PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Banks and FinTechs continue to discover new opportunities in unlocking corporate clients’ financial data, with banks embracing data integration for their own product development initiatives, and FinTechs finding new ways to collaborate with each other. Mastercard Taps FinTech for Biz Card Boost.

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Use Case Payment APIs and Integration FinTech Payroll 64

Fintech Finance

MAY 21, 2024

Swift has today set out plans to help financial institutions streamline the cross-border payments experience for their corporate customers, by extending ISO 20022 across the entire payment chain and giving banks ready-to-use, white-labelled tracking services that can be activated for customers at the click of a button.

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ISO 20022 SWIFT Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border 59

PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

New solutions continue to roll out as a result of open banking frameworks around the world and banks’ increasing willingness to collaborate with FinTechs. This week’s look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaborations reveals two new open banking initiatives from FinTechs designed to address back-office friction for banks.

Payment APIs and Integration 95

Payment APIs and Integration FinTech Cross-Border Cross-Border Payments 95

Open Banking Excellence

MAY 2, 2024

Open Banking Focus: New Opportunities on the Ancient Silk Road Vasil Shengelia, Head of Open Banking Division at the National Bank of Georgia, alongside Varlam Ebanoidze, Head of the Fintech and Suptech Development Department introduces us to an ecosystem with plans to once again act as a bridge between East and West.

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Interoperability Payment APIs and Integration Central Bank Cross-Border 147

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Banks and FinTechs have been both competitors and collaborators in the financial services space. In recent years, banks have even seen greater competition in the lending market from new FinTech players that can quickly approve loan applications and distribute funds to lenders. New tools for new FinTechs.

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API B2B Payment APIs and Integration Innovation 76

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Access to real-time payments (RTP) could resolve various headaches for businesses, as many do not want to face the uncertainties associated with late payment deliveries to suppliers and employees. Financial institutions (FIs) that serve business clients are thus considering ways to meet corporate payment needs, with 80 percent of U.S.

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API Payment APIs and Integration Real Time Payments B2B 52

PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

HSBC has unveiled its application program interfaces (APIs) and developer portal to comply with the EU’s Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The solutions can integrate with data held by HSBC, with account information, payment initiation and funds confirmation the focus of the APIs.

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API Payment APIs and Integration Cash Management Payment Initiation 67

Fintech Finance

APRIL 15, 2024

Sopra Banking Software (SBS), the global financial technology company that more than 1,500 financial institutions rely on to digitally transform the way they operate, today announced the availability of its cloud-based Instant Payments solution. SBS’s current clients have optimized their TCO by up to 33% by implementing the infrastructure.

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Instant Payments Payment Solutions Transactions Payment APIs and Integration 52

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

However, blockchain is also gaining ground, and currency is offering a boost to the payments infrastructure. To that end, IBM said it launched its Blockchain World Wire , billed as a cross-border payment system that is powered by the Stellar blockchain network. The process integrates the World Wire API into banks’ payment systems.

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SWIFT Payment Initiation Caps Cross-Border Payments 40

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In France, Treezor , a banking as a service platform, said this week that has deployed the Thales SafeNet Data Protection On Demand solution for what is being billed as “safety across the entire payment chain, from tier one banks and neo banks to crowdfunding organizations,” as noted in a release. Banking on Banking Licenses. In the U.K.,

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API Payment APIs and Integration Gateways B2B 71

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This week's look at the latest in open banking and bank-FinTech collaboration finds financial institutions (FIs) exploring both partnerships and acquisitions to strengthen their offerings for corporates, while third-party service providers have also boosted their data-sharing capabilities to empower those financial service provider tie-ups.

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Lockbox FinTech Treasury Management Payment APIs and Integration 57

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

While FinTech innovators continue to drive competition with a focus on product functionality and an optimal end user experience, businesses are often forced to use outdated tools, according to Frank Dux , managing director of CoCoNet. The Drive To Upgrade. It can be much easier for banks to buy out-of-the-box solutions," he said.

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Payment APIs and Integration End User B2B API 105

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

For years, small- to medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) have been leaping at the opportunity to digitize their back offices thanks to the rise of FinTech and the ability for more agile tools tailored to smaller firms to bring enterprise-grade solutions to the SMB market. A Decade Of Disparate Technology. Bringing It All Together.

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Payment APIs and Integration Finance API Facilitators 82

Finovate

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This week’s edition of Finovate Global looks at recent developments in the fintech scene in Canada. “With these integrated systems already gaining traction in the U.S., This week, the Canadian fintech announced that it is helping Multitude Bank enhance its loan repayment processes to enable instant loan repayments.

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Embedded Finance Finance Payroll Online and Mobile Banking 64

PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Yet as cross border trade picks back up, the foreign exchange and global payments needs of businesses will intensify. For the financial services world to address businesses’ global payments needs, Conibear said they must take a holistic approach that goes beyond facilitating cross-border payments or improving upon legacy payment rails.

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Multi-Currency Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border Finance 69

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It may be an open road for open banking as, three years after the rollout of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), bank-FinTech collaborations and new initiatives unlocking bank account data continue to flourish. Visa Launches FinTech Collaboration Initiative In Europe. business customers, the FIs revealed.

Payment APIs and Integration 88

Payment APIs and Integration Treasury Small Business FinTech 88

PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

Open banking regulations across Europe kicked open the door for a wave of FinTech competition, with consumer-facing personal finance management (PFM) right in the crosshairs of innovators’ efforts. Connecting Accounting to Payments. “People were not believing in open banking so much as a big evolution.

