7/30/2014 1:40:52 PM Youth focused (UK) mobile bank Osper raises $10M By Gareth Jones Should children as young as eight be allowed to have their own Visa or MasterCard so they can shop online (see the funny tweet attached...
7/30/2014 2:49:05 AM Starbucks Mobile Payments Volume Keeps Rising By Gareth Jones Across North America, Starbucks has almost 12 million active users of its mobile app. The reason adoption is high? Rewards. Their...
7/30/2014 2:36:19 AM PayPal brings mobile payments to Holland By Gareth Jones PayPal has partnered with Rabobank Bank-backed MyOrder to allow PayPal users to pre-order and purchase items prior to arrival at a...
7/30/2014 2:26:29 AM London Transport Network Finally Opening Up To Contactless Mobile Payments By Gareth Jones At FinTech Collective we never had a strong conviction that payments alone would drive broader NFC adoption. Moving the Oyster Card to...
7/30/2014 2:18:33 AM Waitrose in the UK showcases mobile QR payments By Gareth Jones Waitrose, one of the UK's biggest and most innovative supermarket retailers, is making plans to put mobile technology, including QR...
7/30/2014 2:07:05 AM Exchange Corp. launches cardless payment service with $3.3m Series A By FinTech Collective The Japanese startup Exchange Corp. has launched a new up-front payment service for online retailers called Paidy. Paidy is a cardless...
7/30/2014 1:47:43 AM Facebook says goodbye to Gifts and hello to a new future in commerce By FinTech Collective Facebook wants to help other businesses sell things, so it’s done selling its own. Facebook Gifts will shut down on August 12th. The...
7/30/2014 1:23:58 AM Apple allows bitcoin apps on the app store By FinTech Collective Apple started removing bitcoin apps without explanation last year, it was seen as a huge setback for bitcoin's acceptance. Wallets allow...
7/29/2014 3:39:40 AM Bankers are urged to do their duty to employer and country By Gareth Jones “socially useless” - thats strong language!! Another article, this time out of the UK, about how naughty bankers should repent and do good!
7/29/2014 3:23:56 AM The Reserve Bank of India may allow telecom and Non-banking financial companies to set up banks By Gareth Jones Financial inclusion in India got a boost when governor Raghuram Rajan proposed these radical reforms to address the problem that more...
7/29/2014 3:11:37 AM Disrupting Payments, Africa Style By Gareth Jones A terrific re/code article that points out that by simply firing up your SMS app in rural Africa you can buy something. The merchant...
7/29/2014 2:57:06 AM Stripe - The abstraction layer that makes the circulation of money easy. By Gareth Jones This Wired article provides a great overview of why Stripe has been so successful at getting folks like Lyft, Instacart and other tech...
7/29/2014 2:47:59 AM The iWatch Could Be Apple's Secret Weapon For Mobile Payments By Gareth Jones Samsung has already partnered with PayPal to allows Galaxy S5 owners to pay for items by authenticating with a fingerprint. Will Apple do...
7/29/2014 2:39:14 AM Top-up your iTunes account in-store with Passbook By Gareth Jones Building on the rumours that Apple could eventually make a broader play for iTunes-powered mobile payments, this ability to reload your...
7/29/2014 2:30:07 AM LendingTree introduces free insight into your credit score By Gareth Jones My LendingTree experience is using a bunch of non traditional data sets to provide completely free credit scores, access to monthly...
7/25/2014 2:37:18 PM How robo advisors are replacing financial advisers By FinTech Collective Robo advisors are here to stay and gaining in popularity. Will robo advisors completely replace human advisors? This article makes a...