How will digital wallets be regulated?
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The CFPB—at least in its current form—may attempt to rally public opinion around its idea of digital wallets and their underlying risks.
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Fintech News Stories
Cross-border strategies for payment giants
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With Mastercard opting to make its latest tie-up with Alipay but not Tencent, might Visa opt to partner with Alipay’s competitor?
Read MoreEvaluating Meta's payment strategy
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What sort of antitrust implications arise when the world’s largest social media conglomerate partners with the world’s largest e-commerce company? How does it affect consumer and business wellbeing?
Read MoreCan cross-border payments have junk fees?
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Exchange rate markups affect everyday people, not just wealthy tourists—deleteriously affecting small businesses, consumers who send remittances abroad, as well as servicemembers—amounting to a whopping $5.8B in lost value last year.
Read MoreMaking sense of Capital One's Discover acquisition
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Regulators are in a double bind. The antitrust concerns are real—as is the potential for this acquisition to disrupt the Visa-Mastercard duopoly.
Read MoreInside Cantaloupe’s acquisition of CHEQ
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According 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 MoreApple Vision Pro and the metaverse economy
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Maybe 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 MoreApple, consumer payments, and investor uncertainty in 2024
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Taking a look at publicly listed tech companies’ payments-focused strategies suggest that payments will remain a cash cow and focus of investment this year across fundraising fora—not just VCs and private markets.
Read MoreRetail at a crossroads
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Introverts or not, consumers continue to approach in-person commerce as a productive, social, and non-fungible practice.
Read MoreThe strategy roadmap for a 108-year-old fintech
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Onsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Barry McCarthy, CEO & President of Deluxe.
Read MoreEmbedded payments in SMS with Solutions by Text
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To 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 MoreMarqeta: Bullish on BNPL
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In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Marqeta CEO Simon Khalaf highlights Marqeta’s recent data on holiday BNPL spending, justifies expanded use of BNPL in the face of consumer debt and hardship, and outlines Marqeta’s growth and product strategies.
Read MoreUnlocking the future of banking with Stellar Elements
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Onsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Corinna Stukan, VP of Product at Stellar Elements.
Read MoreBartering meets tech platforms
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Through 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 MoreData and digital transformation with Altimetrik
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Onsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Raj Sundaresan, CEO of Altimetrik.
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