Payments & Cards

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  • EMV Migration May Lead Customers to Switch from Cards to Mobile Payments, Study Finds
    By Jonathan Camhi | June 19, 2013
    In a new survey by ACI Worldwide nearly half of the respondents said that consumers will swap their plastic cards for mobile payments because of the migration to EMV.
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  • Content, Customers, Compliance: Big Reasons for Banks to Use Enterprise Mobile Apps
    By Doug Winter, Seismic | June 18, 2013
    The rise of big data and deployment of mobile devices to support sales teams has given rise to a number of challenges that can be addressed with enterprise mobile apps.
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  • How Big Data Can Drive Mobile Payments Adoption
    By Jonathan Camhi | June 18, 2013
    How banks decide to use their customer data to make relevant coupon offers to consumers will determine their place in the mobile payments ecosystem.
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  • 3 Takeaways From Innotribe New York
    By Bryan Yurcan | June 14, 2013
    The showcase for financial technology startups and innovators, sponsored by SWIFT, could portend the future of banking.
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  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch Expands Transaction Services in Canada
    By Zarna Patel | June 14, 2013
    The bank is creating targeted client teams and product enhancements for its business customers in that country.
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  • Bottoms Up For Bitcoin
    By Bryan Yurcan | June 12, 2013
    The virtual currency popular with libertarians is now being accepted by a chain of U.K. pubs.
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  • New Study: Alternative Credit Decisioning Tools Could Have Generated $1.7 Billion for Issuers In 2012
    By Jonathan Camhi | June 11, 2013
    A new study by LexisNexis and Javelin found that alternative credit decisioning tools could open up new segments, like the underbanked, for lenders.
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  • Mobile Wallets Still Struggling to Gain Traction
    By Bryan Yurcan | June 11, 2013
    A report from Carlisle & Gallagher evaluated twenty prominent wallet products on payment capabilities and customer experience.
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  • 4 Key Trends in Financial Security
    By Bryan Yurcan | June 07, 2013
    Unisys released its annual Security Index, which measures how concerned Americans are about different aspects of security.
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  • Worldwide Mobile Payment Transactions To Reach $235 Billion in 2013
    By Zarna Patel, Staff Writer | June 04, 2013
    A new report from Gartner also predicts the number of mobile payment users worldwide will reach 245 million this year.
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  • BBVA Compass Adds Mobile Photo Bill Pay to iPhone App
    By Jonathan Camhi | June 04, 2013
    BBVA Compass follows U.S. Bank as the second major bank to roll out mobile photo bill pay for its mobile customers.
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  • Banks Fail to Provide Key Protections for Checking Account Holders, Study Finds
    By Jonathan Camhi | June 03, 2013
    A Pew Study of the top 50 U.S. banks found that all of them were lacking in at least one important area of consumer protections for account holders.
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  • Meeker's State Of The Internet: 5 Key Trends
    By | May 31, 2013
    Internet analyst Mary Meeker has seen the future -- and it is wearable, flyable and drivable.
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  • Impact of Chiarello's Departure on JPMorgan Chase's IT Strategy Unclear
    By Kathy Burger | May 30, 2013
    Mike Ashworth, head of global technology infrastructure, named interim CIO.
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  • Credit Unions Lead in Online Satisfaction
    By Bryan Yurcan | May 30, 2013
    Customer experience data outfit ForeSee measured consumer attitude toward the financial services industry's online and mobile offerings.
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  • Banks Lag in Social Media, Digital Marketing
    By Bryan Yurcan | May 29, 2013
    A survey of more than 3,000 financial institutions examined banks' digital marketing capabilities.
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  • Automating B2B Payments: The Next Frontier
    By Ed Glassman, MasterCard Worldwide | May 28, 2013
    Business-to-business payments have lagged far behind in switching from paper to electronic payments methods, but banks and their commercial clients could benefit from emerging automated B2B payments solutions.
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  • Banks Must Pursue a Multichannel, Integrated Onboarding Process: Report
    By Bryan Yurcan | May 24, 2013
    Bank customers should be able to to apply for products and services at their bank through the device and channel of their choice, says Aite Group.
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  • Mobile Commerce: Time For Liftoff
    By | May 23, 2013
    71% of nearly 900 qualified respondents say m-commerce is very or extremely important to their organizations, yet just 26% have comprehensive strategies in place now. That spells opportunity.
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  • The PayPal vs. Square Battle: Who’s Your Money On?
    By Jonathan Camhi | May 22, 2013
    After PayPal launched a program last week offering free transaction processing for merchants who switch to its point of sale card reader, Square hit back yesterday by announcing it will be offering a P2P payments service via email.
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  • Predicting Success In Banking & Politics: It's All About The Analytics
    By David M. Wallace, SAS | May 22, 2013
    At the recent SAS Financial Services Executive Summit, bankers gained insights into how to address the challenge of aligning technology and business in the age of big data analytics.
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  • Sovereign Bank Enters the Mobile Arena
    By Bryan Yurcan | May 22, 2013
    The bank has launched its first mobile app after intensive customer research.
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  • Android, iOS Dominate Smartphone Market; BlackBerry Falls
    By Bryan Yurcan | May 20, 2013
    A report from research firm IDC also found that Windows Phone gained market share.
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  • The Evolving Branch Environment
    By Glen Fossella, CTS North America | May 20, 2013
    While many banks are rethinking their long-term strategy for expensive branch networks, there are steps banks can take now to reduce costs and inefficiencies in the branch while providing a better customer experience.
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  • Google Enables Payments Through Gmail to Garner Google Wallet Adoption
    By Jonathan Camhi | May 17, 2013
    With Google Wallet under-performing in the last couple years, Google is now integrating its wallet into Gmail to allow users to send money through the popular email service.
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