PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

The money is being earmarked across a number of initiatives, designed to combat synthetic fraud. As Harris noted during the discussion, synthetic fraud essentially centers around creating a person (a fictitious one, in this case) — where bad actors can and do use fake names, Social Security numbers or birthdates, and build credit histories.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

That’s one of the main messages of a new PYMNTS interview with Regio Martins, CEO and founder of nobli , which aims to enable businesses to offer more forms of collateral when seeking loans — the company’s personal loans are secured by financial collateral. We expand that to include almost every type of financial asset.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In today’s payments news, British FinTech startup Revolut is teaming with Mastercard to help it expand into the U.S. SoftBank is reportedly in advanced discussions to take over WeWork, which was once one of the hottest startups until it fizzled amid talks of a canceled IPO and internal strife. by the end of this year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

There is significant room for improvement in the cross-border payments space,” said Scott Hendry, Bank of Canada’s senior special director of financial technology, in another statement. Major changes are being proposed by current service providers, as well as startups that regulators need to research to better understand.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

financial system around a set of core principles, offered guidance and recommendations that have long bounced around the FinTech space, and which no doubt already command the support of many executives. FinTech Improvements. The report , released in support of President Trump’s call to regulate the U.S.

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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

JUNE 20, 2016

Plaid Technologies announced Monday (June 20) that it had secured $44 million in funding courtesy of a round led by Goldman Sachs Investment Partners. Plaid sits in an interesting space with a huge number of technical challenges. We’ve grown very quickly over the past few years, and now have a team of 40.

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