PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2016

PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year Of The Emergence Of The Global Citizen. 2016 saw more people transacting across borders in larger sums than ever before.

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Fintech News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

These companies, which represent countries such as Malaysia, the Philippines and South Korea, are tackling challenges in sectors such as lending, banking, and business finance, leveraging innovative business models and cutting-edge technologies to boost efficiency and enhance accessibility across the financial services industry.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2021

From digital banking and lending to budgeting and payments, tech giants are revamping their financial services offerings through partnerships with legacy institutions and in-house solutions that fit into their wider product ecosystems. . How big tech’s product strategies differ across banking, payments, lending, and e-commerce.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Fintech funding in Southeast Asia, Source: Fintech – SEA Annual Funding Report, Tracxn, Quarter 4, 2023, Jan 2024 Other nations including Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand also witnessed some noteworthy fintech VC rounds in 2023, paving the way for continued momentum in 2024 onwards. Soft Space – US$31.5

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Fintech funding in Southeast Asia, Source: Fintech – SEA Annual Funding Report, Tracxn, Quarter 4, 2023, Jan 2024 Other nations including Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand also witnessed some noteworthy fintech VC rounds in 2023, paving the way for continued momentum in 2024 onwards. Soft Space – US$31.5

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Elias was most recently head of product at UK fintech ClearScore, while Crosson previously worked at Tomorrow Bank and Starling Bank. Philippa joins 4most from Lloyds Banking Group, where she held various leadership roles within the risk division, most recently as the director of decision science.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA Merrill) is introducing a new solution for other financial institutions (FIs) in the interbank payment system to automate foreign exchange (FX) conversion. The solution is supported across 89 countries and can make conversion in 41 currencies, the bank noted. In a press release issued Monday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2017

banks — and large banks everywhere — are losing market share in their corporate clients’ FX needs, new data revealed. banks has declined — as has the number of companies using a U.K. bank as their primary provider of FX services. banks has declined — as has the number of companies using a U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

There seems to be no shortage of action in the corporate banking space, whether it be scandals (like Royal Bank of Scotland’s Global Restructuring Group fiasco ), cyberattacks (such as the $81 million stolen from the central bank of Bangladesh) or anomalies like Brexit impacting top financial institutions across the globe.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

They’re also taking their toll on the non-bank mortgage lenders that proliferated in the good old days of zero or near-zero interest rates, compliments of the Federal Reserve. The Incredible Shrinking Non-Bank Mortgage Lending Market. Instead, they often rely on short-term bank loans – now also at a more expensive rate.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

The country’s P2P industry, although just a small portion of overall lending, is nevertheless a compelling credit source for businesses and consumers that can’t obtain loans through China’s traditional banking system. Stronger regulatory rules compelled P2P services to plunge to 343 last year compared to 2,680 in 2016.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 13, 2017

And after a quick review, it seems that investors continue to be interested in the innovations of Finovate alumni. million with debt included), the alums from FinovateSpring 2016 have had an impressive year of fundraising. NYMBUS is an innovator in developing advanced, cloud-based core banking systems. December 2016.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

At least, that’s the case in England anyway, with Bank of England ’s (BOE) Chief Cashier Victoria Cleland adamantly stating that “cash is not in decline.”. 5, continuing the argument that, despite the fact that non-cash purchases and transactions are on the rise in the U.K., Very notable in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Yes Bank in India has received an offer from an unnamed investor in the amount of $1.2 billion for a stake in the bank, according to a report in the Financial Times. Although the bank did not name the investor, the investor made the offer through newly issued equity. He was replaced by Deutsche Bank executive Ravneet Gill.

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Fintech News

MAY 23, 2024

Confronted by shifting factors such as tech advancements, generative AI, high interest rates, increased institutional oversight, and evolving customer expectations — the best banks must adapt their business and operating models in 2024, including in Asia. CHINA #1 China Merchants Bank China Merchants Bank Co.,

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FICO

MARCH 29, 2017

ATMs and merchants monitored rose 70 percent in 2016. ATMs, restaurants and merchants rose 30 percent in 2016. Here’s some more details: About 60% of the compromises were at non-bank ATMs, such as those in convenience stores. The 2016 average duration is less than a third of the average duration in 2014, 36 days.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

challenger banks Tide and ClearBank are teaming up to apply for a portion of the $1 billion made available by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to promote banking competition, Tide announced Monday (Jan. ” Their collaboration combines Tide’s digital SMB banking platform with ClearBank’s payments infrastructure.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has again released its report on top risks facing banks, with its Spring 2017 analysis warning FIs that threats are coming from all angles. The federal banking system is, and should be, a source of strength for the nation and its economy. Shifts in Lending Practices.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

