Michael Moeser is an Austin, Texas-based senior content strategist for Arizent. He has over 25 years of payments and consulting industry experience working in executive roles at Visa, Capital One, McKinsey, Javelin Strategy, and Ondot Systems. He has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from DePaul University’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business and a BBA in Finance from University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
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VC firms Capital 300 and Draper and Associates have made a Series A investment in Authenteq, a identity security firm that uses blockchain, which is gaining steam as a means to support digital ID.
January 14 -
British payments technology company Moorwand is offering the first UnionPay prepaid cards in the U.K. on its UPayCard branded prepaid platform, with a larger roll-out planned for consumers and corporations during the first quarter of 2019.
January 10 -
Dynamics has launched an interactive credit card with India's IndusInd Bank that allows consumers to choose between three different funding sources when making purchases: credit, points and installment payments.
January 9 -
Ant Financial’s Alipay is deploying blockchain technology to power a cross-border remittance service for Pakistan’s Telenor Microfinance Bank and Valyou of Malaysia.
January 9 -
The opportunity for banks and financial services firms, as well as venture capitalists, to serve the pet industry is massive and not being overlooked.
January 9 -
The country’s largest grocery retailer, Kroger, is partnering with Microsoft to pilot two connected experience stores for a proof of concept, featuring new retail technologies that will eventually be deployed across Kroger stores and be sold to the retail industry.
January 8 -
The market for cross-border person-to-person (P2P) remittances is massive. It experienced double-digit growth in 2018 as consumers migrated from one country to another in search of better economic opportunities, as well as to escape political and financial upheaval in their home countries.
January 8 -
Cashierless tech startup Standard Cognition has acquired the robotic mapping startup, Explorer.ai, to accelerate the rollout of its autonomous checkout solutions to retailers.
January 7 -
Hungary’s commercial banks have started the initial testing phase of an instant payments scheme, with plans to go live on July 1 for domestic broadscale use.
January 4 -
By adopting faster payments, businesses have more flexibility to make last-minute payments and emergency payrolls, or gain a larger window for early-payment discounts.
January 3
