Coolest Brands 2014: Social Money for the City Dweller
Venmo, a social person-to-person payments service, has become a verb. Members of New York’s improv comedy scene, accustomed to (small)...
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Coolest Brands 2014: Invisible Payments
There is no fluke in Uber. The black car company has “brand ambassadors” in nearly every city in which it...
Coolest Brands 2014: [RED] Is the Warmest Color
Which rock band on this planet is cooler than U2? There might be a few, but U2 is certainly a...
10 Coolest Brands in Banking 2014
No one will accuse bankers of being too cool. There are too many regulations for that. But when you scratch...
Coolest Brands 2014:
Game of Thrones, LeBron James, Barack Obama and…
“If Bitcoin were a person, it would probably be Justin Bieber,” The New York Times proclaimed recently. That’s exactly why...
Coolest Brands 2014: Elevating Payments to Another Level
Officially, American Express had the most valuable financial services brand in the world last year, according to Interbrand. The consultancy...
Coolest Brands 2014: The Gold Standard in Mobile Payments
It just might be impossible to talk about banking services for the underdeveloped world without mentioning M-Pesa. Launched in 2007...
It’s Alive! NFC Is Back from the Dead
NFC is back and on the move. Visa and MasterCard both announced support for host-card emulation (HCE) this week and that...
The Path Not Taken by Simple (Bank) to Remake Finance
This morning Simple sold for $117M to BBVA. It’s great news for the team and I think it’s going to be...
Here’s the Email That Started Simple
So what led to the launch of Simple, the banking startup that was acquired today for a reported $117 million...
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