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5.4KAPIFI.SPAN: APIs That Pack A B2B Punch
It’s not fair, said FI.SPAN CEO and Co-Founder Lisa Shields, that Bill.com and AvidXchange get to have all the business payments fun...
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1.2KBankingPlaid Launches New Tool For Enterprise Developers
Plaid, the FinTech that assists financial services companies with app development to connect with users’ bank accounts, rolled out a new tool...
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5.4KPayment MethodsCommanders In Chief: For Payments Innovation, Look Beyond The Pipes
It’s been said that change is the only constant in, well, you name it. The aphorism holds especially true for payments, an industry...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsBanks Still Forcing SMBs To Go To Physical Branches, Says Avoka
Banks appear to be finally waking up to the need to innovate. Between the growing number of blockchain consortia, in which banks...
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3.0KInnovationHow To Live Forever In The Financial Services Space
Slow and steady doesn’t win the financial services race. If you’re not ahead, you’re behind, especially if you’re playing on the global...
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1.7KInvestmentsKabbage Receives $250M Strategic Growth Investment From SoftBank
Kabbage Inc., a financial services, technology and data platform serving small businesses globally, has announced the agreement on a $250-million equity investment...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsResearchers Urge Corporates To Let FinServ Bear The Blockchain Disruption
The growing number of banks and FinTechs taking to blockchain technology has caught the attention of the financial services world, with the...
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4.1KStartupsJuvo Raises $40 Million To Expand Into New Markets
Juvo, the San Francisco tech startup that focuses on financial inclusion and helps unbanked consumers in emerging markets improve their standing from...
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1.0KSecurity & FraudCFPB Rails Against Costly Pay-By-Phone Fees
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned companies Monday (July 31) about tricking consumers into expensive pay-by-phone fees. In a press release the...
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3.7KRegulation RoundupTrump’s Fed Nominee Points To Regulatory Revamp
Not all financial services regulation is occurring across the pond, though Brexit and other countries grabbed their share of headlines this past...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsTop Banks Looking To Washington For Growth, Clarity
According to recent reports in the Wall Street Journal, some of the U.S.’s largest banks are looking to Washington, D.C., to push forward regulations that will...
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2.0KToday In DataToday in Data: Investment News Update
Money makes the world go around, and there’s certainly no disputing that issue. Without regular rounds of fundraising, it would probably be...
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2.0KInternationalSub-Saharan Africa Driving Mobile Money Market
More than half the world’s mobile money deployments are coming from a perhaps unexpected source: Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in a way, that...
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3.0KB2B PaymentsHow Faster Payments Collaboration Breeds Financial Services Competition
Accelerated payments initiatives like the U.K.’s Faster Payments Scheme (FPS) are only valuable when financial institutions and other players can actually access...
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5.7KBlockchainChain CEO On Why B2B Payments Needs Blockchain
The blockchain has a bit of an identity crisis. Everyone who is anyone in financial services knows what it is, and there...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsRegTech And AI Tackle The Maddening Hurdle Of Conflicting Financial Policies
Regulation has historically been a challenge for the financial services space, but considering today’s fast pace of change in both financial services...
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2.8KSafety and SecurityNTechLab’s FindFace Facial Recognition Technology Has Applications In Retail, Public Safety
FindFace started as a futuristic social technology for identifying strangers by scanning their faces with a smartphone camera. Two years later, the facial...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsMeet Finastra, Financial Services FinTech Giant Formed By Misys, D+H Merger
Months after financial services software company Misys canceled its IPO and after Vista Equity Partners, which already owns Misys, agreed to acquire D+H,...
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6.1KBlockchainBlockchain Tracker: Is Retail Ready For Implementation Yet?
Blockchain technology may be used widely in the financial services industry, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it will see a smooth transition...
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5.9KFintech InvestmentsFinancial Services Innovation/Inertia Tug of War
As traditional financial services firms find themselves challenged by FinTech and other upstarts, the choice, when it comes to products, services and...
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2.4KInnovationData Enablers: SigOpt’s Machine Learning Tools Help Businesses Optimize Operations
From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning...
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6.2KB2B PaymentsRegulators Treading Slowly But Surely Into FinTech
FinTech has no doubt changed the face of the financial services industry in the U.S., but experts are beginning to question how...
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2.8KBlockchainBlockchain Tracker: How Blockchain Tech Is Evolving Financial Services
Some could argue that over the past few decades, financial services has completely transformed itself. From relying on physically walking into a...
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3.0KFintech InvestmentsJapan’s Mizuho Launching FinTech Venture
Mizuho Financial Group, the Japanese financial company, is gearing up to launch a venture in June to create new businesses with FinTech....
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4.3KBitcoinFidelity Adds Digital Currencies To Website
Fidelity Investments announced that it will soon allow its clients to see their holdings of bitcoin and other virtual currencies held on...
