David Heun

The digital banking provider Simple has been part of BBVA for five years, and its reputation as an easy way to handle and transfer digital money has only grown in that time frame through the addition of faster payments and P2P services.

Payments technology provider AscendantFX has added an international payment scheduling service to its APay online payment platform to help corporations automatically schedule and submit batches of cross-border transactions in advance of due dates.

Even though the General Data Protection Regulation has put data security and privacy top of mind throughout Europe in its first year, it is not likely the U.S. will see a similar federal mandate anytime soon — if ever.

Cloud-based treasury software provider Kyriba is partnering with JPMorgan Chase to launch a real-time payments API integration for its mutual corporate finance clients.

Interac is adding Mastercard Send to support a $24.5 billion market for cross-border payments that originate in Canada.

Seven European banks are testing Swift's Global Payments Innovation real-time cross-border payments through the continent's Target Instant Payment Settlement process.

Visa's tokenization began as a way to shield digital commerce and has developed into a major catalyst for Visa in landing partnerships.

The Clearing House's Real-Time Payments Network has been slow out of the gate, but it's getting some much needed adoption via a collaboration between personal financial management fintech Digit and JPMorgan Chase.

Despite the technology advancements of the past decade, many consumers still provide spoken card details over the phone to company call centers. The practice has triggered security concerns throughout the payments industry.

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