July 19, 2024
Why More Restaurants Need to Bite Into Digital Transformation
Today’s restaurant customers crave the convenience of contactless payments, and opportunities abound to provide them. However, the comfort of conventional payment methods, coupled with the challenges of staffing shortages and...
July 19, 2024
It’s the Network, Not the Rail: Ingo Payments’ Edwards Reflects...
Anniversaries are a time to reflect, evaluate and to anticipate what lies ahead. And so it is with the FedNow® Service, which celebrates a year in the marketplace on July...
July 19, 2024
Amazon’s Prime Day Leaves Walmart+ Deal Days in Summer Haze
As Amazon and Walmart compete to win consumers’ retail spending, it seems the former may have had more success with its summer deals event than the latter, widening the gap...
July 18, 2024
Lighthouse Debuts AI-Powered Solution for Independent Hoteliers
Hospitality/travel industry commercial platform Lighthouse has debuted an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solution. Channel Manager, announced Thursday (July 18), is designed to erase what the company calls “long-standing limitations” of static...
July 18, 2024
Small Business-Focused FinTech Wamo Raises $5 Million
London-based FinTech wamo has raised $5 million to develop small to medium-sized business (SMB)-focused banking solutions. In addition to the growth investment, CEO and founder Yanki Onen said on the company blog Thursday (July 18), wamo...
July 18, 2024
CFPB Says Earned Wage Access Programs Are Consumer Loans
Regulators are painting several types of lending products with a broad brush, bringing an ever-widening swath of lenders under federal purview. Fresh off its rulemaking on buy now, pay later...
July 18, 2024
Domino’s Loyalty Refresh Doubles Members’ Pickup Orders Amid Consumer Hesitance
As consumers cut back their overall spending, Domino’s has been able to get its loyalty members to buy more by offering more effective rewards. On a call with analysts Thursday...
July 18, 2024
Brightfin Debuts Gen Z-Focused Financial Wellness App
Brightfin has debuted its financial wellness app, aimed at helping younger consumers. “Younger generations think about money differently. Gen Z and Millennials don’t necessarily have the same life goals as their...
July 18, 2024
Prime Day Sales Climb 11% as Shoppers Spend $14 Billion,...
American shoppers reportedly spent $14.2 billion during Amazon’s Prime Day event, setting a record for the number of items purchased. That’s an 11% increase over last year for the 48-hour...