FIs Should Keep An Eye On Alexa, Before It Goes Full ‘Star Trek’
Alexa now has about 12,000 skills on its platform (the 10,000 milestone was in March) since opening it up to developers...
Payments
P2P Is the New Social ‘Norm,’ BofA Says
Thanks to the likes of Venmo and (soon) Zelle, real-time, person-to-person payments are now an expectation for consumers. In fact, P2P...
AliPay Expands to Four Million U.S. Merchants
Alipay is now available at the POS at millions more U.S. businesses. Chinese mobile payments behemoth Alipay continues targeting North...
Starling Bank Makes a B2B Push With Real-Time Payments
U.K. businesses vying for faster payments might want to take a look at Starling Bank. The bank’s new B2B payment...
Barclays Gives Users Total Control Over Debit in Effort to Stop Card Fraud
Will giving customers more direct control over their debit cards stop fraud? Barclays is optimistic. Barclays customers now have the...
Congressman Randy Hultgren to Keynote ABA Payments Forum
WASHINGTON — Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.) will keynote the American Bankers Association’s inaugural Payments Forum, to be held on June...
Wells Fargo Customers Are Largest Users of Debit, Pre-Paid in the U.S.
Consumers are clinging to their physical cards, and Wells Fargo customers especially. Wells Fargo customers were the largest users of debit...
Apple Pay Transactions Skyrocket Amid Global Expansion
Mobile wallet adoption may not be gaining traction for most, but Apple is an exception. During the quarterly earnings call yesterday, the...
PayPal Wants SMBs to Get Excited About ‘Business in a Box’
PayPal wants this to be the year it grows closer with merchants and small businesses. The payments company launched what...
Mastermind Behind Fyre Festival Also Failed with a Payments Company
Unless you have blocked all social media channels at once for the past few days, you have heard of Fyre...
