Capital One Ramps Up March Madness Marketing [VIDEO]
Capital One Financial Corp. is a major sponsor of March Madness again this year, along with Hershey and Coca-Cola, among others, and its marketing has begun to hit the airwaves. This year’s ad series,...
View ArticleBank Innovation, Open Bank Project Form API Research Partnership
Bank Innovation has teamed with the Open Bank Project to conduct a research initiative surrounding the use of APIs in banking. Specifically, Bank Innovation and the Open Bank Project will undertake a...
View ArticleAmex Restricts How Serve Cards Can Be Funded
American Express will limit the way its Serve customers can load money on to the “full-service” prepaid banking platform. Amex disclosed yesterday that it will no longer allow Serve customers to use...
View ArticleFacebook Messenger Adds Payments [VIDEO]
Facebook Messenger finally adds payments option. Here’s an initial video showcasing the feature. We will follow this up with further coverage.
View ArticleWith ‘Send Money’ Launch, Facebook Eats Fees to Own Social Payments
Ummm, paging Venmo. Facebook is eating the cost of P2P transactions so it can own social payments like it already owns advertising and chatting. That’s the word from industry insiders mulling over...
View ArticleAmex Gets Aced Out of Facebook’s New P2P Payments
Member since … well, never. Facebook, which today unveiled its long-awaited peer-to-peer payments, notably has left out American Express — no doubt much to Visa and MasterCard’s delight. Facebook said...
View ArticleCard Not Present — For a Day
I left my payment cards at home yesterday. And… it didn’t matter. It’s getting easier these days to keep that card in your pocket — or wherever. For example, BMO Harris announced this week it is...
View ArticleNext Up for Facebook: Selling in Your Feed?
Amid the stream of news — tidal wave, even — about Facebook’s new Send Money feature yesterday, there was little mention of what’s likely to come next. And that is, paying for products via Facebook....
View ArticleCoolest Brands 2015: Honorable Mention
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View ArticleCoolest Brands 2015: VenmoLoving It
“I like seeing what the guys I know are spending their money on.” That’s how the youngest member of the Bank Innovation staff explained why she “loves” Venmo (even if she didn’t quite know how to...
View ArticleCoolest Brands 2015: American ExpressBetter than Budweiser
After Apple launched its Apple Watch, it unveiled a TV ad that aimed to show just how cool it is. The ad, which hit airwaves in March 2015, flashed through the different features of the new product:...
View ArticleCoolest Brands 2015: Top 10 Alphabetical List
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View ArticleCoolest Brands 2015: RippleGoing for It
It is easy to pigeonhole Ripple. That’s that bitcoin company, right? The thing is, Ripple is way beyond bitcoin, even beyond “cryptocurrency.” Rather, Ripple is the leading purveyor of what it calls...
View ArticleCoolest Brands 2015: The Meh List
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View ArticleCoolest Brands 2015: StripeKing of the Digital Payments
The payments space is crowded. Stripe isn’t worried. A look at the Spreedly Gateway Index, which tracks the speed and volume of payment processors, shows the bewildering array of options out there for...
View ArticleCoolest Brands 2015: FidorHang ‘em From the Yardarm!
You know something is different when a bank, yes, a bank hosts its developer day events at the URL www.pirates-of-banking.com. There is but one bank that does so: Fidor Bank of Germany. Fidor has...
View ArticleCoolest Brands 2015: StarbucksA Million Mobile Transactions a Day
All the recent excitement in mobile payments may be over Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, but Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz put it rather starkly on an earnings call late in 2014: 90% of mobile payments in...
View ArticleCoolest Brands 2015: AppleThe Global Brand Cometh
Perhaps you’ve heard of this thing called Apple Pay? Perhaps you will also recall that more than a few “experts” proclaimed NFC dead. Years ago. Yet, along comes Apple — bolstered by a little something...
View Article10 Coolest Brands in Banking 2015
How do you define “cool”? The Urban Dictionary (which is way cooler than other dictionaries) says “cool” is: An adjective referring to something that is very good, stylish, or otherwise positive. [As...
View ArticleSquare Cash Opens to Businesses, Introducing $Cashtags [Video]
Just days after Facebook sent shock waves through the peer-to-peer payments world, Square announced $cashtags, simple addresses that will allow individuals, and now businesses, to accept payments. In a...
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