PayThink is focused on the rapidly changing, inter-connected markets of debit, credit, mobile, prepaid and digital payments. As the payments industry strives for faster innovation to launch new products ahead of competitors, PayThink provides insight from market participants and innovators leading the way. PayThink is designed for executives looking to stay relevant in the ever-changing payments ecosystem by finding and honing their competitive edge.

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Bread Financial continues to keep its eye on the potential inflationary impacts of the Trump administration's trade policies, despite the fact that its delinquencies and losses declined in the second quarter.
July 24 -
First-party fraud — customers claiming they never made a transaction when they know full well they did — is a growing problem for banks. An emerging host of vendors including Socure are offering machine learning models that detect this.
July 24 -
A coalition of consumer groups sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and acting Director Russell Vought for refusing to implement a statutorily mandated small-business data collection rule that is already tied up in litigation.
July 24 -
Noelle Acheson unpacks the differences between stablecoins and tokenized deposits, and what they mean for both
July 24
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Growing loans was a tall order in 2024, but banks that could do just that were able to outperform their peers.
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Among banks with between $10 billion and $50 billion of assets, those that targeted narrow lending markets rose to the top.
July 24 -
Patrick Nelli is the CEO & Founder of Aligned Marketplace. Prior to Aligned Marketplace, Patrick spent a decade at Health Catalyst (HCAT), a data and analytics company focused on supporting some of the largest healthcare organizations in the country, where he was President and Chief Financial Officer and helped take the company public. At Health Catalyst, he helped build value-based care analytics for some of the largest ACOs in the country in pursuit of Health Catalyst's mission to deliver data-informed improvement. Patrick's passion is to drive as much healthcare improvement as possible through innovation.
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The House Financial Services Committee passed a number of bipartisan banking bills with wide margins, suggesting a growing consensus on how to handle issues like deposit insurance, de novo bank formation and the Federal Reserve's discount window.
July 23 -
The fintech has made its core payment app interoperable with Venmo and will connect 2 billion users through partnerships in India, China, Brazil and other major digital commerce markets.
July 23 -
As the U.S. moves to make central bank digital currencies illegal, projects in other countries are moving slowly. Also: U.K. regulators look for new ways to monitor Apple and more in the global payments and fintech roundup.
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