David Heun

London-based Checkout.com views the acquisition of ProcessOut and its data analytics platform as a complement for its end-to-end payments service, as it seeks to build strength in the European market and eyes further expansion into Asia Pacific.

The Payment Card Industry data security standard applies to organizations of all sizes, but has often been seen as an intro to data security for small-business owners who know more about cooking burgers than securing data.

Because of its large U.S. network of about 14,000 fuel stations in the U.S., Royal Dutch Shell often sets the tone for industry movements in technology, including the EMV conversion, which faces an Oct. 1 liability shift.

Mastercard will expand its European Technology Hub in Dublin over the next three to five years, as the card network plans to create more than 1,500 tech jobs at the site.

The central bank of Brazil will launch the Brazilian Instant Payments Scheme, or PIX, in November as the single brand for instant payment functionality.

There's been a lot of interest in using blockchain, the distributed ledger technology developed for bitcoin, to modernize payments and banking systems. But as with any technology, blockchain is only secure if its users can be trusted.

Fraud prevention provider Kount is strengthening its artificial intelligence-powered Identity Trust Global Network with software for determining how long email addresses have been in use.

Global fintech Ebanx is partnering with Uber to enable consumers in Brazil to pay for the ride-sharing service by topping up their Uber Cash balance with the country's voucher-based payment system.

The more turmoil a region's currency or financial networks endure, the more appealing an economy driven by crypto tokens and an ability to convert those to domestic currencies becomes.

Investors poured a fresh $400 million into Toast following a year in which the payment firm more than doubled revenue from its network of restaurant clients.