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5.1KPayments InnovationWhat ATMs And Open Source Have To Do With Payments Innovation
It might be the case that 2019 takes shape as a watershed year for payments regulation, marked by PSD2 and GDPR. Stakeholders in...
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3.8KB2B PaymentsWhy FLEETCOR Bought Nvoicepay
The B2B payments landscape is giant, so its problems and points of friction are behemoths, too. While the industry has opened doors...
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4.3KB2B PaymentsAccenture Taps Mastercard, AWS For Supply Chain Solution
Consulting firm Accenture is teaming up with Mastercard, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Mercy Corps and Everledger to develop a supply chain solution that...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsPlaid Expands Auth App To All US Banks
The U.K. may have been “ground zero” for Open Banking, but the collaborative model that brings together traditional financial services players and...
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4.7KB2B PaymentsB2B FinTech Firms Brace For Growth With New VC
Growth of FinTech funding seems unstoppable, with the latest analysis from Hampleton Partners finding enterprise financial services and integration, online financial services,...
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5.4KEarningsFiserv’s Yabuki Points To Payments Digitization Amid 4Q Sales Growth
Fiserv's Q4 results were in line with a preliminary announcement, including 6 percent payments growth. As the deal with First Data sinks...
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5.3KB2B PaymentsCross-Border Efforts Mark Open Banking, API Collaborations
This new age of Open Banking and PSD2 has opened the door to collaboration between banks and FinTech firms — so, too, has...
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2.0KPartnerships / AcquisitionsDropbox Buys HelloSign To Improve Document Workflow
Dropbox, the cloud storage company, announced Monday (Jan. 28) that it has acquired HelloSign, an easy-to-use eSignature and document workflow platform. In...
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4.7KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Robinhood Secures NY Money Transmission License; Harvard, Levi Strauss Team On Blockchain
Chainalysis unveiled an anti-money laundering (AML) compliance solution for stablecoins called Know Your Transaction (KYT), the company said in an announcement. The...
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4.5KB2B PaymentsFirst Global CEO, Co-founder Steps Down
Payments company First Global Data has announced a leadership change, as its Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder Andre Itwaru plans to depart....
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6.9KB2B PaymentsBlockchain Tries To Jolt B2B eCommerce Into The Digital Age
The complexities and demands of B2B eCommerce can be significantly greater than those of the consumer digital shopping realm. While that characteristic...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsRussia’s Electronic B2B Payments Expectations Go Beyond B2C
B2B payments always seems to be a step or two behind B2C payments innovation, on several fronts. It’s often struggling to make...
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7.0KGig EconomyNEW DATA: Digital Marketplaces And The $1.4T Gig Payments Opportunity
As 2018 came to a close, unemployment was at historic lows — thanks in part to growth in the gig economy. In...
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4.9KB2B Payments2018 Recap: B2B Payments Innovation Welcomes Bank-FinTech Collabs — And Beyond
Though FinTech has, in many ways, heated up the competition with banks, traditional financial institutions (FIs) widely began to realize in 2018...
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2.1KCommentaryCorcentric: 2018 Was The Year Of Collaboration
Matt Clark, president and COO of Corcentric, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. B2B transactions can be...
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5.9KInnovationDeutsche Bank: How To Make FI/FinTech Partnerships Work
David Watson of Deutsche Bank contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ Masterclass series, where participants in the world of payments...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsWestern Union, JD Digits Eye Biz Payments With X-Border Partnership
Western Union has announced a partnership with Chinese digital payments company JD Digits, which will advance digital cross-border money movement and payments in...
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5.8KB2B PaymentsCross-Border Payments Need More Than Bank-FinTech Collaboration
When PYMNTS asked cross-border payments experts at the end of last year what they thought the driving trend would be for the...
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4.2KInvestmentsAccess Fintech Gets $17.5M From Big Banks To Grow Trade Risk Tech
Israeli startup Access Fintech has received $17.5 million in venture capital funding from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Credit Suisse. Access Fintech has...
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11.3KB2B PaymentsAmex Touts Success In Ripple Cross-Border Payments Pilot
In a renewed show of support for blockchain technology, American Express General Manager of Corporate Payments Carlos Carriedo has suggested that its pilot...
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6.4KB2B PaymentsCredit Unions Jump On The FI-FinTech Collaboration Train
One of the biggest ways FinTech firms have been able to gain a competitive edge on traditional banks, for small business (SMB)...
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6.7KB2B PaymentsNEW DATA: Making The Business Case For ePayables
When it comes to B2B payments, no one knows which of the many B2B innovations will ultimately replace the paper check, but...
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6.2KB2B PaymentsThe Security Threat Of Bank-FinTech Collaboration
When the data of 15 million T-Mobile customers was stolen in 2015, the mobile firm’s CEO immediately went into damage control mode....
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3.6KB2B PaymentsIntel, Nasdaq Back Crypto Startup BOX’s Supply Chain Finance Launch
China cryptocurrency startup BOX is introducing supply chain financing services for corporate users with the help of Intel, Nasdaq and Baidu Cloud....
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3.2KNewsFive At Five: Apple’s 5G Delaying Plan
Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest on...
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5.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsWeWork, sweetgreen Pair On Order-Ahead
Sweetgreen, a salad startup, and WeWork, a provider of a global network of office spaces, are teaming up to allow customers to...
