Busy Day for Circle As It Releases Trading App, Launches Research Arm
Payments company Circle launched a new mobile app today for its trading platform, Poloniex, which it acquired in February. Circle...
H&M Invests $20 Million in Klarna to Improve the Retailer’s Payments Experience
Today the Swedish retailer H&M announced a $20 million investment in the payments company -- and as of June 2017, a...
New Entrant Tries to Crack Digital Gifting
Digital money movement is convenient, and works well for utilitarian scenarios like paying bills and reimbursing friends, but falls a...
‘Citi Bot’ to Launch in the U.S. in the Next Few Months
Citigroup launched a bot for Facebook Messenger a year ago in Singapore, and will begin rollout of a bot in its...
INV Fintech Partners with Chinaccelerator
INV Fintech, this site's sister accelerator, today unveiled a new partnership with Chinaccelerator, a leading startup accelerator in Shanghai, China....
Cryptocurrency Gets More Boring (and Useful) with Circle’s USD Coin
Cryptocurrency and blockchain are becoming boring -- not just because the media has covered them so much (ahem!) but because...
Why Are Half of All Sales Leads at Banks Dropped?
Half of all bank leads are not followed up, and millions of irrelevant offers are mailed at great expense to...
USAA on the Future of Customer Engagement
Bank Innovation and its sister accelerator INV Fintech are holding a meetup next week featuring two executives from USAA: Darrius Jones,...
Umpqua Launches Go-To, a Human-Digital Hybrid Platform for Customer Interaction
Umpqua Bank announced yesterday the launch of a new type of customer engagement model, one that appears to be entirely...
Interbank Blockchain Stellar Receives Boost as Lightyear Buys Chain
Competition and consolidation are heating up in the interbank blockchain space. Chain, a startup that raised more than $40 million...
