The nation mourns this week as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state in Washington, DC starting Wednesday (Sept. 23) in the Supreme Court and ending the week on Friday (Sept. 25) in the Capitol Building. Ginsburg died on Sept. 18 after...
Nacha, the nonprofit that manages the movement of trillions of dollars in electronic payments, announced the debut of voice payments and cybersecurity resources on Thursday (Sept. 17). The Payments Innovation Alliance, a membership group that includes financial institutions (FIs) and payment providers, has released “Voice Payments: An...
Mastercard said it will invest $500 million in Black communities across the U.S. over the next five years in a bid to address racial disparities in financial services. The new initiative will include “concentrated investments that will focus on providing Black-owned businesses and Black people...
The presidential race is now, finally, and fully, on. And, so, too, is the parlor game of guessing what happens if the current administration gives way to a new one. Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic party nominee for president, has announced that California Sen. Kamala...
If you are interested in not just tracking your credit score, but finding ways to boost it, American Express may have the product for you. On Tuesday (Aug. 11), Amex launched Score Goals, an online platform that augments and expands the card company’s established credit...
Payments and commerce players are used to rapidly changing landscapes. One of the defining characteristics of the past decade or so has been that what’s an industry-disrupting innovation one day is old news within six months. But even by that standard, the recent COVID-related moves...
Bukalapak, one of the largest eCommerce companies in Indonesia, is getting bigger. With the backing of the Ant Group, the Chinese affiliate of the Alibaba Group, Bukalapak is vowing to turn small businesses that use its B2B eCommerce platform into banking agents through a partnership with one of the...
When Bolun Li was in high school, a local bank came in and offered a heavily branded PowerPoint presentation about financial services and money management to students who reacted pretty much the way one would expect. Since it was an ungraded class with no immediate...
Everyone in a modern society needs to know how to read, so America spends an awful lot of time, treasure and talent developing literacy curricula for kids. We take a similar attitude when it comes basic math and science — but when it comes to...