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Google’s ‘Pony Express’ Gmail bill payment
Google is reportedly developing a new Gmail feature, Pony Express, that will allow users to receive and pay bills directly from their email inbox. According to Recode, the new project is called Pony Express, though that could be an internal code name; Google could go in a different direction with branding when Pony Express launches [...]
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Mobile money transfers double
New research from remittance specialist Azimo, demonstrates that the percentage of money transfers sent from mobile phones has more than doubled in the 12 months to January 2015. Azimo’s research found that almost one in 10 people between the ages of 18 and 24 have sent money via a mobile phone. Just one in 200 people over [...]
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Digital tipping point: Banks must focus on innovation to harness opportunities
A major new report sets out key recommendations for the banking industry and urges regulators to give consumers certainty that their money is equally well-protected wherever they choose to bank. Banks must concentrate on harnessing a range of digital technologies or risk losing customers to a new wave of competitors, according to a new report [...]
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Money laundering rules for digital currency to be put in place by UK government
Setting out its approach to digital currency, the UK government has vowed to start applying anti-money laundering regulation to exchanges but also promising to put cash behind research into the potential of blockchain technology. Last August the government outlined plans to look into the risks and benefits of digital currencies and their underlying technologies. This was [...]
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Multi-channeI is biggest payment challenge for UK retailers
Multi-channel retailing was named as the biggest payment challenge facing retailers by nearly half (47%) of respondents to Ingenico Group’s survey at this year’s RBTE. Ingenico has revealed the results of its survey carried out at this year’s Retail Business Technology Exhibition (RBTE), highlighting that the biggest payment challenge facing UK retailers over the next five [...]
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