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FDIC Approves Square For Banking License

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) gave the green light to an application from the FinTech firm Square to create a de novo industrial bank in Utah, the agency said on Wednesday (March 18). We’re now focused on the work ahead to build out Square Financial Services and open our bank to small business customers.”.

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How ACH Business Payments Pave The Way For US Open Banking

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Among this community is Novo , a mobile-first bank connecting entrepreneurs with bank account and debit card services. “The majority of our customers are using ACH,” he told PYMNTS in a recent interview. The embrace of APIs has also introduced a shift in banks’ customer acquisition and product strategies.

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moneycorp Expands FX Currency Services Into Canada

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That deal followed on the heels of moneycorp’s acquisition of Novo Mundo, a Brazilian foreign exchange company, and its more recent approval from the Central Bank of Ireland for an electronic money license, which should help the UK-based company continue to do business in the European Union post Brexit.

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Payment Firm Moneycorp Acquires Australia’s Rochford Group

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This is moneycorp’s second major acquisition this year after it picked up the Brazilian online marketplace Novo Mundo. Providing customers with mobile, telephone and online payment capabilities on a multi-currency platform, moneycorp also enables them to exchange money through 120 currencies.

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SoFi Officially Files For A Bank Charter Of Its Own

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Which means it really doesn’t come as all that huge a surprise that as of June 6th, SoFi had applied for a new (de novo) bank charter according to the FDIC. Instead, SoFi as a bank will exist so it can “provide its customers an FDIC insured NOW account and a credit card product. SoFi has confirmed the news.

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Product Management Software Startup Akeneo In $13M Series B

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In the largest deal of the week, Lone Star Funds acquired Novo Banco for a bit more than $1 billion and making Europe the region from where the bulk of the money flowed in deal making. On average, Akeneo’s customers see a productivity gain of 50 to 70 percent within the first three months.

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Senator Mark Warner Drops New Policy Proposals For Regulating Tech

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It also logged that much of what these firms do in terms of tracking data is actually predicated on the perfectly sound goal of providing better customer service across the board. ” This wholly de novo legal term would require firms to protect consumer data and not utilize it for their own benefit or for the benefit of third parties.