Carrefour Poland has launched its pioneering “Scan&Go” service embedded in its shopping application, which enables self-service product scanning as well as in-app payments with Masterpass, all in a customer’s own smartphone. The solution, designed to eliminate queues at cash registers and improve customer experience, has just concluded a pilot stage and is going to be gradually launched in Carrefour stores across Poland.

Smartphones to replace cash registers and wallets

It’s been well documented that the financial services industry needed some form of disruption and a move away from the traditional models. The industry as we know it has become too out-dated in the modern, digital world that we now live in. True product innovation, improved customer UX/UI were always going to be a problem for large financial institutions to manage and rectify. FinTech was seen as the holy grail to address the bulk of these issues, and for the most part there has been some progress.

Discover announced today that cardmembers now can redeem Cashback Bonus® for a statement credit through Apple Pay. 

Payment Alliance International (PAI), the nation’s largest, privately-held ATM provider, today announced the release of its much anticipated PAI Mobile app.

Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM:DWCH) today at the HR Technology Conference, announced a joint technology partnership with Sage, market leader in cloud accounting software.

Faced with the exponential development of chatbots and voice assistants, VISEO is launching VISEO Bot Maker in order to enable companies to embrace this new revolution in uses and reduce the cost of innovation for this new type of services.         
Facing an ecosystem under construction, VISEO Bot Maker is an open source platform that facilitates the design and accelerates the development of chatbots and voice assistants - to scale.

SafeCharge, a leader in advanced payment technologies, today announces it has been selected by Goldmoney Inc. (TSX:XAU), a precious metal financial service and technology company traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, to further expand its online and mobile deposit options.

International mobile payment service provider, Tola Mobile, has today announced further expansion in Africa, it now processes 15 million monthly transactions across the continent with its Tola.wallet platform. The solution enables companies to receive and make real time payments throughout Africa and is experiencing significant month-on-month growth in the number of transactions processed across the regions supported.

IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that its Information Mosaic business is launching a new corporate actions solution specifically designed to meet the needs of global investment banks.