Bank Innovation

JANUARY 25, 2018

EXCLUSIVE — It’s not even a month into 2018 and already so much has changed. The cryptocurrency bitcoin, which shocked everyone by surpassing $17K, further shocked everyone by dropping below $10K. Then of course there are various other events sweeping the financial services space, from new tax laws in the U.S., to the rise of […].

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JUNE 15, 2020

To offer businesses a simple way for supervising expenditures, digital financial technology firm Wirecard is teaming with Payhawk to roll out a new Visa card, according to an announcement. The cards will come in both a digital and tangible medium, and managers can supervise budgets in real time. In March, Payhawk notched $3.35

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Spreedly , a payments infrastructure firm headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, is introducing innovative revenue optimization solutions aimed at increasing conversions. False transaction declines totaled $331 billion in 2018, Spreedly said, citing an Aite Group report.

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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.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 13, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – American Express will be investing in its networks as one of its four major strategic priorities for 2018 as a way for the credit card company to adapt to the growing prominence of digital payments. “As

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 8, 2018

EXCLUSIVE—Card company Dynamics Inc. revealed its Wallet Card, described by the company as the “world’s first” connected payment card, at the CES conference currently taking place in Las Vegas, the company announced today.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

From cash to digital, from plastic cards to mobile wallets, from cash registers at the front of restaurants to tablets brought to tables (redefining the concept of “dine and dash”) — the way we pay shifts along with the availability of technology, and tech shifts as commerce demands new features. New ways to pay — as in alternative payments?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

According to the report, cybercrime touched nearly every sector throughout 2018, including those that may seem less obvious, like education or manufacturing — and for one obvious reason: the money. Facebook’s 2018 regarding the stewardship of user data and privacy was one it would like to soon forget.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

In fact, they make the timing of their product rollouts a crucial part of their innovation strategies. Only after observing their competitors’ missteps do they fully commit to the rollout of their innovations. percent of the top innovators in the financial sector said they observe market trends first. As much as 53.3

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 26, 2019

Money-transfer startup TransferWise is expanding the reach of its multi-currency debit card and, in doing so, wading into bank territory. The company's borderless account initially was made available to European customers in early 2018.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The Mastercard Track Card to Account Transfer, the release says, will let businesses use commercial cards to pay suppliers even if the suppliers don't take card payments. Mastercard Track was debuted in 2018, and works on real-time data collection and faster payments, helping businesses with B2B payments.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

JPMorgan Chase had the highest "buzz ranking" among banks in 2018, according to YouGov's Brand Index, an annual poll measuring which brands are considered the best by consumers. Participants were asked, “If you’ve heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks, through advertising news or word of mouth, was it positive or negative?”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

bank NatWest has started a three-month trial of a biometric credit card that will use a fingerprint in lieu of a PIN. If the purchase is more than £100, then the card needs to be put into a terminal with the fingerprint as additional verification. . NatWest launched a test of biometric debit cards earlier this year. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

CPI Card Group announced that it has launched Second Wave cards for markets including transit, hospitality, entertainment and more. First launched in September, Second Wave payment cards feature a core made with recovered ocean-bound plastic to reduce first-use plastic while diverting plastic waste from entering the ocean.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

To help diners make the best use of their mobile devices to order meals, quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are tapping into mobile innovations. From Dunkin’ Brands to Grubhub , QSRs and ordering platforms are driving innovation with mobile ordering technology.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

That appears to concern many businesses as 74 percent of recruiters stated in 2018 that they expected to more intensely vie against other firms to attract new hires in 2020. This month’s Deep Dive digs into the data that guides staffing agencies’ payroll disbursement decisions, including payroll cards ’ pros and cons. rose from 3.1

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

While there has been some innovation in wage payment mechanisms as more employers shift away from the paper check toward direct deposit and payroll cards, little has changed about the timing of those payments. ACH Innovation Breaks The Mold. I incorporated the business the next month, in April 2018.”.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 3, 2018

But which Bank Innovation stories caught […]. Bitcoin is no longer enjoying the limelight, non-bank giants like Amazon, Walmart and Google have shaken up the banking landscape and automation has become the norm in various aspects of banking with banks like using it in the backend of credit decision-making and lending.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Retailers must protect customers’ card data from hackers who try to snatch payment details, and following best practices to ensure security requires adhering to the regulations established by the PCI SSC, a global payments industry forum. This is a sharp decline from 2018, when 42 percent of such providers said the same.

