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
JUNE 15, 2016
Bank Innovation Israel 2016 registration has officially opened today. The only Western fintech event in Startup Nation, the 2016 Bank Innovation Israel will take place 1-3 November at the Dan Tel Aviv. The event is presented by Bank Innovation, one of the world’s leading fintech blogs.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
And, as consumers have many options, fast-casual and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) realize they must meet growing diner expectations and embrace technology to stay relevant. And food-ordering platforms are teaming up with restaurant technology companies to make it easier for eateries to accept delivery orders.
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.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 27, 2021
But keeping track of it all can be a challenge — especially knowing what card is being charged, by whom, and when. Case in point: as Minna Technologies has noted, the average European consumes has 11 subscriptions in place — and the average household has 21 subscriptions.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 9, 2019
And, he said, he knew in the answer he was supposed to reassure employees about his allegiance to PayPal’s technology firm roots. At issue, then was the concern that collaborating with the card networks would fundamentally break PayPal’s business model and jeopardize its growth. “I and Europe are using cards to make their payments.
PYMNTS
MARCH 4, 2020
Barry Floyd, the firm’s chief financial officer, told PYMNTS in a recent interview that the company was particularly busy during 2016 and 2017, when Hurricanes Matthew and Irma hit the company’s home state of Florida. This is why Paul Davis is turning to new technology, Floyd said. Bringing Innovation to a Traditional Industry.
Bank Innovation
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
TEL AVIV — PayKey, an intriguing Israeli startup that lets banks offer payments on any social media platform — and we mean any — won the demo contest at Bank Innovation Israel 2016 here this week. PayKey beat out 12 other finalists at the DEMOvation Challenge at Bank Innovation Israel, Read More.
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. Here is the response from James Jenkins, director of payment security at CA Technologies …. Payments 2016: The Year Of Clarity For The Payments Sector.
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
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
OCTOBER 21, 2019
However, most people assumed that was survivable, and that the new millennia — powered by the emerging, mysterious technology known as “the internet” — was going to be a great place to live. We have the end-to-end guide — and the lessons learned during the ride by the innovators who had a first-row vantage points.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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. In addition, the program includes keynote speeches from industry leaders and Celent analysts, plenty of opportunities to network with peers, and even to experience some of the latest technologies first hand, courtesy of our sponsors.
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. There’s no doubt about it. EMV changed the payments game in the U.S. A Retail Data Reporting Error Was Uncovered.
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.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 13, 2020
Waze, the popular GPS navigation app owned by Google, has introduced contactless payments for ExxonMobil and Shell card holders in the U.S. Waze is committed to continuing to help businesses leverage innovative technology to adapt, evolve, and engage with customers,” said Andrew Kandel, Waze U.S. country manager, in a statement.
PYMNTS
MARCH 30, 2018
Employers see potential in faster payments technologies to remedy key points of friction in payroll, like fixing payroll errors. 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.
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. It’s not technology that is holding us up.
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
MARCH 19, 2018
Credit card skimmers are a headache for fuel retailers, but there is more than one way that fraudulent actors can target fleet spend. In addition to stolen credentials and skimmed cards at the fuel point-of-sale, employees are often able to overspend with their commercial fleet card products, or file fraudulent expense reports.
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
APRIL 19, 2018
percent of all cards issued globally by the end of 2017 were EMV-enabled. In addition, the number of EMV payment cards in circulation around the world increased by 1 billion over the previous 12 months — to a total of 7.1 percent in 2016. percent in 2016. Data from EMVCo shows that 54.6 The data also showed that 63.7
PYMNTS
JULY 6, 2018
billion payment chip cards were shipped worldwide in 2017. While shipment volumes in China and the United States “continue to normalize,” contactless payment cards are more than 70 percent of shipments in “a growing number of territories,” the association said in an announcement. marking a twofold increase over 2014.
PYMNTS
MARCH 4, 2017
The B2B payments industry is finally beginning to hustle when it comes to technological innovation. This industry is on the cusp of some major innovation, too, as FinTechs roll out services that banks can offer to their own customer clients via APIs. It loves modern technology.
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.
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.
Gonzobanker
MARCH 9, 2022
The unicorns of core banking systems have been running wild the past few weeks, and these frothy deals signal a future shift in how executives should view the world of financial technology. Fiserv was already a part owner when in early February it acquired the remaining portion of 2016-founded cloud-based Finxact.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 29, 2018
A report released in 2016 by Covercy found that small businesses in the U.K. That includes cross-border payments , he said, which have been the recent target of FinTech innovation, and which are headed for more disruption to come. “Virtual cards also offer a very secure and time-efficient way of making payments.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
To keep up with the pace of innovation as competitors move toward mobile ordering, delivery and payments innovations, Restaurant Brands International (RBI), which owns Burger King and other brands, hired CFO Josh Kobza as its new czar leader in January. Customers also receive exclusive perks and benefits with the credit card.
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 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
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
Innovations — some more fantastical than others — keep emerging, though. The machine offers those who answer yes the option of remembering a previous order either by facial scan or by personally identifiable information (PII) like a phone number or credit card used to place the previous order. Vein recognition? Voice patterns?
Chris Skinner
JULY 5, 2017
In this growing and dynamic market, payments have been one of the major drivers of growth and innovation. Fifteen years ago, only 9 per cent of total household consumption was through cards. Today, Turkey is the largest market in terms of total number of cards and point-of-sales (POS) machines[1].
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