April 04, 2024
Small Businesses Seek Capital From Innovative Lending Solutions
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and their owners are the backbone of local economies worldwide. And they haven’t had it easy, not recently. That’s because they have to big needs:...
April 04, 2024
Visa and Skipify Link ‘Click to Pay’ and Digital Wallet
Visa and Skipify partnered to streamline consumers’ checkout experience with Skipify’s next-generation digital wallet. The collaboration will enable Skipify customers in a growing number of global markets to link Visa Click to Pay cards with...
April 04, 2024
Hello Alice Brings New Funding and AI to Small Business...
If you’re the proprietor of one of the 33 million small businesses in the U.S., odds are you have two pressing needs: Working capital and data. And those 33 million...
April 03, 2024
Card Networks, FinTechs Help Consumers Navigate Subscriptions Maze
From Netflix and Spotify to Amazon Prime, it’s increasingly common for consumers to maintain multiple subscriptions. However, juggling these subscriptions across a web of apps can be challenging, especially when...
April 03, 2024
Brim Financial Plans International Expansion After $85 Million Series C
FinTech infrastructure firm Brim Financial has raised $85 million in a Series C funding round. “This funding will accelerate Brim’s growth and fuel our international expansion,” Rasha Katabi, CEO and founder of Brim Financial, said...
April 03, 2024
Mastercard to Increase Credit Card Fees Despite Recent $30 Billion...
Mastercard Inc. has announced plans to hike certain credit card fees starting April 15, just days after the company, alongside Visa Inc., reached a $30 billion settlement over swipe fees. Bloomberg...
April 03, 2024
Messaging Platform Telegram Pivots to Crypto Payments for Ads
Throughout nearly their entire history, cryptocurrencies have represented the archetypal innovation in search of a problem. And while they’ve succeeded as an unregulated store of value, as well as a tool for scammers,...
April 03, 2024
Visa Adds Subscription Manager to Digital Enablement Suite for Issuers
Visa launched a new Subscription Manager service that financial institutions can provide to Visa cardholders. The new service provides a single place where consumers can see where their card details are...
April 02, 2024
US and Great Britain Forge AI Safety Pact
The U.S. and U.K. have pledged to work together on safe AI development. The agreement, inked on Monday (April 1) by U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.K. Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan, will see...
