Fdx news and trends

FedEx Plans Fall Launch of Revamped Delivery Platform
Delivery // March 21, 2024

What’s better than a delivery fleet spanning hundreds of aircraft, tens of thousands of vehicles and hundreds of service centers? It depends on who you ask, but FedEx — which boasts the operational footprint just described — seems to think it might be the creation...

Alkami Offers Banking Clients Plaid API Access
B2B Payments // November 12, 2023

Digital banking solutions provider Alkami is offering clients access to Plaid’s application programming interface (API). The new offering, announced Thursday (Nov. 9) lets Alkami’s financial institution (FI) clients benefit from the API from Plaid, whose data network that powers more than 8,000 financial services and apps. “This is a first-to-market...

Quicken’s Thirty-Nine Year Journey to the Cloud
Personal Finance // September 28, 2022

Personal finance, no surprise, is top of mind as individuals and households grapple with soaring interest rates, skyrocketing inflation, and losses in the bond and equity markets. As Quicken CEO Eric Dunn told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, banks have fallen short of the mark when it...

Mastercard, Finicity and Standardizing Open Banking’s Data Flow
Mastercard // June 24, 2020

While open banking is gaining traction in Europe (by regulatory mandate) and is making inroads to the U.S. (through free market competition), on these shores the strategy of getting there seems to be settled in favor of acquisitions. Specifically, payments giants are buying up data...

Interviews & Exclusives
DraftKings, FedEx Lead CE 100 Index Gains

March 25, 2024
The CE 100 Index was up nearly 2%, capping a week that saw most pillars gain ground.  DraftKings surged 13%, leading the “Have Fun” segment 2% higher for the week.  As reported here, online betting firm Rush Street Interactive is considering a sale, and DraftKings is among the potential buyers that have been approached.  Rush […]

Quicken’s Thirty-Nine Year Journey to the Cloud

September 28, 2022
Personal finance, no surprise, is top of mind as individuals and households grapple with soaring interest rates, skyrocketing inflation, and losses in the bond and equity markets. As Quicken CEO...

Mastercard, Finicity and Standardizing Open Banking’s Data Flow

June 24, 2020
While open banking is gaining traction in Europe (by regulatory mandate) and is making inroads to the U.S. (through free market competition), on these shores the strategy of getting there...

Quick Reads
Alkami Offers Banking Clients Plaid API Access

November 12, 2023
Digital banking solutions provider Alkami is offering clients access to Plaid’s application programming interface (API). The new offering, announced Thursday (Nov. 9) lets Alkami’s financial institution (FI) clients benefit from the API from Plaid, whose data network that powers more than 8,000 financial services and apps. “This is a first-to-market partnership with Plaid for Alkami where a majority of financial […]