Fintech, Finance, Technology, Banking Highlights – 24 October 2017
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 …
Capital One joins Series D funding round for Snowflake Computing Snowflake Computing, the only data warehouse built for the cloud, announced that Capital One Growth Ventures, the venture investing arm of …
Kakao Bank Reaches 820,000 Clients in 4 Days Since Launch Kakao Bank, one of South Korea’s first digital only banks, says it has attracted KRW 535 billion ($477 million) worth …
EMVCo Publishes QR Code Specifications EMVCo, the global technical body that manages the EMV Specifications, has publicly released two QR Code payment specifications that support merchant-presented QR Code and consumer-presented …
TSYS announced that it has enabled tokenization across all of its North American commercial card platforms. TSYS is the first commercial card processor to allow its Visa and Mastercard corporate, …
OCBC Bank has launched its first standalone mobile payments app which makes QR code cashless payments available at close to 2,500 NETS terminals. The new standalone OCBC Pay Anyone app …
Yandex.Money brings its users a new method of contactless payments — via Android Pay. With this method, users can now pay from Yandex.Money virtual and plastic Mastercards, and companies can …
CardFlight, a mobile point of sale (POS) provider, is launching the Swift B200 and Swift B250, a new series of mobile cards readers utilizing Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity to enable …
Visa Inc. announced that Visa Checkout, the easier way to use a Visa card online, is sustaining tremendous growth, reaching more than 20 million enrolled accounts. Visa Checkout enables millions …