Linking arms with traditional financial services providers may not be top of mind for many millennials, but could the power of voice-activated commerce change the narrative? Doug Brown, SVP and Group Executive at FIS Mobile, joined Karen Webster to chat about how Amazon’s Alexa can...
From Facebook to cash, the week’s sizzles and fizzles span a diverse lot. Then there’s tech unicorn, Twilio, which nearly doubled on its first day of trading. Here's why investors should be thinking more fizzle than sizzle.
From bots to shoppable ads, developers are using new tools and technologies to help brands to close the loop by embedding payments inside of every nook and cranny of existing ecosystems. This month’s Developer Tracker highlights how players from Twitter to Messenger and Facebook are...
CDs in paper wrappers, delivered via the mail was the Netflix model until 2007 when they made the move to digital. AR departments, Billtrust CFO Ed Jordan told a #PYMNTalk live audience recently, are facing their own “Netflix Moment” as digital invoice-to-cash solutions emerge. So,...
From bots to shoppable ads, developers are using new tools and technologies to help brands to close the loop by embedding payments inside of every nook and cranny of existing ecosystems. This month’s Developer Tracker highlights how players from Twitter to Messenger and Facebook are...
Just because an idea is great, doesn’t mean it’s going to lead to true innovation. The trouble is, how do you know the difference? MasterCard Chief Information Officer Ed McLaughlin let Karen Webster in on the critical decision-making process behind going from an idea to...
MasterCard announced today (June 21) the kickoff of the 2016 summer session of its Start Path Global program — a class offering support to the next generation of commerce and FinTech startups from around the world. The effort provides innovative early-stage startups with access to...
Silicon Valley has the banking industry in its crosshairs. Hardly a day, hardly even a nanosecond, goes by without a VC, entrepreneur, or tech media pundit claiming that some Internet-something-or-other is going to take out the stodgy financial services industry. It’s even gone mainstream: Lesley...
The first week of June began with probably the biggest sizzle-y story of all: the unveiling of the 12 new skills that 14 companies across payments taught Alexa. Companies as large as Visa, Discover, FIS, Fiserv, Vantiv and Western Union, and diverse and scrappy as...
