Daniel Wolfe is content director for payments and credit unions at American Banker. He was previously editor-in-chief of PaymentsSource, a sister publication that combined with American Banker in 2021. Prior to that, Daniel held roles at American Banker including tech and risk management editor; technology, cards and payments editor; and technology reporter. He has a master's degree in print journalism from Boston University's College of Communication and a bachelor's degree in English from SUNY Binghamton.
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Targeting consumers with poor or thin credit, Amazon is offering a secured card with rewards on par with those offered to mainstream cardholders.
June 10 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: The EMVCo buy button gets more details; Stripe invests in youth financial services startup; Contactless soars in the U.K.; Facebook's cryptocoin gets closer; SEC makes a legal move on ICOs.
June 7 -
After criticizing the prevalence of social sign-in buttons on the internet, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, unveiled one of his company's own. It's essentially Apple Pay without the payments.
June 3 -
Top executives from banks, card brands, credit unions, fintechs and more weighed in on the major issues and innovations for the payments industry.
May 29 -
Fintechs that offer installment loans are having a major impact on credit card lending — and many card issuers are ill equipped to compete.
May 24 -
At first blush, Netflix may seem to have a fairly simple payment process: Collect a card number once, and keep charging it every month until the customer cancels. But even this process can be demanding.
May 23 -
The Apple Card takes a more aggressively digital approach to credit card relationships than most other products on the market — but the technology behind it isn’t exclusive to Apple.
May 22 -
The fintech M&A wave is sweeping over the dining and fast-food industries, with major companies like Amazon, Walmart and American Express spending on smaller firms that focus on digital food delivery and payments.
May 17 -
Apple's App Store was a game changer for mobile payments. But Apple's ecosystem was also very much a digital Wild West, with app developers and Apple itself sometimes running afoul of regulators and legal authorities.
May 13 -
Amazon is undeniably a juggernaut in the realm of e-commerce and digital payments — but its journey was filled with missteps and failed experiments.
May 10
