To Charles Potts, EVP and Chief Innovation Officer of ICBA, the ThinkTECH accelerator program represents a “key pillar” of ICBA’s work and arose from community banks' drive to be “on par with the biggest fintechs and banks on the planet.”
Read MoreRegulators are in a double bind. The antitrust concerns are real—as is the potential for this acquisition to disrupt the Visa-Mastercard duopoly.
Read MoreIt’s hard to tell how much Robinhood’s uptick stems from its savviness—poaching competitors’ brokerage customers through deposit matching, releasing popular product features, and more—rather than improved economic conditions.
Read MoreAccording to Ravi Venkatesan, CEO of Cantaloupe, the CHEQ acquisition aligns squarely with Cantaloupe’s mission. “We want to move as much commerce as possible to self-service commerce, and we want to be the technology that powers that self-service commerce,” he said. “It's really that simple.”
Read MoreMaybe above all else, ask yourself this: If you’re not pining for a $3,499 isolationist “iPad for your face,” then why would others?
Read MoreFrom Matt Ober: With the value of data going up every day and the amount of data-hungry AI models being trained, the web scraping rules are going to come up more and more. This is the first of many lawsuits.
Read MoreOnsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Thomas Fuss, CTO of Backbase.
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Read MoreOnsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Barry McCarthy, CEO & President of Deluxe.
Read MoreTo Dave Baxter, CEO of Solutions by Text, the expansion into embedded payments is a logical next step for SBT that ultimately benefits consumers. “Bill pay isn’t going away,” Baxter said, citing its place as 30% of consumer spend.
Read MoreOnsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Yinglian Xie, CEO & Founder of DataVisor.
Read MoreOnsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Corinna Stukan, VP of Product at Stellar Elements.
Read MoreThrough Go Flex, Uber hopes to use bartering and a semblance of consumer freedom as a strategy for growth. But this payments scheme obfuscates a deeper crisis in supply.
Read MoreOnsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Raj Sundaresan, CEO of Altimetrik.
Read MoreFrom Matt Ober: The downstream cost of leveraging AI, I believe, will become more expensive or be continuously funded by VC money in the near team. We are already seeing the lawsuits pop up with the New York Times. Owners of data and content want to get paid!
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