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Digital Money Transfer Services Undercutting Banks To Serve SMEs

Digital Money Transfer Services Undercutting Banks To Serve SMEs

Forbes — Digital money transfer services are continuing to make moves and Azimo, one of the leading companies in this space, is taking on high street banks with a new service that will allow SME owners across the UK and Europe to make payments in 189 countries.
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How Fintech Companies Are Helping The Failing Credit Card Sector

How Fintech Companies Are Helping The Failing Credit Card Sector

Forbes — A 2016 Bankrate study revealed that 67% of people under the age of 30 do not have a credit card, which is an interesting statistic in light of the fintech boom and amid the lack of trust that banks have following the financial crisis.
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What's In A Name? RBS Plans To Become More Millennial-Friendly

What's In A Name? RBS Plans To Become More Millennial-Friendly

Forbes — News emerged recently that RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) was thinking about a name change after a decade's worth of reputational damage following the financial crisis and would now shift focus to investment in NatWest, Coutts and Ulster Bank.
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Does Sport Have Its Finger On The Pulse Of Biometrics?

Does Sport Have Its Finger On The Pulse Of Biometrics?

Forbes — With services such as Apple Pay becoming increasingly used and more mainstream, it questions what the future holds for biometric technology and whether all companies are putting customer experience first when introducing new payment services.
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Does Sport Have Its Finger On The Pulse Of Biometrics?

Does Sport Have Its Finger On The Pulse Of Biometrics?

Forbes — With services such as Apple Pay becoming increasingly used and more mainstream, it questions what the future holds for biometric technology and whether all companies are putting customer experience first when introducing new payment services.
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Circle: How To Market A Crypto Finance Company

Circle: How To Market A Crypto Finance Company

Forbes — With investment up but attitudes towards cryptocurrency being more diverse than ever, it can be difficult to encourage customers to use new products that operate using blockchain. However, one fintech that has succeeded is Circle, which made it into the top 20 UK iPhone App Store chart last year.
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Labour's John McDonnell To Joseph Stiglitz And AI: What Does This Mean For Finance And Technology...

Labour's John McDonnell To Joseph Stiglitz And AI: What Does This Mean For Finance And Technology...

Forbes — At the Labour Conference, John McDonnell outlined his plans to force all large firms to give workers shares worth up to £500, in what he referred to as "inclusive ownership funds". This announcement came after Labour agreed the wording of the motion on Brexit and the potential second EU referendum.
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PrimaryBid Raises Funding To Fuel European Expansion Amid Potential No Deal Brexit

PrimaryBid Raises Funding To Fuel European Expansion Amid Potential No Deal Brexit

Forbes — Despite Theresa May failing to make a decision with Brexit, investment into UK fintech continues. Primary Bid, the online platform that enables retail investors to gain access to discounted equity offerings of publicly listed companies, closed a £2 million investment round.
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Bert and Ernie are gay says Levar Burton

Bert and Ernie are gay says Levar Burton

Daily Mail — Mark Saltzman, a writer for Sesame Street, revealed that Bert and Ernie are gay Sesame Street refuted these claims and said that they had no sexual orientation Levar Burton said that Bert and Ernie coming out promoted a healthy self-image After Mark Saltzman, a former writer for Sesame Street revealed
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Great British Bake off fans want to know where Terry is

Great British Bake off fans want to know where Terry is

Daily Mail — GBBO fans were left confused after Terry did not make an appearance this week Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding explained that Terry would return next week Great British Bake Off fans questioned why he was allowed to take a week off Great British Bake Off fans were left confused after last night's episode when it was revealed that Terry, the retired air steward, would not be competing during Dessert Week because he had been taken ill.
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Scouting For Fintechs: Is French President Emmanuel Macron Keeping His Promise?

Scouting For Fintechs: Is French President Emmanuel Macron Keeping His Promise?

Forbes — Around the same time it was announced that Article 50 would be triggered on March 29th last year, French officials arrived in London to scout for fintech companies, with the aim of transforming Paris into a hotspot for startups. This came months before President Emmanuel Macron revealed his plan to help France evolve into a 'startup nation'.
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Could Women In Fintech Stop Another Lehman Brothers Collapse From Happening?

Could Women In Fintech Stop Another Lehman Brothers Collapse From Happening?

