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Banking, Credit Cards, Home Loans & Auto Loans. Personal. Small Business. Wealth Management is just some of the main things a Bank will offer in terms of services.

Worldpay On Modernizing Security Defenses To Foil eCommerce Fraud
Worldpay On Modernizing Security Defenses To Foil eCommerce Fraud
January 23, 2020  |  AML

The European Union’s long-anticipated 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD), which modernizes security rules to reflect the needs and threats facing today’s economy, took effect in...

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Canapi VC Firm Commits $545M To Boost FinTech Startups
Canapi VC Firm Commits $545M To Boost FinTech Startups
January 23, 2020  |  Investments

Venture capital firm Canapi Ventures announced $545 million in funding that will serve as its inaugural venture capital funds, gleaned from a sizable investor base. Canapi...

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Tourism Data Hack Leads Greek Banks To Cancel Thousands Of Their Cards
Tourism Data Hack Leads Greek Banks To Cancel Thousands Of Their Cards
January 22, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

All four of Greece’s main banking institutions enacted security protocols after a data breach, and consequently cancelled 15,000 consumer cards, according to reports. After consumer...

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Wells Fargo Sees Card Spending Growth As Restructuring, Regulators Loom
Wells Fargo Sees Card Spending Growth As Restructuring, Regulators Loom
January 14, 2020  |  Earnings

For Wells Fargo (at least, when it came to the latest earnings report), it was all about the costs — and scandals. Charles Scharf, the...

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Visa’s $5.3B FinTech Play, Wrapped In Plaid
Visa’s $5.3B FinTech Play, Wrapped In Plaid
January 14, 2020  |  VISA

Visa is buying Plaid — the startup that develops APIs for financial services — for $5.3 billion. By helping to bridge the gap between apps...

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Earnings Season To Shine Light On Banks’ Take On The US Consumer
Earnings Season To Shine Light On Banks’ Take On The US Consumer
January 13, 2020  |  Earnings

Like clockwork, earnings season is here. Every three months, Wall Street takes stock (no pun intended) of how companies’ bottom lines are faring and whether top...

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Navigating The Increasingly Murky Waters Of Trade Finance
Navigating The Increasingly Murky Waters Of Trade Finance
January 13, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Trade finance remains an essential tool for cross-border B2B trade, and with an estimated $1.5 trillion gap in available trade finance, non-bank players have flooded...

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Standard Chartered Backs China’s Linklogis
Standard Chartered Backs China’s Linklogis
January 12, 2020  |  B2B Payments

British bank Standard Chartered is investing an undisclosed amount in China’s supply chain platform Linklogis, earning an equity stake, and further enhancing its ongoing partnership,...

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The Push And Pull Of India’s Merchant Discount Rate Ban
The Push And Pull Of India’s Merchant Discount Rate Ban
January 08, 2020  |  Regulation

In physics, one of Newton’s Laws state that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. In payments, it can be stated that...

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