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Amazon Taps Into Bill Payments With Alexa
Amazon Payments // October 28, 2019

Amazon announced during its keynote address at the Money 20/20 financial technology conference on Sunday (Oct. 27) that Amazon Pay users will soon have the ability to pay utility bills using Alexa, MarketWatch reported on Monday (Oct. 28). Amazon is partnering with FinTech firm Paymentus...

Utility Data’s New Identity
Data // April 10, 2019

There are plenty of high-tech ways to verify a customer’s identity — fingerprints, voiceprints, faceprints, phone data. There are even technologies built to identify a customer based purely on how they hold a smartphone in their hand. The race for the newest, fanciest ways to...

Economy Strong, Yet Americans Struggle To Cover Basic Expenses
Economy // August 28, 2018

The economy is strong, as evidenced by some headline numbers. Unemployment is at multi-year lows, GDP growth continues apace and the stock market, usually a barometer of at least some sentiment (and with its own wealth effect, of course), is at multi-year highs. But research...

Paying City Hall, At The Kiosk And Beyond
Payment Methods // February 27, 2018

You can’t fight city hall, goes the saying, but there are new ways to pay city hall. News came earlier this month that Chicago’s finance department is enhancing its payment services in a multi-part initiative rolling out this year. The department is debuting an online...

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Utility Data’s New Identity

April 10, 2019
There are plenty of high-tech ways to verify a customer’s identity — fingerprints, voiceprints, faceprints, phone data. There are even technologies built to identify a customer based purely on how they hold a smartphone in their hand. The race for the newest, fanciest ways to ID a customer means a useful, classic way occasionally gets […]

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FIS and Oracle Team to Digitize Utility Bill Payments

November 12, 2024
FIS is teaming with Oracle to remove paper checks from the utility billing process. The FinTech company announced Tuesday (Nov. 12) that its BillerIQ solution, running on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, will allow Oracle — which manages billions of utility customer bills each year — to roll out electronic bill delivery. “The utility sector has […]

Amazon Taps Into Bill Payments With Alexa

October 28, 2019
Amazon announced during its keynote address at the Money 20/20 financial technology conference on Sunday (Oct. 27) that Amazon Pay users will soon have the ability to pay utility bills...