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The Rising Online Consumption Curve in Latin America with the Pandemic – and What it Means for Fintechs
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The Rising Online Consumption Curve in Latin America with the Pandemic – and What it Means for Fintechs

Jaqueline Bartzen
Latin America was at the peak of e-commerce growth, with millions of consumers getting access to better financial options and a faster internet connection, when the world was hit by the coronavirus pandemic, at the beginning of this year. As lockdown measures were ordered throughout the region, e-commerce was strongly......
Equifax Introduces Response CONFIDENCE to Drive More Confident Decisions in Pandemic Economy
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Equifax Introduces Response CONFIDENCE to Drive More Confident Decisions in Pandemic Economy

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 Equifax continues to help lenders and service providers of every size navigate the uncertainty of the COVID-19 economy with the new Response CONFIDENCE solution suite. Response CONFIDENCE is a flexible set of solutions designed to help businesses transform today’s economic uncertainty into a better understanding of risk and drive more confident......
POPi/o Enables Free Virtual Santa Visits To Inspire Holiday Cheer Despite Continuing COVID-19 Concerns
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POPi/o Enables Free Virtual Santa Visits To Inspire Holiday Cheer Despite Continuing COVID-19 Concerns

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Virtual banking platform lends financial institutions digital yet face-to-face chat capability to bring Santa directly to consumers while avoiding large social gatherings. POPio Mobile Video Cloud (POPi/o), the industry’s leading virtual banking solution, today announced an exclusive holiday initiative facilitating financial institutions in providing virtual, one-on-one meetings with Santa Claus as......
COVID-19 forced changes in banking industry, data shows
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COVID-19 Forced Changes in Banking Industry, Data Shows

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2020 Crowe Bank Compensation and Benefits Survey reports bank salary benchmarks and the impact of the pandemic While most banks stayed extremely busy administering Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was still notable, according to data from the 2020 Crowe Bank Compensation and Benefits Survey. The......
DBS disburses record SGD 9 million to help social enterprises tide through pandemic
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DBS Disburses Record SGD 9 Million to Help Social Enterprises Tide Through Pandemic

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SGD 2 million awarded to SEs this year through grant initiatives, including the 2020 DBS Foundation Social Enterprise Grant Programme Additional SGD 7 million in loans disbursed to SEs in Singapore so far in 2020, up four-fold from 2019 With businesses hard hit by Covid-19, DBS has stepped up its......
RazorpayX Partners with Visa to Launch Corporate Cards to help Small Business Owners weather Covid-19
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RazorpayX Partners with Visa to Launch Corporate Cards to help Small Business Owners weather Covid-19

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The company aims to target 50,000 entrepreneurs by March 2021 Razorpay, the newest FinTech Unicorn and India’s leading full-stack financial solutions company, and Visa, the global leader in payments technology, announced the launch of RazorpayX Corporate Cards. These bank-issued cards will help provide relief and stabilize the financial operations of......
Finance Teams are in the Dark When it Comes to Pandemic Spending: Soldo Switches on the Lights
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Finance Teams are in the Dark When it Comes to Pandemic Spending: Soldo Switches on the Lights

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Over 72% of businesses are in the dark with pandemic finances, saying that digital workflows and the virtual working environment have made it harder to have visibility of finances Remote working foisted on finance professionals is exacerbating the challenges they already faced when managing business spending Finance directors want greater......
AIO and Finastra awarded $1M grant from the BIRD Foundation to expedite banks' customer onboarding and loan origination
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Homebuyers Embrace Digital Lending in COVID-19 Era, According to Finastra Survey Results

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Financial institutions underestimate consumers’ demand for speed in the mortgage process New research from Finastra shows that while rates remain consumers’ key driver in the mortgage lender selection process, trends relating to COVID-19 have put increased importance on digital experience and time-to-close. The pandemic is having an influence on both of these......
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Credit Fund Managers Pause Implementation Of New Investment Strategies Due To COVID-19, According to Ropes & Gray Research

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COVID-19 has stalled the emergence of new credit fund investment strategies and has pushed managers to focus on their existing credit platform products, according to a new report from global law firm Ropes & Gray. The report, “Challenges and Opportunities in Post-COVID-19 Credit Fund Platforms 2020” analyzes the responses of......
Credit Card Companies’ Support for Small Businesses During COVID-19 Not Enough to Drive Customer Satisfaction, J.D. Power Finds
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Credit Card Companies’ Support for Small Businesses During COVID-19 Not Enough to Drive Customer Satisfaction, J.D. Power Finds

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Significant efforts by credit card issuers to support their small business customers with late payment forgiveness, waived charges and community initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic have failed to drive strong customer satisfaction, loyalty or brand advocacy. According to the J.D. Power 2020 U.S. Small Business Credit Card Satisfaction Study,SM released today,......
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