The first Apple Pay contracts are up for renewal
It’s hard to believe that nearly three years has passed since Apple surprised the mobile payments world by stating that iPhone 6 users can make payments with the touch of a finger, beginning on [...]
It’s hard to believe that nearly three years has passed since Apple surprised the mobile payments world by stating that iPhone 6 users can make payments with the touch of a finger, beginning on [...]
I have a confession to make - I am a millennial. But I’ll let you in on a secret, I’m not that millennial. The one you read about in online articles. See, despite [...]
The dream of leaving your leather wallet at home and using other form factors for payments, primarily smartphones, has been the dream of analysts and prognosticators for many years. Every year, at least one publication [...]
It’s fairly well known that as chip cards and chip card readers are putting a big dent in fraud conducted at the point-of-sale (counterfeit fraud), the bad guys are shifting their efforts to committing [...]
Overnight, India, a country with 1.3 billion in population, became a predominantly cash-less country, switching to mobile-based digital payments. And the government has even more ambitious plans – to eliminate credit and debit cards by [...]
New Year’s Resolutions often include some promise to start saving money. Easier said than done. The average American age 40 or under says there's nearly a 50% chance they would not be able come [...]
Samsung announced in November a valuable addition to Samsung Pay - Rewards. This represents some unique opportunities for credit unions to promote usage of credit-union-branded cards in Samsung Pay, with rewards to the cardholder, at [...]
Credit unions have always epitomized the spirit of collaboration. Sharing tips and tricks, best practices, aggregating volumes to shared vendors, are all hallmarks of the U.S. credit union industry. But there is a recently [...]
People don’t like to pay fees, and many credit union members love their credit unions precisely because they don’t like the fees that big banks charge. But there is one area where members [...]
An app was just released that allows drivers to pay for tolls from their phone. The app, called FastToll, keeps track of toll plaza locations, and figures out which state to send the payment to. [...]
Using “Big Data”, that is accessing and cross-referencing the many data troves on credit union members in order to cross sell, has been the subject of many white papers and conferences. Analyzing purchase transaction data, [...]