maturing. While Saudi Arabia is gearing up to ...London FinTech Curve Notches $95 Million Series C For US Expansion
Tuesday 12th January - 7:02 am
London-based FinTech startup Curve has raised $95 million in Series C funding led by IDC Ventures, Fuel Venture Capital, and the investment division of Vulcan Capital, launched from the estate ...Mobileye Expands Self-Driving Vehicle Tests To Detroit, Tokyo, Paris, Shanghai
Monday 11th January - 10:50 pm
Intel subsidiary Mobileye is working on updates for its autonomous vehicle program, planning to launch test fleets in Detroit, Tokyo, Paris and Shanghai, TechCrunch reported.
Mobileye President and CEO Amnon Shashua ...Payments as a Service, Ready for Prime Time?
Monday 11th January - 9:45 pm
These days, with the emergence of the cloud, open banking and application programming interfaces (APIs, the moniker “as-a-Service” applies to pretty much any business function that is now able to ...Walmart Creates FinTech Startup
Monday 11th January - 6:00 pm
From big box retailer to payments provider — from consumer-focused behemoth to financial services juggernaut?
Perhaps.
Walmart announced Monday (Jan. 11) in a press release that it is creating a FinTech startup.
The ...Virtual CES Doubles Down on 5G
Monday 11th January - 1:24 pm
If it feels like the rollout of 5G – or 5th generation – super high-speed wireless service has been in the works forever, you’re probably right, given that it was ...Robinhood May Sell Shares Directly To Users If It IPOs
Friday 8th January - 12:47 pm
Robinhood is considering selling shares directly to its users if it opts to hold an initial public offering (IPO).
The FinTech group is reportedly mulling setting aside a significant number of ...UK Regulators To Probe Google Chrome Changes Over Antitrust Fears
Friday 8th January - 11:05 am
Concerns continue to grow over Google’s plan to update the Chrome web browser, with the U.K.’s competition watchdog reportedly eyeing the issue of third-party cookies, in particular.
The U.K.’s Competitions and ...B2B FinTech Kicks Off 2021 With An Investment Bang
Friday 8th January - 8:00 am
B2B FinTech startups have stepped into 2021 with a bang, as industry players raised more than $910 million in combined funding. Backers zeroed-in on a range of industries, including SMB ...Keeping A Forward-Looking View In FinTech Adoption
Friday 8th January - 8:00 am
For many businesses, the sudden shift to a work-from-home model created chaos. Organizations large and small were forced to migrate to online and cloud-based solutions to keep operations moving, often ...Facebook, Apple Lead Future Of Smart Glasses
Thursday 7th January - 4:56 pm
The connected economy will someday have glasses. Smart glasses. Nine years after Google’s misfire with the product, smart glasses are making a return in a big way — as some ...Big Tech Likely To See Pressure From Biden Administration
Thursday 7th January - 1:02 pm
Out of all of the chaos that has engulfed politics and, specifically, the nation’s capital these last few days, it bears sifting through the headlines and the tumult to see ...M&A Emerges As Key Strategy To Drive SMB Finserv Collaboration
Thursday 7th January - 8:00 am
In an environment in which connecting small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to vital financial services and products is more imperative than ever, the world of SMB banking and FinTech is ...Green Dot Introduces GO2bank To Help Cash-Strapped Consumers
Wednesday 6th January - 4:41 pm
California FinTech Green Dot is rolling out the mobile bank GO2bank to assist people who are living paycheck to paycheck.
“Too many Americans struggle to access their money, are paying too ...FinTech Jeff Aims To Boost Lending To The Underbanked In South Asia
Wednesday 6th January - 4:01 am
With no credit scores, limited financial transaction histories, and a huge amount of people who don’t even have a bank account, lending money in Vietnam is no simple task. While ...Unanet Debuts New Functionalities For ERP Software
Tuesday 5th January - 6:06 pm
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) company Unanet has rolled out a number of functionalities to add to its platform for architecture and engineering firms (A/E) in addition to government contractors (GovCons), ...How SMBs Can Overcome FinTech Overload To Achieve Optimization
Tuesday 5th January - 8:00 am
With the digitization process in full swing for many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), entrepreneurs are tasked with difficult decisions ahead about which technologies are best suited for their firms.
The ...Managing Spend Under The Dark Cloud Of Shadow IT
Tuesday 5th January - 8:00 am
Embracing the cloud often means more agile solutions that can promote greater productivity in the workplace. Today, the shift has quickly evolved from beneficial opportunity to absolute necessity.
One one hand, ...Distributed Banking Gives Banks Opportunity To Redesign The Customer Experience
Tuesday 5th January - 4:03 am
One could say that the payments industry hasn’t ever met a buzzword it doesn’t like – or pass up an opportunity to take one or two words, throw in a ...Bank-FinTech Collaborations Set Stage For Real-Time Payments Expansion
Tuesday 5th January - 4:00 am
The financial services ecosystem has evolved to a state where traditional financial institutions (FIs) and FinTechs, which once had been vying for the mind share and wallet share of end ...B2B Payments 2021: Assessing The Gaps And Digital Opportunities
Tuesday 5th January - 4:00 am
Most businesses strive to expand, but expansion can come with growing pains. It can be particularly challenging for growing businesses to manage payment flows. Having inefficient payment operations can lead ...Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Malaysia Gets Approximately $107 Million In Digital Services Taxes; FAA Approves New Drone Regulations
Monday 4th January - 10:30 pm
Here’s the latest news from the technology industry, which is coming under increasing global interest from governments.
Malaysia Receives Approximately $107 Million In Digital Service Taxes Last Year
Deputy Finance Minister Datuk ...Circle CEO: For Banks, Digital Dollars Demand Stablecoin Strategy
Monday 4th January - 4:02 am
Diem may be a shadow of what some proponents promised it would be back in 2019 — namely, a seismic shift for the monetary system itself.
What once was billed as ...Bitcoin Daily: Unicas Opens Physical Crypto Bank Branch In India; Mayor Eyes Investing 1 Pct Of Miami's Reserves In Bitcoin
Friday 1st January - 6:00 am
Indian FinTech Cashaa and the country’s United Multistate Credit Cooperative Society teamed up to launch what they say is the world’s first cryptocurrency bank branch through a joint-venture bank called ...Big Tech Faces Regulation Reckoning As 2021 Dawns
Friday 1st January - 4:03 am
If 2020 was the year of streaming media, of content done a million different ways, of apps and Apple, and Google’s and Amazon’s algorithms … it was also the year ...Marg ERP Eyes Partnerships To Fuel SMB FinServ Strategy
Wednesday 30th December - 9:00 pm
Marg ERP, an India-based FinTech connecting small businesses to inventory management, accounting and enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology, has announced a partnership initiative to expand its SMB financial services footprint.
Reports ...Apple MacBook Sales Poised For Banner 2021
Wednesday 30th December - 3:32 pm
The coronavirus and the new, stay-at-home economy have been a boon for tech companies, including Apple.
The tech giant is expected to set a new record in 2021 for MacBook sales, ...Opportunities And Challenges In The Digital-First Era
Wednesday 30th December - 11:00 am
Department stores are struggling in a digital-first economy, while forward-thinking retailers are looking at the returns process as an opportunity to create a positive customer experience. In eCommerce, Amazon is reporting a blockbuster holiday shopping season that ...CES 2021 Features Connected Home Tech And 5G Gateways
Tuesday 29th December - 3:28 pm
In a “normal” year, CES is an event built on spectacle, in what is arguably the world’s best venue for Las Vegas excess. Robots, butlers, cars that do everything but levitate, paper-thin ...
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