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B2B Payments
Finding Critical Mass For CFOs To Use — Not Just Buy — Crypto
February 26, 2021

Tesla may have stolen the headlines with its bitcoin buy, but corporate treasurers and chief financial officers have been poking their noses over the fence into cryptocurrency’s yards for several years now. It’s a brewing interest that has been percolating in a largely wait-and-see attitude...

Faster Payments
TCH: Zelle’s RTP Settlements Eliminate ‘Mental Calculus’
February 26, 2021

Consumers know the drill. Get a phone bill, send a check, time when the check reaches the provider, estimate when it gets deposited, and estimate when the funds clear. (Mental note: Will you have enough in the account?) Get the Full Story Complete the form...

Security & Fraud
From Digital Dust To Synthetic Identity Fraud: ‘Identity Literacy’ For Consumers And Businesses Is A...
February 26, 2021

Since the pandemic upended the way consumers do, well, everything, some of them are conducting transactions online for the first time, and the rest are expanding their digital activity significantly, whether that means opening bank accounts or conducting other kinds of high-value transactions. In the...

Bitcoin
Bitcoin Daily: Crypto Bank Anchorage Raises $80 Million; Wyoming Proposes Blockchain Filing System Bill
February 25, 2021

San Francisco-based crypto custody firm Anchorage, recently cleared as a bank, has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round, according to CoinDesk. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Digital Banking
TD Bank Suffers Outage; Says Security Not An Issue
February 25, 2021

After suffering a major IT systems outage, TD Bank’s system is now back online, BleepingComputer reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily...

B2B Payments
DBS Offers Facial Recognition For SMB Customers
February 25, 2021

Small and medium-sized business (SMB) owners in Singapore will now be able to use facial recognition to access their DBS Bank accounts, per a report from The Straits Times. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Social Commerce
Twitter Plans To Roll Out Subscription Offering
February 25, 2021

As it aims to double its yearly revenue and speed up user growth during the next couple of years, Twitter Inc. intends to debut a subscription offering for content creators and will look into implementing tipping, The Wall Street Journal reported. Get the Full Story Complete...

International
Today In Payments Around The World: RecargaPay Lands $70 Million; Didi Plans To Bring Service...
February 25, 2021

In today’s top payments news around the world, RecargaPay has notched $70 million in a Series C funding round to expand its payments platform, while Didi Chuxing Technology plans to bring its ride-hailing service to Western Europe. Plus, Google’s former CEO is warning of China’s...

Investments
UK’s Atom Bank Raises £40 Million In Plan For Initial Public Offering
February 25, 2021

U.K. FinTech Atom Bank is planning to raise 40 million pounds (about $56 million) from existing shareholders as it plans for an initial public offering (IPO), according to a Prolific North report on Thursday (Feb. 25). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...