TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. Make opening a bank account, storing money, receiving a payment card and lending money as easy as opening a social network account. Prior to Alloy, she led business development and partnerships at an ACH payments startup.

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APRIL 25, 2023

They want to be able to do everything on a mobile phone or a smart portal,” says Nilendu Pattanaik, Global Head of Business Applications Practice, Microsoft Business Unit, at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). One of the key priorities of the modern payment sector is to build an e-payments society with seamless interoperability among e-wallets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

In 2015, the emergence of fintechs such as Flutterwave and Paystack changed the game for online businesses in Africa by making it easier to integrate payments into customer interfaces without building those features from the ground up or merging with tacky foreign software. Treasury Prime raises $20M to scale its banking-as-a-service biz.

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CIO

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The diversification of payment methods and gradual increase in the volume of online transactions have cast a spotlight on the need for payment security compliance within the airline industry. With the new, recently onboarded Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0, The PCI DSS v4.0,

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

Zscaler’s zero trust architecture for building a security service edge (SSE) ecosystem is second to none.” Zscaler also discovers shadow IT and risky, unapproved third-party applications users have connected to, as well as any misconfigurations or compliance violations in sanctioned applications.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is what Mobicule Technologies , an independent software vendor (ISV) in fintech, realised as they expanded their client base in India’s financial services industry. In financial services , security and compliance are as important as reliability and responsiveness.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

Incubated by Snoop Dogg’s ( yes, that Snoop Dogg ) Casa Verde Capital, a venture firm focused exclusively on the cannabis industry, Kompliant initially set out to tackle the pain points surrounding payments in the marijuana trade. “As a result, the addressable market for Kompliant’s services continues to rapidly expand.”

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2023

The financial services sector is undergoing rapid change as fintechs develop convenient, consumer-focused services that were once the province of traditional banks. What are the greatest challenges that financial services firms face with their digital transformation initiatives?

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As financial services become more digital in nature, it’s important that banks think differently when using data analytics, security tools, and education to improve identity authentication and customer data privacy. It’s a scary thought, especially with so many customer service jobs now offsite out of supervisors’ views.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Similarly, Nafde put together an AI governance team of some two dozen people led by Webster Bank’s chief enterprise architect and chief data officer that includes technologists, risk and compliance staff, and lawyers. We have cost triggers for the compute services. million citizens in the Houston area.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Pakistan-based fintech platform, NayaPay , has raised $13 million in a seed round to rollout its multi-service messaging and payment app, and to build payment acceptance and financial management tools for businesses in the South Asian country. This is in a country of 220 million people.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Known for its innovations in the payments sector, Square is now officially a bank. Nearly one year after receiving conditional approval , Square said Monday afternoon that its industrial bank, Square Financial Services, has begun operations. David Grodsky, Chief Compliance Officer. Samantha Ku, Chief Operating Officer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

PPRO (pronounced “P-pro”, as in payments professionals) plans to use the funding to continue expanding in newer markets. In both cases, the opportunity comes in the form of high growth stemming from more transactions moving online, as well as the chaos that is the fragmented payments market.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The B2B e-commerce industry has broad reach, encompassing everything from commerce infrastructure and payments technology to procurement and supply-chain solutions. trillion in sales by 2024 , up from an estimated $680 billion in 2018, according to payments research firm iBe TSD.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Southeast Asia is already home to a thriving fintech scene, where Grab , GoTo and Sea have built super apps that encompass financial services, and startups like Xendit , Akulaku and Dana (to name a few) have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for payments, banking services and other financial tools. he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Plaid today announced that it has named Meta veteran John Anderson to serve as its new head of payments. Payments feels like a natural evolution of its business. Its end goal is to generally give consumers more choice when it comes to bank payments. Along the way, the company partnered with nearly 50 payments companies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The company provides a dashboard that displays all your transactions — whether those are fiat transactions or crypto payments. From this platform, you can initiate payments and reconcile operations across multiple accounts. There are some taxation difficulties and some compliancy requirements. The startup raised a $5.2

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CIO

JULY 20, 2023

Workflow automation and data analytics are streamlining document management, cross-checking data, assessing for risk, ensuring regulatory compliance, and so on. Banks continue investing in technologies that make the customer experience seamless, including mobile apps and peer-to-peer payments. Security and privacy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When financial institutions want to offer a debit card or credit card, they hire an issuing processor to help them with those services. But when it comes to cross border payments and international fund transfers generally, banks have had far fewer choices, and to industry veteran Gary Palmer, that spelled opportunity.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

