Television investment-advice-giver Jim Cramer recently told his CNBC audience that he just discovered fleet card companies and loves them. “The fleet card business may be the hottest business that you’ve never heard of,” he said. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
Regulations for the providers of financial-transaction infrastructure aren’t going to return to pre-financial-crisis levels — in fact, they’re likely to be an ever-increasing burden for everyone involved in a transaction. But regulators could make that burden easier to handle by providing more guidance on what...
The CFPB is worried about checking, particularly consumers’ access to it. In remarks recently released by CFPB head Richard Cordray, he affirmed the basic necessity of access to banking products for the American consumer. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
New research recently released by Contract Solutions indicates that customers abandon their digital shopping carts when their mobile experiences aren’t met. Although at first glance that result can seem on par with an announcement by astronomers that night is dark or a summer prediction from meteorologists...
Zapp wants to make real-time mobile payments – in store, online and through apps – an option in the U.K.. It wants to get there by integrating its system into bank apps and tapping into the Faster Payments rails. Get the Full Story Complete the...
The idea of email marketing might seem slightly less exciting when put next to something like a beacon-prompted push notification on a cool mobile device when near a physical store. But @Pay CEO John Killoran says that mobile buying has, to date, been a tremendous...
Square is merging the two things every payments geek needs: geolocation and making sure that your coffee is served hot and fresh. (For many payments firms, “fresh” is measured in months, but let’s not go there.) Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
A new very sophisticated set of attacks on European ATMs—using malware that has now spread to U.S. ATMs—involves knowing the time of day when the ATM malware is expecting instructions. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
The details are continuing to leak out from the massive Chase attack this summer, with the New York Times now reporting that a dozen other financial institution were attacked, including Fidelity Investments and E*Trade, which were “victimized in some way by the attacks.” Get the...
