Daniel Wolfe is director of data services at Arizent, which publishes American Banker. Previously he headed American Banker's payments and credit union coverage, and before that was 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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Each of these wallets has developed its own personality — and, presumably, its own must-have feature to pull consumers and merchants away from the competition.
August 10 -
From its beginnings as a standalone Starbucks Card app, the Starbucks mobile experience was always a bit different from what other companies tried to do.
July 27 -
The Prime Day event is also a chance for Amazon to showcase a new range of devices and payment options — and to sell those devices at a discount to get them into more people's homes.
July 13 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Facebook moves an additional exec to blockchain project; Sydney Airport tests facial biometrics; Ant invests in WiFi for underground metros; Razer adds a mobile wallet.
July 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: LTE faces attacks; Apple Pay's growing quickly in Poland; Adidas suffers a breach; U.K. centralizes government payment units.
July 2 -
In the era of digital and mobile payments, many banks and tech companies have strived to completely do away with cash, checks and cards. But quite a few have had to concede that the market isn't quite ready to give up the physical trappings of payments.
June 29 -
HSBC is the first bank in the U.S. to deploy SoftBank's lifelike Pepper robot in a branch to help customers learn about bill pay, remote check capture and even ask the weather — but in Pepper's current iteration, it won't take deposits or payments.
June 26 -
From its origins as the fuel card operator Wright Express that launched 35 years ago, the fleet card provider WEX has aggressively expanded to other corporate sectors including travel and health care. But fleet cards still inspire some of the company’s most interesting innovations.
June 25 -
Going back to the debut of the free Square card reader, the mobile payments market has made fees — or the lack of fees — a major selling point.
June 15 -
The cashierless Amazon Go store is barely more than an experiment — it's live in only one location in Seattle, with plans for a handful of stores to follow this year — but it has already sparked a race to put similar models in place.
June 8
