voice payments

India Uses AI to Bring Voice-Activated Mobile Payments
India Uses AI to Bring Voice-Activated Mobile Payments
August 20, 2023  |  artificial intelligence

India is using artificial intelligence (AI) to expand digital payments to rural areas. As the Financial Times (FT) noted in a report Saturday (Aug. 19), while...

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Nacha Debuts Resource Guide for Voice Payments
Nacha Debuts Resource Guide for Voice Payments
May 05, 2022  |  Payment Methods

Nacha’s Payments Innovation Alliance has made a legal and risk-mitigation resource guide for financial institutions that want to add voice payments capabilities, a press release...

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Voice Tech Speaks Volumes About Connected Economy Breakthroughs in 2022
Voice Tech Speaks Volumes About Connected Economy Breakthroughs in 2022
February 02, 2022  |  Voice Activation

Voice was at the heart of commerce long before the Sumerians invented cuneiform, and 5,000 years later, that fact is coming full-circle as consumers of...

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Voice Assistants Give Banks a Powerful Digital Channel to Improve Customer Experience
Voice Assistants Give Banks a Powerful Digital Channel to Improve Customer Experience
November 23, 2021  |  Digital-First Banking

“Alexa, bring banks customers.” Only five years ago — what seems like a pre-pandemic lifetime — PYMNTS hosted its Alexa Challenge. The event was geared...

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Google Developer Knocks Future of Voice Search Despite Major AI Advances
Google Developer Knocks Future of Voice Search Despite Major AI Advances
November 16, 2021  |  Artificial Intelligence

A top Google software engineer is causing some controversy — and possibly dropping hints — by downplaying the future of voice-enabled search in favor of other modalities....

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What We Say Is How We Pay – For 23M Consumers, And Growing
What We Say Is How We Pay – For 23M Consumers, And Growing
October 13, 2020  |  Voice Activation

Like the plot of a science fiction film, the COVID global pandemic has forced the planet to futurize fast, and nowhere more so than in...

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Disbursements By Voice Are Growing In Popularity – And Other Instant Disbursements Trends
Disbursements By Voice Are Growing In Popularity – And Other Instant Disbursements Trends
October 01, 2020  |  Disbursements

Consumers and microbusinesses now get an average of two disbursements each year, excluding tax disbursements from local, state and federal governments. Yet, many of those...

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Today In Digital-First Banking: Next Insurance Aims To Raise $250M In Funding; FLEETCOR Agrees To Purchase AFEX
Today In Digital-First Banking: Next Insurance Aims To Raise $250M In Funding; FLEETCOR Agrees To...
September 21, 2020  |  News

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, Next Insurance is aiming to raise new capital that would value the FinTech startup at $2.25 billion, and...

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Nacha Provides Guidance On Voice Payments, Cybersecurity
Nacha Provides Guidance On Voice Payments, Cybersecurity
September 18, 2020  |  Financial Inclusion

Nacha, the nonprofit that manages the movement of trillions of dollars in electronic payments, announced the debut of voice payments and cybersecurity resources on Thursday (Sept. 17)....

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