Brazilian FinTechs Prohibited From Borrower Deposits
Brazilian FinTechs Prohibited From Borrower Deposits
August 31, 2017  |  Latin America

The Brazilian Central Bank has floated a proposal that would let FinTechs lend money but which would also curtail them from taking deposits, as might...

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Plaid Launches New Tool For Enterprise Developers
Plaid Launches New Tool For Enterprise Developers
August 31, 2017  |  Banking

Plaid, the FinTech that assists financial services companies with app development to connect with users’ bank accounts, rolled out a new tool for API developers...

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Demonetization Fails To Curb India’s Dark Money Problem
Demonetization Fails To Curb India’s Dark Money Problem
August 31, 2017  |  International

Despite efforts at purging high denomination bank notes last year, new reports indicate 99 percent of the forbidden currencies were actually deposited or exchanged for...

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Judge Tosses The CFPB’s Case Against Global Payments
Judge Tosses The CFPB’s Case Against Global Payments
August 31, 2017  |  CFPB

Noting that the CFPB had “blatantly” ignored his directions, a federal judge in Atlanta has officially dismissed the case against Atlanta-based payment processor Global Payments and...

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The ROI On Being A PayFac? Zero
The ROI On Being A PayFac? Zero
August 31, 2017  |  Payments Innovation

With changes happening all around us every day, the highly adaptive and evolutionary tendencies of technology in the closing years of the 2010s sometimes mean...

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What’s In Your Wallet? A PayPal Credit Card
What’s In Your Wallet? A PayPal Credit Card
August 31, 2017  |  Cash

From digital to plastic ... and back again, with cash in hand or wallet or digital wallet to boot. PayPal has announced a cash back card...

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Why Mastercard Is Powering Contactless Payments In Poland
Why Mastercard Is Powering Contactless Payments In Poland
August 31, 2017  |  Mastercard

Poland has been hard at work burnishing its image as a tech hub over the last several years. A country in which financial services were largely...

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NEW REPORT: The Credit Union’s Biggest Risk — Not Taking Risks
NEW REPORT: The Credit Union’s Biggest Risk — Not Taking Risks
August 31, 2017  |  Credit Unions

Credit unions are risk-averse institutions by nature. But if credit unions don’t take a gamble on new financial innovations, they are inadvertently taking on another...

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Automatic Ads: An Invitation For Fraud?
Automatic Ads: An Invitation For Fraud?
August 30, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

Advertisers are spending billions of dollars on ad campaigns that human eyes never see, and understandably, they’re not too happy about it. Google is issuing...

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