August 19, 2014
TransferWise Uses P2P Network To Cut Cross-Border Money Transfer Costs
London-based startup TransferWise is hoping to disrupt the business of international money transfers by actually transferring as little money as possible across borders, according to USA Today. For customers using...
August 07, 2014
Ten Execs On What’s in Store for the Rest of...
From security to breaches to EMV to mobile wallets to Apple (and maybe NFC!), 2014 has been quite a thrill so far. Want to know what ten players who’re in...
August 04, 2014
PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker
There’s lots of stuff published on who’s funding what across all technology sectors worldwide. We thought it would be useful to provide you with a weekly update on who’s investing...
July 31, 2014
Fintech Partnership Set To Bring Funding To UK Businesses
Online invoice trading firm MarketInvoice and online accounting software company Xero announced this week that they had entered into a strategic partnership to provide better funding to UK businesses. According...
July 30, 2014
Payments Innovation Investment Tracker | Week of July 25
Oh where oh where have the investments in Fintech gone? Well, last week, $8.9 billion of it went to a bunch of players in payments with acquisitions in the processing...
July 21, 2014
Innovation Investment Tracker | Week of July 21
An acquisition and an auction drove the bulk of investment activity last week. Of the venture back moves, alternative lending and electronification of documents paved the way. The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $5.7...
July 14, 2014
June Investors Say “Yes” To Data And Security and “Meh”...
In another PYMNTS first, we’re going to bring you weekly scoop on ALL of the investments in the payments space – VC funding, strategic investments, buybacks, acquisitions – for both...
July 11, 2014
Innovation Investment Tracker | Week of July 11
Retail payments dominate this week, and data analytics and security, in particular, seemed to tickle the fancy of investors. Here’s what happened the week ending July 11th The Big Takeaways...
July 10, 2014
The 3D’s Of B2B Investments
The month of June saw roughly three quarters of a billion dollars invested in B2B ventures focused on data, development and developing countries. And the key driver? Wanting to keep...
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.