May 17, 2024
Consumers Want Payment Options That Help Manage Spending
As consumers look for simpler and more intuitive eCommerce experiences, Harvest Hosts sees providing more payment options as key to meeting shoppers’ demand to be able to control how they manage their...
May 17, 2024
Self-Serve and Digital-First Channels Can Help Fix ‘Banking Deserts’
Banks have been fine-tuning their branch efforts as the pandemic recedes, shuttering locations in some markets and building new outposts in others. The Federal Reserve said in a recent blog...
May 16, 2024
Yendo Raises $165 Million for ‘Vehicle-Secured’ Credit Card
Yendo, a FinTech offering a credit card tied to users’ car equity, is $165 million richer. The company announced the new funding — $150 in debt financing, $15 million in equity —...
May 16, 2024
Visa and SKUx Team to Promote Digital Consumer Payments
Visa has launched a collaboration with digital payments company SKUx. “The agreement will accelerate digital transformation for select merchants and consumer packaged goods companies that leverage SKUx’s payment-based offer solutions — supporting a variety...
May 16, 2024
From AI to Mobile Devices: Technology Reimagines Debit and Credit...
The modern credit card’s history stretches back to just after World War II, when the Charg-It card came out of Brooklyn, tied to a single bank. Account holders could use the cards...
May 15, 2024
Fed Surveys Find Lasting Appeal for Faster, Digital Transactions
Consumers and businesses — running the gamut of transaction types and across demographics — are pivoting toward faster and digital payment options. Overall, as detailed in two reports by Federal Reserve Financial...
May 15, 2024
Lydia Launches European Banking Super App Called Sumeria
French payments app Lydia has launched a European banking super app called Sumeria. The company will invest more than €100 million and hire 400 people in three years to become a...
May 15, 2024
Visa Recasts Digital Wallet Landscape at Intersection of Identity and...
Throughout history, the number seven has held significant importance. There are seven days of the week, seven colors in a rainbow, the “lucky sevens” when playing the slots, and it...
May 15, 2024
Autonomous Transport Could Drive Trucking Into Digital Transformation’s Fast Lane
In America, we move most of our goods by road. This makes trucks and 18-wheelers a crucial, even definitive, part of any supply chain. It also highlights the compounding impact...
