Weekly Wrap: CIT targets homeowners associations, as Qapital connects emotions with money
Welcome to the latest episode of our Weekly Wrap video series, for the week ending Friday, January 10, 2019. In...
Payments
Thailand strives to catch up to Asian markets on digital banking
Thailand is laying the foundations for standalone digital banks as it strives to catch up with other Asian markets that...
Bank product development becomes a ‘game of thrones’
Look no further than Citigroup to catch a glimpse of the future of bank product development. In a revealing Meetup...
Amex moves closer to entering China’s $27 trillion market
American Express Co. cleared a key hurdle in its bid to accessing China’s $27 trillion payments market after the central...
Tencent teams with state-backed UnionPay on mobile payments
Tencent Holdings Ltd. and China UnionPay Co. will soon unify the mobile codes that consumers scan to pay for purchases,...
Gas stations struggle to meet October chip card deadline
While chip cards are becoming a mainstay at brick-and-mortar retail checkouts, gas pump payment technology lags behind. Visa and Mastercard...
Financial app Qapital hacks the psychology of spending
George Friedman, Qapital CEO and co-founder At first glance, New York-based Qapital, a digital banking, investing and budgeting platform, might...
Recommendation engine Borrowell moves into bill tracking and pay advances
Borrowell, the Canadian financial product recommendation and lending platform reminiscent of Credit Karma, is getting into a subscription model. The...
Two more groups submit Singapore digital banking license bids
Two more consortiums said they submitted bids for digital banking licenses in Singapore as companies, ranging from a massage chair...
Banks can take cues from challengers on digital customer acquisition: Gartner
While large banks may not feel threatened by personal finance apps or digital-only challengers, they can learn from them on...