However, at the same time institutions are having to meet complex security and compliance requirements and are often locked into the high capital expenditures that come with ageing data centres, long-term contracts and legacy applications. s specific requirements, including procurement and payment models that match the sectorâ??s

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

In fact, our team has been working with generative and conversational AI in complex professional services applications like insurance, banking, and healthcare for the better part of a decade, and we’ve learned some important lessons along the way. Where will the biggest transformation occur first? Artificial Intelligence

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. In that time, NALA built a mobile money service in East Africa and scaled it to more than 250,000 users. The platform allows payments from the U.K.

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CIO

JUNE 16, 2023

The Dallas-based money transfer service provider continues to derive roughly half its annual revenue from traditional sources: international money transfers at retail storefronts and customers paying down payments for cars and rent by purchasing money orders. A third area of focus is fighting fraud and ensuring regulatory compliance.

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CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As part of their partnership, IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are pursuing a variety of industry-specific blueprints and solutions designed to help customers modernize apps for a hybrid IT environment, which includes AWS Cloud. AWS/IBM’s Industry Edge.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Legislative changes on a global scale have been a major challenge faced daily and it’s often exacerbated by the need to instantly change course and work towards compliance to avoid the often-hefty fines and penalties, legal liabilities and reputational damage associated with non-compliance.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In a bid to help enterprises offer better customer service and experience , Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday, at its annual re:Invent conference, said that it was adding new machine learning capabilities to its cloud-based contact center service, Amazon Connect. c (Sydney), and Europe (London) Regions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2021

Blockchain startup XREX was launched to help cross-border businesses in emerging markets perform faster transactions with products like a payment escrow service and crypto-fiat exchange platform. XREX Crypto Services give merchants, especially those in countries with low U.S. Brand and compliance, so whatever the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

The two entrepreneurs — friends since their first day as Wharton undergraduates — for years closely followed the adoption of open banking and bank account-based payments in Europe. to enable customers to make online payments using their bank accounts. . to enable customers to make online payments using their bank accounts.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

But these days, that’s becoming more and more true as an increasing number of companies that are not even in the financial services space seek to add a fintech component to their offering. A group of startups poised to benefit from this shift are those offering banking as a service. to offer banking features as a service.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

However, fuelled by cloud technology and a plethora of new fintech and Banking-as-a-Service startups, there is no doubt the embedded finance trend is accelerating. They are joined by HTGF, and private investors in banking, payment and e-commerce. The idea is to act as the link between banks (lenders), digital platforms, and merchants.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Deel, a startup which provides payroll, compliance tools and other services to help businesses hire remotely, has seen increased demand in the wake of this shift. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, former Stripe payments guru Lachy Groom, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jeff Wilke, and Anthony Schiller also participated in the round, among others. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Hummingbird’s founding team is composed of fintech veterans, with about half coming from Block (formerly known as Square) and the other half coming from blockchain payments company Circle, Robinson said. Image Credits: Hummingbird.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. Fintechs like Paystand + Yaydoo have a huge opportunity to build next-gen payments tech infrastructure from the ground up.”. and Mexico. and Mexico. Today the U.S.

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CIO

AUGUST 22, 2022

As the industry continues the shift from in-person services toward remote customer service and hybrid models, banks are focusing more than ever on how to support their customer’s experiences in a way that quickly answers inquiries and gives customers a more frictionless experience for loan applications and other financial services. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The London-based company provides identity, data and payments products that it says gives developers a way to capture consent permissions and “securely” connect payment cards to a service or application. . It is currently powering services for “tens of millions” of cardholders and “hundreds of thousands” of merchants globally.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Practice ignition , an Australia-based client engagement and commerce platform for professional service businesses, has raised $50 million (65 million AUD) in a Series C round to accelerate its growth and expand globally. It brings the startup’s total raised to $75 million, said Guy Pearson, CEO and founder of Practice Ignition.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Within months, they’ll need access to working capital and insurance, payments, and payroll providers to grow the business. Companies can see their compliance status from Middesk’s dashboard. and notifies service providers of changes to its customer base, enabling them to make decisions during and after onboarding.

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