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JULY 26, 2019

Despite some hiccups along the way with Goldman Sachs, the Apple credit card is on track for an August release, according to a report by Bloomberg. The collaboration between the two companies was sometimes tense and the stakes were high if it wasn’t successful. The Apple Card could be launched as early as the second half of August, which would meet its originally scheduled date for release when the card was announced in March.

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JULY 23, 2019

Katz, Sapper & Miller’s Terry O’Neil and Beth Scott will present at the 2019 American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Convention. Taking place Aug. 2-6 in Washington D.C., the event will gather thousands of veterinarians, technicians, and practice managers, helping them gain an educational edge through the latest in veterinary medicine and practice management.

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JULY 24, 2019

To reinforce the Federal Reserve’s authority to create a real-time payments system and mandate that the Fed brings about its own process, two U.S. representatives and two U.S. senators have introduced the Payment Modernization Act of 2019. The legislation was brought forward by Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Congressman Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL), according to an announcement.

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JULY 26, 2019

A Japanese FinTech company is applying for a banking charter in the United States, according to a report by American Banker. The eCommerce firm Rakuten currently runs a shopper rewards program in the States, and said would file the necessary paperwork on Friday (July 26) with Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) and the state of Utah for an industrial loan company (ILC) charter.

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JULY 22, 2019

Sometimes, when an idea – especially one that has long stewed in popular imagination – makes serious and well-funded moves toward becoming reality, the excitement becomes almost irresistible, and the idea takes on a sense of immediacy and inevitability. That’s been the case over the past year or so for self-driving cars. Sure, skepticism about the coming age of autonomous transportation was always out there.

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JULY 26, 2019

Following a year-long pilot, WhatsApp is now officially introducing a payments utility in India. The Facebook-owned messaging app is responding to the increased demand for digital payments in its largest market, Reuters reported on Friday (July 26). “It’s a regulatory approval question in India at this point,” Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday (July 25) during the company’s earnings conference. .

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JULY 23, 2019

Slowly but steadily, healthcare is becoming more mobile about payments, and that trend – a very long time in coming – appears to have picked up steam in recent months. And, taken one step further, recent activity along those lines is helping to prepare the healthcare industry as a whole – not only for payments, but also for the arrival of 5G mobile network technology.

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JULY 24, 2019

Visa is exploring state-of-the-art payment experiences at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo to support “Cashless Japan.” . The mandate handed down by Japan’s lawmakers strives to increase the total of digital payments from 20 percent to 40 percent by 2025, Visa said in a press release on Thursday (July 24). . “There is virtually no other market in the world today that compares to Japan — it is the world’s third-largest economy and a leader across many industries, yet commerce remains predominantly cas

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JULY 22, 2019

India’s PayMate announced it has raised a new round of growth capital to accelerate expansion within India and internationally to Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (CEMEA). . Investors in this Series D round include Visa, Recruit Strategic Partners, Brand Capital, and others, the Economic Times reports. . Visa’s tactical investment enhances its successful partnership with PayMate in India and the recent expansion of their relationship in the CEMEA region.

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JULY 25, 2019

According to PayPal , call it a hiccup, a delay, not a loss — and not lost sales. Wall Street was down on PayPal’s growth forecasts when the payments giant reported earnings Wednesday (July 24) afternoon after the bell, sending shares skidding roughly 7 percent. On Wall Street, as in life, there’s the benefit of the doubt. This time around it seems a bit of a flip — call it the doubt of the benefit — in this case the benefit of business that is coming, sometime, down the line in the next few qu

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JULY 22, 2019

Apps with a possible security flaw, a malware phishing scheme and possibly, payments fraud, all done in the blink of an eye? Security firm Symantec said this past week that it found a security flaw in Android apps for WhatsApp and Telegram, which can allow hackers to manipulate data that flows between users. Reports say that the hacks, which are known as Media File Jacking, allow media that spans photos to documents to be compromised in “real time” and that means intercepting data between when i

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JULY 20, 2019

It can never be said that Elon Musk has a problem thinking big. That can be seen from his early days as one of PayPal’s primary architects to the present day, when he divides his attention between a mission to space, solar energy and electric cars. Nor can it ever be claimed that Musk is not sufficiently colorful as innovators go. He’s not the only billionaire trying to master private space travel – but he is the only one who has publicly stated his goal to die on Mars (though preferably not on

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JULY 25, 2019

A new partnership between Mastercard and SumUp aims to boost electronic payment acceptance locations across 27 European countries. . Over the next five years, Mastercard and SumUp will bring card acceptance to several million micro, small and medium-sized companies (MSMEs) across Europe, Mastercard announced in a press release on Thursday (July 25).

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JULY 26, 2019

U.S. lawmakers submitted a bill to Congress Wednesday (July 24) in an effort to reauthorize the nation’s Export-Import Bank for the next decade. Politico said Thursday (July 25) that a bipartisan bill is proposing a reauthorization of the trade finance provider before its charter expires at the end of September. The legislation, proposed by Kevin Cramer (ND) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), was submitted to the Senate following the decision by House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters (CA) to sh

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JULY 25, 2019

Banks need to innovate faster and further when it comes to the technology they use on their online platforms, as to stay one step ahead of bad actors with access to the same technology. Not only are fraudsters getting more complex with their schemes and harder to predict, but customers are becoming harder to impress. Banks need to make sure they’re using tech in ways that keep the fraudsters out, but don’t send customers looking for another service.

