VISTA InfoSec

MAY 23, 2024

In many cases, cutting something off is necessary to avoid bigger damage. This is the idea behind controlled infrastructure removal, the elimination of some parts of your cloud infrastructure to contain an attack or remove a potential attack surface. It is an important part of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) management and something organizations need to be familiar with as they secure their cloud environments and the apps they develop.

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Payments Dive

MAY 31, 2024

Research shows young people see digital wallets as a more secure option than debit and credit cards. Cybersecurity professionals mostly agree, despite caveats.

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Stax

MAY 20, 2024

When can revenue NOT be counted as revenue? If this question is confusing, you’re not alone. The concept of unearned revenue can easily trip up SaaS companies that offer subscription services and products on a recurring basis. Unlike when selling ordinary products, you cannot recognize the revenue earned from a subscription all at once. Although your business has received payment, this cannot be credited to your bottom line until delivery of the product is completed.

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Payments Next

MAY 13, 2024

By Roger Portela, Senior Director of Product, PayNearMe Every day, valuable data flows through your payments platform. But how it’s collected, where The post From data to decisions: Five steps to making payments data work for you first appeared on Payments NEXT.

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Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Finextra

MAY 21, 2024

Swift is working with 25 leading cash management banks and 20 corporates to develop a white labelled transaction tracking service for ISO 20022 messages across the entire payment chain.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 21, 2024

In recent years, digital currencies have been all the rave. However, the idea that digital assets are exclusively some form of currency is slowly falling by the wayside as different use cases are emerging and being rapidly adopted. This May, The Fintech Times is looking to showcase some of these new methods and explore how the digital asset ecosystem is evolving.

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Payments Dive

MAY 28, 2024

The card network is focused on “stubborn categories” where large account-to-account payments have taken hold, such as in healthcare, education and rent, a Visa executive said.

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Fintech News

MAY 15, 2024

Singaporean multinational technology company Grab Holdings released its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2024, revealing a significant increase in customer deposits in its digital bank business. Deposits from customers in Grab’s digital bank business were US$479 million at the end of the first quarter 2024. This is a substantial growth from US$36 million in the same period last year and US$374 million in the prior quarter.

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Bank Automation

MAY 15, 2024

AI and generative AI applications continue to dominate conversations within the financial services industry, but implementing generative AI is near impossible if bank data isn’t standardized and accessible. What makes good data?

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Finextra

MAY 14, 2024

The Eurosystem has begun the first of a series of trials to test the use of ditributed ledger technology (DLT) for the settlement of wholesale transactions in central bank money.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 18, 2024

US-based Commerce Bank has officially gone live with FedNow on Temenos Payments Hub delivered as Temenos SaaS, enabling real-time payments on the secure, scalable and continuously updated platform. The go-live with the FedNow service on the Temenos platform marks an additional milestone in the Commerce Bank modernisation strategy, progressively moving off legacy systems to a consolidated, future-ready, cloud-native platform.

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Stripe

MAY 8, 2024

Stripe Billing allows businesses to manage customer relationships with recurring payments, usage triggers, and other customizable features.

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Payments Dive

MAY 29, 2024

Roughly 72% of consumers say they swipe, dip or tap a debit card at the point of sale, a larger portion than credit cards, checks and digital wallets, according to a consumer survey by research firm J.D. Power.

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Fintech News

MAY 21, 2024

As the financial landscape undergoes a digital revolution, institutional investors are increasingly turning their attention to digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). A recent report by SBI Digital Asset Holdings (SBI DAH) sheds light on the growing interest and adoption of these innovative financial instruments among institutional investors.

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Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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Bank Automation

MAY 22, 2024

JPMorgan Chase has identified three uses for generative AI to boost efficiency. “AI, and particularly large language models, will be transformational,” Chief Operating Officer Daniel Pinto said during the bank’s Investor Day on May 20, noting that the bank has been investing in AI for “a number of years.” The $3.

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Finextra

MAY 9, 2024

Tenity, a leading innovation ecosystem and vc-backed accelerator for early-stage startups, announced the launch of the XDC Accelerator Program and invited startups to build on the XDC Network.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 26, 2024

A key part of open banking is regulated third-party providers (TPP). They act as intermediaries between the bank and the customer. Open banking’s growth has got to a point now that more TPPs are able to offer their services outside of their domestic markets. Konsentus , the open finance ecosystem creator and manager, has revealed which countries are leading the way when it comes to exploring new open banking markets.

