UK Banking App Pockit Gets £2.9M In Funds As It Launches New Remittance Service
UK Banking App Pockit Gets £2.9M In Funds As It Launches New Remittance Service
April 26, 2017  |  Mobile Applications

Pockit, a mobile banking app targeting the U.K.’s underbanked, has picked up £2.9 million in additional funding and will soon launch a remittance service to...

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IDology Launches Two New Digital Authentication Tools
IDology Launches Two New Digital Authentication Tools
April 26, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

IDology said Tuesday that it has launched two digital authentication solutions to boost consumer security during mobile transactions. The company said in a press release April...

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Dave, AI App, Aims To Fight Costly Overdraft Fees In The US
Dave, AI App, Aims To Fight Costly Overdraft Fees In The US
April 26, 2017  |  Payment Methods

A new artificial intelligence–based app Dave, launched Tuesday (April 25) aiming to save consumers for costly overdraft fees. According to a report in TechCrunch, users...

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Capital One Misses Mark In Q1
Capital One Misses Mark In Q1
April 26, 2017  |  Earnings

Capital One (COF) shares fell nearly 6 percent in after-hours trading following a mark-missing Q1 2017 earnings release. Net income for the bank holding company...

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Fully Tokenized ACH Payment Integration Via Plaid And Dwolla Partnership
Fully Tokenized ACH Payment Integration Via Plaid And Dwolla Partnership
April 26, 2017  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Transferring large sums of money typically always poses a risk. This rings true especially in today’s tech-savvy world, where computer hacking makes it easier to...

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Uber Competitor To Expand With Possible Juno Acquisition
Uber Competitor To Expand With Possible Juno Acquisition
April 26, 2017  |  Ridesharing

The ridesharing arena is an industry within the sharing economy that’s not likely to go away anytime soon. With Uber’s various troubles over the past...

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Samsung Facial Recognition Tech Not Ready For Payments Yet
Samsung Facial Recognition Tech Not Ready For Payments Yet
April 26, 2017  |  Merchant Innovation

While Samsung has netted a lot of early buzz for the inclusion of facial recognition biometrics in its newly released Galaxy S8 phone, experts say that...

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Estimate Shows Majority of US Amazon Shoppers Are Prime Members
Estimate Shows Majority of US Amazon Shoppers Are Prime Members
April 26, 2017  |  Amazon

A new study from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) estimates that Amazon Prime memberships doubled in the past two years to more than 80 million people in the U.S. —...

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Is AI The Ultimate Fraud Fighting Machine?
Is AI The Ultimate Fraud Fighting Machine?
April 26, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

Machine learning may be hip and cool, but can it hip check fraudster trolls back to Middle Earth? April’s Digital Identity Tracker™ looks at how...

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