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  • Payments tech is finding purchase in Boston — bizjournals.com

    Fintech has been a buzzword around Boston for years, but there remains a wide range of technologies at various stages of development. Tech designed to help money managers, for instance, has been a staple of Boston fintech for about as long as there’s been Boston fintech.

    But one of the newer and most-promising waves of fintech locally is payments — technology that helps make transactions faster, easier and cheaper for businesses and consumers.

    “Payments rivals capital markets in this cycle of innovation,” said Sarah Biller, the co-founder of FinTech Sandbox, a Boston-based nonprofit that provides fintech startups with free data. “That certainly wasn’t true in the last cycle of innovation, in the 2000s range.” (Subscription Required.)