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4.9KBlockchainFinancial Services: Blockchain-Based And Decentralized
The idea that blockchain can be divorced from the crypto realm and used to trade and store assets is quickly gaining, well,...
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2.5KFintech InvestmentsGrab Financial Gets In SME Lending, Insurance
Grab Financial Group, the Southeast Asia FinTech company, announced Tuesday (March 19) the rollout of SME lending and micro-insurance for drivers in...
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11.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsFIS Buys Worldpay In $35B Cash, Stock Deal
Fidelity Information Services (FIS), a global financial services technology company, announced Monday (March 18) it is merging with Worldpay, the global eCommerce...
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7.7KRegulationPeople’s Bank Of China To Regulate FinTech
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) announced that it is planning to steadily develop a system of rules to regulate financial technology...
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3.1KSizzle/FizzleSizzle/Fizzle: Brexit And The Waiting Game
Brexit takes its place as the big fizzle of the week. And to caption what happened, we might say that this week...
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6.2KDigital BankingPaytm Launches New Mobile Banking App
Paytm, the India-based eCommerce and digital wallet company, has announced a new mobile banking app called Payments Bank, according to reports. The...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsHow SMB FinTech Firms Boost Data Sharing Without Open Banking
For proponents of open banking, the regulatory initiative seen in the U.K. and Europe is a natural progression from the surge in...
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3.6KB2B PaymentsCorporates Keep Coffers Open To Blockchain
Businesses continue to invest in blockchain technology as more service providers, particularly in the finance arena, pull their distributed ledger innovations out...
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6.1KBankingJPMorgan To Combine Middle-Market Tech, Emerging Growth Banking Units
JPMorgan Chase & Co is melding its middle-market technology and emerging growth commercial banking units to better deal with startups that become...
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6.4KDigital BankingAnt Financial Launches Banking As A Service Platform
Ant Financial Services Group and Jiangsu-based Hoperun Information Technology announced Wednesday (March 7) a new banking product aimed at financial institutions. In...
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4.1KSecurity & FraudMicrosoft: State-Sponsored Hackers Siphoned Money From Several FIs
Microsoft’s lastest cybersecurity report has revealed that state-sponsored hackers have attacked several financial services firms, managing to steal “large sums of cash.”...
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4.4KB2B PaymentsIndustry 4.0 Pulls South Africa’s SMB Banking Sector Into The Technology Mix
The South African economy has struggled in the last decade. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth has failed to surpass 4 percent, with...
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2.7KToday In DataThe Next Frontier In Connecting Across Channels
It might be a bit of a cliché to note that we live in an increasingly connected world – though given that...
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4.7KBankingWhy ‘Mobile-First’ Must Mean ‘Trust-Always’
Trust is inherent in banking, and has been since the beginning, when people decided to store coins and bills in vaults. Entersekt SVP...
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4.1KSecurity & FraudHacks On UK Financial Services Firms Jump In 2018
Data breaches at financial services companies in the U.K. jumped fivefold last year, underscoring how the industry is a prime target for...
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11.0KFintech InvestmentsWhy Not All FinTech Providers Are FinTech Firms
The distinction between firms that offer financial technology and FinTechs needs to be clearer, according to Provenir Managing Director Paul Thomas, and...
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3.2KB2B PaymentsUK’s Newest Challenger Bank Diaspora Eyes Trade Finance
Yet another challenger bank is slated to launch in the U.K. Diaspora, based in London, has trade finance at the center of...
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2.3KToday In DataData As A Prescription For FIs And Healthy Healthcare Collections
Data is everywhere, and ripe for the mining. It can help financial firms offer better services and can help healthcare providers set...
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5.5KBankingDiebold Nixdorf: Why Bank Branches Need To Move Beyond The Transaction
There is something of a strange dichotomy when one looks at the types of things bank brands are developing, particularly around mobile...
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2.8KBankingFSB: Tech Giants Will Shake Up Financial Industry
The Financial Stability Board (FSB), a global finance regulator, warned that the proliferation of eCommerce giants like Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba and Apple...
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2.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsAnt Buys WorldFirst In $700M Deal
Ant Financial, the Chinese financial services affiliate of Alibaba, has inked a deal to acquire WorldFirst, the U.K. payments company. According to a...
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6.7KBankingWhen The Bank Is An App — And Not The Bank’s
Banks historically, like grocery stores or gas stations, have always assumed that customers would just come to them. Banks are where consumers keep...
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2.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsBB&T, SunTrust Announce ‘Merger Of Equals’ To Create Sixth-Largest US Bank
Two of the nation’s largest regional banks – Winston-Salem N.C.-headquartered BB&T and Atlanta-based SunTrust – are joining forces in a bid to...
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3.2KFintech InvestmentsARK Investment FinTech ETF Tracks Amazon, Square, PayPal
ARK Investment Management has launched its first FinTech-focused exchange-traded fund. The ARK FinTech Innovation ETF (ARKF) began trading publicly on the New York Stock...
