David Heun

The year 2019 kicked off with a series of mutli-billion-dollar mergers and acquisitions designed to shake up the dynamics of the payments industry. While this was taking place, Elavon had its own plan for extending its influence through M&A.

Asia's lone payments association has agreed to work with financial innovators to promote the benefits of an API platform that would serve the continent's payments community.

Asia's lone payments association has agreed to work with financial innovators to promote the benefits of an API platform that would serve the continent's payments community.

In a move to aid faster expansion and provide more security and regulatory compliance tools, Sweden's Klarna Bank is strengthening its longtime relationship with Amazon Web Services by making it the preferred cloud provider.

In a move to aid faster expansion and provide more security and regulatory compliance tools, Klarna Bank in Sweden is strengthening its longtime relationship with Amazon Web Services by making it the bank's preferred cloud provider.

American Express is launching a credit card that provides consumers in the U.K. cash back for reaching physical activity goals.

Interoperability has become a top priority in the minds of those advancing faster payments.

If the deployment of faster payments came with a guarantee to boost a financial institution's bottom line, more banks and businesses would likely invest in bringing their legacy systems into a new age.

In a move that accelerates Western Union's plan for its money transfers to be part of advancing digital technology, the cross-border payment provider has entered an agreement with Amazon Web Services for long-term cloud services.

PayPal Ventures is part of an investment group that has raised $4.2 million for cryptocurrency risk management platform TRM Labs.

Modern technology is making it easier for fraudsters to trick consumers into believing they are making payments from their accounts to legitimate providers, but governing bodies in the U.K. are putting the brakes on rushing to create a new fund to compensate victims of those scams.

Ahead of the busiest shopping period of the year, CaixaBank is embracing facial recognition retail payments, an option that has met with pushback elsewhere.

MoneyGram is partnering with Wing mobile banking service in Cambodia to offer money transfer services that allow users to send and receive funds directly into their mobile wallets.

Coinbase Card has expanded its cryptocurrency exchange payment cards into 10 new countries and added five new crypto assets that users can spend.

Google Pay adds banks in Singapore; a contactless pay shirt debuts; and other information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web.

With a growing number of banks adopting digital technology to move B2B commercial cards into mobile wallets, JPMorgan is collaborating with Boost Payment Solutions to automate the delivery of single-use and commercial card accounts to clients.

After weeks of enduring a firestorm of negative feedback regarding its proposal to launch the Libra cryptocurrency network, Facebook is turning to a more conventional system by joining other "Pays" in launching Facebook Pay.

Multichannel payment technology provider Ingenico Group is partnering with Singapore fintech Pundi X to deliver a point-of-sale terminal that can accept crypto payments.

From its start four years ago as a PayPal service, the Xoom mobile money transfer network has positioned itself as an international P2P app that could rival traditional networks through its speed and ease of use.

If measuring PCI-DSS compliance was like tracking an athletic team's progress, one could say it was in a bad slump.