Chase Sees ‘Huge’ Opportunity in B2B, B2C Payments
As checks go out of style in the consumer payments space, business-to-business and business-to-consumer payments still largely depend on the old checkbook. At least this is the case at Chase, according...
View ArticleBehavioral Recognition Is One-Upping Biometrics in Cybersecurity Circles
Scanning a thumbprint to access your bank account seems completely safe, right? Well, a notorious German hacker names Jan Krisller – a.k.a. Starbug – demonstrated how easy it is to duplicate a...
View ArticleWill Online-Only Black Friday Deals Provide a Boost for Apple Pay ?
Remember how Apple joined the growing number of merchants refusing to offer Black Friday deals last year? Well, the deals are back, but not in a way you’d expect. The company announced yesterday, on a...
View ArticleSwipe Your Mug, Refill, Repeat
From watches to rings to wristbands to — coffee mugs? Wearable and Internet of Things (Io) payments technology is quietly making its way into our daily routine, increasingly adding new gadgets that pay...
View ArticleThe 4 Biggest Cybersecurity Errors for Consumers to Avoid on Black Friday
Phone: charged. Cards: ready. Game face: on. Black Friday is here, and consumers couldn’t be more ready to win—because that’s what this day is about, not shopping, winning—but before they dive in...
View Article‘Tis the Season To Be Merry — and Wary of Cyberattackers
Happy Black Friday! ‘Tis the season to be wary, tra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. “It’s a wonderful season for hackers,” says Alex Vaystikh, CTO at SecBI, an Israel-based cybersecurity firm which raised $5...
View ArticleBlack Friday Mobile Sales Surpass $1.2 Billion
It’s #CyberMonday, but many shoppers already had a chance to put their mobile shopping skills to good use. In fact, for the first time in history, Black Friday drove $1.2 billion in mobile revenue, a...
View ArticleJPMorgan Chase’s Adam Carson to Do Fireside Chat at Bank Innovation 2017
Adam Carson, managing director, global technology strategy & partnerships at JPMorgan Chase & Co., will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation 2017. Bank Innovation 2017, March 6-7...
View ArticleM-Pesa Outage Leaves Customers Stranded (and Annoyed)
M-Pesa, perhaps the world’s premier mobile payments service, has been suffering outages over the past several hours, and in case you had any doubt of the system’s importance in Kenya and around the...
View ArticleWill Stripe’s New Funding Lead to an IPO?
Digital payments startup Stripe, begun back in 2000 by a pair of Irish brothers, has just raised new funding that values the company at just over $9 billion—and incidentally makes its founders the...
View ArticleBreaking Banks: #InvestedinTech with Capital One! [AUDIO]
On this episode of Breaking Banks, fintech writer JP Nicols hosts a panel dedicated to exploring the innovations and technology behind Capital One. Nicols is joined by guests from Capital One’s team,...
View ArticleNew Ransomware Uses Social Media, Demands Payment in Bitcoin
A new type of ransomware is targeting users through their social media accounts, most notably through Facebook and LinkedIn, before doing what ransomware does: locking the computer and demanding...
View ArticleJack Henry Partners with Early Warning, Links to Zelle Network
Financial technology solutions provider Jack Henry has announced a partnership with Early Warning, the company behind the Zelle network, The partnership has the potential to link about 3,000 new...
View ArticleR3 Releases Corda Codebase in Hopes of Open Innovation
The R3CEV blockchain consortium today released its code for Corda, its distributed ledger technology, into the wider world. The Corda code was also accepted into the Hyperledger project, alongside...
View ArticlePayment Breach at Madison Square Garden Attributed to Magstripes
The Madison Square Garden company has notified customers of a breach that took place on its payment processing systems, the perpetrators of which gained access to customer data including names, credit...
View ArticleGreen Dot Focuses on Payment Processing, Sees Opportunity in Realtime
Green Dot is what many fintech companies wish to grow up into. At least according to their CEO Steven Streit. The bank has the technology and the banking background, which many fintechs are missing...
View ArticleApple Wins Major Battle in Ongoing War with Banks Down Under
This summer, a group of banks in Australia did the unthinkable — they took on Apple, the on-again, off-again largest company in the world. Today it was announced the banks appear to have lost that...
View ArticleIndia’s Cash Crunch Means Opportunity for Mobile Wallets
For those championing the death of cash, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to de-monetize the 500 and 1,000 rupee notes in India might seem like the perfect opportunity for online and mobile...
View ArticlePayPal Launches Mobile App for Small Businesses
PayPal is giving its merchant-clients an upgrade. This week the company launched PayPal Business app, which allows merchants to to create and send invoices, manage account activity, withdraw funds,...
View ArticlePeople Still Don’t Like In-Store Mobile Payments (Even With Sales)
Online and mobile shopping represented a significant chunk of retail sales on Black Friday, as a large amount of shoppers decided not to brave the crowds at physical stores. However, even with sales...
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