Banks Must Become Central to Consumers’ Daily Lives to Successfully Compete with Digital Upstarts
Banks are having a collective epiphany: the traditional role they play in their customers’ lives, which has been historically relegated to the “back-office,” must change. To remain competitive in this digital-first era, financial institutions need to...
Vyne and Gr4vy partner to enable instant Open Banking payments for online merchants
Vyne, the specialist account-to-account payments platform, today announces a new partnership with Gr4vy, a leading cloud-native payment orchestration platform (POP), that will give online merchants access to open banking payments infrastructure. ...
Grabango adds another c-store partner for its checkout-free tech
Dive Brief: Frictionless checkout startup Grabango has struck a deal to install its computer vision-based technology in retail locations operated by the Mapco convenience store chain, according to a Tuesday press release. Mapco plans to debut the technology,...
The potential hidden in your e-commerce checkout: B2B buyers
While retail e-commerce exploded over the last two years, most retailers' resources and attention have been on improving the customer buying journey for the B2C buyer. With consumers expecting to checkout with the ease of a one-click, Amazon-like payment, it's...
Apple’s iPhone to accept contactless payments with new ‘Tap to Pay’ feature
Tech giant Apple has announced plans to allow US merchants to use their iPhone to accept contactless payments. Apple says Tap to Pay will be “secure, private, and easy” for merchants to use The new ‘Tap to Pay’ feature will leverage near-field contact (NFC)...
Evaluate Interface Learnability with Cognitive Walkthroughs
A cognitive walkthrough is a technique used to evaluate the learnability of a system from the perspective of a new user. Unlike user testing, it does not involve users (and, thus, it can be relatively cheap to implement). Like heuristic evaluations, expert...
Rewards Programs Help Banks Retain Customers and Drive New Revenue
Banks are experiencing a sea change in the competitive landscape from an increasingly fragmented set of nascent fintech competitors and the platoon of “Buy Now, Pay Later” startups and in addition to traditional competition from other banks and the newer ...
Bold Commerce Launches One-Click Checkout Tool
eCommerce firm Bold Commerce has launched a new checkout solution designed to give brands an alternative to third-party digital wallets and pay now options. Dubbed the “Bold Checkout: Buy Now solution,” this tool lets brands offer customers “Amazon-like...
Meta’s Metaverse Is ‘Old Idea’ That’s ‘Never Worked,’ Tech CEO Says
Phil Libin is the former boss of Evernote and is now CEO of videoconference company Mmhmm. He told Insider he'd tried out Horizon Workrooms, Meta's VR meeting software, and wasn't impressed. He described Meta's vision of the metaverse as "uncreative." Loading...
