Finance Apps Shine on Wearables
Where are mobile financial services most popular? Try your wrist. Finance apps proved to be among the most popular on wearable devices, according to App Annie’s 2015 Retrospective report. On...
View ArticleJPMorgan Chase’s Bose to Fireside Chat at Bank Innovation
Dr. Abhijit Bose, head of digital intelligence for consumer & community banking for JPMorgan Chase, will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation 2016 on March 1 in Seattle.
View ArticleU.S. Bank to Add TouchID to Its iOS App in March
U.S. Bank mobile customers: Get your thumbs ready. The fifth-largest bank in the nation will add TouchID biometric capabilities to its mobile app in March. U.S. Bank is a participant in Bank Innovation...
View ArticleRipple CEO Chris Larsen Discusses the Internet of Value [VIDEO]
Chris Larsen, CEO of Ripple, had plenty to say about payments at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. “We’re moving into a world where value — money, payments — is moving like information...
View ArticleCambridge Blockchain Wins Santander/Onevest Distributed Ledger Challenge
Many banks are interested in using distributed ledger technology, but Santander has taken matters a step further by hosting a competition among blockchain startups. The event took place in New York...
View ArticleFacebook Payments Takes Another Big Step Backward
When Mark Zuckerberg says “we don’t view ourselves as a payments business,” he’s not kidding. Facebook, the social media monolith, took a big step backward in payments last quarter, as its payments...
View ArticlePayments Predictions 2016: Faster Payments, M&A, and a Blockchain Breakthrough
Peter Drucker once famously stated “Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.” With this in mind, yet...
View ArticleNotarize Launches Today with One of the Funniest Demo Vids Ever [VIDEO]
The fact that the demo video is hysterically funny actually masks the fact that Notarize, which launches today, is actually a great new app in the wildly sleepy (dare I say, pathetically sleepy?) world...
View ArticleDwolla Launches Updated API for ACH Transactions
It’s now easier and faster than ever to hook into the ubiquitous Automated Clearing House network, thanks to Dwolla. With the new version of its bank transfer API, released yesterday, Dwolla may not be...
View ArticleFintech Accelerators Are Not Destined to Die
Long live the fintech accelerator. With all due respect to American Banker‘s BankThink portal and Forrester Research, the future could not be brighter for fintech accelerators, and I write that not...
View ArticleIt’s a Super Sunday for Financial Services Ads [VIDEO]
There are more companies advertising financial services during Super Bowl 50 than companies advertising beer. Ok, that may be because Budweiser bought the exclusive “beer rights” to the game, and there...
View ArticleIs Google Starting to Back Away From Google Wallet Card?
Google has split its Wallet service into Android Pay and a Venmo-like peer-to-peer payments service. Now Google appears to have started to phase out the Google Wallet Card, which is a debit card issued...
View Article10 Ways Blockchain Will Change Financial Services
Blockchain may be the payments industry’s greatest recent success story. No, really. Which other payments technology, in recent years, has developed so far so fast as the blockchain? (We’d better call...
View ArticleThe Subversive Message Around Bitcoin Rings Hollow
What is to be made of arguably the most polished subversive message on bitcoin that was released recently? A video venture called Silver Lake Studios released a video called “Move over PayPal – There’s...
View ArticleSWIFT to Leverage Innotribe for Faster Payments
Get ready for the launch of a faster-payments initiative from the world’s payments kingpin, SWIFT. Founded in Belgium in 1973, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, usually...
View ArticleBlockchains Predicted to Power the Internet of Things
You might be using a blockchain to order detergent within the next few years. That’s because blockchains, or more properly, distributed ledgers, are likely to be used to authenticate users of IoT...
View ArticleGoogle’s Jigsaw to Tackle Key Banking Challenges
Google today relaunched its Google Ideas think tank as Jigsaw, a technology incubator, and the new venture has several projects aimed squarely at some of banking’s thorniest issues. Officially,...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Blockchain Guru Marley Gray Joins Speaker Faculty
Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty. Gray will discuss corporate banking and...
View ArticleMasterCard Secures Patent for Dynamic Account Numbers
Say goodbye to the 16-digital credit card number. MasterCard today was awarded a patent for what it calls “variable length bank identification numbers.” Essentially, the patent protects a computer...
View ArticleIn Super Bowl Ads, Data Shows Finance — Especially PayPal — Scored
No, this is not a Peyton Manning post. New data released today shows that finance ads during Super Bowl 50 performed better than ever. And PayPal, in particular, posted the highest “likeability” score...
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