Number of EMV-Enabled Cards Reaches All-Time High

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• April 20, 2018

Most cards across the globe are EMV-chip enabled, according to a report by EMVco. According to the report, released yesterday, the number of EMV-chip ...

JPMorgan Chase and National Bank of Canada Complete Blockchain Test

• Max Goldstein
• April 20, 2018

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the National Bank of Canada (NBC) announced today that they tested a debt insurance simulation on a new blockchain platfo...

Central Bank of Ireland Establishes Fintech Unit

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• April 20, 2018

The Central Bank of Ireland announced today that it would establish a unit to engage with technology providers, startups, and fintechs on various inno...

LendingClub’s Incoming CTO To Focus on Mobile, Data and Simplicity

• Grace Noto
• April 20, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— Mobile, data usage, and a simple experience are three of the things Bahman Koohestani, the next chief technology officer for marketplace le...

Visa and Mastercard Will Combine E-Commerce Payment Buttons

• Grace Noto
• April 20, 2018

Payment providers Mastercard and Visa will combine their online checkout experiences into one, in an attempt to make e-commerce payments as simple as ...

Top 5 Banks #Winning Social Media

• Grace Noto
• April 19, 2018

EXCLUSIVE - For all the talk about appealing to millenials, not that many banks or FIs out there have figured out social media. Sure, most of them (if...

Citi, LendingClub Tackle Financial Inclusion and Consumer Trust at Empire Fintech

• Grace Noto
• April 19, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— Banks are competing on multiple new platforms, with a rising number of competitors, but traditional banks still have the majority of the co...

Elevate Credit Partners with Mastercard for SubPrime Credit Card Product

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• April 19, 2018

EXCLUSIVE - Elevate Credit will launch a new credit card product that targets subprime clients in June, for which the company has teamed up with Maste...

IBM-Backed Batavia Completes DLT Pilot

• Max Goldstein
• April 19, 2018

Batavia, the blockchain-based transaction platform developed by multiple banks, has passed its first live pilot. The pilot successfully tested the ent...

Samsung Pay Partners with RBC for Payment Support

• Grace Noto
• April 19, 2018

Personal payment cards issued by the Royal Bank of Canada are now supported by Samsung’s mobile payment system, Samsung Pay, the company announced tod...

U.K. Fintech Loot Will Focus on Generating Revenue in 2018

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• April 18, 2018

EXCLUSIVE - With over 100,000 signups to date, Ollie Purdue, CEO of digital current accounts Loot will turn his focus on generating revenues this year...

More Banks Are Allowing Customers to Open Personal, Wealth Accounts on Mobile

• Grace Noto
• April 18, 2018

More and more consumers are turning to mobile, which is why banks are hurrying to make mobile account opening the norm for their financial customers, ...

TransferWise Joins the United Kingdom’s Payment Elite

• Max Goldstein
• April 18, 2018

TransferWise, the money transfer company valued at over $1 billion dollars, today became the first non-bank direct member of the UK’s Faster Payment S...

Indian Crypto Platform Kali Digital Files Petition Against Reserve Bank of India

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• April 18, 2018

The crypto saga with India’s central bank continues. Kali Digital, an Indian cryptocurrency platform, filed a petition against the Reserve Bank of Ind...

Consumer Lending App Tala Raises $65M for Launch in India

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• April 18, 2018

Mobile lending app Tala today secured $65 million in its latest round of funding. marked for its expansion to India. With over 1.3 billion people, rap...

Americans Prefer EMV Chip Payment Over Swiping Cards

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• April 17, 2018

Americans prefer paying with EMV chip cards to swiping their cards or even paying with cash, according to a recent survey from financial technology so...

Wells Digital Labs Focuses on Predictive Banking

• Grace Noto
• April 17, 2018

What areas of innovation are banks really focusing on right now? For Wells Fargo, the ways in which banks deliver information — as well as the technol...