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2.9KSecurity & FraudFiserv Debuts Real-Time Cybersecurity For Finance
Fiserv, the global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced May 23 the availability of SecureNowTM, a centralized, real-time cybersecurity platform designed specifically...
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2.9KData DiveBJ’s On The Block, Amex’s Millennial Problem And Another Big Breach
This week we saw scientists march, the French go to the polls and a $400 high-tech juicer turned out to be an...
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3.4KChatbotsWells Fargo Announces Messenger Chatbot Plans
Wells Fargo recently announced plans to test a chatbot for Facebook Messenger — the latest in a recent string of payments providers...
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2.8KPayment MethodsAnt Financial And Emtek To Bring Digital Payments To BBM
Ant Financial, the financial services unit of Alibaba, is getting into the digital payment market in Indonesia via BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). According...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsTechnology Safeguarding The Age-Old Practice Of Financial Data Sharing
The approach to financial services for consumers and businesses is quite vast, but across the spectrum, access to and management of financial...
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3.2KB2B PaymentsChain, Thales Link To Instill Confidence In Blockchain Security
Fueling the blockchain hype for FinTech and the financial services space is its promise of security. But like any new technology, it...
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1.3KConsumer FinanceCitizens Bank Shares Fall After Discovery of Fake Appointment Data
Employees at Citizens Bank learned the hard way that lying gets nothing accomplished and bosses will likely always find out. This week,...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsLondon (Barely) Retains Crown As Top Financial Hub
London may be on the cusp of falling down from its post as top financial center of the planet, finds a new...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsNACHA Takes Collaborative Approach On API Standardization
The rise of APIs in banking and FinTech can unlock greater usability of innovative solutions but also presents some difficult questions for the space....
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2.5KArtificial IntelligenceSynechron Launches 14 AI Accelerators For Financial Services Mkt
Synechron, the global financial services consulting and technology company, announced Thursday (March 23) the launch of “Neo,” a set of artificial intelligence...
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1.1KPayment MethodsCiti Taps Nearly 30-Year Veteran To Lead Citi FinTech
Citigroup announced Thursday (March 9) it has named Yolande Piazza as the head of Citi FinTech, which Stephen Bird, chief executive of...
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7.2KB2B PaymentsMastercard Targets Startup Innovation In Canada
Mastercard is collaborating with Startup Canada to promote startup innovation in the country, the firms announced Thursday (Mar. 2). Startup Canada, a...
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5.6KB2B PaymentsFinServ At The Intersection Of ‘Expertise, Functionality And Experience’
For Fiserv, a focus on financial services innovation means a focus on the end-user experience. As a company that works primarily with...
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4.2KB2B PaymentsInnovative Bank Software Is Only Valuable If It Works
Tricentis just scored one of the biggest funding rounds for a B2B startup in a while — raising $165 million — for its...
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3.8KPayment MethodsYapStone And Making Marketplaces Manageable
These days, there is literally an online marketplace for every need. Whether it be workers, office space, rides, vacation homes, food delivery,...
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3.9KB2B Payments
Banks Blind To Many Cyberattacks, Research Says
Many financial institutions are unable to detect a cyberattack, according to new research from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International. Reports Tuesday (Jan....
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10.6KB2B PaymentsAccountants Are Some Of The Unhappiest Workers
A new study has been released that uncovers which professions in the U.S. and Canada yield the happiest workers — and which...
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1.3KInternationalEU Financial Regulators Mull Big Data Rules
Financial regulators in Europe are concerned about the impact Big Data techniques may have on consumers and their access to products and...
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4.8KB2B PaymentsWho’s Left In The Dark About Blockchain
The financial services industry was one of the first to begin tapping into the power of blockchain. But distributed ledger technology has...
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5.3KB2B PaymentsFinServ’s Tech Adoption Levels Come Out On Top
Small businesses have struggled to truly embrace technological innovation. The most recent SMB Technology Adoption Index by PYMNTS found that only 13...
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3.6KBankingWells Fargo Pushes For Its Day Out Of Court
For the growing number of customers looking to sue over Wells Fargo’s unauthorized account scandal, the company is hoping to resolve any...
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2.3KPost-ElectionSenators Call On Financial Services Trade Groups To Condemn Bannon
President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to name Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist is drawing the ire of a handful of senators, who...
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1.7KCFPBCFPB Aims To Work Closely With FinTechs To Evolve The Industry
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report Monday (Oct. 24) showcasing several market developments that could help consumers. In its...
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2.5KPayment MethodsBanks, Retailers In France Collaborate On Payments App
BNP Paribas and Credit Mutuel, the two French banks, and a group of retailers are joining forces to launch a mobile app...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsAPAC Financial Cybersecurity Risks Grow
Financial companies the world over are at risk for cyberattacks, but according to new analysis from Kaspersky Lab, the Asia-Pacific region is...
