2016 Innovators to Watch: 44 Executives Shaping the Future of Banking
Bank Innovation
JUNE 27, 2016
Some of the shine seems to have come off fintech innovation in 2016. But that doesn’t mean innovation is any less necessary. Read More.
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Bank Innovation
JUNE 27, 2016
Some of the shine seems to have come off fintech innovation in 2016. But that doesn’t mean innovation is any less necessary. Read More.
Bank Innovation
JUNE 23, 2016
Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world. Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More.
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Bank Innovation
AUGUST 17, 2017
Mobile wallets may be all the buzz, but debit cards were still the most popular of payment method in the U.S. in 2016, according to a recent report by PULSE. According to the 2017 Debit Issuer Study released earlier this week, debit card transactions were at a record high in 2016, with 23.6 transactions per […].
Bank Innovation
JUNE 15, 2016
Bank Innovation Israel 2016 registration has officially opened today. The only Western fintech event in Startup Nation, the 2016 Bank Innovation Israel will take place 1-3 November at the Dan Tel Aviv. The event is presented by Bank Innovation, one of the world’s leading fintech blogs.
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
The panel of judges — Scarlett Sieber of BBVA; Sam Maule of Carlisle & Gallagher; Ryan Falvey of the Center for Financial Services Innovation; Matt Wilcox of Fiserv; and Phil Ryan of Bank Innovation — will decide which company is worthy of the “Best in Show” DEMOvation crown at Bank Innovation 2016.
Chris Skinner
MARCH 7, 2016
The Cards & Payments Awards 2016 took place the other day, so I thought I’d pick out the three Awards that interest me the most: Best Technology Initiative; Best Initiative in Mobile Payments; and Best Industry Innovation.
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
In Denmark, the advent of digital banking also saw almost a 60% jump in card fraud, Bloomberg reported yesterday. Danish credit card fraud significantly increased in 2016, Bloomberg said, and reports of online fraud in the country have increased 300% from reports in 2009. […].
PYMNTS
JANUARY 2, 2019
While commercial card innovation certainly accelerated in 2018, progress can always continue. Morgan Managing Director and Head of Commercial Card Product Management Naney Pandit says should be a focus this year is in mobilizing the corporate card. One area of development that J.P. Following The Consumer Trend.
Chris Skinner
JULY 3, 2017
There are almost 20 million users of mobile banking across the UK in 2016, making 159 logins every second. People are increasingly using banking apps to access a broader range of services such as savings, credit cards and mortgage/investments accounts, rising by 30%. Video chats are also growing in popularity, up 92% during 2016.
Gonzobanker
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Will new infusions in the digital banking space translate to real innovation? This year has delivered many that wasnt on our digital 2024 bingo card moments for our industry. Veritas would be wise to put Candescent into a great position by investing in digital banking UI/UX, deeper third-party integrations, and roadmap innovation.
Bank Innovation
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
TEL AVIV — PayKey, an intriguing Israeli startup that lets banks offer payments on any social media platform — and we mean any — won the demo contest at Bank Innovation Israel 2016 here this week. PayKey beat out 12 other finalists at the DEMOvation Challenge at Bank Innovation Israel, Read More.
Chris Skinner
JULY 5, 2017
In this growing and dynamic market, payments have been one of the major drivers of growth and innovation. Fifteen years ago, only 9 per cent of total household consumption was through cards. Today, Turkey is the largest market in terms of total number of cards and point-of-sales (POS) machines[1].
Bank Innovation
DECEMBER 24, 2018
Card payments increased 10.1% by value from 2016 to 2017. The Federal Reserve’s triennial report on payments released last week shows accelerated electronic payments growth, as well as signs that fewer people are paying by check or withdrawing cash from ATMs. by number and 8.4% For comparison, these payments had increased 7.8%
PYMNTS
APRIL 3, 2019
According to a report in Reuters , Goldman Sachs is looking to hire engineers to join a digital innovation program. Earlier on Wednesday (April 3), American Express and SAP Ariba announced a partnership in which Amex used SAP Ariba’s API to offer virtual cards on its platform. Meanwhile, the U.K.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
According to the new PYMNTS Order To Eat Tracker , the volume of mobile app orders rocketed 130 percent from 2016 to 2018, and the overall mobile order market value is set to reach $38 billion by 2020. And digital innovators are devising new ways to deliver food to consumers. Indiana University will have them this month.
Bank Innovation
MAY 1, 2016
Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 13, 2020
Waze, the popular GPS navigation app owned by Google, has introduced contactless payments for ExxonMobil and Shell card holders in the U.S. Waze is committed to continuing to help businesses leverage innovative technology to adapt, evolve, and engage with customers,” said Andrew Kandel, Waze U.S. country manager, in a statement.
Bank Innovation
JANUARY 10, 2017
Avin Arumugam, senior vice president of the Internet of Things at Visa, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2017, which takes place March 6-7 in San Jose. Arumugam was at JPMorgan Chase for four years prior to his starting at Visa in May 2016. Recent video footage also Read More.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 13, 2021
All eyes are on the small business community in the commercial card world as industry players increasingly explore how card products can help Main Street recovery and stay in business. Small Business Card Use On The Rise. Use of a charge card similarly grew year over year from 23 percent to 31 percent.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 26, 2016
PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year Of Clarity For The Payments Sector. Cardholders have stayed with their cards. Today the vision is clear.
Bank Innovation
MAY 5, 2017
Consumers are clinging to their physical cards, and Wells Fargo customers especially. Wells Fargo customers were the largest users of debit and pre-paid cards in the U.S. in 2016, according to Nilson Report, released last week. The report logs the top debit card issuers in the country by purchase volume, which was up 6.7%
PYMNTS
MARCH 4, 2017
The B2B payments industry is finally beginning to hustle when it comes to technological innovation. And as traditional financial institutions (FI) begin to recognize the value of collaborating with FinTechs, these banks can similarly shake their reputation for being innovation laggards and promote B2B payments progress while they’re at it. .
