The global payments landscape is evolving quickly, yet many challenges in supply chain payments remain unresolved. Charles Rosenblatt discusses the key pain points and potential solutions.
Read MoreThe FR sat down with Elena Casal, chief client officer at The Clearing House, to discuss key themes at the upcoming annual conference from The Clearing House taking place in New York on November 12-13.
Read MoreAlex Lazarow, author, speaker, and global venture capitalist dives into how top companies are shaping the future of financial technology.
Read MoreGabriel Grisham, Senior VP at PayQuicker, dives into how new instant payment technology is disrupting the payment ecosystem.
Read MoreThe on-site payment fan experience has continued to evolve with consumer habits. Rob Cameron, global head of acceptance solutions at Visa, answers three questions about digital payments at this year’s Olympics and its impact on the customer experience.
Read MoreMichael Dunlop, VP of sales at Rokt, looks at how companies can use first-party data for contextually-relevant customer offers.
Read MoreNandan Sheth, CEO of Splitit dives into why merchants may prefer card-linked installments over BNPL.
Read MoreNew life may be breathed into facial ID due to the coronavirus — no cards, no phones, no touching.
Read MoreRecently, we touched on how several hot European fintechs have set their eyes on the U.S. market, and now a major U.S. player is moving in the other direction across the pond. This week, Plaid said it is launching in the UK as part of a planned global expansion.
Read MoreIn the early part of this decade, fintechs were viewed by some traditional financial institutions as barbarians at the gate, eager to take customers away. Fintechs, for their part, frequently talked about “disrupting” the financial industry and doing things digital-first, not being held back by legacy technology or processes.
Read MoreIt’s gratifying to see start-ups highlighted in our Company of Note section receive their just validation. A case in point is ClearGraph, which we highlighted in March as a compelling solution to help financial institutions better harness their raw data. This week, the firm agreed to become part of business intelligence and analytics firm Tableau.
Read MoreJon Butler has left his senior technology role at Goldman Sachs to join Deloitte’s technology consulting practice. Also this week, Heather Tuason, formerly of Capital One, has joined StreetShares, a small business lending marketplace. Given the company’s dedication to helping America’s veterans
Read More“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or on their foreheads. And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” That passage from the Book of Revelations describes the mark that everyone will need to have in or on their bodies during the “end times.”
Read MorePayPal has partnered with Baidu to let Baidu Wallet users send payments to Paypal’s 17 million-strong merchants worldwide. Also in payments land, Stripe paid an undisclosed amount for Payable to bolster its tax reporting and contractor payments offerings; and Visa has made an investment in Marqeta
Read MoreTaavet Hinrikus will be stepping down as CEO of UK-based Transferwise, just months after he said he would relocate the company’s HQ to the EU mainland. While this fits the Brexit doomsday scenarios of fintech start-ups fleeing the UK, new financings by Receipt Bank, Soldo, Tide, Curve and Revolut demonstrate that Britannia remains fertile fintech ground.
Read MoreThe Financial Revolutionist is weekly newsletter and blog focused on the torrid pace of financial innovation. Today, thanks to the exponential rate of technological change, explosion in global trade and new regulations ushered in by the Great Financial Crisis, a new financial revolution is under way. In this battle, virtually every aspect of the greater financial services sector is subject to rigorous challenge. With the Financial Revolutionist, we are aspiring to create a boots-on-the-ground and highly opinionated assessment of important financial innovation developments in the past week.
