MasterCard Partners with Startup EFL — But Doesn’t Take an Equity Stake
MasterCard announced a partnership with alternative scoring startup Entrepreneurial Finance Labs (EFL) earlier this week. The deal did not involve...
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Consumer Interest in Banking Remains Historically High, Perhaps Permanently So
I have maintained that banking has inexorably changed since the credit crisis began five years ago this week. I have...
VIDEO: The Future of Money (Ends Up Being About Curing Disfunctional Banks)
At this week's Sibos conference in Dubai, fully a half dozen speakers addressed the "future of money" during a panel...
‘Electronic Checks’ Give Paper Payments New Life
The check is not dead. Far from it, in fact. The venerable little slip of paper has been given new...
Why America Needs to Reinvent Banking, Not Add Banking Regulation
With the passage yesterday of the five-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers’s failure on Sept. 15, 2008, invariably pundits have asked...
European Innovators Throw Down the Gauntlet: Where’s the Innovation, Americans?
The financial innovation community in the US is a jaded bunch – NFC? Nobody f-ing cares. PFM? Yawn. Mobile wallet?...
Finovate Fall ’13: Numbrs, Pixeliris, Word Sentry and Mitek Come on Strong
The afternoon of the second day of Finovate Fall brought on fatigue, mild hallucinations, and euphoria, sometimes all at once....
Finovate Fall ’13: Think Finance, mBank Lead the Pack
Finovate NYC continued on Wednesday, Sept. 11, with a moment of silence to remember the events of 12 years ago,...
CFPB’S Richard Cordray is Uncompromising. Do you see a little Joe Clark in him?
The inspirational movie Lean On Me featured Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman in the role of principal Joe Clark, a no-nonsense reformer...
Delta’s New In-Air Payments System Fails to Delight Flight Attendants
Last month, Delta Air Lines gave more than 19,000 of its flight attendants Nokia Lumia 820s for in-air payments. Some...
