An app designed to speed up the remittance process, designed via Visa APIs, has taken a top honor at Money20/20 in Las Vegas. The win comes as instant payments and expanded remittance options gain more prominence in the world of payments and commerce. A company called ViSync took...
Its name is Hermyz. Its mission, which just won the official admiration of Visa, is to move small businesses away from checks and paper receipts by migrating invoice management online. Hermyz took the grand prize and the $10,000 that came with it at last weekend’s...
In a new survey released by business software information firm Capterra on Tuesday (April 24), small businesses (SMBs) revealed their interest in blockchain technology — though not enough to make the leap into adoption. According to the report, 54 percent of SMBs said they are...
Visa and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) are hosting a small business (SMB) hackathon later this month to promote the development of small business solutions. Reports in FedScoop said the event, part of Small Business Week, will offer the winner a $10,000 prize for its...
November 28, 2018
It’s a time that can feel rushed, and requires concentration and focus, but also provides consumers used to multi-tasking with loads of unused time. It’s the good, old-fashioned commute. With the rise of connected cars (and soon autonomous vehicles), that commute will all but certainly undergo a major transformation, one that promises to benefit payments […]
March 29, 2017
Speed is king in payments, but when it comes to gig economy workers, so is flexibility. Hyperwallet CEO Brent Warrington spoke with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster about the trends shaping the...
March 06, 2017
While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region, ten teams hunkered down in offices in the...
February 17, 2017
While it’s hard to know where the next big disruptive FinTech idea will come from, a recent hackathon sponsored by TSYS and Worldpay gave innovators the chance to use IoT...
May 03, 2018
Its name is Hermyz. Its mission, which just won the official admiration of Visa, is to move small businesses away from checks and paper receipts by migrating invoice management online. Hermyz took the grand prize and the $10,000 that came with it at last weekend’s Small Business Hackathon, an inaugural event that took place in […]
March 01, 2016
MasterCard is collaborating with The New School’s Parsons School of Design to bring together the worlds of payment technology and fashion in a joint-sponsored Fashion and Design Hack, the company...
July 07, 2015
What do you get when you take 400 MasterCard employees and split them into 85 teams across seven tech hubs? “Real, scalable ideas.” At least that’s the concept of the...
May 13, 2015
The first European edition of MasterCard’s hackathon will soon begin — in Tel Aviv. The global payments technology company announced yesterday (May 12) that its Masters of Code Competition will...
