Daniel Wolfe
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Mountain View, CA, United States
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Google Pay cuts features, Libra nears launch
Black Friday sets record but misses forecast; and other information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. → Read More
6 ways David Marcus transformed Facebook payments
It was an attention-grabbing decision when Facebook hired PayPal's president, David Marcus, in 2014. At the time, Facebook didn't have much of a dedicated payments business to speak of; when people thought of spending money on Facebook, they typically thought of in-app purchases in Farmville. → Read More
Why Wirecard's success was too good to be true
Eric Grover, principal at Intrepid Ventures, talks to PaymentsSource senior editor Kate Fitzgerald about how the high-flying German fintech fell to scandal — and whether it could happen again. → Read More
Analyzing small-biz spending during the pandemic
Derek Webster, founder and CEO of the mobile point of sale provider CardFlight, talks with Daniel Wolfe, editor-in-chief of PaymentsSource, about the data CardFlight collects on small-business spending, which it updates every week during the coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
Dashed hopes: Amazon's (mostly) failed plan for in-home payments
Amazon's Dash devices were an early, blunt take on the internet of things. But over the years Amazon has gradually phased out its Dash product line in favor of voice-based Alexa shopping and other alternatives. → Read More
Innovation at home: How Chase's wholesale payments team adapted to a pandemic
For a major bank, is it possible to be just as innovative — or even more so — when going fully remote? PaymentsSource executive editor John Adams talks to JPMorgan Chase's Tammy Petro about the unique challenges faced by the bank's wholesale payments business. → Read More
Crisis, management: How Dwolla's new CEO took on coronavirus
Imagine you're a CEO on your first day on the job — and it's the early days of the coronavirus crisis. That was the situation Brady Harris found himself in when he took the top job at Dwolla, a payment company that we have covered for many years. → Read More
Blockchain in the coronavirus era
Avivah Litan, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, explains the evolving role blockchain has taken during the coronavirus pandemic. Blockchain, originally developed for use with bitcoin, provides a way to bring trust and order to the chaos of the current crisis, but it's no silver bullet. → Read More
How mobile wallets keep propping up plastic (or metal) cards
The modern mobile wallet no longer uses a card as a crutch. Instead, it sees it as an additional product that can add revenue from interchange, lending and loyalty. → Read More
Coronavirus shakes long-held beliefs about payments
The payments industry is in a unique position during the coronavirus crisis: It is a lifeline for many businesses, but it is also facing its own upheaval as habits and needs drastically change. → Read More
How coronavirus has changed merchant acquiring
Suneera Madhani, CEO of the digital acquirer Fattmerchant, tells PaymentsSource how the coronavirus pandemic has affected how her employees go to market with new payments technology — and how making the shift to digital helps both the acquirer and its clients. → Read More
Coronavirus and consolidation
We talk with Melissa Smith, the CEO of WEX, and her colleague Jay Dearborn about the biggest changes in store for transit, health and corporate payments. → Read More
The Most Influential Women in Payments, 2020
The payments industry bridges many markets — including technology and finance — that haven't always demonstrated diversity at their highest ranks. Things are changing, and this year's Most Influential Women in Payments honorees demonstrate the importance of women to all aspects of the payments industry and all corners of the globe. → Read More
Can a paper check business become a diverse fintech?
Deluxe has spent many years working to diversify beyond paper checks, which are in an inevitable decline. But that diversity led to confusion. → Read More
T-Mobile and Sprint: A merger of mobile payment pioneers
The U.S. telco sector has worked hard to control the mobile wallets developed on its phones. While its earliest efforts didn't last long, companies like T-Mobile and Sprint took decidedly different paths to reach where they are now. → Read More
Visa bids farewell to Visa Checkout in U.S. click-to-pay switch
Visa is ready to go all-in on Secure Remote Commerce, the technology behind the card brands' universal "click to pay" button, by sunsetting the Visa Checkout brand for U.S. merchants on Jan. 21. → Read More
How Samsung only scratches the surface of Tap-to-Phone
Samsung's upcoming XCover Pro phone, which can accept contactless payments without add-on hardware, is the first of what Visa hopes will be many devices capable of natively handling NFC payments. → Read More
8 CES inventions that fintechs should watch
The annual Consumer Electronics Show, taking place in Las Vegas, is a showcase of bizarre and revolutionary new technologies — with a few providing glimpses into the future of fintech and payments. → Read More
Morning Brief 12.24.19: Plenty of Fish data privacy questioned
Wearable payments in Brazil; Google improves facial biometrics; and other information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. → Read More
Microsoft, Mastercard fund initiative to help thwart hackers
Microsoft Corp., Mastercard Inc. and the Hewlett Foundation are funding a new organization that is planning to help dissidents and other vulnerable groups across the world defend against hackers. → Read More