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InternationalAfrica’s Internet-Connected Population Provides Opportunity For Mobile Money
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, almost 90 percent of all payments and transactions are based on cash. But there is a...
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Startup Check-InStartups See Tech Fix For Card Declines
To better serve clients and help make their businesses run smoother and more efficiently, FinTech startups are tackling an array of challenges,...
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Startup Check-InTaking On Card Declines With Interoperability
Merchants are facing a sizable number of card declines, which are stubbornly averaging at around 15 percent. That challenge is not lost...
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Startup Check-InStartup Roundup: New Options For Loyalty Programs, Bank Offerings
When driving innovation and taking new approaches to payments, FinTech startups can increase choice for banks, retailers and consumers. Last month, startups...
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Payments InnovationHow Airline Loyalty Points Work As Currency
When it comes to using loyalty points as a currency, some might underestimate the difficulty of such an application: “People kind of...
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Startup Check-InHow Banks Can Connect To Emerging Payment Methods
Banks have honed their systems for decades to manage payments seamlessly and efficiently, while providing great client service with Titanic amounts of...
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Startup Check-InDadeSystems: Single Sign-On Helps Companies Manage App Access
Mobile apps aren’t just about convenience: Business apps also handle sensitive information, such as checks, security and control over user access, which...
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Startup Check-InAvidXchange Deepens Strong Relationship With Software Provider SWK
While AvidXchange, Inc. has traditionally had a partner referral program in the past, the startup has elevated four of its top strategic...
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Startup Check-Innanopay: Proposed Canadian Payments Act Changes May Spur Innovation
For many companies, 2018 is a year of regulatory change: In Canada, for example, there are proposed changes to the Canadian Payments...
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Startup Check-InDadeSystems: Integrated Receivables Can Enhance Treasury Offerings For Banks
Payments are the livelihood of any business, but the payments landscape has evolved from simpler times. Ten, even 15 years ago, businesses...
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Startup Check-InModo: Interoperability Can Help eCommerce Merchants Work With Wallets
It’s not always easy to tell the difference between the meaning of integrations and interoperability: Integrations are systems connected in the same...
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CryptocurrencyFitPay Rolls Out Bitcoin ‘Flip’ Device Amid Ubiquity Of Contactless
FitPay, the startup technology platform that adds contactless payment capabilities to wearable and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, is looking to serve...
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Startup Check-InEmailage: Prudent Fraud Prevention Is Key To Canadian FinTech Startups
Emailage, the online fraud prevention startup that uses email addresses to assess risk, is expanding its operations in the Canadian market. The...
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Startup RoundupStartup Roundup: A Look At Local, National And Global Expansions
In the life of a startup, there’s no better news than growth, be it across new verticals, devices or geographies. As startups...
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Startup Check-InNanopay: The Financial Future Is Banking With FinTech Firms, Not Against Them
Since 1990, CIAB FEBRABAN has been one of the biggest IT conferences in the financial sector, this year attracting more than 23,000...
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Startup Check-InAvidXchange: Crossing The Western Frontier
What do Charlotte, NC, and Salt Lake City, Utah, have in common? A lot, if you ask AvidXchange CEO Michael Praeger — which...
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Startup Check-InJewel Paymentech: Automatic Anomaly Detection Is The Best AML
For everyone in the world except the U.S. (and even for some sports fans within the U.S.), it’s football season. The World...
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Startup Check-InFitPay: The Market Is Ripe For Pays
Consumers are getting comfortable with the idea of interactive contactless payments. As with any new technology, concerns around usage and security have...
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Startup Check-InModo: Interoperability Is Payments’ Better Mouse Trap
There are a lot of different ways to pay for things. That’s not news to PYMNTS or its readers — but now,...
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Startup Check-InTipalti: Breaking Down The Barriers To Global Growth
What holds companies back from going global? What obstacles do they face? As startup Tipalti looks ahead to its global expansion, these...
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Startup Check-InDadeSystems: Mobile Deposits Must Serve The Middleman Too
Tom Berdan, chief marketing officer at startup DadeSystems, is working from his home office in Orlando, where the air conditioner is broken. He’s...
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Startup Check-InChargehound: Getting Merchants Up To Speed With Chargeback Data
When a merchant receives a chargeback, chances are that the transaction in question took place weeks or even months ago, meaning the...
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Startup Check-InFitPay: Borrowing Security Across The IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly – too rapidly, some would say. The proliferation of connected devices on the market...
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Startup Check-InNanopay: Growth Means Building Beyond The Niche
There are three things on the mind of nanopay‘s CEO Laurence Cooke: Emerging markets, cross-border business-to-business (B2B) transactions, and capital markets and treasury....
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Startup Check-InModo: Interoperability Powers The Three Cs In Payouts
As noted in last week’s PYMNTS Gig Economy Index, 35 percent of today’s workforce participates in the gig economy, and that number...
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Startup Check-InEmailage: Partnerships Are Key To FinServ Growth
A few years back, when Emailage was one of the first companies to talk about the importance of the email layer in risk...
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Startup Check-InDadeSystems: Time To Replace Outdated RDC
Legacy systems can be a problem across the board in the payments industry, and corporate deposits are no different. Many of the...
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Startup Check-InAvidXchange: Automating HOA Payables Is Harder Than It Sounds
In the homeowners’ association (HOA) vertical, more than 70 percent of property vendor payments are still made via paper check. Granted, it’s...
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Startup Check-InHow Automation Can Help With FATCA Compliance
Validating tax information to comply with the IRS: sounds like a no-brainer, something every business and finance organization would simply take for...
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Startup Check-InThe Dollars And Sense Of Automation
Many organizations have recognized the value of automation for delivering cost savings, but not all of them have realized that it also...
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Startup Check-InHow India Will Leapfrog Plastic Payments
Three decades ago, there were 25 million credit cards in use across the Indian subcontinent, despite it being one of the world’s...
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Startup Check-InAmaryllis Makes TRANSACT 18 Impact
Startup Amaryllis made an appearance at TRANSACT 18 in Las Vegas April 16 through 19 – the company’s first 10-by-10 booth at...
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Startup Check-InWhat It Takes To Scale A Lifestyle Banking Bot
Lifestyle banking, including conversational banking components across web, mobile, messaging and voice channels, could be the wave of the future when it...
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Startup Check-InAutomating The Counterfeit Crackdown
A growing online marketplace introduces a growing set of challenges for those who manage it. As the number of SKUs available on...
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Startup Check-InChief Growth Officer To Serve As Ringmaster For AvidXchange
Growing fast can be a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it’s a sure sign a company is doing something right. On...
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Startup Check-InWhat To Do When The Fraud Call Comes From Inside The House
In the age of data breaches, there’s a lot of talk and tools emerging in the fraud prevention and risk mitigation spaces,...
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Startup Check-InNXT-ID And FitPay Are Making eWallets A True Wallet Replacement
Startups FitPay and NXT-ID are working to take eWallets to the next level. Existing smartphone-based eWallets may have achieved the ultimate convenience,...
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Startup Check-InCascade: What’s In A Wearable?
Wearables aren’t just smartwatches anymore. They’re keychains, rings, wristbands, coins — anything that can accommodate a chip. Furthermore, it’s no longer enough...
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Startup Check-InSwitch, Gateway Or Hub? All And None Of The Above
For startups, it’s never easy explaining when they’re doing something the same yet different. The payments industry already has switches, gateways and...
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Startup Check-InDadeSystems Is Building The Twitter Of Accounts Receivable
The year is 2018, and social media platforms like Twitter are now influencing the way businesses handle accounts receivable. With its 280-character...