Fintech

Michael Moeser, senior analyst at PaymentsSource, talks to Atif Siddiqi, Founder and CEO of Branch, about the future of providing faster access to earned wages.

There’s so much spare cash sloshing around U.S. funding markets that investors are choosing to park almost half a trillion dollars at the central bank — earning absolutely nothing.

The bank anticipates strong demand from businesses that want to settle invoices faster. It also wants to get ahead of competition from fintechs offering similar services.

Banks may need to be more selective about how they issue plastic, so that cards remain available to those customers who need them most.

The private-label card issuer says that, as merchants reopen, now is the time to realize the benefits of its 2020 acquisition of the buy now/pay later company Bread.

GreenState Credit Union's agreements to buy community banks in Illinois and Nebraska renewed the debate over whether federal tax exemption gives credit unions an unfair competitive advantage.

Integrated payments provider Financial Software and Systems is targeting the expected increase in international travelers as the pandemic eases by enabling issuers to provide branded programs on FSS' prepaid multi-currency card.

John Adams, Executive Editor at PaymentsSource, talks to Debbie Gamble, chief officer of Innovation Labs and New Ventures at Interac, about Canada's growing digital needs.

More than 250 wholesale clients signed up with the Pittsburgh bank in the past year to use real-time payments for payroll, billing and supply chain management.

ISVs that optimize B2B payments within their software solutions stand to save the day for merchants who want to grow but feel hamstrung with their current solutions, Ashley Jones of Global Payments Integrated says.