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PAYMENTS

SAT | December 30, 2021

SAT creates an electronic cash system that meets the needs of daily life, is of justice and equity, and has a high degree of privacy. As in the digital age, when using fiat for online transactions, people rely more on third-party institutions for transaction confirmation. Perhaps the concept introduced by SAT is not the most novel, but it is the most practical one. Because they believe payment is the most frequent behavior in people's daily life, which is important for everyone's lives.<...

FINTECH

Flinks | October 01, 2021

Flinks, a leading financial data analytics and connectivity platform, today unveils the biggest update of its top-shelf data enrichment engine since its initial launch just over two years ago. With this new release, Flinks Enrichment can now be deployed on top of data from other open banking providers as well as financial institutions' very own data assets. "This is a major breakthrough in fintech and financial institutions' ability to drive positive out...

TransferWise | June 30, 2020

Financial technology firm TransferWise has obtained a license from the U.K. markets watchdog to offer retail investment services to clients. The London-based firm started life as a means of sending money internationally online. In 2018, it made a deeper push into banking by offering a “borderless” multi-currency account tied to a debit card. Users have so far deposited £2 billion ($2.5 billion) with the account. Now, TransferWise plans to launch a service that let...

Fiserv | February 18, 2020

Fiserv has partnered with Visa, Samsung and PayCore to pilot the use of consumer-grade mobile phones as PIN-entry devices for merchant sales. Available via an app-based download to Samsung mobile handsets, the capability enables merchants to accept PIN-based contactless transactions without the need for a separate card reader or PIN-entry device. The so-called SoftPOS system uses the NFC functionality in a merchant's smartphone or tablet to let them accept payments from contactless cards as ...