2016 Innovators to Watch: 44 Executives Shaping the Future of Banking
Bank Innovation
JUNE 27, 2016
Some of the shine seems to have come off fintech innovation in 2016. But that doesn’t mean innovation is any less necessary. Read More.
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Bank Innovation
JUNE 27, 2016
Some of the shine seems to have come off fintech innovation in 2016. But that doesn’t mean innovation is any less necessary. Read More.
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
The panel of judges — Scarlett Sieber of BBVA; Sam Maule of Carlisle & Gallagher; Ryan Falvey of the Center for Financial Services Innovation; Matt Wilcox of Fiserv; and Phil Ryan of Bank Innovation — will decide which company is worthy of the “Best in Show” DEMOvation crown at Bank Innovation 2016.
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Chris Skinner
MARCH 7, 2016
The Cards & Payments Awards 2016 took place the other day, so I thought I’d pick out the three Awards that interest me the most: Best Technology Initiative; Best Initiative in Mobile Payments; and Best Industry Innovation.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 28, 2016
PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year Of EMV-Enabled Cards. Here is the response from Ray Wizbowski, CMO of Entrust Datacard …. Best of Times.
Bank Innovation
JUNE 23, 2016
Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world. Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More.
Bank Innovation
AUGUST 17, 2017
Mobile wallets may be all the buzz, but debit cards were still the most popular of payment method in the U.S. in 2016, according to a recent report by PULSE. According to the 2017 Debit Issuer Study released earlier this week, debit card transactions were at a record high in 2016, with 23.6 transactions per […].
BankBazaar
JULY 31, 2023
KYC Made Easy: Paperless Wonder in 2016 BankBazaar continued to make waves in 2016 when we unveiled our paperless e-KYC platform. With this innovation, customers could complete the Know Your Customer (KYC) process online, swiftly and effortlessly. With BankBazaar, finding the right Credit Card was too easy for me.
PYMNTS
MARCH 18, 2016
” Innovation Project 2016 — where hundreds of leaders across the payments, commerce, tech and security ecosystems joined together under one roof with one mission: navigating the balance between the leading and the bleeding edge. Especially when your talking innovations in payments. So, how did Day 2 end up?
PYMNTS
JANUARY 13, 2021
All eyes are on the small business community in the commercial card world as industry players increasingly explore how card products can help Main Street recovery and stay in business. Small Business Card Use On The Rise. Use of a charge card similarly grew year over year from 23 percent to 31 percent.
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
In Denmark, the advent of digital banking also saw almost a 60% jump in card fraud, Bloomberg reported yesterday. Danish credit card fraud significantly increased in 2016, Bloomberg said, and reports of online fraud in the country have increased 300% from reports in 2009. […].
PYMNTS
JANUARY 2, 2019
While commercial card innovation certainly accelerated in 2018, progress can always continue. Morgan Managing Director and Head of Commercial Card Product Management Naney Pandit says should be a focus this year is in mobilizing the corporate card. One area of development that J.P. Following The Consumer Trend.
PYMNTS
APRIL 3, 2019
According to a report in Reuters , Goldman Sachs is looking to hire engineers to join a digital innovation program. Earlier on Wednesday (April 3), American Express and SAP Ariba announced a partnership in which Amex used SAP Ariba’s API to offer virtual cards on its platform. Meanwhile, the U.K.
Bank Innovation
DECEMBER 24, 2018
Card payments increased 10.1% by value from 2016 to 2017. The Federal Reserve’s triennial report on payments released last week shows accelerated electronic payments growth, as well as signs that fewer people are paying by check or withdrawing cash from ATMs. by number and 8.4% For comparison, these payments had increased 7.8%
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
According to the new PYMNTS Order To Eat Tracker , the volume of mobile app orders rocketed 130 percent from 2016 to 2018, and the overall mobile order market value is set to reach $38 billion by 2020. And digital innovators are devising new ways to deliver food to consumers. Indiana University will have them this month.
PYMNTS
JUNE 21, 2019
Southwest Airlines is introducing a credit card for small business owners aimed at enhanced travel rewards. Business Insider reported Thursday (June 20) that Southwest announced the Southwest Rapid Rewards Performance Business Card, offering small business users 80,000 Rapid Rewards points when they spend $5,000 in the first three months.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 26, 2016
PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year Of Clarity For The Payments Sector. Cardholders have stayed with their cards. Today the vision is clear.
Bank Innovation
JANUARY 10, 2017
Avin Arumugam, senior vice president of the Internet of Things at Visa, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2017, which takes place March 6-7 in San Jose. Arumugam was at JPMorgan Chase for four years prior to his starting at Visa in May 2016. Recent video footage also Read More.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 22, 2020
Commercial cards remain only a fraction of the B2B payments space, but FinTech firms, banks and other financial service providers continue to develop new solutions aimed at boosting adoption. For companies like SmartEquip and Unified Payments Group , that means introducing new ways to lift the burden of suppliers accepting cards.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 21, 2019
As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. The network would run on a card issued by Barclays U.S.,
PYMNTS
MAY 8, 2018
Small businesses (SMBs) prefer not to seek funding to finance their innovative endeavors, according to new research from BMO Wealth Management , which suggests SMBs are missing out on opportunities to drive growth. 1 necessity for an entrepreneur’s innovative initiatives. A survey of more than 1,021 small businesses in the U.S.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 20, 2016
From open APIs to omnichannel, from EMV chip cards to faster payments, it’s hard to put a finger on exactly which happenings in the payments space had the biggest impact in 2016. PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
It’s an area of business spend friction that is driving a newfound resurgence in commercial card innovation that the card industry hasn’t seen in decades, with FinTech firms stepping in to take advantage of card transaction data. ” The Biggest Culprits Of Waste. Nixing The Personal Guarantee.
