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Mastercard Extends Open Banking Efforts with Close of Finicity Acquisition
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Mastercard Launches Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) Testing Platform, Enabling Central Banks to Assess and Explore National Digital Currencies

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With the global economy racing to embrace digital payments, central banks also are looking to the future and investigating how to support innovation while maintaining monetary policy and financial stability as they issue and distribute currency. In fact, 80 percent of central banks surveyed are engaging in some form of......
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The Evolution of Blockchain in Today’s Finance World

Douglas Horn
The Future of Finance Cannot Deny DeFi Over the last few years of blockchain innovation, the technology has been promised as a sort of nostrum for whatever area of society might be riddled with opacity and inefficiency: business supply chains, elections and voting, identity verification and security, and healthcare, among......
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Did Covid-19 Propel A New Wave of FinTech Solutions to Save SME Needs?

Paroma Sen
During the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, new fintech solutions helped SMEs and micro-preneurs survive. Covid-19 did dip the world into a situation they that drove businesses across sectors including fintechs into uncertainty. But in many ways, Covid-19 also served as a catalyst for innovation in SaaS and other B2B segments, like......
Melio Raises $144M to keep Small Businesses in Business by Simplifying their B2B Payments
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Melio Raises $144M to keep Small Businesses in Business by Simplifying their B2B Payments

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Melio provides small businesses with digital payments tools to better manage their supplier payments, minimizing time and cost while maximising cash flow. Founded in April 2018, Melio has since raised $144m in investment. Investors who have led the fundraising rounds include Accel, Aleph, Bessemer Venture Partners, Coatue Management and General......
New Study Reveals the Struggles that Many Businesses Face in Getting Paid During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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GoCardless Appoints Even Walser as Chief Revenue Officer

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Walser to drive adoption of GoCardless to mid-tier and enterprise organizations globally GoCardless, the leading fintech for recurring payments has appointed Even Walser as Chief Revenue Officer. Based at GoCardless’ London Headquarters, Walser will have overall responsibility for the company’s Commercial Sales organization, including Sales, Sales Operations, Partnerships, Solution Engineering,......
Manatt Advises Fintech Pioneer Jiko in Its Historic Acquisition of National Bank
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Manatt Advises Fintech Pioneer Jiko in Its Historic Acquisition of National Bank

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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP is pleased to announce it served as regulatory counsel to Jiko Group, Inc., headquartered in Berkeley, California, which has become the first fintech to complete the acquisition of a national bank—Mid-Central National Bank (formerly known as Mid-Central Federal Savings Bank), headquartered in Wadena, Minnesota. The......
TerraPay strengthens its entry in North America with FINTRAC Canada MSB License
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Terrapay Announces the Appointment of Ron Vollebregt as Chairman of the Board

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TerraPay, a global payments infrastructure company, announced the appointment of Ron Vollebregt as Chairman of its Board of Directors. Read More: GlobalFintechSeries Interview with Gerard Griffin, CEO at AnyDay Ron joins TerraPay as a global entrepreneur with over 25 years of rich experience in Payments, most of that as Co-Founder and Chief......
Truist Insurance Continues Its Expansion with the Acquisition of Insurtech Wellington
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Truist’s First Corporate Social Responsibility Report Highlights Significant Merger, Diversity Commitments

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Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) today released its first Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report following the historic merger of equals between BB&T and SunTrust in December of last year. The report reveals the new company’s near and long-term approaches for its economic and environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact. Read......
Concerned about their businesses, middle market customers are reassessing their insurance needs; but struggle understanding their coverage
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Concerned about their businesses, middle market customers are reassessing their insurance needs; but struggle understanding their coverage

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Agent Authority: Middle Market Business Owners seek personalized counsel they can rely on Nearly 8 in 10 middle market business owners are concerned about making it through the economic downturn, and they’re reassessing their businesses’ insurance needs as a result, according to new Agent Authority research from Nationwide*. Although owners......
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