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Google is shutting down Shoelace, the social app you’ve probably never heard of
You know that old saying, “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone?” Sometimes that’s quite literally true. Take Shoelace, a social app introduced by Google’s Area 120 incubator last summer. There are a number of reasons you likely haven’t heard of the thing. For starters, it was considered an “early experiment” by Google. […]…
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Overdue, Nubank reacts to social media charges and announces interest rate relief for customers
A little over a week after stating that there was a difficulty in offering a solution to help all customers, Nubank changed its stance and announced an 80% reduction in the collection of interest on the invoice. On Thursday (09), the company sent a note to the press explaining the relief rules: “customers will be […]…
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Visa backs open banking and compliance platform Railsbank
Railsbank, the open banking and compliance platform, has picked up further investment, following the company’s $10 million Series A in September 2019. This time backing comes from Visa — a strategic investment, if you will — along with Global Brain, a venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan. The exact amount isn’t being disclosed, though sources peg it as […]…
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Fintech Entrepreneur Charlie Javice Launched Frank to Help Students Afford School. The Platform Has Now Matched $12 Billion in Funding
Unless you are a student attempting to pay for university, or in the Fintech space, you may have never heard about Frank. But this Fintech has now matched about $12 billion in funding for over 400,000 students seeking higher education including scholarships, loans, grants and more. That’s a big number. But according to Frank, about $40 billion is left […]…
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Fuel Ventures has taken a strategic equity position in Open Banking thought leader Volt Technologies
The company is an Open Banking payments processor and gateway, with a global focus. This investment gives Fuel access to fast-developing Open Banking markets, an important growth sector in fintech. VOLT offers a powerful and secure Open Banking payment service to PSPs and leading merchant organisations globally. The product strategy has been under intensive development […]…
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Venmo prototypes a debit card for youngsters
Allowance goes digital. Venmo has been noticed prototyping a brand new function that will enable grownup customers to create a debit card related to their account for his or her teenage youngsters. That might probably let mother and father set spending notifications and limits whereas giving youngsters extra flexibility in pressing conditions than a number of {dollars} […]…
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Chief Claims Officers from Allstate, Liberty Mutual, State Auto, Kemper, Prudential, Ameritrust and more confirmed to speak at Connected Claims USA 2020 conference and expo in Chicago
Insurance carriers are living in a pivotal time. The bar for customer experience has been raised, and insurance customers compare their claims experience to Amazon, Uber and Apple. For the insurance industry the answer lies on harnessing technology to deliver unprecedented efficiency and a world-class customer experience, or risk losing it all. Through a carefully […]…
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PayPal and Mastercard Extend Instant Transfer to Singapore & Europe
November 27, 2019 – Following the success of its Instant Transfer feature in the U.S., PayPal and Mastercard recently extended the service to Mastercard cardholders in Singapore and a number of European countries. Mastercard Send™ is an application that leverages the card network infrastructure to facilitate the secure availability of funds in real-time*. With Mastercard Send™, […]…
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Nets makes changes to the Executive Committee
1st November 2019 – The payments industry is undergoing heavy consolidation and internationalisation. Nets is actively taking part in this development with the ambition of building a leading European payments player. Recently, several newly acquired companies have been integrated into the group, and Nets has decided to focus on and invest into its strongholds and scalable […]…
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