Digital. It’s not just for banks and payments at large, but for credit unions too. And it’s certainly top of mind for those establishments. But top of mind may not make the leap from intent to in-place. In a recent study of 221 credit union...
NACHA, the Electronic Payments Association, announced Friday several staffing changes along with realignment of some responsibilities – efforts the overseer of the ACH network said would dovetail with new strategic directions. Those strategic directions involve reducing friction and boosting use of the ACH Network,...
Online cannabis website HERB announced it has raised $4.1 million in seed funding as it expands into weed website covering everything related to pot. According to a report in TechCrunch, the seed round of venture capital funding was led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures. Other investors...
Sonos, the technology and speaker company, is reportedly preparing to roll out a new voice-controlled speaker. According to a report citing a filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the speaker may compete with the likes of the Amazon Echo, the Google Home and the impending...
The future of electronics sales is here. It looks surprisingly like the sales of encyclopedias and vacuum cleaners of the past. Best Buy Co. and Amazon.com Inc. are hiring salespeople — door-to-door salespeople — ready to make house calls and offer consumers a very personalized...
Everything is getting done online these days – so why not the path quickest to riches? LottoGopher is a lottery messenger service that, as CEO James Morel tells PYMNTS Karen Webster, takes the hassle out of dreaming big. One thing though: You’re still not guaranteed...
What cell phones were to landlines, instant messages are to smartphones: a more streamlined way of communicating. In today’s fast-moving tech society, any method consumers can use to communicate in a more effective and efficient manner, without disrupting their daily work flow, is viewed as...
“People think the process is too onerous and the product is too expensive.” That, Legal & General Insurance EVP James Galli told Karen Webster in this week’s TopicTBD discussion, is the perception of getting a life insurance policy. It’s a fact that Legal & General America...
Kool-Aid kind of gets a bum rap. After all, it’s pretty hard to stay relevant for 90 years – in the food and drink category, no less – and yet, Kool-Aid is still going strong. It’s even flavored in much the same way as it was when Edwin Perkins first set up...