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More. When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does.
Chris Skinner
JULY 13, 2017
Compare that to the measly $112 billion in mobile payments in the USA in 2016, and you can see the difference. The main reason is that China was not a card-based economy. Meanwhile, a third trend is occurring, which is the rise of mobile payment and wallet innovations in the developing and emerging economies.
Bank Innovation
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
Consumer card transactions will overtake cash transactions for the first time in 2016, according to global research firm Euromonitor International. Cash is expensive to manage and is extensively used in the underworld.
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
billion in payments in the fourth quarter of 2016, compared with $10.2 Mobile payments company Square grew its gross payment volume 34% over last year, and its loans through Square Capital were up twice that — 68%. The San Francisco-based company processed $13.7 billion in the same quarter last year. Read More.
BankBazaar
JULY 31, 2023
KYC Made Easy: Paperless Wonder in 2016 BankBazaar continued to make waves in 2016 when we unveiled our paperless e-KYC platform. With this innovation, customers could complete the Know Your Customer (KYC) process online, swiftly and effortlessly. With BankBazaar, finding the right Credit Card was too easy for me.
Bank Innovation
APRIL 28, 2016
Bank Innovation INV, this blog’s fintech accelerator, is pleased to today to announce the six extraordinary startups that have been admitted to its inaugural class.
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Netflix, Uber, Facebook, AirBnB, Spotify., What do they have in common? In terms of payments, they all use the services of Adyen, the Amsterdam-based payments giant. Adyen operates in more countries and currencies than competitor Stripe, and serves large, international operations, while Stripe works with startups and developers.
PYMNTS
MARCH 19, 2018
Credit card skimmers are a headache for fuel retailers, but there is more than one way that fraudulent actors can target fleet spend. In addition to stolen credentials and skimmed cards at the fuel point-of-sale, employees are often able to overspend with their commercial fleet card products, or file fraudulent expense reports.
PYMNTS
MARCH 30, 2018
That’s where the payroll card comes in, she said. Not only can the card act as a vehicle for direct deposit, it can also facilitate faster payroll payouts. Kittrell Paycard recently announced the integration of InstantWage, a mechanism for payroll card users to access their earned wages before payday.
PYMNTS
JUNE 21, 2019
Southwest Airlines is introducing a credit card for small business owners aimed at enhanced travel rewards. Business Insider reported Thursday (June 20) that Southwest announced the Southwest Rapid Rewards Performance Business Card, offering small business users 80,000 Rapid Rewards points when they spend $5,000 in the first three months.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
However, those trend lines soon gave way to growth in the early 2010s and beyond — driven by the digitization of commerce — with the card network’s revenue tripling in the last decade. He has served as Mastercard’s Chief Product Officer since 2016 and has headed the network’s new products and innovation team since 2018.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 25, 2018
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has extended the effective date on its 2016 prepaid card rule, among other modifications announced today (Jan. By 2020, analysts forecast that $116 billion per year will be loaded onto prepaid cards.
PYMNTS
MAY 8, 2018
Small businesses (SMBs) prefer not to seek funding to finance their innovative endeavors, according to new research from BMO Wealth Management , which suggests SMBs are missing out on opportunities to drive growth. 1 necessity for an entrepreneur’s innovative initiatives. A survey of more than 1,021 small businesses in the U.S.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 30, 2016
This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. In 2016, I believe that physical retail may be facing its own ‘Kodak moment,’” wrote Karen Webster. “In There’s no doubt about it. EMV changed the payments game in the U.S. A Retail Data Reporting Error Was Uncovered.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
percent in 2016. Credit unions, like any FI, are sitting on a trove of valuable personal information, such as credit card data and Social Security numbers, that hackers would do anything to get their hands on. percent in 2019, compared to 10.5 Another perennial challenge the industry faces is the ever-looming threat of data breaches.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 20, 2016
From open APIs to omnichannel, from EMV chip cards to faster payments, it’s hard to put a finger on exactly which happenings in the payments space had the biggest impact in 2016. PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016.
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Is it possible for a payment network to be cool? And what if that payment network was launched in — gasp! — in 1966? It is when that payment network is gamely inventing internet of things payments on the fly. Welcome, to MasterCard, one of the coolest brands in banking. Read More.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 26, 2021
Los Angeles-based immigrant-focused technology solution provider Welcome Technologies has announced that it has selected PSCU to provide processing and support services for its first credit card offering. The goal was to create virtual channels where members can interact using mobile and online banking, and its improved customer center.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
It’s an area of business spend friction that is driving a newfound resurgence in commercial card innovation that the card industry hasn’t seen in decades, with FinTech firms stepping in to take advantage of card transaction data. ” The Biggest Culprits Of Waste. Nixing The Personal Guarantee.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 22, 2020
Commercial cards remain only a fraction of the B2B payments space, but FinTech firms, banks and other financial service providers continue to develop new solutions aimed at boosting adoption. For companies like SmartEquip and Unified Payments Group , that means introducing new ways to lift the burden of suppliers accepting cards.
PYMNTS
JULY 20, 2020
small and medium-sized business (SMB)-focused bank Tide said it has a new relationship with Mastercard that makes Tide one of the card company’s principal issuers, Finextra reported Monday (July 20). Tide, which launched in 2016, has its headquarters is in London. The bank also has offices in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Hyderabad, India.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. Mortgages and Credit Cards and Student Debt…. As many as 66 percent of them have credit cards, and 79 percent of them live paycheck to paycheck. Mortgages ? consumers.
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