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1.2KB2B PaymentsAvidia Entices FinTechs With Real-Time Payments
Avidia Bank is embracing real-time payments as part of its push to promote collaboration with FinTechs, the financial institution announced Friday (July...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsBNP Paribas Taps OneUp For SMB Banking Digitization
BNP Paribas is teaming up with one of the FinTechs of its incubator program to digitize and modernize small business banking. Reports...
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2.2KBankingBIS Debuts Innovation Hub To Help Central Banks Collaborate
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has announced the launch of a BIS Innovation Hub to enable central banks around the world...
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3.1KStartupsEquifax To Give FinTech Firms Data Access Via FinTech Sandbox
Equifax said Friday that it has entered into a joint collaboration with FinTech Sandbox in an effort to spur global FinTech innovation. ...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsHSBC Taps Tokenization For Accounts Receivable Tool
HSBC is rolling out its digital accounts receivable solution for corporates in India after teaming up with Australia-based Identitii, reports in IT...
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2.2KB2B PaymentsPayPal Canada Links Small Businesses To Cross-Border Shipping
PayPal is introducing a new solution for Canadian small businesses (SMBs) to lower their logistics costs when doing business with the U.S....
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2.0KB2B PaymentsThe Enterprise Headache Of A Decentralized Blockchain
For blockchain technology, the crux of many of its purported benefits for the enterprise is its decentralized nature, which, proponents of distributed...
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2.5KB2B PaymentsLooking Beyond Alternative Lenders For Startup Financing
Post-financial crisis, FinTech shed light on the plight of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) seeking capital, often shunned by banks — thanks...
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3.9KBank RegulationThe Key To Open Banking? More Bank Participation
It’s not just technology that moves the world. Culture plays a huge role — as well as the sparks that often come...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsFX Fees Not The Only Cross-Border B2B Payments Pain Point
The European Union (EU) is introducing measures to reduce cross-border payment fees, which have emerged as a top pain point in the...
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2.1KInnovationFord To Integrate Walking Robots Into Self-Driving Vans
Ford has announced it is partnering with walking robots maker Agility Robotics for its fleet of self-driving delivery vans. The two will work...
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3.7KPayments InnovationCiti: Why And How To Bring More Collaboration To Payments
There is no “i” in team — every coach’s mantra. Guess what, though? That’s only half the story when it comes to...
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Banking/FinTech Collaboration Grows In China
In China, digital financial services gain ground among collaborative efforts between tech-savvy upstarts and traditional players. Elsewhere, Monetary Authority of Singapore is...
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5.5KB2B PaymentsThailand’s Largest Firm Taps Ripple For B2B Payments
Petroleum exploration company PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP), Thailand’s largest corporation, is collaborating with blockchain firm Ripple to integrate its technology for...
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3.6KB2B PaymentsIndustry Leaders Form Center For Payments
A group of payment associations in the U.S. are collaborating to launch the Center for Payments, a program focused on propelling the...
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2.3KToday In DataCost, Convenience And Collaboration: Three Cs Of Modern Commerce
Consumers in the digital era want it both ways: In one context, they want to do it all for themselves and act...
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7.5KB2B PaymentsMastercard Launches AP Partnership With Bill.com
Business payments company Bill.com has secured unicorn status and launched a partnership with Mastercard to accelerate accounts payable for joint business customers....
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5.2KB2B PaymentsEquifax, Gwynn Group Pair On AR Solution
Equifax and Gwynn Group announced they are collaborating on an accounts receivable (AR) management solution that can support the entire collections life...
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7.0KPayments 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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6.5KB2B 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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5.4KB2B 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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4.1KB2B 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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5.9KB2B 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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7.1KEarningsFiserv’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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6.8KB2B 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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2.6KPartnerships / 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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5.2KBitcoinBitcoin 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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5.3KB2B 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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8.4KB2B 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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4.6KB2B 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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8.0KGig 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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6.2KB2B 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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2.3KCommentaryCorcentric: 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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6.9KInnovationDeutsche 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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3.9KB2B 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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7.2KB2B 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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5.1KInvestmentsAccess 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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13.2KB2B 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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7.6KB2B 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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7.7KB2B 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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7.1KB2B 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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4.1KB2B 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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3.9KNewsFive 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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6.3KPartnerships / 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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4.2KB2B 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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5.3KB2B 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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5.5KPartnerships / 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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5.1KB2B 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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12.2KAPIHow 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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4.7KBlockchainThailand 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...
