Payments Dive

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards balances, auto loans and high rents are straining low-income consumers’ limited budgets, the New York Fed details in a new report.

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PCI Security Standards

JANUARY 24, 2024

The PCI Security Standards Council is now offering sponsorship opportunities for its award-winning podcast series, Coffee with the Council. Established in 2022, Coffee with the Council produces monthly episodes which seek to engage the payment industry by communicating Council news and updates, interviews, panel discussions, and much more. The podcast is syndicated across more than a dozen popular platforms including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Audible, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and ma

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TechCrunch Fintech

JANUARY 24, 2024

Alinea Invest, a fintech app offering AI-powered wealth management aimed at Gen Z women, has $3.4 million in seed funding ahead of the launch of a virtual AI assistant that will help users with their investing needs. The fundraising comes on the heels of 225,000 downloads of Alinea’s app, leading to a revenue run-rate of […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 24, 2024

In the global financial landscape, Singapore has carved out a niche for itself as a thriving hub of fintech innovation. The annual list curated by The Straits Times and German research house Statista, showcasing the 100 fastest-growing fintechs in Singapore, indicate how fintech firms have progreessed in an uncertain and volatile funding climate. To compile this meticulous list, Statista sifted through over 2,000 companies based in Singapore.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Bilt Rewards, whose platform aims to allow consumers to earn rewards on rent and daily neighborhood spend, has raised $200 million at a $3.1 valuation, the company announced today. General Catalyst led the financing, which more than doubles the New York-based company’s valuation compared to its $150 million October 2022 raise. Eldridge and existing backers […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. Purchase volumes through credit cards jumped 51% between 2015 and 2021. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. Simply put, a surcharge amount is an extra fee that some merchants choose to levy on customers to cover the costs of processing credit card payments.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

The phrase “dynamic pricing” often sparks heated debates in eCommerce and retail, and it’s not hard to see why. If you’ve ever booked a hotel, ordered an Uber, or shopped on Amazon, you’ve experienced the effects of dynamic pricing in real-time. Prices may shift down or up at a moment’s notice. But if dynamic pricing adds complexity to the customer experience, why have so many industries embraced it?

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Basis Theory

JANUARY 24, 2024

Negative option merchants are merchants that offer an enticing option for customers, like a free trial, that requires a credit card to sign up. The customer, in turn, has opted into paying for a subscription, and will be charged as such, and until cancellation, at the end of the promotional period.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

There’s been a lot of discussion in recent months about the apparent phase-out of QuickBooks Desktop software. Some coverage has not been entirely accurate, which has caused a lot of confusion for Desktop users and questions like: Is QuickBooks Desktop discontinued? Will I still be able to use my existing QuickBooks Desktop software? Do I need to transition to a new system altogether?

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Fintech Review

JANUARY 24, 2024

The landscape of financial lending has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. At the forefront of this evolution is bank lending, a traditional pillar of financial support for individuals and businesses alike. As an integral part of the economy, bank lending has been scrutinized, with questions raised about its effectiveness and efficiency.

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Payments

Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. Purchase volumes through credit cards jumped 51% between 2015 and 2021. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. Simply put, a surcharge amount is an extra fee that some merchants choose to levy on customers to cover the costs of processing credit card payments.

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Finextra

JANUARY 24, 2024

Open banking platform Tink has launched a rules-based risk engine to protect merchants from fraud on instant payment rails.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 24, 2024

From January 31, OCBC Singapore is set to expand its OCBC Money Lock ‘kill switch’ service to time deposits. This follows its successful implementation for current and savings accounts in November 2023. The enhancement is a response to growing concerns over digital security threats, such as malware and phishing, which have become prevalent in the online banking space.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 24, 2024

“Looking inward, I realized we grew our org too quickly,” founder and co-CEO Pedro Franceschi said in a message to employees.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Global digital asset banking group Sygnum has reported an interim close of its Strategic Growth Round, successfully raising over US$40 million, surpassing its initial target of around US$35 million. This funding has elevated the company’s post-money valuation to US$900 million. The Strategic Growth Round aims to fund Sygnum’s expansion into new markets and the enhancement of its regulated products and services, aligning with the growing trends in the digital asset industry.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 24, 2024

