There are plenty of high-tech ways to verify a customer’s identity — fingerprints, voiceprints, faceprints, phone data. There are even technologies built to identify a customer based purely on how they hold a smartphone in their hand. The race for the newest, fanciest ways to...
The economy is strong, as evidenced by some headline numbers. Unemployment is at multi-year lows, GDP growth continues apace and the stock market, usually a barometer of at least some sentiment (and with its own wealth effect, of course), is at multi-year highs. But research...
You can’t fight city hall, goes the saying, but there are new ways to pay city hall. News came earlier this month that Chicago’s finance department is enhancing its payment services in a multi-part initiative rolling out this year. The department is debuting an online...
April 10, 2019
There are plenty of high-tech ways to verify a customer’s identity — fingerprints, voiceprints, faceprints, phone data. There are even technologies built to identify a customer based purely on how they hold a smartphone in their hand. The race for the newest, fanciest ways to ID a customer means a useful, classic way occasionally gets […]
October 28, 2019
Amazon announced during its keynote address at the Money 20/20 financial technology conference on Sunday (Oct. 27) that Amazon Pay users will soon have the ability to pay utility bills using Alexa, MarketWatch reported on Monday (Oct. 28). Amazon is partnering with FinTech firm Paymentus to add the new feature, which offers users the option […]
