PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This week, RPA startup Automation Anywhere made waves with its $300 million investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund, reports said Thursday (Nov. France’s iBanFirst secured $17 million for its corporate cross-border payments solution, sources reported this week, with Serena Capital and Breega Capital leading the way.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

In other news, “blockchain developer” is the number-one position in LinkedIn’s 2018 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced that two crypto startups failed to comply with securities laws. Emerging Jobs Report.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

The use cases have been multiplying across any number of private and public use cases. In China, one bank has successfully floated a securities issuance. What would blockchain be without a startup or two, maybe with a famous name in the mix? Blockchain, blockchain everywhere – and maybe this is where the road gets racy.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The regulatory framework for bitcoin is a mess in Mexico, as it is in most countries, but Bitso, a bitcoin exchange startup, sees a future in Mexico and Latin America. ” Bitso was founded in 2014, and the startup has just raised $2.5 can continue to secure its stance as the global leader of ingenuity.”. Harsh words.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

While mint chocolate chip ice-cream might be the way to a foodie’s heart, MintChip digital currency is not the way to a millennial’s mobile wallet, apparently — at least not in Liberty Village, Toronto. The statistics get even better as the daily average number of mobile payments increased almost 83 percent to 810,000.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

” That’s the philosophy of Shake, a new startup in the bitcoin world that is (unsurprisingly) trying to pitch a payment method that doesn’t involve banks, governments or regulators. Instead, its latest product rollout is all about making bitcoin and digital currency payments easier to make.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2017

Data has effectively become the currency in which today’s tech-infused world places high value on. Here are the numbers: 2 – 0 | FTC’s vote to approve fraud complaint of fraudsters posing as lawyers in debt collection scheme. $31 31 million | Awake Security’s latest round of funding.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Switzerland gives bitcoin a hand by way of rail ticket machine sales, an Australian startup banks on the aptly named Dash and Zcash fervor fades. But as markets saw their prices fall, bitcoin’s numbers went up. In this week’s Bitcoin Tracker, bitcoin soars, then settles down and plans for its yearly sale abound.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Whether it’s been the leaked emails of a major political candidate, massive security breaches from major companies like Yahoo and Dropbox or even the hacking of a U.S. bank regulator, information security has been a recurring headline in 2016. Right now, it’s very difficult to prove that you are who you say you are on the internet.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

And global payments platform Currencycloud has teamed up with Evarvest, a startup based in Lithuania, Currencycloud said in an announcement. The service will first come to the facilities of Dorak Holding, which is a firm that manages a number of merchants in Turkey and plans tourist activities.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Dozens of sites and services enable customers to book stays online in their local currencies, making them particularly appealing for millennials seeking cheap accommodations. The same can be said for hostel booking sites, where increased security, compliance and verification requirements are instilling pain points.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

It’s all about options, and — from choosing a preferred airline, travel time, number of stops and hotel chain, to deciding between more leg room or no leg room — travelers have lots of choices. But, as it turns out, it isn’t just currencies. This lets them pay later in a way that feels more secure.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

Perhaps it’s not surprising, given the number of consumers who have invited Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa into their homes, but more than half of Amazon users said they would consider using an Amazon-built cryptocurrency around the site – and Amazon Prime members were even more eager, with 58.27 percent in favor and only 21.9 Mastercard.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

Additionally, an account-to-account transaction can become seriously derailed by an error like an incorrect bank account number. Tech startup BeepTool is aiming to win a larger role in helping to transfer the $24 billion that Nigerians send home each year. Deep Dive: A Need for Speed and Security Pushes Push Payments.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

The British Virgin Islands has linked with a blockchain startup, Lifelabs, to devise a crypto payment platform that will help speed and streamline financial transactions between the dozens of islands in the territory. Digital currencies can be sent and received through the accounts.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

There are, of course, drawbacks to this trend, as businesses with some of the most complex and widespread supply chains grapple with the costs of a technological overhaul, security concerns of connected devices, and more. Digitization is a big trend, and data is the new currency.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to allow FinTech companies to operate in all states, according to the same standards as banks — a move that would require the office to issue special charters to those younger payment and financial technology firms. Additionally, the report calls upon the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

Patent and Trademark Office last week, describes how a semi-private or private blockchain could be used to receive and store identity data, including a “name, a street address, tax identification number” and more. Last year, Mastercard announced that it will be opening up access to its blockchain technology through its developer’s API.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

VC money flowed into bitcoin startups that were going to revolutionize just about all aspects of payments and make it virtually costless, and the tech media were flooded with breathless stories about mainstream merchants taking bitcoin. It’s all transparent and secure. Without that, though, these startups have a tough road ahead.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

