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Visa To Acquire YellowPepper To Expand Network of Networks In LATAM

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The acquisition builds on a strategic partnership and investment made in 2018, where Visa invested in the company back then. YellowPepper will help integrate more easily with Visa Direct, Visa's real-time push payments platform, Visa B2B Connect, its non-card-based B2B network and value-added services.

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Payday Loans, Pawnshops And Borrowed Credit Cards: How Many Americans Got By In 2018

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percent in Q2 2018 to as much as 41.2 percent in Q3 2018. In the Q3 2018 edition of the Financial Invisibles Report , PYMNTS surveyed more than 2,000 American consumers to get to the bottom of what was driving their financial confidence — even in the face of delinquency. The usage of credit cards to pay off debt shot up from 44.6

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Mastercard’s Incoming CEO’s Take On The Future Of Payments

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However, those trend lines soon gave way to growth in the early 2010s and beyond — driven by the digitization of commerce — with the card network’s revenue tripling in the last decade. Banga will be succeeded by Mastercard’s Chief Product Officer Michael Miebach, who first joined the company in 2010 as president of Middle East and Africa.

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14 Corporate Innovation Lab Products That Changed The World

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Every once in a while, however, a development emerges from one of these labs that pushes innovation forward and truly raises the bar for everyone else in the industry. Here, we run down the most influential products which got their start in a corporate innovation lab — and how those innovations moved from the lab to the market.

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The Top 250 Fintech Startups: Where Are They Now?

CB Insights

In 2018, companies from 31 countries and 19 categories — spanning payments, digital banking, insurance, and more — made it onto the CB Insights 2018 Fintech 250 list. All told, they raised over $15B in 2019, in addition to forging new high-profile partnerships, spinning off new ventures, and evolving their products and strategies.

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Snap Plans Product Tweaks As Q3 Disappoints Investors

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More product improvements — and quick ones at that — seem to be in the mix for Snap as its daily active user base and its Q3 loss disappointed investors late Thursday (October 25), despite a 5 percent increase in average revenue per consumer. Product upgrades are in the works, company officials said. “I

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Inside the Bank of APIs: NatWest and the Evolution of Open Banking

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Since Open Banking launched on January 18, 2018, banks have made a suite of mandatory APIs available to TPPs. Our first reaction to observing this opportunity was to consider if and how we could persuade the regulator to push banks to make more APIs available. NatWest has been working to solve this puzzle for several years.

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