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3.6KB2B PaymentsAmazon, WeWork Halt Alexa For Business Pilot
Amazon and WeWork have reportedly pressed pause on their partnership to introduce Alexa for Business into workspaces, reports in CNBC said this...
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4.8KB2B PaymentsFinancial Authorities Press Collaboration To Improve Global Corporate Payments
With FinTech driving innovation and competition in the cross-border payments space, governments can no longer afford to ignore changing and heightening demands...
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4.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsWalgreens, Humana Mull Partnership Expansion
Drugstore owner Walgreens Boots Alliance is in preliminary discussions with health insurer Humana about possibly taking equity stakes in each other. The...
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4.3KB2B PaymentsPayNet Links Community Bank BNB To Small Biz Loan Tech
Small business credit analysis company PayNet is linking up with a community bank to streamline SMB lending for the institution. A press...
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11.0KAPIHow IBM Aims To Make Banks Open To Open Banking
In the open banking era, banks can no longer think of themselves as just banks, says Tom Eck, chief technology officer at...
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4.3KBlockchainThailand Govt Eyes Blockchain To Track Taxes
Death and taxes are sure things, but can blockchain make the latter even more of a certainty in Thailand? Plus, trade finance done...
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8.3KAPITRENDING: IBM’s Plan To Help Banks Embrace Open Banking
Open banking initiatives are changing the way banks operate and engage with third parties and partners. However, those are not the only...
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4.6KPartnerships / AcquisitionsCommunity Banks Debut FinTech Alliance
In the United States, a consortium of collaborators across FIs and FinTech firms has taken shape. Across the Pond, joint efforts among...
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4.7KBankingUK Retail Banks Draft FinTech Alliance Guidelines
Top U.K. banks and financial technology firms have worked together to create a set of guidelines to improve the relationship between FinTech...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsBloomberg, Shell Design Treasury Tool To Centralize FX Management
Technology developed by Bloomberg is now being used by Shell‘s Foreign Exchange Central Treasury unit to interconnect the fuel conglomerate’s operating units...
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3.6KB2B PaymentsSantander Launches Enterprise Payment Link
Santander Bank is rolling out a new corporate payments solution aimed at supporting visibility into business transactions via wire, ACH and check....
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2.9KB2B PaymentsMicrosoft, Interswitch Introduce Blockchain Trade Finance In Nigeria
Microsoft is partnering with pan-African digital payments and commerce firm Interswitch Group to develop a blockchain-powered supply chain finance solution for small...
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9.5KB2B PaymentsADP Enhances QuickBooks Payroll Integration
Payroll technology firm ADP is strengthening its integration into Intuit‘s QuickBooks platform, the company said Thursday (Nov. 1). An expansion of its...
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7.4KB2B PaymentsHow Open Banking Will Test Banks’ Data Security Strategies
Whether driven by regulation or market competition, the financial services sector in several jurisdictions is progressing toward open banking, interconnectivity and a...
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4.8KB2B PaymentsOakNorth: How AI Can Fuel Banks’ Return To SMB Lending
Small businesses (SMBs) left behind by their banks, thanks to tightening risk and capital requirements post-financial crisis, certainly left a gap in...
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4.1KB2B PaymentsFleetcor Beats The Street In Q3, Launches McDonald’s Contactless Payments Collab
Commercial fleet payments solution provider Fleetcor once again beat Wall Street expectations when it reported its 2018 third quarter earnings data Tuesday...
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8.9KOmnicommerceNEW REPORT: Retailers Face An Augmented Reality Check
Augmented reality (AR) has long been associated with games like Pokémon Go and Zombies, Run! However, AR is now rewriting the rules...
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3.9KB2B PaymentsThe CIO Emerges As A Key Asset For The CFO, Says Workday
Amid the flurry of B2B FinTech innovation aiming to transform organizations’ back offices, there is often one common threat within the disruption:...
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9.1KB2B PaymentsSmall Business FinTech Takes Center Stage With VCs
Cybersecurity investment probably won’t let up anytime soon. Indeed, this week did see some cybersecurity funding action, with several big-name backers participating...
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10.9KWearablesSamsung And HSBC Get ‘Phygital’ With Wearables
HSBC and Samsung have announced what they are calling a “first-of-its-kind” program to bring wearable technology into HSBC bank branches. The two...
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3.2KB2B PaymentsNational Bank Of Canada Blockchain Pilot Eyes Trade Finance Contracts
The National Bank of Canada, the country’s sixth-largest bank, is collaborating with business consulting and IT company CGI to launch a blockchain-powered...
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3.9KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Bank Of Canada Tests DLT; Crypto Startup Uphold Gets Into Loans
The SBI Group plans to license Sepior ApS’ wallet technology to use in its own wallet, which will become a part of...
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5.1KB2B PaymentsCiti, HSBC Join Bank Group In Global Trade Finance Effort
Citi, HSBC and Banco Santander are among seven major global banks that are banding together to form a cross-border trade finance network, Reuters...
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5.8KDigital BankingHow FIs Are Combating Increasingly Sophisticated Attacks
As cybercriminals ramp up their attacks, a growing number of FIs are turning to AI and machine learning to protect customers and...
