David Heun

Bitcoin Hyper is working with a Latin American payment processor to bring acceptance of its high-speed cryptocurrency to multi-channel payment terminals and mobile apps in the U.S. and Latin America.

A stronger U.S. economy paved the way for Toast and other companies like it, such as Bolt and Due, to find their own niche against PayPal, Stripe and Square when it came to serving small restaurants or coffee shops with point-of-sale hardware and software.

The P2P service, based on the time its users spend with it, has the capability of luring users into other services attached to Venmo.

Calling it the largest B2B trading platform in the world, Alibaba Group has opened Alibaba.com to small and medium-size U.S. businesses to reach an addressable market of $23.9 trillion.

Payments technology is advancing at such a rapid pace, the most valuable asset for those in merchant acquiring is expertise.

When Amazon was busy driving traffic to its site — and the likes of Walmart and Best Buy were aggressively trying to pull shoppers away — it also invited several issuers to compete to be the top-of-wallet card for Prime Day spending.

During his time with the company, Hogg directed its transformation from Interbank to Mastercard and helped expand the card brand's global presence.

Even with an economy that has slowed to a "moderate" pace, American Express says U.S. consumers' spending trends remained solid and, in the case of Amex cardholders, they are willing to pay fees for cards that come with the right features.

For ISOs, it's hard to watch someone else deliver payment services in their place.

Ever since PayPal took control of Venmo as part of its 2013 purchase of Braintree, it has woven Venmo into more and more of its products. Even other acquisitions aren't immune to the spread of Venmo.