Forbes — September 15 2018 marked 10 years since the Lehman Brothers collapse and subsequent global financial crisis, which is and always will be one of this generation's defining events, as International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said in her recent blog post.
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North American Remitly To Expand Across Europe After Announcing Partnership With Stripe

North American Remitly To Expand Across Europe After Announcing Partnership With Stripe

Forbes — Remitly, the independent digital remittance company in North America, have announced an expansion to 11 send countries across Europe and will now give millions of customers access to a convenient remittance experience. Karim Meghji, Chief Product Officer at Remitly, said: "In one year we've expanded from three send countries to now serving 15, representing over $121 billion in remittance flows annually.
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Jack Ryan: Not Exactly The Greatest Advertisement For Fintech

Jack Ryan: Not Exactly The Greatest Advertisement For Fintech

Forbes — I tried to take a break from fintech and the endless cryptocurrency documentaries on Netflix and watch the highly-publicized series Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime, but I realized that fintech is more mainstream than I thought.
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Azimo: 80 Percent Growth In Transactions Sent To M-Pesa Wallets In Kenya

Azimo: 80 Percent Growth In Transactions Sent To M-Pesa Wallets In Kenya

Forbes — Azimo have announced an 80 percent growth in transactions sent to M-Pesa in Kenya since the start of 2018, confirming the dominance of mobile wallets, which accounted for 96 percent of the payments delivered to the wallet.
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Theresa May In Africa: The Future Of Fintech In South Africa, Nigeria And Kenya

Theresa May In Africa: The Future Of Fintech In South Africa, Nigeria And Kenya

Forbes — A delegation of UK fintech specialists joined Prime Minister Theresa May on her first official trip to Africa and will visit South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya to meet with entrepreneurs to establish trading and export ties in these emerging markets.
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Theresa May In Africa: The Future Of Fintech In South Africa, Nigeria And Kenya

Theresa May In Africa: The Future Of Fintech In South Africa, Nigeria And Kenya

Forbes — A delegation of UK fintech specialists joined Prime Minister Theresa May on her first official trip to Africa and will visit South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya to meet with entrepreneurs to establish trading and export ties in these emerging markets.
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What A No Deal Brexit Could Mean For Fintech

What A No Deal Brexit Could Mean For Fintech

Forbes — Today, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab discussed his plans for what has been dubbed as a no deal Brexit and suggested that Britons who are visiting the European Union could face extra credit card charges once Article 50 is triggered.
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Does Revolut's Metal Card Mean Anything For Fintech?

Does Revolut's Metal Card Mean Anything For Fintech?

Forbes — After Starling Bank launched their new vertical debit card, it seems that Revolut have also jumped on the bandwagon of fancy, new-fangled card and have released a flashy metal card to draw in the millennials. But does this mean anything for fintech?
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Let's Get Personal: How Fintech Will Save The High Street

Let's Get Personal: How Fintech Will Save The High Street

Forbes — UK high street retailers are struggling with customer footfall because of technological advancements in recent years, ensuring that consumers have easier, faster and cheaper ways of purchasing what they need.
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Alt-Right Against Fintech: One Year Of Technology Against Hate

Alt-Right Against Fintech: One Year Of Technology Against Hate

Forbes — One year on from Charlottesville, technology companies are still ensuring that they are working against, not promoting, those individuals or organizations who are aligned with white supremacists or conspiracy theorists, but what about fintechs?
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Colombia's New President Ivan Duque And Financial Inclusion

Colombia's New President Ivan Duque And Financial Inclusion

Forbes — Ivan Duque was elected as Colombia's next President earlier this summer and will take up his new post tomorrow, slated to attempt to rebuild the economy and reset it to a place where it can grow despite major challenges.
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Apple: The $1 Trillion Company's Future In Fintech

Apple: The $1 Trillion Company's Future In Fintech

Forbes — Apple became the first $1 trillion company and after over 20 years, the giant that was nearly bankrupt is now the corporation with the most market value as well as being responsible for transforming the technology industry into something sleeker, innovative and customer-friendly.
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Trump's Treasury Supports Fintech, Now What?

Trump's Treasury Supports Fintech, Now What?

Forbes — The Trump administration Treasury Department has called for dramatic changes in fintech regulation and have voiced their support for a new fintech charter as well as the introduction of sandboxes and opening access to consumer data. Secretary Steve Mnuchin said: "American innovation is a cornerstone of a healthy U.S. economy.
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