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APIs Give Property Managers Much Needed Nudge to Ditch Paper Checks
October 28, 2021

  Businesses across multiple industries are looking for ways to augment their B2B payment processes to run more smoothly in a world that is becoming increasingly digital following the impacts of the global health crisis. Determining how to make their accounts payable (AP) and accounts...

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Twitter Adds Strike API for Tips Paid in Bitcoin
September 23, 2021

Digital wallet Strike announced the debut of the Strike API platform for marketplace and merchant businesses, according to a Thursday (Sept. 23) press release. Twitter will use Strike’s API to allow its users to tip with bitcoin all around the globe with a Bitcoin Lightning...

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FIs Turn To Edge Cloud Computing For High Speed, Low Cost Content Delivery
August 03, 2021

In Scalable Performance: How To Lower The Costs Of High-Performance Digital Experiences, PYMNTS examines how edge cloud computing can allow companies to almost instantly purge old content and cache dynamic content to supercharge user experiences.

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Report: Edge Cloud Helps FIs Optimize API Performance
July 21, 2021

The potential value APIs provide is lost when legacy CDNs cannot effectively cache frequently changing content on web and mobile apps. The Optimized API: How Edge Cloud Technology Transforms FIs’ API Performance, a PYMNTS and Fastly collaboration, explores how FIs can leverage edge cloud technology...

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UK Revolut Customers Get Access To Early Payday Option
December 02, 2020

London-based FinTech Revolut is introducing a new feature in the U.K. that will give its more than 3 million customers access to direct deposits a day early. “Early access to salaries could be a genuine lifeline for many during these tough economic times,” Nik Storonsky,...

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Plaid Teams With Jack Henry To Bring Plaid Exchange To Banks
November 24, 2020

FinTech startup Plaid is partnering with banking platform Jack Henry & Associates to advance the Plaid Exchange for more than 350 financial institutions (FIs). “We developed Plaid Exchange to make open finance as simple as possible for financial institutions — no matter their size,” Niko...

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Square Introduces Terminal API For All-In-One Payments
October 15, 2020

At Square’s fourth annual conference for developers, the Silicon Valley startup introduced Terminal API for seamless all-in-one-payments, the company said in a statement on Thursday (Oct. 15). Its latest tool enables developers to connect Square Terminal — the all-in-one card payments device — to their...

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Open Banking APIs Meet B2B Payments
July 06, 2020

Steady digitization in stale B2B payments and the open banking movement are two closely related and increasingly exuberant expressions of money’s digital makeover. While much of the legal framework has come from European Union (EU) regulators, it is a loose alliance of financial institutions (FIs),...

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Deep Dive: How Open Banking Helps Accelerate B2B Payments
July 03, 2020

Open banking is shaking up the financial industry and is poised to revolutionize the way banks share data with each other as well as with third-party app developers, FinTechs and payment providers. Open banking — a system in which banks allow third parties to freely access their data to develop new...