Is Facebook a Help or Hindrance to Libra?
There is a place for cryptocurrencies and they will start to edge into mainstream payments, but if this statement in...
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Is Chase Bank Already Working On a New Digital Only Bank?
It was less than two weeks ago that I wrote a few comments about Chase Bank shutting down its digital-only...
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Pakistani Regulators Use Credit Card Data to Find Tax Fraud
All the buzz about financial inclusion is interesting. Yes, we are uplifting the masses and improving lives. But, as we...
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Venmo Continues to Release Consumer Transactional Data a Year after Being Notified
A fintech is not a bank yet the public is apparently unaware of the difference. A bank would never knowingly...
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Secured Credit Cards: No Longer Hard Money Lending, A Path to General Purpose Credit Cards
Secured credit card gave the business a bad reputation before the recession. The space was filled with third-rate lenders who...
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Another Smaller Institution Joins the Clearing House RTP Platform
The Clearing House (TCH) launch a real-time payments platform in November 2017. Since then, the largest financial banks, also owners...
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Uber Elevate Will Soon Drop Food From the Sky (Unless Its Windy)!
It's a bird... it's a plane... it's a Big Mac with fries. This article in BusinessWeek indicates that Uber intends...
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Chinese AI & Conversational Commerce Market Overview: Alibaba Enters Connected Car Market
Alibaba has enabled the AliGenie virtual assistant in Audi, BMW, Honda, Renault, and Volvo vehicles. This article in The Motley...
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Banking on Success in LAC: Nubank Will Set the Pace
The U.S. credit card market is profitable but saturated. Europe has become less profitable, as regulators now drive every revenue...
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Commercial Banks Are Joining the API Revolution
The topic and use of APIs has grown exponentially during the past two years, as is the case with most...
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