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News/payments

Amazon opens cashierless store in London

Amazon has opened a cashierless store in London that lets customers "just walk out" once they have collected their shopping, with payment automatically taken from their account.

04 March 2021

Finextra TV/payments

Beyond the transaction: how payments service providers can innovate for their customers

Anant Gupta, APAC Innovation Lead, Financial Services, at Amazon Web Services (AWS), speaks to Finextra TV about how cloud services and a customer-centric mindset can help payments service providers use data to innovate and grow. By helping their merchant customers take action—informed by data and insight—to manage and grow their businesses, payments companies have an opportunity to deepen their customer relationships while building new revenue streams.

03 March 2021

News/predictions

Dimon 'scared shitless' by fintechs; calls out Plaid

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says incumbent banks should be "scared shitless" by fintech rivals, adding that some - including Plaid - are competing unfairly.

18 January 2021

Finextra TV/cloud

How the Cloud Supports Innovation in Financial Services

Lynne Zeldenryk, WW Innovation Lead, Financial Services at Amazon Web Services, speaks to FinextraTV about the power of cloud strategies, and the role adoption has in developing cutting edge new products and services, the need for more creativity and innovation amongst banks, and how this is driving the market to deliver new products more speedily and efficiently.

14 December 2020

News/payments

Payments have become tech arms race say banks

The vast majority of banks (94%) believe that the Covid-19 pandemic has turned the payments market into a technology arms race for which they are unprepared.

07 December 2020

Research

Personalisation-as-a-Service: Harnessing Data in the Banking and Payments Industry

30 October 2020 525 downloads

News/retail

Sibos 2020: Big Tech companies are not looking to get into financial services – Jesse McWaters

Jesse McWaters, Mastercard’s vice president of global digital public policy, believes the way people think about Big Tech companies entering financial services are mistaken.

08 October 2020

Finextra TV/cloud

Lessons learnt by fintech firm Kabbage on their AI&ML journey

Kathryn Petralia, Co-Founder & President, Kabbage, gives her View From Sibos on the power and possibilities AI&ML can offer institutions. We learn about her own experiences building and implementing a machine learning solution to benefit small businesses that qualified for the Paycheck Protection Program, a loan offered by the Small Business Administration in the US during the pandemic, and the incentive this provided small businesses to keep their workers on the payroll.

06 October 2020

Finextra TV/payments

Finding new ways to operate & transform with machine learning

Mark Smith, Worldwide Head of Business and Market Development for Payments, Amazon Web Services gives his View From Sibos on the power of AI and machine learning. We learn about how compute power has become more accessible, giving companies the ability to harness the cloud and use AI&ML tools to tackle new issues, the impact COVID-19 has had on your customer’s journey to implementing machine learning workloads, and about the challenges financial institutions are still grappling with around machine learning.

06 October 2020

News/payments

Amazon rolls out palm payment technology

Amazon has unveiled technology that lets shoppers at physical stores pay for their purchases by scanning the palm of their hands.

30 September 2020