It’s official. In 2020, Google will introduce checking accounts for its Google Pay customers in partnership initially with Citigroup and Stanford Federal Credit Union. Analysts expect the new checking account will not carry the Google name but rather be branded with the partner bank name. ...
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Another week, another great global payments news roundup for you. Best Buy just threw down the free next-day holiday delivery gauntlet for its competitors. Kount and BlueSnap have partnered to enable and encourage international e-commerce for US companies. Look, up in the sky, it’s Wing ...
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The global payments news is just about as busy as the impeachment proceedings in the US but we’ve got important payments news to share. Lightico research looks at what Gen Z wants from their bank and it’s way more digital than their Dad’s bank. Juniper ...
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Welcome to this week’s global payments news roundup. We unwrap holiday sales predictions for the UK – up 3.5%-4%, according to Coresight and the US up 3.8%-4.2% expected by the National Retail Federation. When it comes to converting clicks to bricks, a new report from ...
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Yo! You knew it was just a matter of time before your kids got a bank app that only speaks their language and doesn’t want to talk to Boomers at all, right? When a news release announcing its US banking app launch starts like this, ...
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Mitto is banking that 14-year-old and older Generation Z consumers will want their very own digital wallet and virtual debit card. All financed by mom and dad, of course. And it’s raised $2.2 million in new VC funding to reach out and touch Gen Z ...
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Hard on the heels of launching a new small business loans product – Stripe Capital last week, Stripe is out today with a new corporate credit card aimed at small business. The Stripe Corporate Card is designed to meet the needs of US startups and ...
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Welcome to our first global payments news roundup for September. Lots of important news as we move into the busy fall business cycle. Accenture research shows UK challenger banks will triple in size in the next 12 months – substantial growth and the new competitive ...
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Accenture predicts UK digital-only challenger banks will triple in size from 12 million users to more than 35 million users in the next 12 months. A new Accenture report says five million new customers opened digital-only bank accounts in the first six months of 2019, ...
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Recognizing the threat from fintech startups as well as mobile powerhouses like Alipay, a group of seven European payments leaders has started building a new network focused on improving cross-border mobile payments in the EU. Headquartered in Zurich, the European Mobile Payment System Association’s (EMPSA) ...
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