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FinTechs Team With Credit Unions to Deliver Banking’s ‘Marketplace Model’
Credit Unions // February 24, 2023

Credit union members are famed for their loyalty. That historic bond is being tested as more CUs take a cautious approach to digital innovation due to prevailing macroeconomic headwinds. PSCU President and CEO Chuck Fagan, NAFCU CEO Dan Berger and Suncoast Credit Union SVP of...

As Remote Work Goes Global, Paying Workers Gets Complex
Cross-border Payments // August 02, 2022

As the idea of a permanently remote workforce gains acceptance after two years of COVID-enforced telecommuting, it isn’t exactly surprising that companies that started looking for talent beyond their own offices and cities are now looking beyond their own borders. According to PYMNTS’ “Cross-Border Payroll...

Smart Data And AI Use Can ‘Nudge’ Customers To Better Offers
Digital Payments // June 24, 2021

Data, in a way, exists as a currency. Customers are willing to trade it, especially when they’re prompted with a nudge and the right reward. Cover Genius CEO Angus McDonald, Fair CEO Khalid Parekh and Varo Chief Technology Officer Deep Varma told PYMNTS in the...

Merchant Acceptance Will Unlock Trillions In Pent-Up Crypto Spending Power
Cryptocurrency // June 08, 2021

Bitcoin may get a lot of attention, but it is only part of the broader digital currency equation. In the drive to bring crypto into consumers’ wallets and, in turn, into the merchants’ tills, broadening acceptance while also increasing ease of use in spending will...

Interviews & Exclusives
Time, Investment and Creative Thinking Needed to Accelerate UK and EU Open Banking Adoption

March 01, 2023
Five years after open banking became a regulatory requirement, the U.K. now claims 7 million active users. That figure, representing less than 20% of the total number of bank account holders in the U.K., poses the question: What can be done to reach critical mass in the U.K. and the EU, and what lessons from […]

FinTechs Team With Credit Unions to Deliver Banking’s ‘Marketplace Model’

February 24, 2023
Credit union members are famed for their loyalty. That historic bond is being tested as more CUs take a cautious approach to digital innovation due to prevailing macroeconomic headwinds. PSCU...

As Remote Work Goes Global, Paying Workers Gets Complex

August 02, 2022
As the idea of a permanently remote workforce gains acceptance after two years of COVID-enforced telecommuting, it isn’t exactly surprising that companies that started looking for talent beyond their own...

Smart Data And AI Use Can ‘Nudge’ Customers To Better Offers

June 24, 2021
Data, in a way, exists as a currency. Customers are willing to trade it, especially when they’re prompted with a nudge and the right reward. Cover Genius CEO Angus McDonald,...