David Heun

Emphasizing its work with various partners in the payments industry as its key to success, Pivotal Payments says it has changed its brand name to Nuvei.

American Express has positioned itself as a small-business champion for decades, but its partnership with Amazon illustrates the paradox of supporting mom-and-pop shops by enabling them to buy supplies from their largest competitor.

Seeking to bring advanced technology to its managed security services, ControlScan has acquired Dunbar Cybersecurity and its security operations center.

Twilio has secured the services of Stripe as a launch partner to enable businesses to accept payments over the phone through their existing Stripe account. The companies plan to offer Twilio Pay in early 2019.

Worldnet is adding Google Pay to its cloud-hosted platform to address the pressure on payment service providers and independent sales organizations to securely embrace multiple payment channels and computing devices.

Visa is expanding its Visa Token Service commercially with 20 acquirer/gateway partners it feels can immediately add scale for using interoperable Visa tokens in addition to the partners' own as credential-on-file token requestors.

Transaction Network Services has agreed to acquire Australia-based Advam in a move to strengthen the company's services, especially in the unattended payments and e-commerce fields.

Banks using Fiserv technology will have access to an automated accounts receivable solution from DadeSystems that the companies say will improve accuracy and lower costs for business clients.

After three months of testing its cryptocurrency wallet, Plasma Bank has launched PlasmaPay globally with an emphasis on Southeast Asia and South America.

In providing merchants real-time information when American Express cardholders call its customer service to dispute charges, Amex and Ethoca hope to reduce time and money spent handling chargeback disputes.

The payments industry stood out as an active market for mergers and acquisitions during the first three quarters of 2018 with a 33 percent increase in transactions over the same period last year.

American Express is launching Early Pay, a digital financing service that allows large U.S. companies and their suppliers to benefit from discounted bill payments.

PayPal and Walmart are offering a cash-in and cash-out service from PayPal accounts within Walmart stores. It's the first time Walmart, one of the founders the defunct Merchant Customer Exchange, will accept a third-party mobile wallet.

Worldpay is combining the Worldpay Bankout solution, which will now deliver to 154 direct bank disbursement destinations, and Worldpay FastAccess enabled by Visa Direct.

Getting companies to share fraud fighting intel is a tough game, but Forter has played it well enough to draw a fresh round of funding to boost the Israeli fintech's profile in the U.S.

First Data is adding BlueSnap's e-commerce tools to consolidate the expanding menu of payment options that acquirers and financial institutions must juggle.

Angela Clark will be CEO of Beem It, which launched in May and has the backing of National Australia Bank, Westpac and Commonwealth Bank.

Collaboration between banks and fintechs still lags, hurting security initiatives such as an authentication hub.

Despite the real-world use cases being found around blockchain and distributed ledger technology, banks are being warned to be cautious about committing to any such projects.

In monitoring the patterns of a North Korean cyberattack organization that has stolen more than $1.1 billion from global financial institutions since 2014, security firm FireEye says these hackers are still at work in targeting a bank's access to the Swift messaging network.