A Tidal Wave of Payments Fraud Wells Up
The financial services industry is racing toward faster payments, driven, we're told, by consumer demand. But consumers are not likely...
Payments
Real-Time payment is different from ‘faster’ because it changes consumer behavior
Almost every country now has initiatives controlled by banks to do faster payments. The UK one is called – appropriately...
MasterCard CEO Confirms Tokenization Will Come to MasterPass ‘Later This Year’
MasterCard will add tokenization to its MasterPass NFC product "later this year," the company's top executive said today. By adding tokenization,...
Bank of the West Bakes PFM Into Its Online Banking Experience
Bank of the West has made personal financial management (PFM) capabilities an integral part of its online banking portal. The...
Unlocking the Android Pay Pricing Mystery
Being that little about Android Pay, unveiled yesterday, was interesting, attention turns to the only real differentiator available to Google: pricing....
Android Pay Arrives — and It Looks Eerily Familiar
Google teased the release of Android Pay in the presentation of its "M" release today at Google I/O and it looked...
ATM-Killer SPARE Begins Beta Testing (For Real This Time)
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away -- actually, it was just last year in Los Angeles --...
Top 5 Reasons to Read Ron Shevlin’s New(ish) Book
In a sense, if you've been reading Ron Shevlin's Snarketing 2.0 blog, now part of The Financial Brand, you have...
Dubious and Disturbing ‘Pay to Play’ in FinTech Media
This week, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, my alma mater, graduated its latest class of students. The graduation had...
Venture Funding for FinTech Climbs 62% YOY, New Data Shows
FinTech venture funding continues to increase. A total of $520 million was invested in financial services startups last quarter, up...