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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.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

percent of retailers have said they innovate to improve customer loyalty. That, in fact, is one of the main findings in the new Retail Innovation Readiness Index from PYMNTS, powered by FinTech firm AEVI. Things have changed, though, he said — one reason why that innovation finding carries such weight. “I Innovation Divide.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 16, 2017

EXCLUSIVE -Payment card issuing platform Marqeta will be launched in Canada next month and Europe in 2018, Marqeta’s CEO, Jason Gardner told Bank Innovation. Marqeta uses open API technology to process payment cards, virtual cards and mobile authorization products. Based in Oakland, Calif.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

But the numbers tell a tale, and recent stats in the March 2020 Credit Union Innovation Index show the need for CUs to step up their efforts to innovate. percent from 2018 to 2019. CUs need to move beyond payments, said Fagan, and embrace what he termed a “full-scale, full-service approach to innovation.” Keeping Score.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Those who work in and around high tech and innovation are lulled into a narrative about progress being on a march ever forward, rarely slowing, never stopping and certainly never turning around and marching in the wrong direction. . Once one gets outside of the top 25 banks in the U.S., The Soft Middle in Financial Services.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

For its part, Venmo now has an option to transfer money to the bank without a debit card for the same fee. And there is a credit card angle, too, which will apply to dealing with Gen Z users of P2P going forward. And there is a credit card angle, too, which will apply to dealing with Gen Z users of P2P going forward.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

PricewaterhouseCoopers — after 83 consecutive years of tabulating the Academy Awards without incident — managed to accidentally put the wrong card in Warren Beatty/Faye Dunaway’s hands for the Best Picture award and … well the rest is YouTube history. PwC is now called Probably Wrong Card!”. Best B2B Innovation. Silver: Alipay.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

credit card business, mobile-first company Jaja will pay an initial cash consideration of $671 million at current rates. The FinTech firm will also serve as the consumer credit card issuer for the AA and the bank’s U.K. s Automobile Association and a Bank of Ireland branded card. (It To acquire the Bank of Ireland’s U.K.

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JULY 16, 2019

Banks and credit unions looking for safer and more efficient digital and mobile services for debit and credit cards can now turn to the cloud. Ondot said its 4,000 banks and credit unions will see faster and easier upgrades while also gaining access to the latest innovations and functionality.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Analysis of contactless card transactions revealed that the volume of commercial card contactless payments, both debit and credit, jumped 24 percent between 2018 and 2019. At the same time, commercial credit cards’ cash advances dropped 14 percent last year. SumUp Wields Cards For Faster Revenue.

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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.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

Innovation is good, but flexibility and agility count, too — as does striking while it’s hot. In 2018 alone, the company generated $100 million in revenue. to launch Halo Travel, a travel chatbot powered by Priceline Partner Network. “Massive conversions” are underway for Shell and Chevron fleet cards. Future Trends.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 20, 2018

a PFM that provides “smart debit cards” to more than 100,000 users to begin financial literacy conversations with their children, is launching a credit product. We’re working on several things for 2018—what we’re doing seems to be resonating,” Greenlight CEO and co-founder Tim Sheehan told Bank Innovation.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

And so, as 2018 begins, so does the Start Path class of 2018, which is accepting applications until Jan. As Neale pointed out, this particularly applied to international firms, which may be well-known in their home market but would like to expand globally. The Start Path Admissions Process.

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JUNE 27, 2019

That news is another recent development in the world of children’s retail, where innovation continues. The stores could be about a third of the size of the big-box stores that closed in 2018 at roughly 10,000 square feet. But innovation in the area of retail goes further than making up for this absence.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 18, 2018

We spent last year and most of 2016 scaling and on the workings of the product,” Purdue told Bank Innovation. EXCLUSIVE - With over 100,000 signups to date, Ollie Purdue, CEO of digital current accounts Loot will turn his focus on generating revenues this year. “We This year, we look at revenues.” Launched back in 2014, […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The index notes, “This is largely due to the prevalence of delivery, which has increased 15 percent since 2018 likely thanks to the rise of mobile order-ahead apps.” Even so, innovators from third-party apps to restaurant chains themselves are offering mobile options that extend beyond delivery.

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Insights on Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Given IBM’s experiences helping clients accelerate their digital transformation journey with Cloud and AI, we’re particularly excited that “Enabling the digital economy” is the Sibos 2018 conference theme. IBM at Sibos 2018. Stay tuned for more blogs on Sibos 2018! Jim Brill, IBM Financial Services Marketing.

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