Zelle Will Put Customers Back in Banks’ Hands, PNC CEO Says
Zelle, the peer-to-peer payments platform formerly known as clearXchange, will put customers back in banks’ hands, PNC CEO Bill Demchak said Friday. P2P has been a notable success of nonbank players...
View ArticleTop 20 Finance Apps: TurboTax Shoots to Top of the Charts
It turns out taxes were popular this week. While Credit Karma (still) remained the top finance app for both the iOS and Google Play charts today, the TurboTax Tax Return app is not far behind. The...
View Article5 Fintechs You (Probably) Should Know By Now
Yes, it is almost impossible to keep tabs on all the new entrants of the wonderful world of fintech. But taking it one step (or five) at a time, should be enough to keep you up to date for many of the...
View ArticleBMO Harris Just Launched Three Wallets
Just when you thought the digital wallet craze was left behind in 2016, in comes BMO with three new wallets. The bank launched BMO Harris Bank Masterpass – a Mastercard-branded wallet – as well as...
View ArticleMillennials Are Ready for the Bank of Amazon
Amazon wins, once again, at a game it didn’t even know it was playing. According to a Jan. 11 survey from Accenture, millennial participants would consider parking their money with nontraditional...
View ArticleRoyal Media Announces Launch of New Mobility Media Venture
Mobility has been the most crucial innovation driver in the financial world, fostering partnerships among fintech upstarts and traditional FIs. Today, mobility is disrupting transportation and altering...
View ArticleTop 4 Fintech Funding Rounds: MissFresh e-commerce, Collibra, Dwolla, Habito
Fintech got a fresh flush of capital this week, with some old favorites joining newer names all with innovations in big data, e-commerce software, compliance, and many more. Here are the Top 4 fintech...
View ArticleAndroid Pay Adds PayPal Cards, Visa Checkout
PayPal is all about partnerships these days. As it did with Visa and Mastercard last year, the payments giant is working its way back into brick-and-mortar locations, and not just for its app, but for...
View ArticleChina Is No. 1 in Fintech Funding, Citi Says
Here there be dragons, and they’ve started to rule over unicorns—well, in matters of funding, anyway. According to a new report released by Citigroup on digital disruption, the second of its kind,...
View ArticleBank of America’s Head of Digital to Speak at Bank Innovation ’17
Edward “EJ” Achtner, Bank of America‘s Head of Digital Banking – Strategy, Platforms, Innovation, and Partnerships, has joined the Bank Innovation 2017 speaker faculty. Achtner leads Bank of America’s...
View ArticleSXSW Accelerator Fintech Finalists for 2017 Announced
More fintech is coming to Austin. The massive South by Southwest conference and festival features startups in a number of categories — transportation, augmented/virtual reality, and of course fintech —...
View ArticleTransUnion Fights ‘Loan Stacking’ and Synthetic Identities with New Tool
Financial fraud is here to stay, unfortunately, and it comes in many different forms. Credit card fraud isn’t quite as sexy as ransomware, but it’s still a huge, money-sucking criminal enterprise, and...
View ArticleFinnair First Airline to Offer Onboard Alipay
Alipay’s domination in the mobile payments world is reaching new heights — 30,000 feet, to be exact. Finnish airline Finnair today announced its decision to offer mobile payment service Alipay on...
View ArticleFinancial Chatbot Cleo Raises $700K in Seed Money
Siri who? Cleo, a London-based fintech startup that has developed a virtual assistant for personal finance, just raised $700,000 in a round of seed funding from intrigued angels. According to...
View ArticleBMO Harris Adds P2P Payments to Its App
BMO Harris seems to be on (digital) track. The bank announced the launch yesterday of People Pay – an instant peer-to-peer money transfer service for its mobile app users. The service is free, as it is...
View ArticleIn MoneyGram, Ant Buys Into Old Payments
Is Ant Financial hitching its global expansion to an antiquated payments wagon that is being undermined by a wide range of remittance startups? That appears to be case for Ant’s proposed $880 million...
View ArticleEarly Registration Ends Today for Bank Innovation ’17
Don’t miss your chance to secure your spot at Bank Innovation 2017 for the lowest available rate, and join attendees from companies already registered, such as: BBVA Braintree Capital One JPMorgan...
View ArticleDigital Usage Accelerates at Fifth Third
Online and mobile usage is soaring at Fifth Third. More than 60% of all transactions are currently made through digital channels, the company said during its fourth-quarter earnings call on Tuesday....
View Article3 Major Takeaways From PayPal’s Earnings
From new apps to surprising partnerships, PayPal has had another buzzing quarter. The payments giant ended the year with 197 million active customer accounts, adding 5.4 million new accounts last...
View ArticleButton Begins Move Into Payments to Push M-Commerce Forward
The goal of seamless m-commerce between apps is stuck on several factors, but one key hurdle is payments. Startup Button is looking at ways to fix this problem. With $20 million in new funding from...
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