Zooz pulls data from all of a merchant’s financial solutions and third-party integrations into one central, easily visible portal, which has a number of benefits. Zooz also offers secure data storage and protection for consumer information. PYMNTS: Can you give me some personnel growth numbers? Third, it’s configurable.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Despite several rounds of malware making it through the Google Play Store’s defenses in recent months, the marketplace is actually performing better and more securely than in the past. Users will need to convert their assorted currencies to Spheris’s SPRS tokens to spend them in the marketplace. Google Play Malware Defense.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Teoh shared with us her thoughts on some of the gender-related challenges at work and how to overcome them, advice on how to deal with the new normal as a finance executive, and how she reimagines borderless digital currencies as a “point junkie”. Sereen Teoh, CFO, BIG Loyalty. FutureCFO: Can you share with me your finance career journey?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

According to news from Cointelegraph , venture capital funding for blockchain and blockchain-adjacent startups (which use technologies like bitcoin, Ethereum and other virtual currencies) this year is on track to exceed 2017 funding in this industry. To date, an estimated 130 deals have been inked in 2018, valuing about $400 million.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 14, 2024

CFOs can lead the way in exploring and implementing new technologies, such as blockchain for secure transactions or digital currencies for new payment ecosystems, positioning their companies at the forefront of industry innovation. These partnerships can provide early access to innovations, sharing the risk and rewards of new ventures.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

But with London itself being one of the world’s biggest FinTech centers, the real question that’s yet to be answered is how the Brexit fallout will impact the various merchants, startups and VCs that call the city home. There’s also increased concerns about shipping physical goods with the potential for crazy currency swings.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. trillion; on security-related hardware, software and services at 10 percent a year from a 2018 base of $91.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

18), a San Francisco startup launched by sending roughly 60,000 credit cards to consumers living in northern California. This startup was a bank, and its innovation was a single card that could be used by consumers to purchase things on credit from many different merchants. The startup was Visa , of course. Today, Visa counts 3.3

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

January is a month of New Year’s resolutions for the masses, and it was no different for these startups, many of which have launched or announced new ventures and expansions in the new year. First, it’s a global variable (whereas identifiers like the Social Security number are more localized). Chargehound. Jewel Paymentech.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

It’s secure, it’s cheap, it’s faster than a speeding bullet. Is it a stealth startup from Silicon Valley? Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Visa, and many of the most valuable startups, like Uber, are multisided platforms. A number of car companies are going with Apple or Google platforms.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

These businesses — we call them Store Fronts — number 3.8 As the banking shift brought about by the rise of FinTech startups continues to disrupt the traditional brick-and-mortar banking experience to make it more seamless, more convenient and richer, we’re seeing all sorts of interesting partnerships and technological adoption.

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The Finance Weekly

APRIL 13, 2024

Engineered to cater to small businesses and startups, Cube particularly enhances the financial agility of expanding firms and major enterprises. This cloud-enabled FP&A software facilitates seamless collaboration by offering native integration with both Excel and Google Sheets. Key Features Powerful reporting and KPIs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

Those firms are spread across five categories, all aimed at bridging different parts of the digital divide for consumers and merchants: enablement partners, female-founded FinTechs, digital currency wallets, consumer-centric and business-to-business (B2B) solutions providers. The New Ecosystem.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Its creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, gave it all of the qualities of cash, but in a digital format: peer-to-peer transfer of a currency in the absence of any intermediary that is pretty much anonymous — only wallet IDs are shared. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

While it awaits consensus, elsewhere in the world a startup is gearing up to go hard with its blockchain-based venture funding platform. Neufund wants to build a blockchain-based and investor-directed platform to bridge the world of cryptocurrency and equity — and the Berlin-based startup recently got seed funding to back it up.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Flip , a new contactless payment device that the startup just made available for preorder, is a literal plastic coin resembling a casino chip or silver dollar that pairs with a cryptowallet on a customer’s phone, enabling them to tap the coin to pay instead of reaching for their phone. Why not just tap the phone and be done with it?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In terms of headline numbers, the company logged $10.7 International Payments: Strong growth lies ahead for payments across borders as Bill.com reports that it now facilitates international payments across 106 currencies and 137 countries. The firm’s latest earnings illustrate the sizzle of its strategy.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

But highly specialized startups aren’t the only ones playing around with distributed ledger technology (DLT). The third bill calls for the creation of a blockchain task force by the state government, and the fourth aims to create a digital currency task force, reports said.

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