CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. Simple, an early contender founded in 2009, floundered following its 2011 launch before ultimately being bought by Spanish banking giant BBVA in 2014. Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. Active investing.

Finance 77

Finance Online and Mobile Banking Advisors Micro-Entry 77

PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

When Tencent made the move to mobile and launched WeChat in 2011, it had to persuade QQ users to download and use the WeChat app. There are stories of micro merchants using it as a channel to sell, but it’s not clear how widespread those use cases are and the extent to which they have traction and scale. Just like WeChat did.

Bots 62

Bots Online and Mobile Banking Regulations PayPal 62

CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That same year, the company acquired TextPayMe , a peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile service that was relaunched as Amazon Webpay in 2011. Webpay failed to gain user traction and was shut down in 2014, unlike up-start Venmo (now a part of rival payments processor PayPal). Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014.

Online and Mobile Banking 101

Online and Mobile Banking Push-to-Card Payment APIs and Integration Non-Bank 101