With an IPO on the horizon, the BNPL firm is offering customers a subscription service for $7.99 per month.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 24, 2024

F inancial product comparison platform MoneyHero reported substantial unaudited Q4 2023 growth, with approved applications increasing by over 80 percent, driving a revenue surge of more than 50 percent year-on-year to US$17.2 million (SG$23 million). Additionally, Singapore’s revenue for the same period saw a significant climb, doubling to US$6.3 million (SG$8.44 million).

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Finextra

JANUARY 24, 2024

The UK's Financial Ombudsman Service is expecting more than 181,000 consumer complaints in the next year, driven in part by an increase in financial fraud and scams.

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Bank Automation

JANUARY 24, 2024

Technology leaders from KeyBank will join Bank Automation Summit U.S. 2024 to discuss balancing automation and efficiencies and robotic process automation. KeyBank Chief Transformation Officer Dominic Cugini and domain manager of service digitization Mike Reynolds will join the speaker faculty at the summit. Cugini will speak Tuesday, March 19, at 9:10 a.m.

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Finextra

JANUARY 24, 2024

The London innovation hub of the Bank for International Settlements is inviting applications for an expert advisory group on a Bank of England-led project on financial crime fighting.

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Bank Automation

JANUARY 24, 2024

Financial institutions are investing in digital and mobile banking offerings, closing out 2023 with an uptick in digital adoption. This trend was prevalent in the fourth quarter of 2023 for large and small financial institutions alike. At Puerto Rico-based, $18.

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Finextra

JANUARY 24, 2024

Fintech giant Revolut has launched a service, Mobile Wallets, designed to make it easy to send money abroad.

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Bank Automation

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mastercard extended its collaboration with The Clearing House today to allow customers and businesses to use real-time payments. Mastercard will be the exclusive instant payments software provider for The Clearing House’s (TCH) RTP network, according to a news release from Mastercard.

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TechCrunch Fintech

JANUARY 24, 2024

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our startup-focused, Wednesday episode, so today we’re counting down important venture rounds, and chatting our way through other startup and VC news.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 24, 2024

Global payment processor Mastercard has opened the doors to new applicants for its new initiative aiming to accelerate the development of solutions to support small businesses across Europe: the ‘Strive EU Innovation Fund’ The new Strive EU Innovation Fund will provide equity-free grants of up to €500,000, alongside technical assistance and mentoring to as many as 20 projects from EU member states.

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Finextra

JANUARY 24, 2024

Berlin-based B2B buy now, pay later startup Mondu is set to expand across Europe after securing €30 million in debt financing from Vereinigte Volksbank Raiffeisenbank.

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The Paypers

JANUARY 24, 2024

National Australia Bank (NAB) has partnered with Microsoft to provide a free cyber assessment tool to help Aussie small businesses prepare for and recover from a cyber-attack.

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Finovate

JANUARY 24, 2024

Open banking company Tink has launched its new rules-based risk engine, Risk Signals. Risk Signals leverages account, transaction, and payment data to help prevent fraud and lower settlement risk. Tink won Best of Show in its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2014. Open banking company Tink launched its new rules-based risk engine, Risk Signals this week.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 24, 2024

Digital assets and digital currencies continue to grow in popularity and demand. As regulations evolve to meet this demand, firms like R3 , the distributed ledger technology (DLT) and services provider, are looking to make adoption as seamless as possible. The latest way in which it aims to do this is with the launch of R3 Digital Markets. R3 Digital Markets, powered by R3’s Corda , the regulatory-compliant tokenisation platform, is a solution built to connect financial markets.

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Finextra

JANUARY 24, 2024

It is "very likely" that Klarna will launch a stock market listing in the US "quite soon", according to CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski.

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