Of the many issues highlighted by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, one big one was the liability of having too much cash sitting in too few bank accounts. Today a London startup called TreasurySpr
Cashless transactions are on the rise, but cash payments are still a reality for American cannabis dispensaries and emerging countries – and they come at a cost. Are we ready for the end of cash?
Investing app Robinhood is on a roll with announcing new features as it looks to appeal to more customers amid dwindling transaction revenue. Less than a week after unveiling plans to allow users to l
Diem, a London, U.K.-based fintech startup, has raised a seed round of $5.5 million led by Fasanara Capital, and angel investor Chris Adelsbach, founder of Outrun Ventures. Additional investors includ
PayPal-owned payments app Venmo today announced support for instant transfers to U.S. bank accounts. The feature is an optional alternative to Venmo’s standard bank transfer service, which typic
Today, the Android platform sees more app downloads than iOS, but Apple’s App Store continually dominates in terms of revenue. Now, Google is aiming to narrow the revenue gap by introducing a ne
Walmart and PayPal this morning announced a partnership that will see the two collaborating on financial services and products, including new PayPal cash in and cash out services at Walmart stores, as
It seems like each new feature Square adds to its Cash app brings it one step closer to being a de-facto bank account for its users. Case in point, the app just rolled out support for ACH direct depos
DMM, one of Japan’s largest Internet and e-commerce conglomerates, announced today that it will pay 7 billion yen (about $62.2 million) for pawn shop app Cash. Launched this summer, Cash’s softwar
Amazon Cash, the service that lets consumers add cash to their Amazon.com balance at brick-and-mortar retailers, is now available at nearly 8,000 7-Eleven convenience stores, the companies announced t
The idea of a cashless society is one of the topics that stirs up a heated debate when it comes to the digitalization of banking and society. While the anonymity of cash acts as an enabler for the ill
As I noted in January, the U.S. government is quite interested in getting out of the Bitcoin business and has, thus far, been working hard to convert seized bitcoin to actual cash, a move that could a
Square's not just for businesses apparently, as an invite-only page for a product called "Square Cash" has popped up. Not many details are known about it, but we've reached out to the company for comm
Apple now has $145 billion in cash on hand — a 5.8 percent increase over the past three months. The company last reported that they had $137.1 billion in cash back on December 30. To put this in
Let's put Apple's amazing cash on hand numbers into perspective <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/25/apple-now-has-121-3-billion-in-cash-more-than-amazons-market-cap-or-a-space-station/">once ag
Cash-based payments platform <a target="_blank" href="http://www.paynearme.com/">PayNearMe</a> has raised additional financing, the company announced today, in a Series D round led by August Capital
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.paynearme.com/">PayNearMe</a> (formerly Kwedit), a cash-based payments network, is today announcing a partnership with property management software maker <a target
A major milestone for disruptive payments platform <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dwolla.com/">Dwolla</a>: the company has just switched on FiSync, its real-time money transfer system which aims
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<a href="http://www.walmart.com">Walmart.com</a> is launching a new way to checkout, targeting customers who don't have credit or debit cards...or money in the bank for that matter. The company is now
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