Exploring the future of payments and banking

Welcome to the Pollinate’s ‘Fintech Deepdives’, a series of informative articles and blogs about some key issues in merchant payments. There’s a vast quantity of change happening right now. The global pandemic accelerated a switch to physically remote payments (both online and in-store); regulatory pressures to improve how merchants verify and authenticate the payment identity… Read more…

Silicon Valley continues its foray into payments last week, with Apple buying Canadian start-up, Mobeewave for $100m. The company, based in Montreal, builds software that allows smartphones to become payment terminals without any additional hardware or accessories and includes huge Android handset manufacturer, Samsung as an earlier investor. If rolled out, this would allow Apple… Read more…