Acorns Transforms ‘Cash Back’ into ‘Cash Forward’
Acorns is bettingthat millennials will prefer “cash forward” to the old-school “cash back” rewards on their purchases. Earlier this week,...
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MasterCard Releases Its IoT App for Samsung Refrigerator
The vision of a refrigerator -- and internet of things -- that can facilitate home shopping has been realized. MasterCard...
Pay With Venmo App Service Live For ‘Select Users’
It's not just P2P anymore. Venmo's in-app payment feature is live, and select "lucky users" can already use Pay with Venmo...
Moribund MCX Delays Rollout, Cuts Staff
Just a day after Walmart Pay began its rollout, troubled mobile payments consortium MCX announced it was just about shutting down....
Walmart Pay Won’t Make a Dent in Card Usage, For Now
First announced in December 2015, the latest in the mobile wallet pipeline – Walmart Pay – is live as of...
Breaking Banks: Fintech Inside Banks (Warning: May Include Bitcoin)
It's double your pleasure, double your fun with Breaking Banks today! We have last week's show on digital currencies and...
Investments, Financial Management, and Even Some Virtual Reality: Finovate Day 2
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Day 2 of Finovate saw a seeming parade of wealth management and investment solutions, but the final...
Investing, Authentication, and a Few Bots at Finovate
Image from Finovate.com SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Thirty-nine companies demoed their products to the crowd at Finovate Spring today. Not...
Dwolla CEO: Faster Payments Offer ‘Substantial New Market Opportunities’
It looks like this faster payments thing is going to happen after all. When the Federal Reserve floated the idea...
What’s New Around the ‘Block’?
Demand yields supply: while major FIs are increasingly investing in distributed ledgers, today we are not falling short on the supply...
