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Banking-as-a-Service Tops This Week's B2B VC Roundup

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But it was a Banking-as-a-Service company that led the roundup this time, with one startup looking to expand into Credit Cards-as-a-Service with its latest investment. Osome connects small and medium-sized businesses to a digital business assistant app to automate accounting, payroll and tax compliance workflows. and Hong Kong.

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FinTech Firms Combine KYB With KYC For Identity Verification

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Then the first money laundering directives came out, which started to mandate more and more in the realm of customer due diligence, so the company added a compliance check. More detailed eCDD — especially for business accounts, trusts and high-net-worth (HNW) accounts — has become a focus for regulators, governments and agencies.

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Red Hat: Innovating Payments The Open Source Way

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To stay competitive, especially with digital startups unencumbered by legacy systems, traditional financial institutions (FIs) need to deliver seamless customer services to individual consumers and enterprise customers alike. With open APIs you can pretty much build an entire ecosystem for payments providers,” he said.

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Airwallex Inks Partnership To Expand X-Border Payments Service To Europe

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International payments startup Airwallex is taking steps to link its corporate customers to the U.K.’s Through their collaboration, RailsBank customers will also gain access to Airwallex’s cross-border payments and foreign exchange (FX) services. s Faster Payments scheme. In an announcement on Friday (Dec.

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Can APIs Fast-Track B2B X-Border Payments?

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The cross-border B2B payments market, on the other hand, is fraught with friction, despite being much larger in size — accounting for nearly 80 percent of global cross-border payment revenue, according to a 2016 report by McKinsey & Company. Struggling with frictions.

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B2B eCommerce Tips The VC Scales

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More than $874 million in fresh funding landed at B2B startups this week across a range of market segments and geographies. based alternative small business lending isn’t dead with investors and an India startup landed more than half a billion dollars. India-based expense management startup Fyle announced $4.5

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FinTech Startup Revolut Raises $80M In New Funding, Now Valued At $5.5B

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London startup mobile bank Revolut Ltd. Founded in 2015, Revolut began by offering prepaid debit cards that allowed users to avoid foreign exchange fees while traveling abroad. Revolut is an app-based consumer bank account that allows customers to send and receive money and use built-in budgeting tools.

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