financial-technology
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Do Customers Care About Open Banking, or Do They Need More Education?
Date: July 5, 2022
By Olga Karablina, Head of Payment Product Development and Partner Relations at ECOMMPAY Open Banking, which was properly introduced in 2018, has seen a slow adoption in the wider finance industry. Where payment methods like Buy Now Pay Later and digital wallets have swept through the market, open banking remains less widely understood or...
UK FinTech ImageNPay Launches on Google Pay
Date: July 4, 2022
Yoda from Star Wars is among images on digital Mastercard UK fintech company ImageNPay has announced that its digital wallet is now available on Google Pay, offering consumers the ability to personalise a digital prepaid Mastercard with images and dynamic content. ImageNPay says it is leveraging the power of smartphones by changing the way that...
Swiss FinTech Kashet Announces European Banking Heavyweight as Chairman
Date: July 1, 2022
Alex Wilmot-Sitwell joins “one of Europe’s most exciting FinTechs” ahead of launch London, UK and Zug, Switzerland, 11:00am 27 June 2022: Swiss FinTech Kashet Group AG has announced Alex Wilmot-Sitwell, Perella Weinberg Partners executive and former Bank of America Merrill Lynch European president, as its chairman. Wilmot-Sitwell brings significant international banking experience to the Kashet team, based in...
The Plastic Card Payment Pollution Problem: What It Is and How to Solve It
Date: June 28, 2022
By Jørgen Christian Juul, CEO, Cardlay. It wasn’t that long ago that we carried around cash to pay for everything, whether it was for getting on the bus, paying for our weekly food shop or buying a company meal. Despite credit cards being around since the 1950s, neither they nor debit cards became popular until...
The Open Banking Market Lacks Standardized Global Regulation: Why It’s a Problem
Date: June 21, 2022
By Nathanael Coffing, Co-Founder & CSO of Cloudentity Open Banking is dramatically changing the way financial institutions, investment companies and fintech organizations transact in the digital economy. The market is rapidly growing, with the industry expected to reach $43.15 billion by 2026. Open Banking puts the ownership of financial data back in the users’ hands...
How Consumers Are Taking Control of Their Finances Through New Payment Options
Date: June 21, 2022
By Günther Vogelpoel, CEO of Recharge.com explains The cost of living is looming over consumers as inflation rises to its highest level in 30 years, outpacing wage and benefit increases and further exacerbated by tax rises. Such economic uncertainty is shifting how consumers manage their budgets, with retail spending in Europe decreasing at a sharper...