NACHA Gears Up for Phase 3 of ACH Same-Day Payments Initiative

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• September 19, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – Now that same day ACH debit payment has kicked off, National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA), the steward of Automated ...

Switzerland Shuts Down E-Coin ‘Sham’ Currency as Crypto-Concerns Grow

• Grace Noto
• September 19, 2017

Swiss financial regulator the Financial Market Supervisory Authority, or FINMA, has shut down the providers of a cryptocurrency known as “E-Coin,” whi...

How Open Are Americans to Using Bitcoin for Purchases?

• Grace Noto
• September 19, 2017

Americans are open to investing in, or at least learning more about bitcoin. However, a number of consumers are also growing more open to using the cr...

Google Unveils New Features for India Payment App Tez

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• September 19, 2017

Google unveiled its mobile payment service, Google Tez, in India on Monday. Google Tez, is a Unified Payments Interface (UPI) app available on both iP...

Standard Bank, Africa’s Largest Bank, Joins INV

• JJ Hornblass
• September 19, 2017

EXCLUSIVE — Standard Bank Group, the largest bank in Africa, has joined the INV Fintech accelerator program as a partner, INV announced today. I...

GoCardless Raises $22.5M in New Funding

• Grace Noto
• September 19, 2017

London-based direct debit provider GoCardless is having a good year. On top of transaction growth and expansion to new markets, the fintech has closed...

MoneyLion’s New Augumented Reality Feature on the New iPhone [VIDEO]

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• September 18, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – Grow Your Stack is the PFM app developed by MoneyLion in its latest attempt to make finance “fun.” And fun it is. The fe...

Finn.ai is Developing New Features for Financial ‘Customer Care’

• Grace Noto
• September 18, 2017

EXCLUSIVE — Finn.ai wants to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to promote financial literacy and healthy consumer behaviors in it...

U.S. Consumption of Prepaid Cards Dips First Time in 5 Years

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• September 18, 2017

Maybe Americans are not as fond of prepaid cards as the industry might have thought. At least that’s according to a new report from Mercator Adv...

Ant Financial Plans to Resubmit MoneyGram Application

• Grace Noto
• September 18, 2017

Ant Financial, the Chinese payments company behind Alipay, is planning a third attempt to acquire U.S. money transfer service MoneyGram. Ant Financial...

INV Unfiltered: How Mastercard Takes on Payments Startups

• Philip Ryan
• September 18, 2017

The payments space is tumultuous and fast-moving, with new entrants appearing all the time. So how does a global payments company cope, and deal with ...

SoFi’s Bank Charter Has Almost No Chance, Former SEC Chairman Says

• Grace Noto
• September 18, 2017

SoFi’s hopes of becoming a bank have most likely been crushed after the departure of former CEO Mike Cagney, Securities and Exchange Commission former...

SMB Expense Management Provider Bento Snags Major Partnership with The Brink’s Company

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• September 15, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – The Brink’s Company and expense management provider Bento for Business introduced a new Travel & Expense Debit Card at Finovate ...

The Future of the Financial WorkStation is Mobile, says Samsung

• Grace Noto
• September 15, 2017

EXCLUSIVE—Do bank employees, Wall Street traders, or other financial professionals really need a desktop computer anymore? Samsung says, no. Rather, f...

China Closes Bitcoin Exchanges as Prices Continue to Fall

• Grace Noto
• September 15, 2017

The price of bitcoin continues to teeter today, with the cryptocurrency having lost a third of its value in the last week. Bitcoin’s sharp drop comes ...

Google’s New Payment App “Google Tez” to Launch in India

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• September 15, 2017

Internet giant Google will release a mobile payment service in India, according to reports. The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) app is called Google ...

CFPB Reassures Fintechs with ‘No-Action’ Letter for Upstart Network

• Grace Noto
• September 15, 2017

Online lending service Upstart Network has received a “no-action” letter from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the first such letter to be is...