Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Gonzo readers, 2021 was just plain schizophrenic. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Two, read and enjoy the 2021 GonzoBanker awards, our annual take on the best things we saw during the year. So which merger was the best in 2021? Doug Larson. THE BANKER AWARDS.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. Part of that includes reminding consumers to use their contactless cards when they check out in their stores (if they have one) or their mobile wallets (if they choose). Uber and Starbucks pioneered it.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. According to issuer Goldman Sachs , they have opened up about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple Card. Of that $10 billion, Apple Card?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Because the idea worked, it spread – first throughout the West Coast, where Christmas kettles caught on quickly, and then in the East after McFee was stationed in Boston (at which point they added the bells). with consumers choosing it over debit or credit cards for day-to-day purchases. Cash made up 12.6

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Samsung’s global march added another stopping point this week, as Thailand became the latest nation to come online for Samsung Pay. Kim noted that Thailand presents a natural opportunity for a mobile payments platform — given the government’s national e-payment scheme and the widespread use of smartphones and e-commerce.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In early 2021, a customer approached a teller at Kennebec Savings Bank in Augusta, Maine, and asked to withdraw $20,000. Once, before a holiday weekend, a customer messaged the bank to say that her ATM card wasn’t working. National banks. It’s in their DNA. fashioned customer service. Local institutions.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Facebook’s Libra (OK, now it’s been renamed to Diem ) looms as 2021 dawns – maybe – and in a form diminished from its initial ambitions back in 2019, to disrupt the monetary system itself. That would, of course, include Diem, backed by the consortium of tech companies, Facebook among them, aiming for a 2021 launch.

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