January 20, 2013
2013: The Year of Digitally Native Financial Services?
2013 will see a host of digitally native financial services firms start to take market share from traditional retail banks. Unlike vertically-integrated ‘Old Finance’ institutions with high fixed costs, these...
January 15, 2013
Fiserv Buys Rival Fintech Vendor Open Solutions
Fiserv has acquired rival fintech vendor Open Solutions for $55 million in a deal that also sees it assume around $960 million of debt, Finextra reported. Jeffery Yabuki, president and...
November 18, 2012
FinTech2012 Symposium: Gathering At The Epicenter Of Payments
ANALYSIS FROM MARGARET WEICHERT Focus on Startups: Venture Atlanta Brings Entrepreneurs And Investors Together Global Payments’ Acquisition Ups The Ante At The POS Nearly 300...
October 23, 2012
Young Start-Ups Replace Aging Banks In The UK
“The whole idea of bank payments is broken; there’s an opportunity here, and we’re looking to grab it.”, said Hiroki Takeuchi, speaking to the New York Times. Mr Takeuchi is...
October 18, 2012
Focus on Startups: Venture Atlanta Brings Entrepreneurs And Investors Together
ANALYSIS FROM MARGARET WEICHERT Global Payments’ Acquisition Ups The Ante At The POS More than 750 entrepreneurs, investors and startup-watchers from around the U.S. and Europe...
June 23, 2012
Finovate Fall 2012
On September 12 and 13, Finovate returns to New York with FinovateFall 2012, a two-day showcase of the best new innovations in financial and banking technology from a mixture of...
February 07, 2012
Missouri Credit Union Association Adopts Viewpointe’s Pointe2Pointe with Internet Connectivity
Viewpointe® today announced that iVia Exchange Services, a division of the Missouri Credit Union Association (MCUA) has become the latest Pointe2Pointe® with Internet connectivity customer. As a division of the...
January 26, 2012
FIS Mobile Wallet Powers Innovative Mobile Payments Solution
FIS™ (NYSE:FIS), the world’s largest provider of banking and payments technology, today announced an innovative mobile payments solution that allows consumers to use most smartphones to make purchases at the...
January 03, 2012
Fiserv to Release Fourth Quarter and Year-End Earnings Results for...
Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, will announce its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2011 after the close...
One-Third of Credit Union Members Would Leave for Better Credit Products
Consumers are on the hunt for better access to credit and financing, and they’re not afraid to shop around to find the FI providing the lowest rates and most convenient offerings. PYMNTS’ latest study of more than 4,000 consumers and 154 FinTech and CU execs reveals what CUs can do to win — and keep — consumers’ business. Read more in Credit Union Innovation: How Credit Products’ Rates and Terms Impact FI Selection,” a collaboration with PSCU.