January 21, 2019
Zwipe Raises $14M For Biometric Payment Cards
Zwipe, the biometrics payment company, has raised $14 million in venture funding, reported TechCrunch. According to a report in TechCrunch, citing Zwipe, the funding came the way of a Series...
January 21, 2019
UnionPay Footprint Expands Just In Time For Spring Festival
Chinese consumers are planning to celebrate the Chinese New Year by traveling outside of the country, prompting UnionPay to expand its acceptance footprint. In a press release, the payments company...
January 18, 2019
Q4 Earnings: Bank CEOs On Cards, Credit And The Consumer
Bank earnings — taken together, let’s call them a mixed bag. Or maybe liken them to an onion, with layers of meaning and hints of things to come — some...
January 15, 2019
Chase Active Mobile Users Hit 33.3M
In what is becoming what seems to be a familiar theme as banks report earnings, trading revenues plummeted at the end of last year, but other drivers remained intact. As...
January 02, 2019
Big Banks Struggle With Generous Rewards Cards
U.S. banks are facing increased costs associated with their reward credit cards as a result of two years of increasing the rewards points they offered customers. According to a report...
December 28, 2018
AltFin’s Bumpy Ride Into An Uncertain 2019
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” -Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens’ famous starter to A Tale of Two Cities, as...
December 12, 2018
How To Push For eB2B Payments When Vendors Don’t Want...
In the constant fight against paper, service providers have been tackling the paper check in B2B payments for several years, with minimal success. There is evidence that change is happening,...
November 20, 2018
How Vendors Can Lower The Cost (And Risks) Of Card...
With payment bigwigs like Visa, Mastercard and American Express pushing further into the B2B payments space, commercial card adoption is being driven by more than growth in the number of...
November 19, 2018
Data Dive, Thankful Edition: Chase, FLEETCOR And SMBs Of All...
Most Americans will be looking forward to a shorter than average workweek, as its backend will be taken up with eating, giving thanks and shopping. Except, of course, for the 26...