PYMNTS
APRIL 28, 2016
Visa has secured the spot as the exclusive payment provider for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio for the 30th year running. Visa will also bring its latest tech and innovation to Rio, which includes payment wearables and mobile payments to give the fans in Rio a contactless payment experience. million travelers for the year.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their labs. Decomposers are the ecosystem wild card. Decomposer for innovator large or small, established or emerging. An Ecosystem By Any Other Name. Consumer for the end user.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 23, 2016
PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Here is the response from Steven Cole, Senior Product Manager, EMV, Vantiv … Payments 2016: The Year Of The Chip.
PYMNTS
JUNE 8, 2016
In a payments landscape that is ever-changing and rapidly growing, having a focus on innovation that takes that same approach is significant. As Peter Read , President of Peoples Card Services , recently pointed out to PYMNTS, needs are never static, and neither should the payments innovation aimed at addressing them.
PYMNTS
MARCH 30, 2018
That’s where the payroll card comes in, she said. Not only can the card act as a vehicle for direct deposit, it can also facilitate faster payroll payouts. Kittrell Paycard recently announced the integration of InstantWage, a mechanism for payroll card users to access their earned wages before payday.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 25, 2018
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has extended the effective date on its 2016 prepaid card rule, among other modifications announced today (Jan. By 2020, analysts forecast that $116 billion per year will be loaded onto prepaid cards.
Bank Innovation
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
Consumer card transactions will overtake cash transactions for the first time in 2016, according to global research firm Euromonitor International. Cash is expensive to manage and is extensively used in the underworld.
PYMNTS
MARCH 25, 2016
It appears that more and more consumers are getting better connected with loyalty programs by linking their cards to them. “Card-linking has a network effect, and it is accelerating,” stated Silvio Tavares, CardLinx president and CEO, in a press release.
PYMNTS
JUNE 22, 2018
Visa and Wirecard are collaborating on a digital fleet card program, the companies revealed in an announcement on Thursday (June 21). The fleet card program we have built together with Visa brings everything together into one efficient solution.”. This is costly and time-consuming.
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More. When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 29, 2016
PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of …” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year Of “Hesitation”. I’ve got more digital wallets than credit cards. Initiative vs. the reality rollout.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 30, 2016
This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. In 2016, I believe that physical retail may be facing its own ‘Kodak moment,’” wrote Karen Webster. “In There’s no doubt about it. EMV changed the payments game in the U.S. A Retail Data Reporting Error Was Uncovered.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 22, 2016
PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year Of The Gazelle. Some observers might remember 2016 as the year that new, faster payment technologies truly began to take hold.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 13, 2017
CSI Kick Start, a FinTech incubator operated by corporate payments company CSI globalVCard, said it has officially kicked off its second year of searching out B2B payments innovators. The firm also introduced new cross-border corporate payment solutions in 2016, with capabilities to transact in more than 140 currencies.
Chris Skinner
JULY 3, 2017
There are almost 20 million users of mobile banking across the UK in 2016, making 159 logins every second. People are increasingly using banking apps to access a broader range of services such as savings, credit cards and mortgage/investments accounts, rising by 30%. Video chats are also growing in popularity, up 92% during 2016.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 16, 2020
In today’s top payments news around the world, India’s pay-later app Slice is introducing a no-fee Visa Card, while Stripe is purchasing payment processor Paystack. Slice is debuting a no-fee Visa Card that provides its millennial and Gen Z clients with cash back and no-cost EMIs during festive sales.
Celent Banking
APRIL 18, 2016
Last week many of us at Celent were in New York attending our Innovation and Insight Day on April 13th. The theme of this year's event was "Financial Services Reborn", and the Museum of American Finance on Wall Street provided an inspiring setting to celebrate innovation in financial services. Digital Payments and Cards.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
BMO Bank of Montreal is expanding its commercial card portfolio with a focus on small businesses. 5) that it is launching four new small business credit card products with various spender benefits. Our customers are expecting it of us, and it’s important for us as an industry to show innovation.”. percent of employers.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
IoT-enabled televisions, refrigerators and even vehicles are becoming mainstream, and even smartwatches are seeing the effects of connected innovation. percent increase over 2016. percent increase over 2016. in the form of smart poles that improve urban communities’ access to wireless networks and LED lighting.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 25, 2019
We have deep, data-supported dives on Apple Pay, the outlooks for payments innovation in the 2020s, web sales taxes and Amazon’s holiday shopping season news. Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention. Cards in the field, so to speak, were up 4 percent year on year to 3.4 Apple Card And The FinTech, TechFin Conundrum.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
percent in 2016. Credit unions, like any FI, are sitting on a trove of valuable personal information, such as credit card data and Social Security numbers, that hackers would do anything to get their hands on. percent in 2019, compared to 10.5 Another perennial challenge the industry faces is the ever-looming threat of data breaches.
ZootBlog
JANUARY 25, 2017
The year 2016 has come and gone but I wanted to provide a recap of the most read Zoot blog posts from last year just as a reminder that although industry news is ever changing, some topics seem to resurface year after year. Here’s a recap of the top five most read blog posts in 2016.
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