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,...
Affirm Integrates Its Virtual Card with Apple Pay
Startup Affirm is embedding its technology into the Apple ecosystem, allowing customers to load the company’s virtual card into Apple...
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...
French Fintech Lydia is Building a ‘Meta-Banking’ App, Launches Premium Service
Paris-based banking startup Lydia is looking to become a “meta-banking app” that will allow customers to find several financial products...
Will the ‘Bank of Amazon’ Make Mobile Payments Mainstream?
EXCLUSIVE— Most consumers in the United States stubbornly cling to their plastic payments, even as customers in other countries —...
The Future of Biometrics in NextGen Payments [VIDEO]
How will consumers use biometrics for payments in the future? With the advance of face, finger, and voice identification, biometric...
BBVA to Test Invisible Payments at ‘Ciudad BBVA’
Spanish bank BBVA will be testing its invisible payment strategy in-house, allowing employees and staff to use an app to...
How Do You Drive Customer Value with Mobile? [VIDEO]
Mobile payments may not be mainstream in the United States quite yet, but it’s growing to be a more popular...
Through New Oracle Partnership, Baton Systems is Bringing the Cloud, APIs, DLT to Banks
EXCLUSIVE—The legacy infrastructure of most banks leaves something to be desired, and payments technology provider Baton Systems wants to use...
Fintech Robinhood Could Reach $5.6B Value After Newest Funding Round
Silicon Valley startup Robinhood is set to hit a $5.6 billion valuation after its newest funding round, expected to reach...
