Banking

The BIG Problem at Zelle

Zelle is one of the coolest things to come along since … well, for a very long time. Introduced last year, Zelle…

Google Wallet Apple Pay Isis Softcard

When Google Wallet launched, I wrote a piece suggesting that it was a solution in search of a…

Automated Savings Programs and Business Change

Coincidences are what make life interesting, don’t you think?

Not an hour after I posted yesterday’s story on Banking, e-Commerce, and Merchant Accounts, I was in the car, listening to that quaint old thing we call “radio”…

PayPal for Banking, e-Commerce, Merchant Accounts? WHY?

If you’re buried in minutiae, welcome to the business world. If you’re looking to change your business or change the way you do business, one of the best things you can do is cut out that minutiae.

PayPal Debit Card (When Your Bank Pretends To Give You Something)

Somewhere along the line, PayPal became a bank. Your bank. You probably missed it, but it happened.

And somewhere else, PayPal started acting like a bank, too. Now, when PayPal uses your…

The Business Change of Not Paying Your Mortgage

I’ve written about intentional mortgage default once before. This coming Sunday the idea will be in The New York Times Magazine, and today it’s in Henry Blodget’s Business Insider.

Facebook and Twitter are Illegal. Does that Make for Business Change?

I talk all the time about managing the business change that social networking through sites like Twitter and Facebook necessitates. Well here’s a change: what if using Facebook or Twitter was illegal?