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January 9, 2018

LATAM FIs And FinTechs

LATAM Banks Embrace Infrastructure As A Service
 

The gig economy is a $654 billion business in Latin America — and innovators are chomping at the bit to partner with banks to serve this new market. But local banks don’t always know how to support them. Anabel Peréz, CEO of NovoPayment, tells Karen Webster how interoperability hubs with “plug and play” APIs are helping banks partner to build the products that these players need, without reinventing the wheel themselves.

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The Economy Of Trust

Building And Keeping Trust, With Banks
 

Trust is the glue that binds customers to their FIs — but gone are the days of first-name basis visits to the local bank branch. How to foster trust in an age when faces do not go face to face? In the first of a podcast series on The Economy of Trust, Entrust Datacard’s Ray Wizbowski chats with Karen Webster about the ways technology can help build the trust that used to come by way of a handshake.
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Alt Lending

Have Cannabis' Banking Plans Gone Up In Smoke?
 

It wasn't ever easy for players in the burgeoning legalized cannabis business to find financial services, but the DOJ’s decision last week to ixnay the Cole Memo threatened to reverse the baby steps of forward progress being made. So, what's next? Trash bags full of hundreds? Bitcoin? Bartering? We’ve talked to a few folks who have a few thoughts.

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PYMNTS Disbursements Tracker™

NEW REPORT: Disbursements Accelerate The Growth Of The Sharing Economy
 

Once upon a time, Craigslist was the platform that ruled the comings and goings of the sharing economy. Today, the availability of disbursement tools allows new platforms to emerge by creating more opportunities for people to monetize their excess capacity — time or space. In the latest PYMNTS Disbursements Tracker™, powered by Ingo Money, Anup Desai, founder of peer-to-peer rental marketplace Rentah, discusses the role real-time disbursements play in accelerating the growth of the sharing economy. That story, the latest headlines and a directory with over 90 profiles, inside the Tracker.

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