Before and After — the Great Bitcoin Fork
Today, at 12:20pm UT, or 8:20am ET, Bitcoin split into two. One Bitcoin will be known as “Bitcoin” and enable Segwit2x, supported by most...
Three Steps to Driving International Remittance Growth
The days of traditional money transfer companies are numbered. Payments experts have predicted cryptocurrency, mobile wallets, P2P or...
The Link between Social Networks and Faster Payments
The push for faster payments has reached a fever pitch and almost all payment processors have some sort of solution. While each have...
Is It Time To Eliminate Plastic Cards for Prepaid?
One of the most exciting innovations that came out of Apple’s WWDC 2017, was the “Venmo competitor” Apple Pay Message that is built on a...
Banks Should Stop Issuing Prepaid Cards
Banks and Credit Unions are great at creating financial products for customers. Checking accounts, savings accounts, mortgages, loans,...
Money Transfer Goes Social-The Facebook Land Grab
Last week both MoneyGram and Western Union announced the launch of SendBots that use artificial intelligence (AI) to bridge the gap...
Can FinTech Change Payday Lending?
For most people in the payments industry, when you're strapped for cash and an unforeseen emergency occurs, you dip into savings or pull...
What will be your Legacy(Platform)? Modernizing Payments
The payments industry is powered by legacy platforms. There, I said it. All the buzz focused on modular, cloud-based processing platforms...
Intelligent routing – Are you maximizing Durbin?
There is no greater lighting rod in the payments space. Whether you herald it as a protector of retailers’ rights or complain that it is...
Mobile Prepaid - 8 Things You Need to Succeed
When general purpose reloadable cards were launched, “reloadable” was not that important. Since a customer bought a card for $19.95, the...
