Startup QUID Wants to Change Digital Payments, One Penny at a Time
A recently-launched micropayments platform seeks to upend how people buy and sell digital content. QUID, a Toronto-based payments startup founded...
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UMB Bank Offers Business Customers New Payment Solution
UMB Bank will start offering its business clients a new payment solution that will help customers streamline payments by automating...
Study Shows Strong Relationship Between Credit Score Review and Credit Score Increase
Can regularly checking your credit score actually help improve your results? We wanted to know the answer to that critical...
These 12 Startups Are Competing in the Demo Contest at Bank Innovation Ignite
The 12 startups demoing to try to win the "best in show" award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled....
Fintech Funding Surged 120% in 2018
The year 2018 was a great year for fintech funding across the globe. This is true not only because the total...
U.S. FIs Pursue Open Banking Without Europe-style Regulatory Nudge
The U.S. is making a more organic shift toward open banking concepts than what is seen in Europe, where the...
Fintechs Do Not Fear Brexit … At Least Not, Yet
LONDON -- Brexit is an unavoidable topic in the United Kingdom these days. Unless of course, you attended Finovate Europe....
Can Banks Solve their Small-Dollar Loan Problem with Fintech Partnerships?
Aura, a San Francisco-based fintech offering affordable loans to low to moderate-income households, wants to partner with banks to offer...
Alliant Credit Union Could Become the First Digital-Only CU in the U.S.
Alliant Credit Union, one of the nation’s largest CUs, is fully digitalizing its end-to-end member application and loan process by...
Germany Bans New Wirecard Short Sales in Unprecedented Move
Germany’s financial regulator took the unprecedented step of temporarily banning short sales of Wirecard AG shares following reports of suspicious...
