In this week’s global Payments NEXT newsletter, US startup Zippin is showcasing its next-generation checkout-free technology. Walmart is testing an innovative crowdsourcing delivery program that could take off. IBM has now made its blockchain-based bank payments and clearing technology available. Amazon Pay entered the challenging ...
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Disruptive Technologies
Disruptive Technologies
A new report from Juniper Research says password-based solutions are increasingly impractical, and service providers have begun testing alternative second factors; ‘something I am’, such as a fingerprint, iris, facial feature or vein pattern to establish an individual’s identity. Biometric identities provide an extra layer ...
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Instead of taking days or weeks to pay out non-glass insurance claims, a new service from Safelite Solutions and Ingo Money could pay accident claimants within hours. Safelite Solutions SVP of Strategic Client Sales & Support Jon Cardi said in a PYMNTS.com interview, “This is ...
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Mary Meeker is a venture capital leader and analyst with Kleiner Perkins. Her annual Trends Report is closely examined for its comprehensive analysis and predictions. Her report is comprehensive, well-sourced and extensive as you can see in the following content index. We’ll take a look ...
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Today, we’re looking at PayPal’s campaign to bring in new customers from the nine million “unbanked” US residents who either don’t use a bank or don’t like using banks. We examine how traditional banks are losing mobile customers because their user experience on bank mobile ...
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Got no bank? You may be just the customer PayPal is looking for. Of course, more than 227 million worldwide customers know and likely use PayPal often for payments services. PayPal doesn’t have a US bank license but that hasn’t stopped it from moving further ...
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Today’s newsletter looks at two interesting payments and e-commerce trends. First is a new report that says 60% of Square payments merchants would be willing to accept cryptocurrency payments for goods and services. With the volatility of the cryptocurrency market, even researchers were surprised with that ...
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A new Uphold partnership will simplify and speed up the payroll process for employers paying employees and freelancers, and freelancers invoicing clients around the world. The partnership brings together Uphold with Bitwage, an international payroll processing service, and digital currency Dash in a new cryptocurrency payroll ...
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The impact of technology on financial services has been rapid and significant according to PwC’s 2017 Global Fintech Report – Redrawing the lines: FinTech’s growing influence on Financial Services. Let’s take a look at where PwC says financial services have been hit the hardest and ...
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Fintech Friday looks at looks at mobile payments news from Craigslist, PayPal, Baidu, Kroger, Tikkie and Tipalti. ...
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