3 Not-So Futuristic Blockchain Applications
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Blockchain – or the distributed ledger technology – is rushing out of test labs, and into real-life applications. In fact, in the last quarter alone there were 50 publicly announced...
View ArticleFiserv Ratchets Up R&D Spend, CEO Says
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Fiserv has increased its research-and-development spending to 7% of revenue this year, up from 5% last year, CEO Jeff Yabuki said at the Bank Innovation 2017 conference here on...
View Article6 Innovation Ideas for 2017 and Beyond
What’s keeping bankers awake at night in 2017 – and what’s helping them leap out of bed in the morning, ready to help make customers’ financial dreams come true? We got a glimpse of this at Bank...
View ArticleEnterprise Blockchain Consortiums — Part 2
This is the second part of my article about blockchain consortiums, focusing on the enterprise market. In Part 1, I covered Linux Foundation’s HyperLedger Project, which acts as an umbrella for Fabric,...
View ArticleFiserv Takes on Stripe and Dwolla with New Payments SDK for Businesses
Fiserv is taking on Stripe with a new ACH payments tool for businesses called Fiserv Payment SDK. Fiserv announced its new SDK for ACH business payments today at FinDEVr. Unusually for Fiserv, which...
View ArticleConsumers Will Always Hate Fees (Especially in P2P Payments)
Stop with the fees already. P2P services continue to grow in popularity—no surprises there. But, there remains a segment of the population that’s refraining from downloading such services, and, one of...
View ArticleINV Fintech Unveils Its Third Class of Startups
INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to this site, announced its third cohort of startups today. The five companies were chosen from among a wide array of applications from across the globe. Here are...
View ArticleFiserv, GoldBean Partner for Personalized Financial Advice
How do you serve the investor that’s never invested before? Fiserv and GoldBean have a solution. Financial solutions provider Fiserv has partnered with digital investing startup GoldBean in order to...
View ArticleINV Fintech Partners with Shanghai-based Venture Fund JadeValue
INV Fintech, this site’s sister accelerator, announced a partnership today with Shanghai-based JadeValue, an incubator and investment fund, to enhance financial technology startups in both the United...
View ArticleRoboadvisors Need to Find the Right Amount of Automation for Consumers
Does your roboadvisor have too little automation, too much, or just enough to satisfy consumers? That’s the question robodavisory services should be asking themselves, according to Matt Wilcox, senior...
View ArticleTop 5 Emerging Fintech Hubs in The U.S. Page 4
Omaha-Lincoln, Neb. Nebraska has an internal debate over whether its state sandwich is the reuben or the runza, but there is no debating the vibrancy of Silicon Prairie’s startup scene in both Omaha,...
View ArticleFiserv Acquires Dovetail to ‘Modernize’ Payments
Global financial services provider Fiserv has acquired bank payments provider Dovetail Group Limited in order to bring payments further into the modern world — that is, realtime. Dovetail’s realtime...
View ArticleCredit, Debit Cards Are Here to Stay, Fiserv Says
EXCLUSIVE—Is the end of credit, debit cards drawing near? Financial service firm Fiserv says, no. “Physical cards, they’re not going anywhere,” Sharon Pazlar, director of output solutions for Fiserv...
View ArticleOne Year After Rollout, Banks Are Bullish on Zelle
EXCLUSIVE—The growth of person-to-person payment network Zelle has been a key topic for banks and additional financial institutions since the service officially rolled out a year ago. As many companies...
View ArticleStephane Wyper, Mastercard’s SVP of Internet of Things Partnerships, Joins BI...
Stephane Wyper, who runs Mastercard’s partnerships related to the Internet of Things, as well as new commerce, has joined the Bank Innovation 2018 speaker faculty. He will present on the challenge of...
View ArticleLook Beyond Technology for Better Digital Banking, Fiserv Says
EXCLUSIVE—With mobile banking services offered at the majority of financial institutions, innovating the digital space is becoming more important in the fintech ecosystem, especially for smaller...
View ArticleBots Are Everywhere, But Are They Ready for Banking?
The latest technology to entice bankers is the chatbot — that talky little application that can tell you how much you spent at Starbucks or guide you through your account setup. But a report from...
View ArticleBank of the West Gets Serious About Digital Engagement
It’s become a truism that digital banking customers are your best customers, but Bank of the West and Fiserv have the data to back up that assumption — and to do something about it. Digital banking...
View ArticleClearXchange Runs the Table by Signing Citigroup
ClearXchange has racked up an impressive series of wins in recent months, bringing several major banks live on its realtime payments network. But this week it may have scored its biggest win of all —...
View ArticleJPMorgan Chase’s Adam Carson to Do Fireside Chat at Bank Innovation 2017
Adam Carson, managing director, global technology strategy & partnerships at JPMorgan Chase & Co., will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation 2017. Bank Innovation 2017, March 6-7...
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