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Walmart’s answer to Amazon Prime is a high-tech balancing act

September 1, 2020

PaymentsSource - Walmart has the opportunity to put the impetus on other competitors to offer truly cashierless technology (not just self-scan) if they have a friendly and easy to understand user experience when it’s fully rolled out.

TikTok’s consumer power makes it a prized target for e-commerce buyers

August 31, 2020

PaymentsSource - Walmart is extending e-commerce and in-app purchases. Having a social media platform to build engagement provides significant opportunities to add innovation to the payment environment in building a super app which can be used...

Bank of America dominates digital banking. Here’s how it plans to stay ahead.

August 31, 2020

American Banker - Customers need the bank to take personalized insights further and make them actionable.

Amazon’s three-step plan to expand checkout-free retail

August 25, 2020

PaymentsSource - Amazon has a history of deploying technology to consumers in a way that appeals to a mass audience and accelerates adoption.

Why Kamala Harris matters to fintech in the 2020 election

August 13, 2020

PaymentsSource - The United States has a payments infrastructure issue that delays the dispersal of funds which can be used as part of a stimulus package, unemployment benefit, or entitlement payment.

Why banks want to get into Google Pay

August 4, 2020

PaymentsSource - Banks are most likely looking for what some experts call an innovation halo effect. They're looking to get the brand recognition of being aligned with Google.

How the major card networks are planning to survive the pandemic

August 3, 2020

PaymentsSource - For the loss of interchange revenue due to travel restrictions, unemployment levels, and general consumer angst, the financial services industry needs to increase profitability through both new revenue streams and cost...

Google checking accounts: Why banks want in

August 3, 2020

American Banker - "Banks are most likely looking for what some experts call an innovation halo effect. They're looking to get the brand recognition of being aligned with Google.”

Your bank just got slammed with a 1-star review. What will you do about it?

July 31, 2020

American Banker - "App store reviews can be a valuable form of quality control for banks. Most banks take app store ratings with a grain of salt. But patterns among disgruntled reviewers can signal when a new feature isn’t working properly or a...

Battling ID Fraud With Behavioral Biometrics

July 20, 2020

Bank Info Security - If you are authenticating some physical documents that are being presented to you and then you are benchmarking and analyzing the customer's digital behavior when they are with you in a digital banking transaction,...