April 18, 2016
In Cross-Border Payments, Knowledge (Not Speed) Is Power

With all this talk about faster payments — and even real-time payments — you’d think spenders are most concerned with how quickly their money gets from Point A to Point...

April 14, 2016
JPMorgan Earnings: Chase Bets The Bank On Digital Tech

JPMC exceeded investor’s expectations yesterday and that was enough to lift the market. But living wills and China may give investors food for thought beyond that glimmer of hope. And...

April 11, 2016
Flash Retailer Beyond the Rack Files For Creditor Protection

Beyond the Rack — one of the many online retailers that rode the flash sales trend all the way to the top and then back down the mountain — has filed...

April 06, 2016
More Banks Join SWIFT’s Global B2B Payments Pilot

Payments messaging firm SWIFT is looking to gain support for its global payments initiative and, most recently, announced the latest backers of the pilot program. In a statement on Tuesday (April...

April 05, 2016
Bacs Warns Of B2B Payments Disruption Amid Upgrades

U.K. payments group Bacs is warning corporate IT managers to upgrade their systems or face potential disruption of supplier payments. Bacs Payment Schemes is advising its corporate clients that, starting...

April 05, 2016
Bank Of America Merchant Services Goes Cross-Border

Bank of America Merchant Services has expanded to Europe with the launch of a new unit. The new unit, called BofA Merrill Lynch Merchant Services (Europe) Limited, was launched with the...

March 30, 2016
Minding The Non-Bank Innovation Gap

While there’s no shortage of non-bank innovators, Continental Advisor’s Paul Purcell describes the innovation coming from those players as “starved.” But is the tide changing? Pro-consumer lending platform Cumulus just...

March 24, 2016
In FinTech, The Regulators Cometh

Innovation is the lifeblood of finance, and especially in FinTech. But innovation left wholly unchecked can have disastrous unintended consequences. How to navigate the razor’s edge between encouraging transformation or...

March 17, 2016
Cumulus Funding Consumer Finance Co. Raises $30 Million+

Cumulus Funding, a consumer finance company specializing in providing Income Share Agreements (“ISAs”) to individuals seeking a more flexible consumer finance alternative, has announced a major funding round today (March...