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The Evolution of Digital Wallets and Their Impact on Global Commerce

March 8, 2024

Category: Channels

Digital wallets are key in today’s digital economy, changing how we make payments globally. They make payments easy and improve security. This piece explores how digital wallets are changing payment methods, focusing on their importance for security, ease of use, […]


Historic Rate Rise on Track Despite Recession, USD/JPY Contained

February 19, 2024

Via: DailyFX

Markets have not been deterred by the fact that Japan has entered into a recession, still indicating a high probability that the Bank of Japan will vote to hike interest rates by 0.1% to exit its long-standing negative interest rate […]


Why ‘pay-by-bank’ faces adoption hurdles in US retail

February 5, 2024

Category: Channels

For U.S. merchants butting heads with card networks over card swipe fees, the answer might be to bypass cards altogether and allow funds to move directly from the payer to recipient via account-to-account payments — the “pay-by-bank” method. The problem […]


Regulations

Green Dot receives proposed consent order from US Federal Reserve

February 29, 2024

Via: FinTech Futures

In its recently published Q4 and full year financial results for 2023, Green Dot states that the matters addressed in the proposed consent order “relate to activities and practices that commenced prior to the company’s Chief Executive Officer transition in […]


Capital and Risk, Credit

Blackstone buys $1.1bn of US credit card debt from Barclays

February 28, 2024

Via: FinTech Futures

The deal with see the bank transfer the debt from its branded credit card programme in the US to Blackstone’s credit and insurance segments, which were consolidated last September. Barclays says the transaction is part of a move to release […]


Capital and Risk, Credit

Commerce Bank taps Temenos for loan origination solution

February 22, 2024

Via: FinTech Futures

Temenos, which has recently been forced to refute allegations made by Hindenburg Research of client dissatisfaction and accounting irregularities, claims its Infinity system will provide the US private bank with increased operational efficiency and personalised customer experiences. Commerce says it […]