David Heun is an associate editor for technology at American Banker.
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The tech giant says it will benefit heavily from its 2019 purchase of Worldpay as it seeks to provide digital payment services to merchants.
By David HeunFebruary 9 -
Fraudsters have increasingly targeted financial services, online dating sites and social media since the end of the holiday season.
By David HeunFebruary 9 -
The arrangement, which focuses on merchant services, comes about six months after Global Payments secured a similar partnership with Amazon Web Services on the issuer side of its business.
By David HeunFebruary 8 -
JoomPay has launched a new P2P service for money transfers across Europe, operating as a socially focused spinoff of the Joom e-commerce marketplace.
By David HeunFebruary 4 -
Cross-border payments technology provider Routefusion plans to expand its embedded software services and global partnerships after a recent funding round.
By David HeunFebruary 2 -
Call centers have long had issues around the security of accepting card payments verbally; companies like Semafone and DataDivider are working to keep those centers PCI-compliant as the pandemic compounds the problem.
By David HeunFebruary 2 -
City National Bank is working with the fintech startup Extend to further boost contactless payments at the point of sale for business employees through the launch of a virtual Visa commercial credit card.
By David HeunJanuary 29 -
B2B cross-border payments provider Currencycloud is partnering with online foreign exchange trading service OANDA to establish an international money transfer network for companies in North America.
By David HeunJanuary 27 -
The card brand is betting on homebound consumers' eagerness to get out, but restrictions will need to ease. And corporate spending will take much longer to come back.
By David HeunJanuary 26 -
The card brand is betting on homebound consumers' eagerness to get out, but restrictions will need to ease. And corporate spending will take much longer to come back.
By David HeunJanuary 26 -
U.S. banks and payment companies are looking to Europe's example to see how open banking can push the market beyond its reliance on credit and debit cards.
By David HeunJanuary 25 -
Biometric authentication has always been a challenging subject with consumers, who are accustomed to using the technology to unlock their phones but are still wary about how much personal information they share with retailers and card issuers.
By David HeunJanuary 25 -
U.S. banks and payment companies are looking to Europe's example to see how open banking can push the market beyond its reliance on credit and debit cards.
By David HeunJanuary 25 -
MoneyGram International is expanding its use of Visa Direct across Europe, allowing its customers to use the company website or mobile app to send money in near-real time to Visa debit card holders in various parts of 25 countries in Europe.
By David HeunJanuary 22 -
Digital financial services platform Wari is working with Lycaremit to add low-cost fund transfers across Europe, Africa and the Middle East to its network.
By David HeunJanuary 21 -
European digital investment platform Bitpanda is launching its first plastic product, a Visa debit card that combines currency, cryptocurrency and precious metal assets into one card.
By David HeunJanuary 20 -
Cross-border payment provider dLocal is adding an installment payment option for global e-commerce merchants serving customers in Brazil through a partnership with the fintech Dinie, which works with small merchants in Latin America.
By David HeunJanuary 19 -
E-commerce merchants may need more data to ensure they are not turning down sales from first-time online shoppers.
By David HeunJanuary 19 -
Payments technology provider Plastiq says it is the first company to fully integrate Intuit QuickBooks Online onto its payments platform — a move that illustrates the growing power of Plastiq's technology.
By David HeunJanuary 19 -
What started as Mezu and went through 18 difficult months competing as a payments offering has now rebranded as Alviere, with a broader range of digital banking services.
By David HeunJanuary 14













