Enjoying our podcasts? Don’t miss out on future episodes! Please hit that subscribe button on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast platform to stay updated with our latest content. Thank you for your support! Amalia Avramov, President of Financial Services of Amdocs Even though banks have been going through digital transformation now for a decade or more there […]
You could say Banking as a Service is under siege. The number of severe enforcement actions BaaS banks received skyrocketed in 2023 to 13.5% of the total. When you consider there are probably only around 100 banks out of 4,800 that are involved in banking as a service, you can see why this number is disturbing. And […]
How Direct Mail can survive in the reality of the digital age Traditional mail services are under pressure and the value of “white mail” is being challenged by both consumer attitudes and systemic changes in postal services worldwide. Just this week, BBC reported that the Royal Mail Royal Mail could reduce the number of days […]
SINGAPORE, January 24, 2024: Ingenico, a global leader in payment acceptance and services, has announced a strategic partnership with Cybersource, Visa’s agnostic global payment and fraud management platform. The partnership will create a global unified commerce solution for use in Asia Pacific first, followed by other regions. The partnership integrates an Android application developed by […]
A $200m equity raise at a valuation double the previous round? No you did not wake up in 2021 this morning, it is (checks watch) definitely January 2024. I was just chatting with someone earlier this week about equity raises and I commented that there seems to be much more activity this month than in January 2023. […]
In November of 2015, Rob Law and I founded DailyPay in my basement. On a second hand whiteboard propped up against a wall, Rob, Andrew Yoo (Developer 1), my dog Jack, and I derived the key formulas we needed in order to move money before payday, and importantly, the code for how to get paid back. We began […]
Brazilian digital bank Nubank kicked off the year with a strong focus on international expansion, with its stock gaining momentum as the company introduced two significant initiatives in its Latin America operations. First, it secured a license from the Colombian regulator, marking a crucial step in enhancing its customer acquisition strategy in the country. Simultaneously, […]
Today’s conversation is designed to showcase some lessons and learnings from Brazil. Today’s guest is Tatyane Macêdo, Head of Communications at a loyalty consulting company called Valuenet, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is also the Editor-in-chief of Tudo Sobre Incentivos, which they describe as the main educational content platform on Loyalty and incentives in Brazil. Tatyane reached […]
Reward points, frugal Gen Z and buy now, pay later: These trends shaped the 2023 gift-buying season. Here’s why they’ll matter more to retailers in the early days of 2024. By Jenn McMillen In the classic holiday story “The Gift of the Magi,” the heroine sells her beautiful hair so she can afford to buy […]
It has been almost two weeks since the SEC approved Bitcoin ETFs and we now have some data on the 10 ETFs that have been trading since then. The two biggest and oldest names in finance are leading the way: BlackRock and Fidelity. Each fund has attracted more than $1 billion in inflows. But the company that […]