The number of consumers making use of #Apple’s mobile payment service is increasing, but are these #users really, well, using it? The company #more than doubled the users for its namesake payment service, Apple Pay, according to CEO Tim Cook on the company’s second quarter earnings call yesterday. This year-over-year increase is part of the […]
Bank Innovation
Small business lending platform #Funding #Circle will be working with a traditional lender to fund #loans on its platform. The #fintech is partnering with #community #bank, #INTRUST Bank for this purpose, the companies announced yesterday. The partnership will consist of “several stages,” the first of which is funding small business loans for Funding Circle clients. […]
Bank Innovation
Person-to-person #payments have gained traction among #banks and other financial institutions recently. Many of the incumbents, like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, or Citi, have integrated Zelle within their apps to offer #free, instant, and simple P2P payments capabilities to their customers. All this progress, however, doesn’t seem to have translated into the cross-border payments space, […]
Bank Innovation
Everything that happened in #fintech this week in the U.K. is just plain wrong. #Funding #Circle raised $ 100 million for its peer-to-peer lending platform AND notched record lending activity in the final quarter of 2016 — AND pushed its U.K. operation into profitability. Brexit? Shmexit. Oh, the indignity of it.Read More
Bank Innovation
#Blockchain #payments firm #Circle has integrated with Apple #iMessage as part of its iOS 10 #update.
CoinDesk
#Blockchain-based social payments app #Circle has raised $ 60m in new funding as it expands to #China.
fintech techcrunch
#Circle founders Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville weigh in on The DAO, the decentralized autonomous organization that was exploited this week.
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