The banking sector in Asia Pacific is filled with opportunity in 2022, whilst also facing intensified competition. Rapid infrastructure developments and emerging technologies coupled with the pandemic have accelerated digital

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Bitcoin is a better option than fiat money, said Mexico’s third richest man, Ricardo Salinas, in an interview. Bitcoin, Salinas said, is unseizable and can be transferred instantly worldwide, contrary to fiat and the gold standard.

Modulr, a UK payment service announced a strategic partnership with Ripple. Trust Payments is the first customer to benefit from the partnership.

Crypto unicorn MoonPay has announced a new checkout tool that will give people a way to buy NFTs without using cryptocurrency.

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Speakers: Chris Storbeck SVP, Real Time Payments – Partnerships at FIS Chris Storbeck leads FIS Partnerships for global RTP and establishes and manages partnerships with world class companies globally. Chris Storbeck is a senior executive with 15+ years comprehensive knowledge of payments, fintech, prepaid, stored value, enterprise software, and mobile sectors. With a forward-thinking, solution-focused […]

The Lightning payments app’s launch in the South American country was received with some confusion.

FinTech investments surpassed every year prior in 2021 – $134 billion. That’s more than double 2020’s final tally, and 2020 had already set records for that year. It is safe to say that FinTech’s moment has arrived, and the digital transformation has hit a transition point from a theoretical discussion into a simple reality for financial services across the board. At the end of last year, we asked you for your thoughts on the biggest trends in this new world of FinTech for the coming year.  Your answers pointed clearly to a 2022 in which the blockchain will continue to

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Developments in faster payments, digital assets, and technical interfaces raise questions. Businesses wonder about how to adopt them and at what cost. Investors wonder how to profit from them. And regulators wonder how to keep them safe and conder control. We covered some of those competing agendas this month in the articles linked below. For a consumer-oriented view and history, see London-based Raconteur’s new report the Future of FinTech 2021. Are Businesses Ready for Faster Payments? The payments industry is currently undergoing a once-in-a-generation change in infrastructure, as use cases increasingly shift towards the promise of faster, or even instant,

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By Kai Zhang In July 2020, HM Treasury published a “Payments Landscape Review: Call for Evidence” for a strategic review of the UK payments sector. Following feedback from the industry, HM Treasury published its Response to the Call for Evidence in October 2021 which sets out a number of initiatives to ensure the payment sector […]

The payments industry is currently undergoing a once-in-a-generation change in infrastructure, as use cases increasingly shift towards the promise of faster, or even instant, payments settlement. Progress has been ongoing for years, but the reality of the global pandemic drove the reasons for innovation to the forefront of the minds of many in businesses from small to large today. That increasingly urgent perspective was a key theme revealed by the Federal Reserve’s recent Market Readiness Brief survey, which collected responses from more than 2,000 businesses ranging from small to very large. Looking at a range of different industries and specialties,

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