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Japan’s largest bank announced a tie up with OpenAI to accelerate its use of artificial intelligence, including in a new ...

Weekly Wrap: Truist’s co-development focus and MUFG’s new partnership

byBank Automation News Editors

June 12, 2020

Point-of-sale (POS) lending continues to make headlines. ChargeAfter, a POS lending startup, announced this week it is looking to expand ...

Signage for MUFG Bank Ltd., a unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. (MUFG), is displayed outside a branch in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, May 13, 2020.
Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg

MUFG partners with POS finance startup

byBianca Chan

June 11, 2020

On the heels of scoring an investment from MUFG Innovation Partners, point-of-sale finance platform ChargeAfter is exploring further partnership opportunities ...

MUFG taps math expert as CEO to lead digital transformation

byBloomberg News

January 17, 2020

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. named Hironori Kamezawa as chief executive officer, turning to a math expert to help Japan’s ...

Wells Fargo using blockchain for corporate international money transfers

byRick Morgan

September 18, 2019

Wells Fargo is turning to blockchain to speed up cross-border money transfers for its corporate clients. The bank is using ...

Kyash offers both digital and physical prepaid debit cards in Japan.

Backed by MUFG, payments app Kyash wants to get into consumers’ mobile wallets

byRick Morgan

July 8, 2019

Japanese mobile payments app Kyash is making a play for consumer wallets with a Venmo-style digital and physical debit card ...

Fiserv Enjoying Zelle’s Growth While Expecting More

byJake Martin

February 8, 2019

Fresh off its January announcement to acquire payments processor First Data Corporation, financial technology vendor Fiserv seems to be banking ...

Fewer Deals But More Dollars Flowed from VCs to Fintech Startups in 2018

byJake Martin

January 11, 2019

Fewer but larger venture capital deals in 2018 translated into some big payoffs for fintechs. Fintech-related funding jumped 38% to ...

MUFG, Banco Bradesco to Use Blockchain for Cross-Border Payments

byJake Martin

November 12, 2018

MUFG Bank and Banco Bradesco will use distributed ledger technology from Ripple, a San Francisco-based software vendor specializing in global real-time ...