Block, owner of Cash App and Square, is also a huge owner of bitcoin. This, as the company’s latest first quarter 2024 earnings results revealed that the company’s $200 million investment in bitcoin grew by around 160% and stood at $573 million at the quarter’s end. “We believe the world needs...
Chase introduced a series of payments-oriented tools aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The new tools include offerings to help SMB owners electronically create and send invoices and gain better insight into customers, the banking giant said in a Wednesday (May 1) news release. “Today many small business owners have to manually create,...
The insurance industry, often perceived as lagging in innovation and adapting to consumer needs, is undergoing a notable transformation. Traditionally reliant on agents for product sales, the industry is seeing a gradual shift away from this model, said Andrea Heger, senior vice president of insurance...
LendingClub noted in its latest results that deposits on its balance sheet grew as customers gravitated to high-yield savings products, credit quality was strong — and embedded finance solutions may offer a new avenue of future growth. As detailed in the most recent earnings materials, deposits of $7.5...
May 03, 2024
Open banking is empowering consumers and the businesses they work with to adapt amid uncertainties, Trustly founder and CEO Alex Gonthier writes in the new PYMNTS eBook, “The Implications of Uncertainty.” The economy is still feeling the aftermath of the pandemic, which completely disrupted the way we live and work. The outbreak of war […]
May 01, 2024
The insurance industry, often perceived as lagging in innovation and adapting to consumer needs, is undergoing a notable transformation. Traditionally reliant on agents for product sales, the industry is seeing...
April 30, 2024
Not all that long ago, as Doug Brown, chief product officer, NCR Voyix Digital Banking, observed, credit unions and banks had a rather simple approach to financial wellness. The old-school playbook,...
April 29, 2024
According to PYMNTS Intelligence, credit unions (CUs) and community banks continue to gain traction in the consumer credit card space. As we found in researching “Credit Unions and Community Banks...
May 02, 2024
Chase introduced a series of payments-oriented tools aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The new tools include offerings to help SMB owners electronically create and send invoices and gain better insight into customers, the banking giant said in a Wednesday (May 1) news release. “Today many small business owners have to manually create, send and reconcile their invoices,” Chase said in the release. […]
April 30, 2024
Canada’s Scotiabank has a new CEO for its global banking and markets (GBM) business. Travis Machen, who joins the bank from Morgan Stanley, is set to take on his new position on May...
April 30, 2024
Goldman Sachs is reportedly closer to exiting its General Motors credit card business. The banking giant is in discussions with Barclays to transfer the issuance of the cards, the latest...
April 29, 2024
Banking platform Veritran has launched a partnership with financial messaging service Swift. The collaboration, announced Monday (April 29), is designed to help financial institutions to offer customers enhanced and streamlined cross-border payments. “Collaborations such...
