Fintech News

MAY 28, 2024

The meteoric ascent of Brazilian neobank Nubank has sent shockwaves through the Latin American banking industry. As digital banks in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region aim to replicate this success, there are valuable lessons to be learned from the unconventional Nubank approach to banking.

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My Payment Savvy

JUNE 16, 2025

A payment gateway processes credit card payments for both online and in-person transactions. It collects payment data, secures sensitive information, and connects all parties needed to move money from your customer’s bank to yours. For online retailers, this entire sequence must complete flawlessly during checkout.

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Payment Gateways Gateways Online and Mobile Banking PCI DSS 52

EBizCharge

JUNE 12, 2025

Whether handling credit card transactions and mobile payments or ensuring compliance with banking regulations and data security standards, the right merchant account can streamline operations and reduce costs. Yet, many merchants struggle with high fees, limited integration, and fragmented tools that fail to meet their specific needs.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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Fintech Review

APRIL 11, 2025

Over the years, weve covered a broad range of fintech topics from digital banking to decentralised finance , regtech , green fintech , and more. This includes services like mobile banking, peer-to-peer payments, investment platforms, and blockchain applications. Consumer trust in banks plummeted.

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FinTech Online and Mobile Banking Payment APIs and Integration Cross-Border 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

In today’s top digital-first banking news, German neobank N26 has hired a new chief financial officer (CFO) as it eyes a future initial public offering (IPO), while FinTech app Goalsetter has raised $3.9 Morgan Chase to underwrite a possible IPO. Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley to underwrite a potential $2 billion IPO.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Emerging markets have their own challenges when it comes to banking, where big, traditional financial institutions (FIs) are anything but efficient. It’s been 20 months, and we tried to get a debit card from some of the largest banks. The world doesn’t need another bank,” Poovala told Webster. Widening Debit’s Acceptance.

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Debit Card FinTech Online and Mobile Banking Account Takeovers 103

Clearly Payments

MAY 22, 2025

Authorization An authorization is a request to the cardholders bank to approve a charge. Acquirer (Acquiring Bank) The bank or processor that works with the merchant. Issuer (Issuing Bank) The issuing bank is the bank that gave the customer their credit or debit card.

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Online and Mobile Banking Debit Card Processors ACH 52

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2017

First National Bank and Trust Company is planning the launch of a digital small business lending portal and has tapped a partner to create the solution. The portal will allow a small- or medium-sized business (SMB) to seek a loan from the bank without physical paperwork or a visit to a branch location.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 11, 2025

Dwollas clients are now able to leverage Plaids instant account verification and real-time balance check alongside comprehensive pay-by-bank payments through a single vendor and a single API. Fintech myPOS unveils a new strategic partnership with Satispay , an Italian independent mobile payment firm.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 28, 2025

AI, automation, and embedded insurance are just some of the technologies driving change in everything from underwriting and claims to customer engagement, leading many industry firms and leaders to rethink their approach. What I call Embedded Insurance 2.0. “It EIS estimates the value of the Embedded 2.0 market to be about $3.5trillion.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Consumers go on a lot of different types of digital journeys in a day — they might shop online, do some banking, move funds between accounts, do some light online browsing. Retailers had to make that changeover quickly, as online players became an increasingly obvious threat to their future. Tapping Into Personalization.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Avant is best known among its financial services peers as a FinTech firm, founded to throw automation and an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced underwriting process at the problem of creating accessible, affordable personal loans for consumers. A Better Option For Banks.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has bolstered mobile payments in India and primed them to overtake card payments in the not-too-distant, S&P Global Market Intelligence said this week in its 2020 India Mobile Payments Market Report. S&P’s analysis shows that Indian mobile-payment transactions grew 163 percent to $287 billion in 2019.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Traditional banking products, including checking, credit, and savings accounts, are under threat from a new crop of digital-first startups. Many of these startups are launching products without a bank charter and targeting a very specific customer base. DOWNLOAD THE 61-PAGE consumer banking REPORT. savings accounts.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 23, 2025

We often explore how fintechs are changing the banking and payments landscapes, and sometimes look into how their solutions are supporting financial inclusion and helping people develop healthy financial habits.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has bolstered mobile payments in India and primed them to overtake card payments in the not-too-distant, S&P Global Market Intelligence said this week in its 2020 India Mobile Payments Market Report. S&P’s analysis shows that Indian mobile-payment transactions grew 163 percent to $287 billion in 2019.

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Mobile Payments Online and Mobile Banking Contactless Payments Push-to-Card 56

Fintech Finance

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Together, FIS and Affirm will deliver a new program that enables FIS vast network of banking clients to integrate Affirms industry-leading solution into their existing debit program via their digital banking and mobile app platforms, allowing their customers to easily manage their finances in a single place.

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Stax

DECEMBER 27, 2023

A merchant account acts as a pathway between your business, your customers, and the issuer and acquiring banks to process electronic transactions like credit cards. A merchant account refers to a business bank account that allows businesses to accept electronic payments for goods and services. Request Quote What Is a Merchant Account?

