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Google Pay in India is to partner another online lender to offer instant loans of up to USD 4,000 to micro-enterprises

Alternative payments solution Google Pay…

Stripe’s Connect is to facilitate payments to correct local Ford dealers along with bundled financing options

Online payment processor Stripe has…

Retailer Selfridges will begin selling fixed-price NFTs over-the-counter, in its flagship London store

British department store Selfridges, claims…

Brooklyn Nets is the first professional sports team to join the metaverse on a video system that rapidly develops 3D lifelike renderings

The Brooklyn Nets have officially…

TransUnion is to bring credit data on-chain via a digital passport to help accelerate Web 3 and DeFi adoption

Blockchain-based data-sharing platform Spring Labs…

Festive period spending on BNPL in the UK was 43 per cent higher than last year according to Credit Karma

Shoppers face a new year…

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New Visa Acceptance Cloud (VAC) transforms almost any device into a cloud-connected payment terminal

Visa announced a new platform,…

A new model simplifies loan-loss forecasts by grouping loans into two categories, and performing calculation on each category

Michael Winands, quantitative analyst in…

Fintech Seashell is offering 10% interest by investing in gold and dollar-pegged digital assets. Fintech Current offers 4% APY daily basis on all deposits up to $6,000 annually

Fintech Current is rolling out…

Vendor HooYu is enhancing its KYC offering with BankConnect open banking login to verify identity and affordability

Regtech company HooYu has integrated…

Vendor Accrue’s ‘Save now, pay later’ approach embeds on a retailer’s website, enabling also putting the feature in targeted email or SMS campaigns

Accrue Savings aims to get…

Wells Fargo’s overdrafts fix includes a short-term loan of up to $500, fee waivers and early access to deposits

