Wonderful Wearables by Tom McCole One of the amazing things about retail payment technology is the rapid rate of change and development of new products and business models. In the not-so-distant past, we have migrated from carrying cash for purchases to paying with plastic cards. We evolved from knuckle-busting imprinters and manual lookup of bad…
Scamscope 2024 Report: The Battle for Trust APP scams are predicted to hit $7.6bn by 2028 and are on the rise in every country featured in this year’s report by ACI Worldwide. Download the report to gain use cases from the U.S., U.K., India, Brazil, Australia, and the UAE to help build a secure payments…
Finding the Right ROI in Bank Tech By: Tyler Brown Infrastructure Investments Fewer than a quarter of bankers in a survey by Bank Director said their bank measured return on investment (ROI) for technology projects, implying at least one widespread problem with banks’ technology planning: A resource allocation approach that doesn’t robustly consider the costs and benefits of…
PAXCON 2024 by Tom McCole Despite my domestic tranquility administrator’s objections, I willingly took a break this week from my annual deciduous tree refuse relocation tasks to attend my third Pax Conference in Orlando. I can state with certainty that it was well worth putting the leaf blower back on the shelf and heading…
Banking on Bangkok By: Jessica Bernstein As part of the 2024 FinTech Business Development Mission to Hong Kong and Thailand, we arrived in Bangkok late in the evening from our first stop in Hong Kong. The next day, our managing partner, Paul Schaus, and I met with the U.S. Embassy for a briefing and discussion of key financial statistics…