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Visa: Real Time Payments An ‘Expectation’ Among Canada’s Gig Workers
Visa: Real Time Payments An ‘Expectation’ Among Canada’s Gig Workers
March 24, 2022  |  Gig Economy

What was once novel in payments becomes table stakes, and what was once simply nice to have becomes an expectation. Jim Filice, vice president and...

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Today in FinTech Ukraine: Mastercard Gives $2M for Relief Efforts
Today in FinTech Ukraine: Mastercard Gives $2M for Relief Efforts
March 18, 2022  |  International

Today in FinTech Ukraine, Mastercard is donating $2 million to support relief efforts in Ukraine, and Unchain Fund, which was created by blockchain activists, is...

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Banks Worry Russia Will Target SWIFT System
Banks Worry Russia Will Target SWIFT System
March 15, 2022  |  International

Financial executives are expressing fears of Russian cyber attacks on SWIFT after several of the country’s biggest banks were removed from the payments messaging system....

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Digitizing Remittances Breaks Down the Money-Movement Divide
Digitizing Remittances Breaks Down the Money-Movement Divide
March 15, 2022  |  Digital-First Banking

There’s a great divide in cross-border remittances between send- and receive-heavy countries. Naushad Contractor, CEO of Fable FinTech, told PYMNTS that traditionally, banks and money...

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Sen. Ron Wyden Accuses ICE of Secretly Collecting Money Transfer Data
Sen. Ron Wyden Accuses ICE of Secretly Collecting Money Transfer Data
March 08, 2022  |  Legal

A secret program overseen by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) covertly tracked and collected data on at least 200 million money transfers in the last...

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PYMNTS Blockchain Series: What Is Stellar’s Lumen? A Payments Crypto That Isn’t Trying to Overthrow the Financial System
PYMNTS Blockchain Series: What Is Stellar’s Lumen? A Payments Crypto That Isn’t Trying to Overthrow...
March 04, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Throughout this series of articles, we’re looking at the top blockchains in cryptocurrency to help you make sense of the alphabet soup of so-called “altcoins”...

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Walmart Relaunches Mexican Remittances Program
Walmart Relaunches Mexican Remittances Program
March 03, 2022  |  Walmart

Walmart will be making it less expensive for customers to send money to Mexico, a press release said. Customers will now be able to send...

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Wise, Remitly Suspend Money Transfer Services to Russia
Wise, Remitly Suspend Money Transfer Services to Russia
February 28, 2022  |  International

Both cross-border payments company Wise and remittance processor Remitly have suspended their money transfer services in Russia due to the sanctions there and the ongoing...

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Billtrust Debuts Cash Application 10.0
Billtrust Debuts Cash Application 10.0
February 17, 2022  |  Digital Payments

Business-to-business (B2B) accounts receivable (AR) automation and integrated payments company Billtrust unveiled version 10.0 of its machine learning-driven Cash Application solution on Thursday (Feb. 17),...

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