FinTech Futures: Top five news stories of the week – 6 September 2024
Our pick of the top fintech news stories this week includes Mastercard, Paylocity, Tarabut and more.
Wearables
News, intelligence and resources on the global fintech industry including topics such as wearables.
PayTech Awards USA 2024 nominations are now open!
Submissions for the PayTech Awards USA 2024 are now open, with the entry deadline set for 12 July 2024.
IndusInd Bank partners Tappy Technologies and Thales to launch tokenisation solution for wearable payments
The Indus PayWear app will enable the bank’s customers to tokenise their cards for use with wearables.
Going for gold: when fintech meets the Olympics
With the Paris Olympics on the horizon, we take a look at the relationship between the event and fintech.
Wearable paytech Digiseq names Angela Davies as head of partnerships
Davies will use her expertise and connections to promote Digiseq services to banks, issuers and processors.
New app Tapeeno turns Android phones into card readers
Tapeeno “significantly” reduces the funding delay most businesses experience, the firms claim.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 9 September 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Apple Pay edges out Mastercard with more than $6tn in ATV
Only Visa now stands in the way of Apple Pay reaching the top spot globally.
Money 20/20 Europe: Digiseq connects the digital and physical world
At Money 20/20 Europe, FinTech Futures sat down with David Birch, chair of wearable payments disruptor Digiseq.
Investcorp tech fund snaps up e-wallet firm MIR
The acquisition marks the eighth investment from the private equity firm’s Investcorp Technology Fund IV.
Top ten fintech analysis features in 2018
Dive into all things fintech!
Invisible payments: finding success in a convenience-driven market
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Versatile payments ring Xenxo passes $1m funding
India-based firm still looking for more money.
Mastercard tackles faster payments in the UK, smart watches and open banking
Mastercard reaches out to Starling Bank, NXP, and prepares for open banking.
Wirecard’s boon mobile payment tech looking Fitbit
Teams with wearables brand to offer contactless payments using Fitbit Pay.
bPay teams with seven brands to launch contactless payment watches
Contactless watches for every taste.
Riyad Bank launches Saudi Arabia’s first contactless payment wristband
Riyad Bank has teamed up with Gemalto for Saudi Arabia’s first range of contactless payment wristbands.
CaixaBank and Visa take it up a watch with Garmin Pay
Watch out fintech folks, Spain gets a wearable look.
Bankwest launches Australia’s first payments ring, Bankwest Halo
“Just grab the things you need, fist-bump the terminal and go.”
How wearables will change everything
The next wave of technological transformation will be driven by the rise of wearable technology.
The suspense is wearable with ABN Amro payments pilot
Testing new wearables as a payment method with 500 of its clients.
Payments round-up: 8 November 2017
Just yesterday (7 November) was a payments round-up, but here’s more action from the lively paytech place. Features Apple, Coinsilium Group, UMT United Mobility Technology, Visa and even the Olympic Winter Games. Apple, which is rarely out of the news, has set up Apple Pay Cash for person-to-person (P2P) payments in Messages. This feature is […]
GPS goes for luxury payments with wearables for Armillion
Global Processing Services (GPS) has teamed with Armillion to incorporate contactless payment technology into its exclusive high-end bracelets.
FitPay and Mastercard take prepaid to wearables and IoT
FitPay Inc, a US-based provider of payment, credential management and authentication platform services, is planning to offer prepaid capabilities on wearable and other devices connected to its FitPay Payment Platform.
GPS Captures Contactless Lightning in a Bottle
You’ve heard of wearables—now meet “drinkables.” Global Processing Services (GPS) is helping support a new energy drink marketing campaign featuring special bottles equipped with contactless chips, each preloaded with a credit for a trip on the London Underground. The campaign for the Lucozade Energy brand launched last week, with bottles distributed free at major London train stations and commuter hubs.
Samsung’s Newest Payments Push Aims to Bring Contactless to the Masses
Hoping to bring “digital cash to everyone,” Samsung has introduced a chip platform that can enable contactless payments in watches, wristbands, key fobs and perhaps even clothing.
Samsung makes your wedding ring a payments plaything
Samsung, Smartlink and Ingenico have unveiled their “contactless companion platform” (CCP) to let people pay for things using anything they’re wearing — such as a watch or a wedding ring. It has been built with a dual interface smart card chip for multiple applications and form factors. Users tap the wearable on an NFC card […]
Be Guess’s young, sexy, and adventurous guest
Are you young, sexy, and adventurous? No, me neither. It’s OK. Grab a hot chocolate, put your slippers and glasses on… and read on. Guess Watches has released watches (well, yeah) powered by Android Wear, Google’s smartwatch platform, to their Guess Connect wearable tech timepiece category, available late 2017. The global fashion powerhouse says, with […]
Shrewd surfer dude behind Visa’s contactless payment sunglasses move
An Australian start-up has been revealed as the key technology partner of Visa’s new contactless payment sunglasses which were launched at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival. Visa unveiled the WaveShades sunglasses at the festival in Austin, Texas. Behind the scenes, the bright idea came from FinTech Australia member Inamo who came up with the […]
Disrupting Payments for the Better at Mobile World Congress
A deep dive into a packed panel discussion on disruption at the annual conference shows how payments providers are mapping the future with new technology, and how traditional players can endure.
Emerging Payments a Hot Topic on Social Media, Study Finds
Consumers are expressing interest in and enthusiasm for emerging payment methods in their social media conversations, according to a new report. Mastercard’s fifth annual Digital Payments Study analyzed more than 3.5 million public interactions in 2016 between consumers on social media channels—including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter—to glean insight about consumer attitudes toward new payment technologies worldwide.
bPay jewel in the crown for Barclaycard payments
Barclaycard has signed two new bPay partnerships to embed contactless payment technology in watches and jewellery in the UK. The agreements are also designed to complement bPay’s proprietary range – which comprises a wristband, fob, sticker and loop – and the existing partnerships that already see the technology, which is powered by Visa, embedded within […]
Wearable technology in investment banking: watch your money on your watch
How can wearable technology be made popular in investment/wealth management services? We suggest a number of features that can create value and relevance to individual traders and wealth managers, if made available on smartwatch trading apps.
Wide application for wearables in financial services industry
There has been hype around wearable technology for some time now but only now is it reaching market maturity with the introduction and subsequent adoption by consumers of smart watches and wristbands. Just as we saw with smart phones and tablets, consumer technology, in this case wearables, has the potential to have a huge impact on the business world. The implications for the financial services industry are significant
Banking innovation: a marathon, not a sprint
Britain’s banks have reliably serviced the banking needs of millions of customers for more than a hundred years; providing a safe place to store hard-earned cash, mortgages to buy dream homes, and great interest rates to accumulate savings
Banking on you – how wearable tech could change finance
Something big is happening to the internet (and, no, I am not talking about Bitcoin though that would be a fascinating topic for another time). In a nutshell, it’s changing into something you wear rather than go to, writes Aman Narain, global head of digital banking at Standard Chartered.
