David Heun

Private businesses are beginning to embrace the Reserve Bank of India's plan to create competition in the country's retail digital payment space, seeking new licenses to develop alternatives to the state-owned National Payments Corp. of India system.

Transaction fraud and money laundering are typically siloed areas within banks, but both require a keen eye to finding the right patterns.

Lease-to-own fintech Acima has launched a virtual Mastercard payment card to allow underbanked consumers to lease eligible products and eliminate risk for merchants as Acima purchases the goods for rental.

The fintechs Nymbus and Segmint teamed up to translate the gibberish on bank statements into actionable data.

The fintechs Nymbus and Segmint teamed up to translate the gibberish on bank statements into actionable data.

Call center data security and compliance provider Semafone has entered a global reseller partnership with cloud-based communications company Avaya to help secure \work-from-anywhere call center models.

Lending options at the physical point of sale are going to play a significant role in how consumers take part in a post-pandemic economic recovery. But as with many payment methods, they risk leaving out the underbanked.

Banking and payments technology tester and certifier Fime is working with the government of India to develop the testing infrastructure for a national contactless transportation card and accompanying mobile app.

Forter has joined the Adobe Exchange Partner program, enabling Magento Commerce merchants to reduce false declines and block fraud attempts.

Digital identity data provider Ekata is launching a merchant onboarding process to help payment service providers, B2B lenders and marketplaces quickly add micro merchants and sole proprietors as customers.

The Brink's Company has expanded its cash management and payment solutions portfolio through the acquisition of PAI Inc., a privately held provider of ATM services in the U.S.

David Heun, associate editor at PaymentsSource, talks to Laura Socha, senior partner at Capco, about the trends driving the advancement of payment technologies in Canada.

The partnership provides the fintech's clients with access to The Clearing House's RTP network.

The partnership provides the fintech's clients with access to The Clearing House's RTP network.

The trend toward open banking and open networks is forcing issuing banks to look more closely at how they can keep pace with customer demands — without the risk of a full tech overhaul.

Cryptocurrency wallet provider Neptune is launching a new service that will allow investors to manage multiple currencies for various uses through a single channel.

As it seeks to disrupt the social media model of capitalizing on user content and data, Canadian technology company Yuser is launching an app that will create and market ways to sell digital works online.

Technology is moving forward at a pace that could push real-time payments into new settings in the near future, with several countries already using systems that could become models for the U.S.

Payments technology has advanced quickly in the past decade because newcomers in the industry have operated fully, or at least partially, in the cloud.

Fiserv has agreed to acquire processor Pineapple Payments in a move that will expand its current distributor partner relationship to help its Clover platform while also picking up the payment processing for Pineapple's current customer base.