The Risk of Cashless Society Devolving into an ‘Electronic Somalia’ [VIDEO]
In this engaging and recent TEDx talk, Dave Birch, the payments expert and borderline comedian (that's a compliment, Dave), offers...
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5 FinTech Startups Worth $1 Billion or More
Five fintech startups are now in the billion-dollar club -- meaning they are valued at more than $1 billion. Here...
Robocoin Will Offer Bitcoin and Remittance Services to All ATMs
Robocoin, known for opening the world's first bitcoin ATM in Vancouver, Canada, in October 2013, told investors yesterday that it...
Here’s What Google’s Doing to Counter Apple Pay
In order to compete with Apple Pay, it appears that Google is going back to an idea that didn't work...
Could bitcoin help me cut the 40% that Amazon takes to sell my book?
There are two reasons for my crowdsourced case study: Reason # 1: Make more money from my book. I understand...
A First Look at JetBlue’s Custom Apple Pay POS [VIDEO]
JetBlue didn't just announce today that it was allowing for payments via Apple Pay on its flights, but it introduced...
Mobile Payments Service Blik Goes Live in Poland
An initiative from Poland's six largest banks to enable mobile payments between bank customers went live today, according to a...
Standard Chartered Stops Processing Bitcoin Wires
Standard Chartered Bank has stopped processing wire transfers for bitcoin transactions, InsideBitcoins is reporting. The news is all the more jarring...
Millennials Are 10x More Likely to Use P2P Lenders Than the +50 Set
Banks are worried about the millennial generation, and rightly so. The generation born between 1980 and 1994 is the largest...
BBVA’s 7 Steps to Digital Transformation
One theme from the current earnings seasons is that digital transformation for financial institutions does not come cheap. That makes...
