Being a freelancer requires constantly drumming up work while hoping for prompt payment. Moreover, consumers who work freelance, contract or consulting rely on disbursement payments for part, if not all, of their income. Failure to receive timely payment can lead to financial strain. Instant payments...
A week after Visa threw down the payments gauntlet with a series of announcements that merged the physical and digital worlds, Google took its turn at bat today (May 22), adding three new features to Google Pay. According to Google Pay Vice President and General...
The Census Bureau collects demographic data on the birthrates of those living in the United States and groups them into age-related cohorts based on the year in which they were born. This is done every ten years based on a household survey. The current generational...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been validated in the aftermath of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court rejection of a challenge to its congressional funding structure. But the ongoing debate over financial regulation and consumer protection will go on and the financial services industry...
March 30, 2024
Baseball is back, and this year, more stadiums are tapping frictionless checkout to cut labor costs while meeting fans’ demand to spend as little time out of their seats as possible. Colorado Rockies’ Coors Field is expanding its use of Amazon’s Just Walk Out frictionless checkout technology, according to a March 21 news release. It’s also adding self-checkout kiosks from solution provider Tapin2. […]
March 26, 2024
Did the mobile device kill the bank branch? Not quite, but as the world moves increasingly toward digital rather than physical banking channels, the banking sector may have already crossed...
December 13, 2023
North America ranks second, behind Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), among the five regions analyzed in the “Growth Corporates Working Capital Index.” In the past 12 months, 71% of...
October 11, 2023
Brian Chesky says that Airbnb is broken and he’s going to fix it. New York City recently passed regulations that all but gave them the boot. Meanwhile, guests are griping —...
June 07, 2017
Picture a car that’s smart enough to know it’s running low on gas and prompts the driver to stop at the nearest gas station. There, a pump is activated as the car approaches. After the fill-up, the driver simply pulls away. Or a device that’s affixed to the side of a trash can that can […]
