More than 2 billion people globally lack access to traditional financial services. PYMNTS collaborated with Mozido to create the PYMNTS Financial Inclusion Tracker, which dives deeply into the root causes of this problem and the methodology that can solve it. On a recent podcast,...
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is set to kick off in about 10 days in San Francisco. If you’d like to watch the clock count down you can click here, compliments of Apple, of course. As with all things involving Apple, the upcoming development conference has its...
The conversations about digital identity and how to secure it have never been more active – or more necessary – prompted recently by any number of news reports related to the compromise of a consumer’s identity in a digital environment. There were the reports a...
After a strong showing with investors in the winter and early spring – it looks as though alternative financial services is poised to continue capturing investor interest going into the (we hope at least here in the Northeast) dog days of 2015’s summer. The latest...
The last 12 months have been good for alternative financial services. And this is quantifiable from a variety of vantage points. A decade ago, alternative financial services was mostly a euphemism for seeing a quasi-reputable, or in some cases totally irreputable lender. In the last year alone,...
In a year full of twists and turns, eBay may have managed to snag the “payments’ ecosystem’s “biggest surprise award” last year with its apparent about face and decision to split in two and form two independent companies: eBay and PayPal. On the road to...
While late 2014 and early 2015 were largely “The Apple Pay Show,” as far as Apple fans, financial services geeks and tech bloggers were concerned — by Spring new favorites had cropped up to steal some of that laser-like focus on Apple’s foray into the...
While financial services innovation and tech probably do not occur to most people as particularly “flashy” areas, there is a noticeable preference shown toward the more dramatic side of the business. While it’s easy to write the tendency toward hyperbole off to “new media” press...
Omnichannel has come to hotels. I was traveling for client work this week and, as is usually the case, found myself in a lovely hotel, late at night and hungry. When I got to my room and started hunting around for the room service menu,...