How do you win $15,000 and catch the eye of the biggest names in banking innovation? We sat down with Team Piggy Wealth—the winners of the Visa Bank of the Future UI/UX Challenge—to find out. Lien Chueh, Fruzan Nijrabi, Erik …
A Conversation with Etienne Iliffe-Moon, Director of Design and Strategic Partnering, BMW Group Designworks + BMW Group Technology Office USA
BMW Designworks’ visionary defines the future premium and reveals the roadmap to a seamless, elegant mobile banking experience. Spanning three offices throughout the world, BMW Group Designworks propels the speed of innovation by keeping an ear to the ground and …
Alexander Peh, Head of Market Development & Mobile, PayPal CA
PayPal CA’s mobile expert gives us the lay of the fintech land, highlighting new mobile payment verticals and user experiences to explore. PayPal’s solutions always seem to meet customers at the exact places they want to transact. That’s not …
8 Reasons Toronto is Fintech’s Rising Star
It’s an exciting time to be in Toronto. This fall brought a continuous stream of announcements from emerging fintech stars and multiple events in the city highlighting local innovation. The city has been steadily humming with the energy of innovation. …
A Conversation with Andrew Boyajian, Head of Banking for North America, TransferWise
Lessons in bringing fair play to the world of international money transfers and using transparency to empower a growing user base. Breaking consumers out of ingrained habits and patterns is a real challenge for fintech innovators. However, Andrew Boyajian and …
Designing the Future Bank
Visa is sponsoring the competition that could redefine the way we bank. The term “User Experience” wasn’t top of mind for banks a decade or two ago. But, says Derek Colfer, Head of Digital Innovation at Visa Canada, it’s something …
Five things that will forever change how we bank
If a bank were a person, how would it look? Close your eyes and picture it for a second. Eighty bucks says you’re picturing a man, and he’s in a suit. He probably has white hair, maybe a moustache, and …
A conversation with Mark Dowds, Chief Strategy Officer, Trov
Trov’s innovation guru talks about giving a new voice to an ancient industry and why Canadian kindness makes Toronto a great InsurTech hub. It doesn’t matter what industry he touches, Mark Dowds is a born disruptor. With Northern Irish charm …
Vodafone Wins Big Thanks to Focus on Loyalty & Engagement
Vodafone is one of the earliest trailblazers in mobile payments—from the the game-changing peer-to-peer mobile payments platform M-pesa launched in 2007 to a wide number of innovations in mobile payment and NFC wallet solutions, Vodafone has a proven track record …
The World’s Banking and Payments Leaders Are Coming to Toronto
If you’ve even blinked at any fintech news recently you know Toronto is on the up. It’s the fourth largest city in North America, Canada’s financial hub, a hotbed for tech startups, and a beacon for government support. In fact, Capgemini’s …
On-line meets Off-line: Mobile Payments Convergence Signals Tipping Point for Adoption
Landmark partnership between Visa and PayPal makes mobile mainstream and sets new benchmark for banks hoping to compete in mobile payments. We often assume it’s a question of “when” not “if” the smartphone will transform consumer payments on a mass …
Danish banking collective sign up for HCE mobile payments with Nets
Customers of banks belonging to Danish banking collective The Bokis Partnership will soon be able to make host card emulation (HCE) based mobile payments via a service that uses an HCE and tokenization platform from digital payment services provider Nets and Carta Worldwide. The …
Token Services by Carta in recent Nilson Report
The Nilson Report covered Carta’s unique token services in their most recent issue. The article includes information on the Token Processing Appliance (TPA), Smart Tokens, and Carta’s work with Nets, Vodafone and PayPal. “In addition to transaction processing and prepaid card account management, …
Webinar — Case study: Lessons learned from selecting and implementing a tokenization solution able to serve 200 banks
What does this webinar cover? Adopting an in-house approach to tokenization can provide banks, processors and domestic payment networks with a range of benefits, including rapid plug-and-play deployment, quantified risk and security, pre-certification and a future-proof roadmap that allows maximum …
Vodafone, PayPal and Carta win “International Program of the Year”
On April 21st in Toronto, the Vodafone wallet won a PX Award for “International Program of the Year” – awarded to Vodafone, PayPal and Carta Worldwide. The Vodafone wallet is one of the most advanced, contactless payments apps in Europe – in addition …
Worlds leaders in fintech gathering in Copenhagen
Carta is powering some of the best fintech innovations in the world, come see us at Money 20/20 in Copenhagen. Vodafone, PayPal, Nets – this year Carta has arguably won some of the world’s leading market roll-outs. And we are just …
Nets Group and Carta roll out Europe’s largest multi-bank payments solution to date
Though mobile payments are quickly becoming ubiquitous, banks have been characteristically slow to dive headlong into the space and take a leading role to deliver mobile services. You can’t blame them—until recently they’ve had their hands tied. It was hard …
Nets selects Carta’s TPA to enable token based NFC payments for 200+ banks in Northern Europe
Nets Group and Carta Worldwide have announced a partnership that brings secure mobile payments solutions to banks across Northern Europe. The partnership enables Nets to provide token services potentially to all of the banks that are being serviced by Nets …
Enabled by Carta Worldwide, PayPal and Vodafone to Open the Voda Wallet to Millions of PayPal Customers
PayPal is about to make Vodafone’s award winning wallet even better. At some point during 2016, millions of PayPal customers will be able to add their account to the Vodafone Wallet and from then on pay contactlessly with their smartphone. …
Vodafone, Carta & Raphaels Bank win Best Initiative in Mobile Payments
Last night in London, Vodafone, Carta and Raphaels Bank won “Best Initiative in Mobile Payments” at the 2016 Card & Payments Awards. After a detailed entry and judging process the awards culminated in a black tie dinner and awards ceremony at …
