MCX Is Dead (Again) Thanks to Target Pay
MCX: It’s alive! It’s dead! It’s alive again! Actually, does the recent news about a forthcoming Target Wallet, announced just a week or so after Walmart Pay, means it’s really and truly dead? MCX and...
View ArticleWhat’s Expected for Fintech 2016? A Special Roundtable [AUDIO]
What does 2016 hold in store for fintech, payments, and banking innovation? Matt Harris, managing director of Bain Capital Ventures, and Brian Roemmele, CEO of Pay Finders and a noted payments analyst,...
View ArticleSquare Still Throws the Best Holiday Party in Fintech
There are holiday parties, and then there is Square‘s holiday party. By the looks of it, the now-publicly traded payments company still throws the best fintech holiday party around. Held last week at...
View ArticleWill ‘Star Pay’ Take Over Mobile Payments in 2016?
Starbucks owns mobile payments. No one else even comes close. So with the predicted launch of a white-labeled mobile payments solution from the Seattle-based coffee giant in 2016 — possibly to be...
View ArticleHolidays Were Huge for Digital Payments, Preliminary Data Shows
There are still Christmas leftovers in the refrigerator, but already it looks like the 2015 holiday season will go down as a momentous one for digital payments. Amazon reported today that nearly 70% of...
View Article8 Key ‘Stack Overflows’ to Spark Fintech Ideas
You have questions. No, not college-y questions; real questions about how things work or how to program a fintech application. We’ve combed through a whole mess of questions on Stack Overflow, the...
View ArticleHackers Can Disable EMV Transactions to Force a Swipe [VIDEO]
Fraud is headed online to card-not-present transactions, right? Sure, but hackers have figured out ways to get around more secure chip card transactions at the point of sale, too. Simply put,...
View ArticleWhat PayPal, SAP and Intel See for the Year Ahead in Fintech
2016 will see increased investment in mobile and deeper functionality in the Internet of Things, according to two Israel-based financial services experts. Matan Bar, head of PayPal’s Consumer Product...
View Article4 Fintech Predictions for 2016
Four ways that banks and fintech providers will look to gain customers, innovate faster, and improve their digital offerings in 2016. 2015 saw a flurry of activity in the fintech sphere. Tech giants...
View Article6 Big Hairy Fintech Trends for 2016 and Beyond
As the calendar turns to a New Year, Bank Innovation turns to a deeper consideration of what might be the underlying “futuretrends” in fintech. This is not the “mobile is the next big thing” type of...
View ArticleMoven Launches Offers
Moven, the digital financial services startup, continues to add new features with the launch of offers yesterday. An email sent to customers lists four merchants with offers for Moven customers: Blue...
View ArticleMasterCard Leaps into Internet of Things with Two New Deals
MasterCard is bringing payments to the Internet of Things with partnerships with Samsung, which makes a smart refrigerator, and Coin — yes, that Coin. MasterCard’s IoT deals portend what we expect will...
View ArticleCan Facebook Messenger Copy the Payments Success of WeChat?
Messaging apps are huge in payments -- or rather, they may be someday. Example A: Facebook Messenger.
View ArticleAmerican Express Largely Left Out of the Powerball Bonanza
American Express has $1.4 billion of reasons to lament being left out of Powerball payments. Amex is the only one of the major networks not contracted to process Powerball “subscription” payments. And,...
View ArticleDwolla’s Ben Milne, Fintech Luminary, to Speak at Bank Innovation
Ben Milne, the co-founder and CEO of mobile payments platform Dwolla and fintech luminary, has joined the speaker faculty of Bank Innovation 2016, which takes place in Seattle on February 29 and March 1.
View ArticleHere Are the New Apple Pay Processors
Which companies are processing Apple Pay transactions? Thanks to Brian Roemmele’s Pay Finders, we now have a much better idea which merchants are accepting Apple Pay. But how do merchants know which...
View ArticleRemitly CEO Matt Oppenheimer to Speak at Bank Innovation
Matt Oppenheimer, co-founder and CEO of Remitly, one of the most successful remittance startups in the U.S., has joined the Bank Innovation 2016 speaker faculty. Remitly is based in Seattle, where the...
View ArticleWhy We’ve Launched a Fintech Accelerator
In 2009, as the financial services sector boiled, Bank Innovation was launched for one simple reason: it was (or would be at the time) an imperative that banking institutions innovate. Today, that...
View ArticleBank Innovation, Fiserv Partner to Launch Fintech Accelerator
Bank Innovation and Fiserv today announce the launch of Bank Innovation INV, a revolutionary fintech accelerator that will cultivate financial services startups around the world. INV is now accepting...
View ArticleNew Jack Henry CEO Looks to Credit Cards, Acquisitions for Growth
Financial technology firm Jack Henry & Associates will soon have a new CEO — but it won’t be changing its culture. The CEO-to-be is Dave Foss, no stranger to the company — he’s been at JHA for 18...
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