Talk-A-Bot and Cellum showcase chatbot payments
At this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco, Hungarian startup Talk-A-Bot introduced its chatbot solution to the public. Offering human-like conversational capability tailored to individual users, the solution also allows the completion of purchases through integration with mobile wallet provider Cellum’s secure transaction platform.
About 2.5 billion people worldwide use chat applications on a daily basis – there are more chat messages sent each day then the total number of SMS text messages ever sent. Chat has thus become the most popular means of communication.
Automation is inevitably coming to both business and consumer markets. As ever more chat applications evolve into platforms on which to build value-added services, chatbots are emerging as the solution of choice for companies looking to increase their efficiency in serving their customers.
Co-op Bank introduces Samsung Pay
Samsung Electronics today announced that its digital wallet, Samsung Pay, is now available to The Co-operative Bank cardholders in the UK.
Simple, secure and almost anywhere, Samsung Pay enables users to make faster and smarter purchases. Additionally, Galaxy Note8, S8 or S8+ users can take advantage of the innovative iris scanner technology to authorise payments, providing a new level of biometric security to ensure peace of mind.
The Co-operative Bank join the growing portfolio of major payment networks and banks which Samsung Pay supports in the UK, including Mastercard and Visa, as well as cards issued by first direct, HSBC, M&S Bank, MBNA, Nationwide and Santander.
Samsung Pay is designed to make paying with your device safe, simple and convenient.
Hearsay Systems allies with Microsoft
Hearsay Systems, provider of Advisor Cloud solutions for the financial services industry, announced today at Microsoft Envision a strategic alliance with Microsoft to help financial services firms empower their advisers to be both high-tech and high-touch at scale in the digital age.
Hearsay technology will be demonstrated in the Microsoft Envision featured session, hosted by Alysa Taylor, general manager, business applications and industry, Microsoft Corp., titled Transforming Line of Business with Modern Applications.
Hearsay and Microsoft will focus on addressing the specific challenges faced by financial institutions, including the need for compliant adviser-client engagement technology that will enable advisers to better manage client relationships and grow business.
Hawk Incentives launches pre-paid cards for mobile wallets
Hawk Incentives, a Blackhawk Network business that provides rewards and incentive solutions, today announced its new open-loop Mastercard prepaid cards that can be added to major mobile wallets.
Leveraging Blackhawk’s Digital Pass technology, wallet-enabled Mastercard prepaid cards for promotions and incentives are exclusively available to Hawk Incentives customers. Blackhawk’s Digital Pass technology also enables marketers to connect loyalty programs, gift cards and other offers to mobile wallets, helping to advance the wallets beyond simple payment tools to platforms for far-reaching customer engagement.
“The ability to connect your incentive or promotional reward to a wallet is a game-changing innovation,” said Theresa McEndree, vice president of marketing, Hawk Incentives. “With our Digital Pass technology, we enable our clients to extend brand engagement with their mobile-minded consumers. Additionally, our virtual Mastercard combines great options in a single reward: recipients can pick an online or physical reward and can store, manage and make payments with the reward using their mobile wallet. This flexibility helps our partners to deliver the right rewards to the right recipients.”
