Bailey Reutzel

Led by Bryant, serendipitous high-stakes acquisitions and a commitment to niche markets have led to First Citizens Bank's strong growth year-over-year.

With a risk-based capital percent double what's considered well-capitalized, Cai-Lee is thriving in her goal of building a financial institution for the next generation of small and medium-sized businesses – while grappling with an FDIC consent order.

Chung has led the development of new initiatives to enhance the bank's ability to help small business owners, increasing revenue and aiding the community in their excitement and their struggles.

Levine built BNP Paribas' cash equities business three years ago and now trades billions of dollars daily for clients.

New client acquisition was standout in 2024. Scarry's "intensity" is unwavering as she looks to grow the EMEA equity long-short client base in the year ahead.

The most popular payment method in Hong Kong is no longer considered safe by many protesters.

David Marcus spent more than 15 years climbing the ranks in the mobile sector before becoming PayPal’s president and then moving onto Facebook, where he now leads the blockchain team that launched the controversial Libra cryptocurrency project.

The concept of digital payments doesn't often cross paths with the concept of robots moving autonomously through our world. But in a few cases, robots have been created to handle payments and deliver goods.

After a year on the platform, American Express is more involved than ever in mining Facebook Messenger’s benefits as a tool for payments and financial services.

Collaboration has now become a constant theme in the payments industry, where longtime enemies are putting aside their differences to survive in the fast-paced digital world.

A handful of misconceptions about Latin America keep many U.S. payments companies out of the region, but the opportunities are too great to let those preconceived notions interfere, according to Sally Baptiste, who helped McAfee take its product south of the border.

While smartwatches drew a lot of the attention to wearable payments and the Internet of Things, in practice smartwatches just don't seem suitable for most transactions.

As marijuana legalization spreads throughout the U.S. and the world, companies in the cannabis market must navigate a delicate tangle of new and old regulations. And many payment providers are unwilling to risk working with dispensaries, leading to some inventive workarounds.

Contrary to many third-party payment providers' practice of pushing customers to lower-cost payment rails, Regalii wants its end users to pay their bills with credit cards. The goal of this arrangement is, of course, to make money for banks.

Apple Pay still struggles to displace cash and cards in the U.S., but its recent integration with Western Union shows the mobile wallet has some untapped potential.

EMV is strictly an anti-counterfeiting measure that leaves several elements of the payment process untouched, and fraudsters are exploiting these gaps.

South Africa doesn't rank as high on Mastercard's mobile readiness rankings as some other countries, but a need for convenience and security is drawing more attention to the channel, particularly among the young.

Artificial intelligence is steadily making its way through the payments and financial services world. The technology's usefulness for fraud detection is clear, but there are other areas where AI can have an impact.

The financial services industry has been using artificial intelligence for decades in trading, and as the technology gets smarter it’s being tested more often with payments as well.

PayPal's February acquisition of TIO Networks is the latest example of a growing trend of financial services providers targeting the underserved, developing products that bring the cash-heavy group into the digital payments fold.