September 13, 2023
MGM Resorts Hack Becomes Hassle for Vacationers Who Must Use...
The cyberattack on MGM Resorts is still reportedly causing trouble for travelers. Guests at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas are dealing with restaurants and bars that are only taking...
September 13, 2023
Can Prize-Linked Savings Accounts Help Consumers Play Their Way to...
In light of today’s challenging macro environment, Americans’ savings accounts may need some saving themselves. Inflation is top of mind for increasingly embattled consumers, with PYMNTS Intelligence finding that nearly three...
September 07, 2023
Panel: Real-Time Ubiquity and Connectivity Turn Payments Into ‘Satisfaction Tools’
Real-time payments schemes are proliferating around the globe. Getting them to work in sync and breaking down the silos that exist between countries will be key to helping faster payments...
September 06, 2023
Norway’s Strise Raises $10.8 Million to Expand AML Offering
Strise has raised $10.8 million to bring its anti-money laundering technology to new markets. London-based venture capital firm Atomico, which led the Series A round, announced the funding for the Norwegian company...
September 03, 2023
DOJ Seeks Jail Time for Ex-Wells Fargo Exec Over Fake...
Federal prosecutors want Wells Fargo’s former retail banking head to spend time behind bars. Carrie Tolstedt agreed earlier this year to plead guilty to obstructing an investigation into her bank’s practice of opening...
September 01, 2023
Fed Scrutiny of Regional Banks Highlights Importance of KYB, FinTech...
The increased scrutiny of regional banks — and a boost in capital requirements — may drive them towards FinTech partnerships to shore up compliance and know-your-business efforts. That might also...
August 28, 2023
Visa and NymCard Collaborate on Payment Credentials Issuance
NymCard, a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) firm that serves the Middle East and Pakistan, has joined the Visa Ready to Launch (VRTL) program. The VRTL program aims to simplify the process of...
August 25, 2023
Shoppable Content Is Complicated; Its Future Shouldn’t Be
One of the more compelling stories to come out of the pandemic was the idea of shoppable content. The hyper-convenient purchase moment and context of shoppable content, along with its...
August 24, 2023
Trulioo Debuts Advanced Person Matching Tools
Identity verification platform Trulioo has unveiled new person-matching capabilities. The launch, announced Thursday (Aug. 24), gives companies an alternative to working with multiple vendors to verify identities using personally identifiable information (PII) and...
No other industry has more at stake in digital identity verification than financial services, a future Zil Money’s Justin Timlin says will be driven by technology and shaped by how regulators want to see it deployed. Read more in this month’s “Alternative Payments Tracker®,” a PYMNTS and Socure collaboration.