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Finovate

MAY 13, 2024

The week begins with a few research-related announcements in the fintech and financial services space. CB Insights announced the availability of its State of Insurtech report for the first quarter of 2024, and the Federal Reserve Board issued a summary of climate risk resiliences exercises conducted recently by a handful of big banks. While the focus on this column in on the former, the publication of the latter shines some light on potential answers to the problems raised in CB Insights’

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Payments Dive

MAY 3, 2024

“The value proposition of pay-by-bank is clear: merchants win from drastically lower payment costs and consumers win from lower prices,” writes one fintech executive.

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Fintech News

MAY 15, 2024

Project Agorá, an initiative by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) alongside major central banks and the Institute of International Finance (IIF), is moving forward and inviting private sector involvement. The project aims to explore how tokenisation can improve wholesale cross-border payments. Private sector financial institutions are encouraged to apply for participation in Project Agorá and the application window is open until 31 May 2024.

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Bank Automation

MAY 20, 2024

JPMorgan Chase considers customer needs, competition and time to market when approaching product launches for small-business clients. “We really try to keep the small-business owner at the center of all of that innovation process at Chase for Business,” Jameson Troutman, head of product for small business at JPMorgan Chase, told Bank Automation News.

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Finextra

MAY 10, 2024

Nonprofit pro-cryptocurrency group Stand With Crypto has formed a political action committee (PAC) to support candidates who are encouraging of cryptocurrency and blockchain developments in the upcoming US elections.

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Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 17, 2024

Consumer payment preferences are constantly evolving, meaning firms need to adapt to cater to these needs. At the Visa Payments Forum in San Francisco, Visa has unveiled new products which will address the evolving consumer payments demands. Jack Forestell, chief product and strategy officer, Visa “The industry is at a pivotal point – new technologies like Gen AI are rapidly shifting how we shop and manage our finances,” said Jack Forestell , chief product and strategy officer, Visa.

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Tearsheet

MAY 1, 2024

The RTP payments network reached a milestone by processing over 1 million payments in a single day on September 1, 2023. EWA and gig worker payments emerged as the network’s primary drivers , surpassing account-to-account (A2A) transfers. However, in the healthcare sector, small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) have increasingly turned to RTP payments for A2A transfers, showing a surge compared to credit cards and checks over the past year, according to a new report by PYMNTS.

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Payments Dive

MAY 9, 2024

While the Federal Reserve won’t specify payments volume on the new instant system, executives from certified service providers Visa and Jack Henry said they’re seeing an increase.

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Fintech News

MAY 12, 2024

Tenity, an innovation ecosystem specialising in early-stage fintech startups, has partnered with XDC Network to introduce a new accelerator programme aimed at revolutionising the US$28 trillion global trade industry. The 12-week XDC Accelerator Programme invites startups to develop solutions using XDC Network’s advanced blockchain technology. This initiative targets startups that are working on Real World Asset Tokenisation (RWA), Trade Finance, Decentralised Physical Infrastructure (DePIN

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Speaker: Brad Pinneke, VP of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

In this webinar, Brad Pinneke, Vice President of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, will dive into the 7 must-have criteria for evaluating payments partners, helping you maximize both efficiency and the long-term value of your investment. From assessing technology capabilities to leveraging business development opportunities, this session will give you a clear, actionable strategy to select the right partner for scaling your business.

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Bank Automation

MAY 22, 2024

Fintech Lili, which provides a business platform for small and medium-sized businesses, has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to deploy a generative AI-driven chatbot for its customers.

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Finextra

MAY 16, 2024

Visa has unveiled a suite of new digital-first products and services that it claims will revolutionise the card and address the future needs of businesses, merchants and consumers and the financial institutions that serve them

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The Fintech Times

MAY 15, 2024

Standard Chartered , the international cross-border bank, has become the first Euro settlement bank to go live on Partior, the global unified ledger market infrastructure, and has completed Euro-denominated cross-border transactions between Hong Kong and Singapore. The news comes less than two years after Standard Chartered’s investment in Partior in November 2022, which made the bank a founding shareholder in the platform.

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Finovate

MAY 20, 2024

Today’s customers want personalized experiences, but how can companies drive meaningful one-on-one connections at scale ? Data wins! Handled correctly, well-orchestrated data reaches customers the way they want to be reached: fast and seamless while facilitating loyalty and trust. The next generation customer experience is made easier with LeanData, the leading Revenue Orchestration platform.

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Speaker: Shaunna Bruton, Danielle Wyllie, and Kailey Holmes

Say goodbye to one-size-fits-all retail, and say hello to experiences that keep your customers coming back for more! Customer loyalty isn’t just earned - it’s cultivated through meaningful engagement with the help of data. This webinar will take you behind the scenes of how top retailers turn customer data into personalized experiences that drive engagement and retention.

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