Wells Fargo announced new efforts…

AI-driven communications compliance platform includes a privacy content recognition (PCR) engineNew
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OCC’s comptroller says stablecoins can boost innovation if regulated like banksNew
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Model simplifies loan-loss forecasts grouping loans into two categories, and performing calculation on each categoryNew
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Internal audit solution on cloud offers the ability to implement the full ‘three lines of defence’New
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Scammers are using crypto ATMs to steal money, the FTC warnsNew
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Federal cybersecurity agency warns RPA use may increase attacks; hackers gain access to networks and dataNew
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Mobile app focused on Security Operation Center offers full visibility of a company’s cyber security risk
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New software offers seamless path to quantum-generated cryptographic keys
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Employer-led HSA or flexible spending account (FSA), could entice 33% more new hires: Betterment survey
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Purple and deep magenta are expected to vibrate as brand colors in 2022 appealing to Gen-Z
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Millennials see card debt as a setback and hence are most open to BNPL: Affirm’s report
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Gen Zers are paying around $19 compared to $8 paid by average American
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Fintech offers 10% interest by investing in gold and “dollar-pegged digital assets”New
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Fintech Current offers ‘no-hoops’ high-yield savings of 4% APY daily basis on all deposits up to $6,000 annuallyNew
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SMB neobank downplays APIs in favour of building central functions from the ground up in-houseNew
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Business banking startup stresses bookkeeping, accounting and spend management featuresNew
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Truist offers initial accounting of the climate risks and opportunities of products in its portfolio
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TD Bank launches green bond led by diverse, minority-led syndicate
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App provides impact scores on portfolios and holdings and identifies firms that align with selected criteria
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Fintech uses open banking and data linked to bank statements to calculate carbon footprint and offers solutions
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The last mile in AI deployment is the top risk in putting AI into production
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Meta AI builds speech recognition platform that uses visual cues to filter out background noise
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Text-to-speech service in-car from MS offers context-specific multi-level caches to deliver natural-sounding high-fidelity speech
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Nordstrom’s AI picks products that match for 87% of its eligible products, more often than other retailers
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Low-code customer facing in-product dashboard tech is backed by a specifically optimized data warehouse
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J.P. Morgan is building a new investment platform that unifies data science, equity trading & analytics
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Deloitte to offer enhanced data and workflow through transaction lifecycle management and benchmarking
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Stream-based pattern-matching service uncovers, classifies and redacts sensitive information in real time
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New SDKs provide idiomatic wrappers around AWS APIs that allow a more familiar UXNew
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AWS releases fully-managed data lake for cloudtrail logs
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Google Cloud predicts more mortgages to be delivered through self-service channels
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ING Bank adopts Thought Machine’s cloud native and cloud agnostic core banking
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Campaign seeks mandatory pre-registration for SMS sender IDs, in the wake of phishing scamNew
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FIDO2-based magic links create a session for user while simultaneously validating ownership of email accountNew
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Vendor enhances KYC offering with open banking login to verify identity and affordabilityNew
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Klarna authenticates with knowledge-based challenge questions besides credit checksNew
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Goldman Sachs adds ‘verbal dexterity’ training for Private Wealth AdvisorsNew
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“Virtual office” displays a combination of all the distributed offices and employees “seated” for all to collaborateNew
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Platform assembles all workforce data in one central location for better and equitable compensation decisionsNew
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Tech simplifies creating try before you buy demo creation to embed snippets into websites, blogs and tweetsNew
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New tech enables disabled users to input text through eye rotation and staringNew
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Snapchat enhances chat with threads and video calls with easy-to-add lensesNew
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Retailers offer banks ideas in in-branch maneuvering, easy access, added value and use of gamesNew
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M1 Finance is superior to Webull for investors with a simple interface that doesn’t take long to learnNew
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Platform offers customers a flat fee or %age-off the next purchase in exchange for promotional postsNew
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Festive period spending on BNPL in UK was 43 per cent higher than last yearNew
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Tiger Global backs Accrue Savings’ ‘save now, pay later’ approach to consumer purchasesNew
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Railsbank offers a white label BNPL for retailers to brand as their own and offering up to 36 instalmentsNew
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Envestnet | Yodlee to enable aggregated view of all pension pots in one placeNew
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New Mastercard survey says people don’t trust open banking or fintechs but use bothNew
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Starling of UK to offer its BaaS globally for banks and as embedded tech for non-financial companies
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Codat Announces Partnership With Moody’s Analytics to Improve Small Business Lending
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Wine and watches investments app enables fractional ownershipNew
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CRM tool for advisors enables set up of message templates for commonly sent messagesNew
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Morgan Stanley and Robinhood signal blurring of lines between traditional brokerage and self-directed
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Truist launched a multi-manager combining multiple strategies to reduce the impact of factor performance
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AV delivery Nuro’s new model prioritizes cold storage and pedestrian safety transporting 24 bags of groceriesNew
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Nuro and 7-Eleven to pilot autonomous delivery service in California as a commercial service
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Metro Vancouver to integrate Interac debit into Tap To Pay on transit
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Startup’s self-driving trucks are now making driverless deliveries for Walmart, the first on a commercial route
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ISO 20022 is the “key to instant payments” future to fix the lack of interoperability among payors and payeesNew
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ABA supports Fed’s single-Day migration to ISO 20022 but is concerned about lack of detail
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Fed reports 13% decline in in-person card payts. and 24% leap in remote payts. in 2020 driven by e-commerce
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5G-led advanced driver assist systems to alter the calculation of residual vehicle values
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Venmo introduces new animated gift-wrapping feature with eight designs that can be added to a payment noteNew
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New Visa Acceptance Cloud (VAC) transforms almost any device into a cloud-connected payment terminalNew
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Visa Study: 46% of expect to use digital payments more often in 2022New
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Paypal poses big threat to banks in race to develop stablecoinsNew
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With stablecoin PayPal will receive the money faster than with debit and credit cards, further reducing costs
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One-third of shoppers made online retail purchases in December; Venmo usage increases to 19% from 16% in November
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Amex claims explosion of payments volume through its partnership with PayPal and Venmo
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Mastercard to acquire McDonald’s personalization platform, Dynamic Yield
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Amazon halts plan to stop accepting Visa credit cards in the UKNew
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Google Pay partners online lender to offer instant loans up to USD 4,000 to micro-enterprisesNew
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Apple AR headset could cost consumers over $2,000New
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Apple allows alternative app payments in NetherlandsNew
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iPhone 14 Pro to replace notch with dual pill and hole cutoutsNew
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Android 13 will reportedly add faster shortcuts for scanning QR codesNew
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Apple claims to have over 745 million paid subscriptions for its online servicesNew
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Apple VR headset won’t create a full metaverse
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Google’s Ripple is an open source radar API that will enable new privacy-respecting smart devices
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Alphabet’s quantum technology group plans to spin out into an independent company
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Apple could see new avenues for growth in reinvesting spare change, cashback and in better tracking investments
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Android exec rebukes iMessage for not supporting the RCS standard
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Developers can now access analytics for in-app events through App Store Connect
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iPhone 14 Pro will feature under-screen Face ID and hole-punch design
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Google “Shops” section on mobile shows up to ten retailers based on their organic search rankings
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Google brings Near by share from Android to Windows to share files and sync text messages
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