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Robinhood Faces Another Service Interruption Due To Technical Issue

PYMNTS

The financial technology company is regarded for helping to make trading in vogue with millennials, Reuters reported. “We Robinhood was at the heart of a recent increase in day trading, with retail investors stuck in their residences because of pandemic restrictions. The app was up in under an hour.

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Five At Five: Amazon’s New India Push

PYMNTS

There is a new development from the world of real estate payments, and a large social media platform is embracing commerce. Baidu’s cloud solution will integrate Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors, as well as Intel’s Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Network technologies, to develop financial technologies for banks in China.

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iZettle CEO: Why PayPal’s Fast-Tracking Innovation To Future-Proof SMBs

PYMNTS

Indeed, just as SMBs have fast-tracked their own digitization efforts, their financial technology partners have also found the current climate to be an opportunity to accelerate innovation and roll out new services to support their merchant and consumer users. Innovation On The Fast Track. ” Giving SMBs A Hyperlocal Helping Hand.

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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

PYMNTS

Building The (Retail) Use Cases. Jeremy Allaire , CEO of financial technology firm Circle , told PYMNTS that digital currencies are ready to transition from speculation to become more broadly adopted in everyday commerce. . Part of the enthusiasm from investors comes as use cases have proliferated.

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Customer Experience in Financial Services

Celent Banking

These are a handful of the topics discussed at this week’s Customer Experience for Financial Services (CXFS) Conference, organized by Worldwide Business Research in Charlotte, NC. The CXFS conference was all about the “voice of the customer” (VoC) and how financial institutions (FIs) can improve their customer “listening” skills.

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Fintech Deals to Watch: Back to School

Gonzobanker

Thankfully, there was still a smartphone and social media to commiserate. Then, bad grades came in right as summer party season kicked off, mom and dad took away the car and credit card, and the Venmo transfers came to a screeching halt.

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Meet Our 2023 FICO Decisions Awards Judges

FICO

Neeti Aggarwal manages the financial technology and innovation research at The Asian Banker. With over 19 years’ experience, she specializes in banking, technology and fintech developments across Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. Douglas Blakey, editor, Retail Banker International.

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