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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Same-day and real-time payment products are designed for basic transfers that don't meet the more complex needs of Lyft's ride-sharing service, contends Ashwin Raj, Lyft's vice president of payments.
September 19 -
Apple's Face ID is turning heads, but it is far from the first use of facial biometrics in payments. Here are several implementations that predate it.
September 15 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple's Face ID can be quickly shut off; Moviepass is snail mailing tickets; Investors flock to Hong Kong wallet; Student housing finance lures cryptocurrency.
September 15 -
Apple's upcoming iPhone X will ditch its fingerprint sensor in favor of a multi-camera system, but it still expects some users to opt for a PIN code.
September 12 -
Apple's next iPhone could add — and lose — features that change the way people handle mobile payments. Here is the latest roundup of rumors and predictions.
September 8 -
In a market seemingly dominated by "Pays" from smartphone makers, a few companies are taking a much different approach to mobile payments. Here are some of the more extreme examples.
September 1 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Alipay reaches out to merchants; Citi Bike adds Apple Pay; Grab adds P-to-P; Russia opens blockchain hub.
August 31 -
Ask any consumer what their most-used mobile wallet is, and you'll get one answer. Ask an issuer or a merchant, and the answer could be vastly different. Here's why.
August 30 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon pushes grocery subscriptions; Will the inventor of Bitcoin speak?; Trump loses web security experts; South African startup builds payments tech for Messenger.
August 28 -
Ant Financial's Alipay is a big deal in China, and it wants to be a big deal globally. It's got several strategies already in motion, some of which have very big implications for other markets.
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