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Innovation Payment APIs and Integration Use Case Reconciliation 83

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

PSD2 and open banking regulations were forged to accelerate competition in the financial services arena, and this week, a look at the latest initiatives reveals the opportunity for new market entrants to rival incumbents in the small business banking arena. Faster Payments and BACS schemes. Payoneer Debuts Program For Banks.

Cross-Border Payments 56

Cross-Border Payments Payment APIs and Integration Cross-Border Small Business 56

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

With open banking technologies making their way beyond the world of consumer finance and into the business banking market, new use cases are emerging from the legislation that opens up bank account data and offers FinTechs opportunities for new functionalities via deeper data integrations. Emerging Use Cases.

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Use Case Payment APIs and Integration Accounts Finance 75

PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

With PSD2 becoming firmly planted in the European Union (EU), more markets are integrating the regulation into their financial systems, and prepping for changes in the ways they approach payments, data transfers and customer authentication.

Payment APIs and Integration 69

Payment APIs and Integration Privacy Authentication Faster Payments 69

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

.” The friction associated with manually downloading data across banking and financial platforms, and then having to normalize it to make it usable, presents a significant opportunity for open banking initiatives and APIs in the corporate cash management space. Open banking is not a regulatory requirement in the U.S., ”

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Treasury Management Treasury Payment APIs and Integration API 62

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. The disruptors range from machine learning and blockchain to APIs and faster payment initiatives, and banks have a choice to make when pursuing these tools.

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Innovation Payment APIs and Integration Non-Bank Fraud Detection 43

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

You can test all you want, but for payments innovators, the true test only comes when a solution is released out into the real world. s Faster Payments initiative, there have already been some changes made to the service that looks to support real-time transacting. For the U.K.’s But last June, the U.K. is all about flexibility.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Further, the financial risks of this challenge expand into areas like payments fraud and cyberattacks, with Lutz pointing to the growing sophistication of such crimes, and the increasing complexity of identifying them and mitigating these risks. and other markets’ Open Banking initiatives like the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2).

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Treasury Treasury Management Cross-Border Payment APIs and Integration 40

PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2018

The B2B payments market is already enjoying a solid year, thanks to some of the biggest names in payments and FinTech taking a solid stance in the space. PYMNTS takes a look back at some of the most popular B2B payments stories of the year so far. Visa Buys Fraedom. And once you go global, it creates more problems.

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B2B Payment APIs and Integration Push-to-Card Visa 40

Finovate

JULY 16, 2024

Open banking solutions provider Salt Edge has released the latest version of its Open Banking Gateway API. The new version, the company’s sixth, features enhancements designed to make integration easier and quicker. Canadian open banking solutions provider Salt Edge is back in the fintech headlines.

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API Payment APIs and Integration Gateways Facilitators 52

PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2016

The Faster Payments initiative has made significant strides in the United Kingdom, so much so that the scheme has been held up as a model for other nations globally. The Faster Payments scheme has a goal of reaching every single consumer in the U.K.  Faster Payments scheme? Yet the work is far from done.

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Faster Payments Real Time Payments Payments Payment APIs and Integration 40

PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

banks have begun to develop and deploy their own APIs to facilitate data sharing with FinTech firms, too. has traditionally been a bit laggard in the evolution of banking and FinTech,” he said, adding that the market has always eventually caught up to the rest of the world, and it will probably be no different in how the U.S.

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Same Day ACH Small Business Payment APIs and Integration Privacy 41

The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The Fintech Times Bi-Weekly News Roundup takes a look at the latest fintech stories from around the world on Thursday 26 September 2024. Redpin , the embedded software solutions and international payments company, has unveiled a new leadership team. DigiAsia provides embedded finance APIs for SMEs in emerging markets.

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FinTech Payment APIs and Integration Fraud Detection Fraud Prevention 63

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Small businesses are a growing target for bank-FinTech collaborations and data integration initiatives as financial service providers explore new use cases for open banking. Based in Silicon Valley, Plaid said it has so far enabled integrations with 15,000 banks across the U.S. Xero Embraces FinTech-FinTech Connectivity.

Payment APIs and Integration 90

Payment APIs and Integration FinTech Small Business API 90

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This week's look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaborations explores how a range of banks is turning to partners and API connectivity to enhance small business services, from lending to payments. Also focused on unlocking bank data is Visa, which recently announced a partnership with API provider Codat in Europe.

Payment APIs and Integration 60

Payment APIs and Integration Small Business API Underwriting 60

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In one example, this past week, a FinTech focused on open banking, ndgit, said in a press release it is debuting PSD2 compliance APIs in Switzerland. The firm is working with F10, a Swiss FinTech incubator and accelerator. B2B , which is a new addition to the company’s B2B integration portfolio. The webMethods.io

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Payment APIs and Integration FinTech ISO 20022 B2B 51

PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

13), Visa said it will buy Plaid — which focuses on the development of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow consumers to share their data with thousands of apps — for $5.3 In terms of mechanics, the acquisition — which involves a cash payment of $4.9 Call it an expansion of the Visa network-of-networks model.

FinTech 63

FinTech Payment APIs and Integration Value Added Service Cross-Border 63

M2P Fintech

MARCH 28, 2024

The Fintech industry is constantly evolving with innovations and technologies coming up often. Though many concepts are built on fundamental fintech ideas, the terms and jargon related to fintech are rapidly diversifying. without requiring a traditional bank account or debit card.

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FinTech Online and Mobile Banking Push-to-Card Payer 59

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In the continuing swirl of headlines that seem to blur and blend cryptos, blockchains and developing nations, a number of collaborations between large tech firms, traditional financial institutions (FIs) and FinTech upstarts stood out. Payments Initiatives In Africa. The gateway can accept payments from more than 180 countries.

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Blockchain API Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Cross-Border 41