Joey Pizzolato

The direct-to-consumer earned wage access provider is allowing consumers access to their paycheck two days before payday. It's hoping it will draw in more customers.

Bank technology firm Fiserv agreed to buy the Netherlands-based company, which sells multichannel processing systems. Also: the FCA looks to lighten contactless checkout limits; Ripple's Garlinghouse said the SEC has dropped a suit against his firm; and more news in the global payments and fintech roundup.

Digital channel usage, account reconciliation and physical check safety are a few of the areas banks can advise customers on to help fight a rise in fraud.

Many businesses are slow to adopt payment automation. Amex shared new B2B research with American Banker, and execs R.J. Ancona and Widad Chaoui discussed the firm's strategy to lure corporates to digital payments in an interview at the recent Payments Forum conference and over email.

The U.K. axed its payments regulator in an effort to reduce red tape as part of the prime minister's Plan for Growth. The move was lauded by industry, but some are concerned the FCA won't give payments the attention they deserve.

The country's central bank cited geopolitical uncertainty and the increased reliance on digital payments as a reason to focus on offline payments as a backup. Also, a look at U.K. bank outages and other news in American Banker's global payments and fintech roundup.

Security worries have kept many financial institutions from sending payments on TCH's real-time payments network and FedNow. But ABNB Federal Credit Union had other ideas. Here's how its team prepared.

Utah is the latest state to push a pro-industry EWA bill. If signed, it would mark the sixth state with legislation specific to the budding cash-flow product.

Executives at American Banker's Payments Forum in San Francisco said artificial intelligence and embedded finance will dominate investments in the coming year.

American Banker's Payments Forum conference brought together some of the most effective women in the payments industry to discuss career strategy, adjusting to the fast pace of technology and best practices for taking on new roles.