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2.7KToday In DataToday In Data: The Seen And Unseen Advantages Of The Digital World
The world of financial services is no longer going digital – it’s gone digital, a fact confirmed by the recent spree of...
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5.4KLoansHas Microlending Lived Up To The Hype?
Microlending – or small loans (less than a few hundred dollars) – has become a popular, buzzed-about method of poverty relief over...
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5.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsFiserv Snaps Up First Data In $22B All-Stock Deal
Fiserv, the financial services firm, announced on Wednesday (Jan. 16) that it would buy First Data, the payments processor, in a deal...
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4.7KInternationalDidi Chuxing Offers Financial Services
Didi Chuxing, China’s largest ride-hailing company, has debuted a slew of financial products for workers, according to reports. The company will offer...
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3.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMoneyGram, Kroger Pair On Bill Pay
MoneyGram, a global money transfer and payment company, has announced a partnership with the Kroger family of stores, according to the company....
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4.7KBankingSquare Takes Another Shot At A Banking License
San Francisco-based FinTech company Square, known for its white card readers, has once again decided to become a banking establishment, according to...
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3.5KBrexitWhat Delayed Brexit Vote Means For Financial Services
A critical vote on Brexit has been delayed in Britain’s parliament. What happens next is anyone’s guess, and might even include the...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsBrexit To Slash UK FinServ Exports To EU
A new report from think tank Centre for European Reform has warned that the U.K.’s financial services exports to the European Union...
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5.4KBankingBIS Head: Amazon, Alipay Pose Risk To Banks
Amazon, Alibaba’s payment affiliate Alipay and other internet and Big Data players are a threat to traditional banks, warned Agustín Carstens, head...
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4.5KB2B PaymentsTD Bank Customizes Financial Services For Healthcare Industry
TD Bank is introducing new services in Canada designed to address the unique financial services needs of the healthcare sector. Announced in...
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3.2KDigital PaymentsNovoPayment Expands Its Developer Hub With More APIs
NovoPayment, an enabler of digital financial services, announced Wednesday (November 28) the expansion of its Developer Hub to include new partner-integrated application...
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3.9KSecurity & FraudUK Financial Firms Plagued By Tech Outages
Financial Services companies in the U.K. aren’t doing a good job keeping their IT systems up and running, with the Financial Conduct...
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6.9KBankingKPMG: In Open Banking, ‘Fortune Favors The Brave’
Nearly a year on, Open Banking has a bit of mileage behind it and roadmap stretching ahead. Far-flung governments are requiring banks...
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7.2KConsumer FinanceNEW DATA: With Wages And Hopes High, Why Are Consumers Behind On Bills?
The numbers are in, and the economy is looking up: Gross domestic product (GDP) is increasing fast, wages are rising and the...
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4.2KRegulationBig Tech’s FinServ Moves Prompt EU Regulatory Probe
Moves on the part of Amazon and Google to enter the financial services market is prompting European financial regulators to mull whether...
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5.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMastercard, Accion Offer MSMEs Funds, Technology
Mastercard and global non-profit Accion have announced a first-of-its-kind partnership to transform millions of underserved micro and small businesses around the world....
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4.3KAlternative FinancesFinlok And Building Better Financial Services For Young Indian Consumers
In the course of conversations with many innovators and entrepreneurs about how they ended up founding the firms they founded, we tend...
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4.2KNewsFive At Five: Do Banks Really Appreciate SMBs?
Welcome to Five at Five, your daily look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Today’s coverage includes new data...
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4.1KToday In DataToday In Data: The Hidden Costs Of Digitization
That the world is going online rapidly no longer qualifies as headline news: New internet users grew by 248 million last year, and...
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3.2KNewsMarqeta Expanding Overseas, Sets Up Shop In The UK
Marqeta, a U.S. financial technology startup backed by Goldman Sachs, is expanding overseas. Investing.com, citing a Reuters report, said that the company,...
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2.6KToday In DataToday In Data: Digital Solutions To Inefficient Problems
The world is full of inefficiencies, some more grating than others – such as B2B transactions’ ongoing reliance on paper for payments to the...
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6.6KB2B PaymentsHSBC Enhances Business Banking With API Suite
HSBC is rolling out a suite of application programming interfaces (APIs) to support FinTech collaboration and enhance its corporate financial service offerings. In...
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3.6KEuropeCitizens Advice Files Complaint With British Regulator
Following a complaint from Citizens Advice, Britain’s competition regulator might investigate financial service and telecom companies. The group had contended that consumers...
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4.3KSecurity & FraudSources Say Facebook Wanted Financial Data For Years
Facebook may be under fire for how it handles the data on its more than two billion monthly active users, but the...
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3.1KBankingSalesforce Seeks To Unwind FIs’ ‘Data Spaghetti’ In Unified Services Quest
FIs have their work cut out for them when it comes to giving consumers what they want. After all, ours is an...
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6.5KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: UK, China Issue Crypto-Related Warnings, Russian Police Seize 20 Crypto ATMS
U.K.’s financial services providers watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has sent out a warning about three crypto-related firms that have been...
