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SparkLabs and Global Ventures have invested $3.4 million in Pay By Group, which makes a white-label e-commerce tool for splitting costs.

The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. In today's briefing: Charles Scharf's tenure; Apple Pay's goals; giving up gift cards.

Many startups have taken shots at traditional banking, but few have succeeded. However, there is plenty of promise in this model, according to investor Tim Young.

Australia's banks have submitted a formal statement to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission slamming Apple.

The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. In today's briefing: Australia's banks and Apple Pay; Thiel doubles down; Brexit weighs on Misys.

Tablet-based point of sale terminals may look sleek and modern, but under the hood they must wrestle with many of the same challenges that older hardware faces.

The pressure to shave friction from cross-border payments will spur even the biggest merchants to seek help from third parties, if dLocal's market plan is correct.

When eBay and PayPal purchased Braintree for $800 million in 2013, it was seen as an immediate fix for PayPal's troubled relationship with the developer community. Today, that transaction is showing a long-term benefit as well.

Fill a room with 100 financial services CEOs. It's likely that only one of them is a woman, even in 2016.

Technology Crossover Ventures sees a mashup of several hot financial technology trends in international payments gateway Payoneer, sparking its participation in a new $180 million round of capital.

Cross-border payments are a complex and global system, so it's no surprise that modernizing this process would require a partnership that spans multiple continents and a relatively new and experimental technology.

Interest free installment payments are a staple in markets like Brazil, Turkey, Argentina, Mexico and Israel, but it hasn't been a big option in U.S. payments.

Every merchant knows the saying: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." But perhaps Visa knows.

Restaurants are burdened by a basic payroll issue that might be easily solved by technology, and investors are taking notice.

Much like contactless mobile payments, 'faster payments' are making a methodical push throughout Canada, an advance that's moving quicker than many other countries, especially the U.S.

USAA has expanded its voice-controlled digital assistant to PC users. The move is just another example of how banks are increasingly relying on bots to help serve their clients.

Nodding to a future in which innovation can come from almost anywhere and personal relationships matter just as much — if not more than — invention, Mastercard is changing how developers access the payment network to bring new ideas to life.

Amex has been given the court's blessing to deter merchants from steering consumers away from its pricier cards, raising questions for those pushing newer loyalty strategies.

USAA is a famously fast adopter of new technology, but that also means it must constantly tune up past investments to meet customer demand.

The prevailing accounts payable model simply can't handle the sharing economy (also called the "gig economy"), according to Dovi Frances, who's putting cash and influence behind that theory.