Square Cash app is accelerating growth, outpacing Venmo

Payments

Mastercard powers pay advance for hourly and gig workers

• Gig workers increasingly have to deal with erratic pay and fixed pay cycles.
• Mastercard's Send is being used by employees to access their accrued earnings

Payments, Podcasts

WePay’s Tina Hsiao: ‘We’re still able to innovate but with the breadth, scale, and mission of JPM Chase’

• Chase acquired integrated payments firm WePay in 2017.
• Since then, WePay has grown its team, product set, and distribution.

4 charts, Payments

Are banks still necessary? The view from China in 4 charts

• China's fintech ecosystem is the world's largest.
• Here are four images that show how Chinese users conduct their financial lives without banks.

Payments, Podcasts

Verifi’s Rick Lynch on using technology to reduce the $31 billion chargeback problem

• Ecommerce has accelerated fraud attempts, ramping the total value of chargebacks on merchants.
• It's a $31 billion problem and fintech companies approach it from different perspectives.

Banking as a service, Finance Everywhere, Payments, Podcasts

Why community and regional banks use Currencycloud to power their international payments offerings

• Currencycloud has made a business out of servicing international payments offerings for other businesses.
• Richard Arundel, co-founder and the general manager of his firm's North America business, joins us on the podcast.