Technology

Consumers generally approve of GDPR’s goals of tightening data-protection and consumer privacy, and more than half would consider fleeing to another provider if they suspected corporations were unclear in their communications or intentions about gathering data.

Companies have tried for years to build a market for interactive cards, with little success. Dynamics is taking a different tack by approaching banks to issue the cards, rather than selling directly to consumers.

Health care's a vertical that keeps coming up over and over as a laggard that sticks to paper, manual forms and other legacy payment methods, mostly because of the number of documents that would need to be digitized for even one part of the process to enter the modern age.

Cryptocurrency generates an absurd amount of skepticism and fear, but taking a clear-eyed view reveals a path to stability and sustainability, including the inevitable adoption of crypto in P2P lending, writes Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Ethlend.

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Capital One's dispute with Plaid raised questions about the ability of banks and aggregators to work together. But the end of that fight, and Capital One's deal with Finicity, show common ground can be reached — eventually.

Facebook in May placed Marcus in charge of a blockchain initiative, which would likely include some of the same work that is taking place at Coinbase.

PIN on Mobile (PoM) and PIN on Glass (PoG) are two of the most commonly mislabelled emerging technologies. While the two terms are treated as though interchangeable, each has differing benefits and features. They also serve merchants in a different manner, so choosing the right one for a particular business is crucial, according to David Poole, global head of mobile POS solutions for MyPinPad.

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.

The agency’s move to offer a national charter for fintech firms will undermine state authority and give certain firms an unfair advantage.