Bailey Reutzel

The P-to-P industry in Britain has remained focused on individual investors, even as American firms have been courting institutional money. But the two markets may finally be starting to converge.

London is turning into a major payments and financial services technology innovation hub, luring venture capital and talent from the U.S. and other parts of Europe.

Pinterest is the latest social media platform to announce plans to monetize the products pictured on its browsing app through a buy button powered by Stripe.

U.S. acquirers are looking to expand their business in emerging markets, where small merchants are starting to enter the commercial framework.

Startup CP Security Inc. is taking on tech giant Apple in the digital and mobile payments ring, building what CP Security calls network fabric that will bolster payments security and reduce expense.

Banks are starting to warm to the idea of automating supply chain finance to speed up payments that have traditionally been paper-based.

Silicon Valley Bank, which has found a niche working with payments and fintech startups on its home turf in California, is paying more attention to the innovation taking place outside the U.S.

London-based Givvit has chosen Judo Payments to enable payments within its mobile gifting app.

While the payments industry has seen its fair share of division, many players are increasingly willing to work together.

As its military members quickly adopt facial, voice and fingerprint recognition, USAA is finding out the demographics of users skew older than expected.

More than 400,000 USAA customers, five of which are over 90 years old, have opted to use biometric traits to authenticate themselves within the bank's mobile app.

"Big data" has been all the rage in the payments industry in recent years. While the hype seems to have subsided a bit, that might be because the most dedicated data-using merchants have put their heads down to focus on sifting through the data to investigate fraud.

While startups across the globe focus on building new payments technology, countries may fare better by recycling their old technology when building a national infrastructure for faster payments.

Few businesses accept cards for B2B transactions, dreading an interchange charge of 2% to 5% on sales that total thousands of dollars. But there are instances where the benefits of using cards outweigh the cost.

Because biometrics can't be reduced to a single hash (a number generated from a string of text), providers that store biometric information must rely on the security of their encryption keys for safekeeping of data that can't be revoked.

PayByPhone is bringing mobile payments to parking meters in cities around the world, and the vendor argues that its platform will attract consumers that don't want a different app for every city they travel to.

Mint Bills would like consumers to be able to pay their utility bills with a whole host of payment methods on mobile devices without a service fee. But when billers can't distribute the costs of certain payment methods, Mint Bills will make sure the fees stay low.

Circle Internet Financial, a Bitcoin wallet provider, is looking to expand to China with the help of new investor IDG Capital Partners, which joined the $50 million Series C investment the company just secured.

Circle Internet Financial, a Bitcoin wallet provider, is looking to expand to China with the help of new investor IDG Capital Partners, which joined the $50 million Series C investment the company just secured.

Coinbase, a U.S.-based Bitcoin exchange with many prominent merchant clients, has spread its services into the U.K. where bankers and regulators have been more welcoming of digital currency innovations.