July 01, 2013
Monitise, Telefonica Team Up for Mobile Money In UK
Monitise and Telefonica have agreed to a new partnership to develop a global platform for facilitating mobile payments, reported Finextra. Monitise will create the platform for Telefonica Digital’s mobile commerce...
June 30, 2013
Twenty-Two Banks and One Secure Cloud
How’s this for a breaking development in the world of mobile payments? The Clearing House will announce today that it will launch and operate an open platform that will make...
June 26, 2013
What Music’s Past Tells Us About Payments’ Future
What do Lady Gaga and the payments industry have in common? You’d be surprised to find that the two actually have many similarities. Music and payments are two drastically different...
June 25, 2013
Scottish Businesses Lose £5B To Cybercrime Every Year
Scottish businesses are paying a high price for annual cybercrime as a new study announces they are paying over £5 billion every year. These losses turn out to cost almost...
June 23, 2013
If Cash Isn’t Dying, Can Electronic Payments Grow?
Let’s start the first week of summer by turning the discussion of cash as a viable payment method on its head. Here’s the many-multi-trillion dollar question up for grabs: if...
June 20, 2013
Zimbabwe Bank Beefs Up Loan Offerings
No, cattle banking isn’t the latest loyalty program from Burger King, or Omaha Steak’s entrance into digital currency. Recently announced by TN Bank, a former finance house and current retail...
June 06, 2013
Turkey’s Payments Power, France’s Digital Denial And The New M-Pesa
The payments industry is a compelling space, but it’s a time consuming one as well. You might not have time to keep track of every major story and trend or...
June 04, 2013
Facebook Banking Takes Off In Turkey
Mark Zukerberg himself was likely ill prepared for the impact that Facebook would have on the world. The social network site has permeated almost every sector of business – even...
June 03, 2013
Fed Reveals Closer Look Into Online Payments Platforms
Are online payments platforms coming under closer scrutiny from the U.S. government? It’s a question that’s been top of mind for many in the payments space of late, thanks to...
With nearly half of CU executives saying a lack of resources prevent them from bringing innovations to market, CUs are stuck piloting the digital innovations their members crave — and are willing to switch FIs for. The rise of strategic mergers is a way that some CUs are exploring to pool resources, innovate and drive scale. Read more in the “Credit Union Tracker®,” a collaboration with PSCU.
