Credit union (CU) associations and service providers are pushing for the adoption of technology to help with security and compliance. In retail, Western Union has teamed up with Dollar General to let customers initiate money transfers digitally and pay in person at the merchant’s stores....
Quick-service restaurants (QSRs), as well as third-party apps, are devising strategies to convince consumers to choose them over rivals in the competitive mobile order-ahead space. On Tuesday (April 2), online catering marketplace ezCater announced it has raised capital through a funding round to scale its platform. Homelight,...
Storing a card on file is an integral part of the shopping experience for many consumers, as eCommerce continues to explode across the retail landscape. Late last month, SentiLink, which uses technology to detect and prevent synthetic fraud, raised $14 million in a Series A...
April has arrived, and once we’ve sorted out the various pranks, we can all take a minute to appreciate that winter is over. Granted, depending on how far north one lives, it may still feel like winter, but as of this month, spring’s presence begins...
Woody Allen once supposedly said 80 percent of success is just showing up. Beyond that, in business and in life, showing up on time counts for a lot, too. So it is with payments, where speed counts. The movement toward faster payments and peer to peer (P2P)...
To keep them coming back, get them to trust you – and work to keep that trust. That’s a wise maxim to follow in any business. It’s especially true for financial services. As the latest Credit Union Innovation Playbook shows, credit unions stepped into the uncertainty...
The platform economy is global in scope, spanning countries, borders, languages and currencies. Digital meeting places, you might call them – bringing buyers and sellers together across any number of verticals, from eCommerce tied to retail to gig economy matchups that get projects done. It’s big...
Across the pond, and here, too, subscriptions are big business – to the tune of one billion pounds. The model helps keep the top line humming across any number of verticals, well beyond the confines of media and gaming. The latest Subscription Commerce Tracker found some critical...
It’s a $2 trillion problem, according to stats, and global in scope. Money laundering is big business and the recovered funds are scant, which begs a solution (a roadmap was offered up for FIs in a recent PYMNTS interview with Zac Cohen, Trulioo general manager). Elsewhere, Mastercard...
