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Galileo, Plaid Integrate To Streamline ACH Transfers

PYMNTS

The Salt Lake City payment processing platform has joined with Plaid, a Visa subsidiary based in San Francisco, that builds financial technology platforms to connect bank accounts and initiate automated clearing house (ACH) transfers. Last month, Galileo launched what it called a faster and less expensive way to create debit cards.

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Green Dot Eyes Banking-As-A-Service, Gen Z To Build On Q4 Growth

PYMNTS

Financial technology firm Green Dot , which made its name on its prepaid debit card solutions, is ramping up its focus on Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) after posting $14.3 million in net income for the fourth quarter of 2018.

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Visa, Wave Team To Bring Instant Payouts To Micropreneurs

PYMNTS

Now, Wave’s small business customers can access their sales instantly, using Visa Direct rails and their debit cards. The Wave financial technology platform, he said, at base, is designed to handle the bookkeeping and tax complexities for its micro-merchant customers as they generate invoices and collect funds.

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Beyond Mobile Banking, Giving (Alexa’s) Voice to Financial Lives, Naturally

PYMNTS

Ideally, those actions should run the gamut of transactions and financial services, across payments and cards. In an interview with PYMNTS, Domach said that “we are very early in the journey with voice technology, especially when it comes to final financial technology.”. You can say yes or no.”.

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Evolution through digital reinvention in banking

Insights on Business

Here are a few examples of how digital reinvention is being used by banks today: A bank in North America is using digital reinvention to improve its customer rewards program by using blockchain technology to give customers real-time data about their rewards account and a much better user experience.

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Fintech challengers – a threat or an opportunity?

NCR

The disruption caused recently by the emergence of a wide range of new financial technology (Fintech) players has been a huge jolt for the banking sector, and reminded traditional players that they cannot afford to be complacent in the face of these competitors. The rise of the challengers. ” An effective approach?

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Finovate Spring 2018 – Day 2

William Mills

Using Samsung SDS Digital Identity Platform, specifically Nexsign , a FIDO-certified biometric authentication solution, user identity is verified using non-duplicative biological information, such as a fingerprint, voice or facial scan, to deliver a user experience that is simple, fast, and more secure. They have a cool card.