United States households pay more than $3 trillion in bills each year, including mortgage, rent, auto loans, utilities, cable and a host of other services, according to a recent report. The average family spends more than $24,000 each year on bill payments. On top of...
Mobile self-checkout, and specifically, scan and go, would seem a slam dunk for grocers. It has not worked out that way. All manner of retail is striving to embrace automated shopping, especially in brick-and-mortar settings. Merchants are streamlining the process of getting items into carts...
Picture a lightbulb popping on above someone’s head. It’s a classic image denoting a good idea, and many utilities are having this exact moment now as digital transformation in billing and payments comes to what is arguably the original connected ecosystem — the utility grid....
The debate over central bank digital currencies sharpened a bit this past week in the marbled halls of the U.S. Congress. At a Senate Banking subcommittee hearing on Wednesday (June 9), as pionline.com noted, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, said that in general, cryptocurrencies “are a lousy...
April 07, 2023
United States households pay more than $3 trillion in bills each year, including mortgage, rent, auto loans, utilities, cable and a host of other services, according to a recent report. The average family spends more than $24,000 each year on bill payments. On top of that sum are the costs of paying bills — including […]
May 09, 2022
Picture a lightbulb popping on above someone’s head. It’s a classic image denoting a good idea, and many utilities are having this exact moment now as digital transformation in billing...
August 11, 2018
Americans do a lot of driving. According to the latest edition of the American Driving Survey, each Americans spends about 290 hours a year behind the wheel, driving about 10,000 miles. As a...
September 12, 2017
Innovation happens when you least expect it. As they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Those we call “innovators” are simply the ones who endeavor to solve the problems...
July 21, 2023
Visitors to China can now link their Visa and Mastercard accounts to the country’s most popular mobile payment applications, Alipay and WeChat Pay. Ant Group, the operator of Alipay, said Friday (July 21) that overseas users of the platform can now link Visa, MasterCard, Diners Club and Discover cards to their mobile wallets, CNN reported Friday. Tencent, the owner of WeChat, which is known […]
March 21, 2021
Payfare, the global financial technology company working in the field of pay solutions for the gig economy, has successfully completed an initial public offering (IPO) for $65.4 million, a press...
January 08, 2020
Caixin Global reports that Chinese mobile transaction company Tencent has decided to combine part of its authentication software with government-owned rival UnionPay. This collaboration will expand UnionPay’s market penetration and...
September 19, 2019
Apple has officially released the Apple arcade, a gaming subscription service that costs $4.99 a month, according to a report by CNBC. The first month of the service will be...