FS Vector’s partner John Collins — head of policy at Coinbase from September 2014 to January 2016 — will serve as Facebook’s lobbyist. . The hiring comes at a time that Facebook’s launch of Libra continues to get pushback from lawmakers. The members all made a non-binding promise to invest at least $10 million.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Use of alternative finance (AltFin) sources among small business (SMB) owners is on the rise, but still has a long way to go before it poses a legitimate threat to traditional banks’ market dominance. The accountant is then able to choose the best option for the company, and continues as the point of contact for funding providers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Small businesses continue to flock to online platforms to find much-needed financing, with banks still failing to fill the demand for small to medium-sized business (SMB) loans despite economic growth in the U.S. But recent reports in the Wall Street Journal Monday (Dec. But recent reports in the Wall Street Journal Monday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Reuters, citing the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, reported that household debt for the U.S. On a year-over-year basis, the household debt of Americans was $402 billion higher than the fourth quarter of 2016. The latest numbers, which include non-real estate debt, grew at an 8.83 percent from 2.4 billion in October.

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FICO

JULY 16, 2019

Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPDB) Credit Card Centre (CCC) , one of the leading credit card issuers in China with more than 40 million cards issued, has used FICO® Customer Communication Services (CCS) to boost collections performance while driving down business costs. by FICO.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

billion in 2016 from $9.3 Still, it set a precedent for Monopoly add-ons, which continue to emerge to this day.”. The newest version of Monopoly is called “Monopoly Voice Banking.” Even with such advances, though, expect non-digital board games to keep thriving, at least if current trends hold.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) debuted a special purpose charter in 2016 that would have given FinTechs a leg up on competing with traditional financial services companies. And in effect, these tech-savvy upstarts would have been able to act like banks, operating as banks do, to take deposits and make loans.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

FreshBooks aims to differentiate itself by creating easy-to-use accounting software that has a non-accountant user in mind while delivering “best-in-class” customer service, the company said in an announcement. In February of this year, FreshBooks announced the addition of bank reconciliation and double-entry accounting to its software.

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FICO

JULY 16, 2019

Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPDB) Credit Card Centre (CCC) , one of the leading credit card issuers in China with more than 40 million cards issued, has used FICO® Customer Communication Services (CCS) to boost collections performance while driving down business costs.

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Credit Cards Automation Card Issuer Non-Bank 40

Finovate

MARCH 15, 2024

Last month at FinovateEurope, we introduced Swedish embedded banking and payments company Visualizy to our audiences. Founded in 2022, the company offers a multi-bank platform that helps businesses lower costs, reduce errors, and boost security in their financial and payment operations. open banking a major boost.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

Business-to-business (B2B) trade, especially when deals occur across borders, expose businesses to all sorts of risks, like non-payment (on the supplier’s side), or non-deliver (on the buyer’s side). Research from Atradius released in 2016 found that risks down the supply chain are 75 percent higher than they were pre-financial crisis.

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Fintech News

MARCH 18, 2024

The report, released in September 2023, looks at the Thai fintech sector, highlighting the rise of digital payments and the explosive growth of real-time transactions, as well as presenting the opportunities that exist in digital remittances, open banking, business-to-business (B2B) payments and agricultural lending.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

While non-bank financial institutions (FIs) and FinTechs may be keeping traditional banks on their toes, banks still have the largest piece of the corporate banking pie.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Charges from the recently enacted tax laws had an outsized impact on the latest quarterly results from Bank of America, just as they did for its big bank brethren. Consumer banking was up nine percent as a segment, driven by mortgage and credit card segments. They doubled from Q4 2016.” billion.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

That’s according to Capgemini and BNP Paribas, which recently released new research through the 2016 World Payments Report (WPR). Checks have decreased for years and continue to do so, down 10.8 As a result, the call for banks to keep pace continues. billion transactions. percent growth the previous year (387.3

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Reports in Bloomberg Law’s Big Law Business on Friday (April 26) said Investment bank Cowen and accounting firm Grant Thornton are both seeing members of their senior executive teams join the SEC’s initiative. It succeeds the Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies, which ceded operation in 2017.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Krebs noted that the first mention of the breach came from a Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO) called PSCU , which sent out a non-public alert to the 800 credit union member banks it serves advising that it had received a list of compromised card numbers from Mastercard and Visa.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

A new report by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO) suggests the nation’s largest banks aren’t complying with rules to protect small business borrowers. I’m gob-smacked really,” said ASBFEO’s Kate Carnell in a statement.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Lending Club’s model does not need bank branches on each street corner, and it can turn around in minutes and hours, not days. When I founded my first startup, it got me thinking — banks are middlemen that can and should be disrupted,” Laplanche noted in a 2007 interview on how he came up with the idea of Lending Club.

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