Will Cash Be Gone by 2020?
Cash is on its way out. Yes, we’re aware this notion has been part of the dialogue ever since the...
Payments
Amex Quietly Acquires Cake Technologies, a Payments Fintech
American Express has acquired Cake Technologies, a U.K.-based mobile payment technologies provider, for $13.3 million. The deal, which was never publicly...
Santander Wants to Use Ripple for Cross-Border Payments
Spain's Banco Santander is looking to launch an international money transfer app utilizing Ripple’s distributed ledger technology. The bank is...
More Online Merchants Should Provide Instant Financing Options to Increase Sales
As mobile wallets and consumer-to-business payments platforms grow in popularity as the preferred payment method among retail shoppers, it seems...
Google Assistant Now Allows Users to Pay and Request IOUs
Google Assistant is now letting its users pay or request ‘IOUs’ from friends via Google Pay, further interconnecting the mobile...
LendingTree Takes On Credit Karma with Credit Monitoring Feature
EXCLUSIVE- Online loan marketplace LendingTree is going head to head (again) with credit scoring platform Credit Karma, with the launch...
Card Acceptance as Payment Method to Reach All-Time High by 2022
True, mobile payments are becoming increasingly popular as a form of P2C payment methods, but make no mistake - cards...
Motive Partners Launches Innovation Lab in London
EXCLUSIVE – The members-only innovation lab, Motive Partners, opened a center in London today. The lab is build to work...
Tencent Continues Investment in AI as WeChat and Weixin Reach One Billion Users
EXCLUSIVE-- There are now approximately one billion users of Wechat and Weixin, the mobile messaging apps maintained by Tencent Holdings,...
Backed by Amazon, Greenlight Financial to Add Credit Product
EXCLUSIVE—Greenlight Financial Technology Inc., a PFM that provides “smart debit cards” to more than 100,000 users to begin financial literacy...
