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Top banking & payments sector companies by patents granted in Q2 2021 (Source: GlobalData)
| Assignee | Patents |
|---|---|
| Capital One | 191 |
| Bank of America | 113 |
| Wells Fargo | 99 |
| Visa | 98 |
| Alibaba Group | 83 |
| Mastercard | 65 |
| Tencent Holdings | 63 |
| PayPal | 61 |
| USAA | 59 |
| Advanced New Technologies | 58 |
US-based payments and fintech firm Fiserv has teamed up with Goldman Sachs Transaction Banking to simplify cross-border supplier payments for…
Sila, a fintech software platform that offers payment infrastructure as a service, has raised $13m in a Series A funding…
London-based BNPL outfit Zilch has secured a further $110m in debt and equity funding to cater to the evolving demand…
Paystand, the blockchain-enabled payment network for business, has raked in $50m in a Series C financing round to support the…
When artificial intelligence (AI) hits the headlines, it’s usually bad news pertaining to the perils of face recognition. It was only recently that Twitter had...
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The future may see us living on Mars, paying for everything with crypto, and relaxing or working as we travel effortlessly about in our driverless...
The global economic growth in 2020 has been eclipsed since the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak causing fears of looming unemployment and recession in a number of...
Mastercard has collaborated with Bahrain’s Electronic Network for Financial Transactions (BENEFIT) to bring blockchain-based payments to the Kingdom. The two parties launched a nationwide pilot...
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