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FinTech Cloud Technology Fuels Banking Innovation

PYMNTS

As cloud technologies emerge to help financial institutions (FIs) drive digital innovation, Finastra has introduced its Fusion Payments To Go offering for small and medium-sized banks. Alacriti, a FinTech that was started in 2003, works with banks and other customers on making the migration to digital payments.

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Identity Fraud Hits Record High in 2016

Bank Innovation

The identity fraud incidence rate increased by 16%, a record high since the company began tracking identity fraud in 2003. More than 15 million people were affected by identity fraud in the U.S. last year, according to a recent study by Javelin Strategy & Research.

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Financial Services: The Next Generation … where is it?

Chris Skinner

I’ve blogged about how I see leadership in the developing (developed now) economies of China and India, and the new innovation models of emerging economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, but not quite in the way in which I see them now. The more I think about it, we have three major FinTech models, each with their own unique blend of thinking.

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Real Innovation Solves Today’s Problems, Not Tomorrow’s

PYMNTS

Innovation happens when you least expect it. Those we call “innovators” are simply the ones who endeavor to solve the problems in front of them by any means necessary. Only later do others look at them and call them “innovators.” PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? The conversation is excerpted below.

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DocuSign Introduces Payment at Signing [VIDEO]

Bank Innovation

Electronic signature firm DocuSign has been around since 2003. It allowed parties to contracts to sign from their computers, and later, from mobile devices. But users couldn’t pay at the time of signing — that required following up.

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McDonald’s Banks On Bakery To Beef Up Breakfast Sales

PYMNTS

We’re continuing our breakfast innovation by adding tasty new sweet options with our new McCafé Bakery lineup. Breakfast burritos topped the morning menu at McDonald’s in 1991, and McGriddles followed in 2003. That will all change on Oct. Further, the company’s popular premium roast coffee is now 100 percent sustainably sourced.

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Amazon Covertly Working On Cold Vaccine

PYMNTS

According to a 2003 study by the University of Michigan, the cold costs the U.S. Although the goal is to make a vaccine, the team is coming from multiple angles to try and solve the common ailment. The effort has been called the “vaccine project.”. economy $40 billion per year due to doctors’ visits and productivity losses.

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