Bailey Reutzel

Commerce Bancshares Kansas City, Mo., has found its customers want to save the planet, but don't want to put in too much effort, so the issuer partnered with Sustain:Green for cards that offset carbon emissions.

Apple Inc. showed how to combine biometrics and tokenization in a mainstream product, and now companies of all sizes are working to build on this combination.

Global e-commerce and payment solutions provider Mozido has acquired a majority of NettCash, a Zimbabwe-based mobile wallet provider, to strengthen its foothold in Africa.

E-commerce fraud management platform provider Ethoca has raised $45 million in investment after significant growth last year.

As China loosens restrictions on international commerce, foreign merchants bringing their operations to China may be unprepared for the types of fraud they encounter.

Remittance provider Transfast is expanding its proprietary bank network across 23 African nations, enabling funds to be transferred directly into recipient bank accounts.

Some rules are black and white, which is why Sift Science has added the ability for clients to integrate automatic rules on top of its machine-learning fraud detection system.

Biometrics are a catalyst to streamline authentication, though the technology contains a vulnerability that Payfone thinks it can solve with the SIM cards that match consumers to a computing device such as a smartphone.

Banking experts are starting to look into cryptocurrency tech, and they are hedging their bets by finding uses for both the public blockchain models – like Bitcoin – and private models.

Business members of Best Price, which Walmart operates as in India, will have the ability to make payments via M-Pesa’s mobile wallet service.