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9Pay Presents All-in-One Efficient Financial Solution at Singapore FinTech Festival

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HANOI, Vietnam, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — From November 6 to 8, 9Pay showcased comprehensive payment services in Vietnam to businesses at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2024. 9Pay’s participation at one of the largest global Fintech events has attracted significant attention from companies and industry experts.

Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) 2024 is organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore in collaboration with the Association of Banks in Singapore for the 9th time at the Singapore EXPO Convention & Exhibition Center. The event attracted 65,000 participants from 134 countries and regions, including more than 3,400 government and regulatory attendees across 665 central banks, regulatory institutions, and other government organizations.

For 9Pay, attending SFF 2024 in Singapore is a strategic step to strengthening its position in fintech in Southeast Asia and the world. Coming for the first time as an official exhibitor of this famous financial event, 9Pay was welcomed warmly by many financial professionals and clients, as a trusted fintech company in Vietnam. This has contributed to strengthening the position of Vietnam’s financial technology industry in the international area, demonstrating that Vietnamese fintech enterprises are ready to compete and integrate into regional and global marketplaces.

9Pay team at their booth at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2024

The State Bank of Vietnam’s 2024 report highlights Vietnam as a top FDI destination, ranking 25th globally and outpacing regional peers like Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Key drivers include Vietnam’s large domestic market, robust consumer spending, and proactive government reforms that streamline processes and bolster foreign trade. Improved technology infrastructure has made sectors like e-commerce, fintech, logistics, education, and tourism particularly attractive. With deep market insight, 9Pay, a licensed payment intermediary, has empowered numerous companies to thrive in Vietnam by offering seamless, all-in-one payment solutions.

As the leading payment service provider, 9Pay has established powerful partnerships with international PSPs and Remittances, allowing partners to receive payments seamlessly and facilitating smooth money transfers to Vietnamese beneficiaries. Typical instances include e-commerce platforms expanding in Vietnam that can easily collect payments and promote growth, and an online education provider that integrated 9Pay’s localized payment solution, simplifying tuition payments for Vietnamese students while improving user experience.

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Wednesday’s Campaign Round-Up, 7.1.26: Justices help GOP with campaign finance ruling

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Wednesday’s Campaign Round-Up, 7.1.26: Justices help GOP with campaign finance ruling

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.

* When it comes to campaign finance laws, both parties’ campaign committees have faced restrictions on how much money they could spend in coordination with candidates’ campaigns. Those limits are now effectively gone.

As MS NOW’s Jordan Rubin explained, “The Supreme Court’s GOP-appointed majority ruled for Republicans in their campaign finance challenge to restrictions on political parties spending on ads with input from the party’s candidate.”

A Punchbowl News report added that the ruling, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, “handed Republicans a massive win” and is likely to “usher in the biggest change to campaign finance law since the Citizens United decision.”

The same report went on to note that Tuesday’s high court ruling “allows for unrestricted coordination between candidates and party committees. That means committees, like the NRSC or the DCCC, can run unlimited TV ads with allied candidates. More importantly, they can also buy those ads at the much cheaper rate offered to candidates. … Tuesday’s SCOTUS ruling will also eradicate the need for independent expenditure arms at party committees.”

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Republicans already enjoyed a significant financial advantage over Democrats. The Republican-appointed justices just made it easier for the GOP to capitalize on that advantage.

* In Colorado’s closely watched Democratic primaries, incumbent Sen. John Hickenlooper fended off a challenge from the left, but some of his colleagues weren’t as fortune: Democratic socialist Melat Kiros ended long-serving Rep. Diana DeGette’s career in Denver’s congressional district, while state Attorney General Phil Weiser scored a major upset by defeating incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet in a gubernatorial primary.

* In the race for North Carolina’s open Senate seat, former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper leads former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley in the latest New York Times/Siena poll, 50% to 43%, pointing to a possible pickup opportunity for Democrats.

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Google Cloud Pursues Financial Markets in FactSet Alliance | PYMNTS.com

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Google Cloud Pursues Financial Markets in FactSet Alliance | PYMNTS.com

Google Cloud and FactSet, a provider of data and artificial intelligence solutions to the financial markets, plan to jointly develop AI agents designed to assist with portfolio operations, deal advisory and corporate finance.

The agents are one of three areas of focus the companies will pursue in a new partnership that will bring new AI-powered solutions to the financial industry, FactSet said in a Tuesday (June 30) press release.

The partnership brings together FactSet’s data, analytics and workflows with Google Cloud’s agentic AI capabilities and infrastructure, according to the release.

The new jointly designed agents will be built using Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Another area of focus will be FactSet AI enhanced with Gemini models. FactSet is embedding Google’s enterprise Search and Gemini model capabilities in the FactSet Workstation to launch the new agents for finance; leveraging Google Cloud’s AI capabilities to accelerate the development of new Workstation products with deep research functionality and multi-modal experiences; and directly integrating with Google grounding to improve FactSet’s AI-enhanced insights.

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The partnership’s third area of focus is deeper financial intelligence in Gemini Enterprise, which is Google Cloud’s AI platform for building, governing and deploying agents. FactSet’s MCP and agent sharing functionality will deepen the platform’s financial intelligence and provide financial professionals with seamless interoperability between the FactSet Workstation and Gemini Enterprise, per the release.

FactSet CEO Sanoke Viswanathan said in the release: “AI is fundamentally shifting how financial professionals access data, derive insights and make decisions. Together with Google Cloud, we are putting trusted financial data and advanced AI capabilities to work, empowering our clients with more intuitive, connected and intelligent agents.”

Google Cloud Chief Product and Business Officer Karthik Narain said in the release: “By combining Google Cloud’s agentic AI capabilities with FactSet’s deep financial expertise, we are enabling investment professionals to surface insights faster, automate complex workflows, and realize commercial value from AI.”

The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Financial Services Pulls Ahead in the Enterprise AI Race” found that 85% of financial services and insurance firms are increasing their AI budgets over the next 12 months.

The top justifications for these investments are productivity and efficiency gains, cited by 65% of the firms, and strategic or competitive positioning, also cited by 65%, according to the report.

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What the Supreme Court’s campaign finance ruling means for the 2026 election

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What the Supreme Court’s campaign finance ruling means for the 2026 election

Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling changing certain federal campaign finance limits could make a big difference in the battle for control of Congress this fall, giving Republican candidates who have been getting outraised by opponents direct access to more party cash.

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