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Accounts Online and Mobile Banking Payment Gateways PCI DSS 88

PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

In a partnership formed recently with Puerto Rico’s Oriental Bank, Biz2Credit said late last month that it has begun offering its digital lending platform to the bank’s commercial clients. Verticals within the SMB realm that may be receptive to online lending, he said, include manufacturing and retail.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 26, 2025

Appointments Open banking fintech Yaspa has named Chris Lowe as chief financial officer. Frith joins from Relm Insurance and brings over a decade of experience in underwriting and broking, including several crypto insurance firsts.

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FinTech AI Online and Mobile Banking Non-Bank 59

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The updated Powered Buy Platform will support integration through a single API, one merchant account and one underwriting process. The latest additions to the Powered Buy Platform will connect merchants to more than 20 acquiring banking relationships globally and also enable them to sell around the world. “We Canada, the EU and LATAM.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

This week, on May 17, debit-based cannabis payments solution CanPay announced its eCommerce integration , enabling customers to pay for cannabis products online via direct link to their checking account. Offline, if a merchant gets submitted to an underwriter as a flower shop, that can be hard to verify.

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Online and Mobile Banking Underwriting Regulations ACH 45

Stax

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The payment processing industry facilitates electronic transactions between merchants and customers, spanning online, mobile, and in-person payments. It involves a complex ecosystem of financial institutions, including acquiring banks, payment processors, and card networks, alongside technology providers and regulatory bodies.

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Fintech News

MARCH 18, 2024

The report, released in September 2023, looks at the Thai fintech sector, highlighting the rise of digital payments and the explosive growth of real-time transactions, as well as presenting the opportunities that exist in digital remittances, open banking, business-to-business (B2B) payments and agricultural lending.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

It may not be the year of mobile payments — yet — but it is certainly the year mobile payments players are laying the groundwork for what they know is inevitable. This week, PYMNTS dug into the week of mobile pay news to bring you the latest from the ecosystem. Early Warning Boosts Big Banks’ P2P Power.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

New Jersey-based financial institution Investors Bank has announced a collaboration with online small business lending firm OnDeck to digitize its own small to medium-sized business (SMB) lending operations. Funds can be disbursed into their Investors Bank account within minutes.

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Online and Mobile Banking Small Business Origination Underwriting 40

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Digital banking and financial infrastructure. Companies in this subcategory provide (1) white-labeled technology infrastructure to banking players, or (2) leverage technology to provide financial infrastructure and banking software (e.g. APIs) directly to end-users. Personal finance. Regulatory tech. Wealth management.

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FinTech End User Online and Mobile Banking Payment APIs and Integration 93

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Except for the peer rating offered on merchants’ websites, be it positive or negative, but then again, that’s more of an original underwriting process, and that’s been already going on for many years. And also, finding a new, more efficient model to underwrite merchants was definitely very innovative at that time.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Consumers who go online to buy products from participating merchants can select the Paidy option during checkout. They use mobile phone numbers and email addresses for the transaction, accept the fee and then they receive a code via SMS that is used to complete the purchase. The Product. So, how does Paidy work? Unlike the average U.S.

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Mobile Payments Online and Mobile Banking Credit Cards Payments 40

PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

While banks are only thinking about underwriting, other FinTech players are thinking about that full journey — and are capturing the customers who will then open the loan “along the way” with the player that brings them that fuller list of relevant services. There is this predilection toward command and control,” Watson said. “So,

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If Amazon can get you lower-debt payments or give you a bank account, you’ll buy more stuff on Amazon.”. Based on our findings, it’s hard to claim that Amazon is building the next-generation bank. In aggregate, these product development and investment decisions reveal that Amazon isn’t building a traditional bank that serves everyone.

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Online and Mobile Banking Push-to-Card Payment APIs and Integration Non-Bank 101

EBizCharge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

These applications typically involve merchants submitting financial and bank statements, business licenses, and other relevant documentation. Merchant application information is critical in the underwriting process , which assesses the risk of providing merchant services to a business.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Originating, processing, and underwriting a home loan with a large bank lender still requires faxes and snail mail and take almost as long as it did 20 years. Mortgage technology startups are companies that apply digital processes to mortgage origination, underwriting, servicing, investment, and other associated business activities.

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Non-Bank Online and Mobile Banking Origination Underwriting 69

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Also, Mastercard is collaborating with eCommerce retailers to offer online shoppers the Pay by Bank app, and Ant Financial is seeing an uptick in the desire for credit among small and medium-sized businesses. Mastercard Partners With Four Retailers for Pay by Bank App.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2018

With big banks pulling back from small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending in the wake of the global financial crisis, the market was ripe for someone else to fill the credit gap. Community banks approved 49 percent of SMB loan applications in November, according to the latest data from the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Banks offer credit limits to borrowers that would seem punitively low in much of the Western world, so there is a pent-up demand for online alternatives. Technology serves as an advantage for X Financial, even beyond its underwriting engine. However, that’s not the focus, at least for now.

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