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JULY 22, 2019

Call it groupthink, on a grand scale, to the tune of billions of dollars. Call it FOMO. But then again, YOLO. So why not stake a claim? News came this week that a cramped space is getting a bit more crowded. We’re talking about the real estate sector, where certainly there seems there is an opportunity to change the status quo. In Texas, there is Homeward Realty , with $4 million in equity raised and $21 million in debt borrowed, per its latest announcement.

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JULY 24, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow in popularity: A recent International Data Corporation (IDC) study projects there will be 41.6 billion IoT devices by 2025, up from 7 billion in 2018. This growth is the result of several factors, including low silicon costs and advances in miniaturization. Despite IoT’s popularity, however, security a nd privacy issues continue to make headlines.

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JULY 25, 2019

SpotOn Founder Aparna Srinivasan was inspired to start her company because of her dogs. When she was traveling with them, it was tough for her to find a ride, especially to the airport. To see if other pet owners shared her same pain point, Srinivasan sat outside the United and American terminal outside of LAX airport. She asked those who came in with an animal how they got there, and whether they would use a more convenient method if it was available.

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JULY 24, 2019

While commercial real-time payments became available in the U.S. back in 2017, they haven’t yet hit ubiquity. By the end of 2018, the RTP network reached a little more than half of U.S. accounts. But this has been the domain of larger financial institutions, especially when community banks and credit unions are included. This is shifting, though. Last month, payment company PayFi and The Clearing House (TCH) partnered to bring real-time payment technologies to community banks.

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JULY 25, 2019

Amazon wasn’t the only company to see a boost in sales during this year’s Prime Day. A new report from payments credit union service organization PSCU revealed that its owner credit unions saw banner results from the promotional programs offered through PSCU’s Advisors Plus during the two-day shopping event. Founded in 2004, PSCU’s Advisors Plus offers consulting services for credit unions to help growth and achieve financial and business goals.

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JULY 22, 2019

Getting paid in advance for work to be completed later is gaining traction in the gig economy. As found in the Pay Advances Report , the trend may be a new normal for ad-hoc workers. Getting paid early or even upfront has its advantages in terms of managing cash flow, paying bills or even saving for emergencies. Data: $178 billion: Potential value of “pay advance” wages, if access were easier. 56.8 percent: Share of skilled workers who receive pay advances. 36.6 percent: Share of uns

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JULY 22, 2019

Instant payments are becoming crucial to consumers participating in the platform economy. These consumers want to be sure that they can both send and receive money seconds after they’ve completed a transaction. To meet this need, platforms are searching for new ways to bring instant payments onto their marketplaces. This is especially essential as consumers start to flock to marketplaces for things outside of typical retail purchases, but for more unique experiences.

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JULY 25, 2019

Customers have varying banking needs, but the global fraud phenomenon tends to have equal impacts. Banking customers are affected by attacks ranging from phishing schemes to identity scams, and it is still up to FIs to provide accurate and real-time protection regardless of where their customers are located. Banks need to keep this requirement top of mind as they compete against other FIs in newer markets, however.

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JULY 24, 2019

High-yield checking and savings are now being offered by online wealth advisor Betterment as a way to attract new customers. . “It’s really hard for banks to follow us here,” Betterment founder and CEO Jon Stein told CNBC. “If you look at where the big banks and brokerages make most of their money, it’s in their retail savings accounts.”. The average national yield of savings accounts is 0.10%, whereas Betterment’s annual yield is 2.69%.

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JULY 23, 2019

The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) said it still hasn’t heard from Facebook regarding its supposed oversight of Libra, the social media giant’s proposed cryptocurrency. . The FDPIC said it is still waiting to hear back after it wrote a letter on July 17 asking for more details about the project, Reuters is reporting.

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JULY 22, 2019

Providing onboarding services in the Latin American market is both an exciting opportunity and a challenging one. The level of opportunity arising in the market across verticals — but particularly in financial services — means there are literally thousands of startups and more than a few legacy banking players rapidly pushing into the digital ecosystem.

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JULY 26, 2019

The modern-day financial services landscape has a need for speed, and one of the slowest areas of the market can be seen in cross-border payments. Remittance and peer-to-peer payment technologies have accelerated transaction speeds for consumers tired of waiting days for money to move across borders. Increasingly, the financial services industry is targeting sluggishness in corporates’ cross-border payments, too, through technologies like blockchain and the development of faster payment rails ar

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JULY 24, 2019

Big Tech vs. big banks. Battling. Conventional wisdom seems to hold that challenger banks will eat traditional financial institutions’ collective lunch in the race for deposits, for checking, even for credit cards. In that mindset, banks, laden with entrenched legacy systems, with disparate platforms — call it big infrastructure! — and less than seamless online presence are at an inherent disadvantage when it comes to catering to the needs and desires of an ever-younger population used to techno

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JULY 21, 2019

The 2017 Equifax data hack affecting more than 143 million people worldwide will cost the company about $700 million. . The credit reporting company is close to a deal to settle data breach probes, The Wall Street Journal reported July 19, citing people familiar with the matter. . The payment is part of a settlement with U.S. and state regulators, although the dollar amount could change depending on how many people file claims, the WSJ article said.

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JULY 26, 2019

While alcohol and tobacco sales were already prohibited on Marketplace, Facebook is now extending the policy: Sales of those products will not be allowed any longer between users on Facebook or Instagram, CNBC reported. A spokesperson for Facebook said in an emailed statement, per the report, “We are updating our regulated goods policy to prohibit the sale of alcohol and tobacco products between private individuals on Facebook and Instagram.

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