John Adams

The payment company has created a data pipeline to upgrade connections to storage clouds. It's a bid to make Stripe more appealing as competition from other fintechs heats up.

American Express is the first issuer to use the search giant's virtual card technology, which uses tokenized credentials to replace other authentication methods.

The invasion drew unprecedented sanctions and withdrawals from dozens of powerful payment firms. The conflict demonstrates how a financial response can be as devastating as a military one — on both sides.

The retail chain is uniquely positioned to tie its growing slate of financial products to its customers' shopping needs, both in stores and digitally, said Julia Unger, Walmart's vice president of financial services, at American Banker's Payments Forum.

A more active Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, competition from Big Tech and sanctions on Russia are combining to make compliance a much larger concern than in the past, according to legal experts who spoke at American Banker's Payments Forum.

In international news this week, BNP Paribas extends a credit line with green incentives to Ant Group; four NatWest bank units were penalized for overcharges on interchange fees; Experian agreed to buy a stake in a Brazilian fintech; and more.

Consumers are still the driving force of payments innovation — even in business use cases, according to honorees from this year’s Most Influential Women in Payments who spoke at American Banker’s Payments Forum.

The point-of-sale lender is teaming up with Fiserv to streamline its onboarding process for merchants. It's part of Affirm's effort to differentiate itself as more banks and fintechs enter the highly competitive buy now/pay later market.

Paul Stoddart joins the U.K. company at a crucial time. A specialist in account-to-account transfers, GoCardless sees an opportunity to capitalize on friction over interchange rates.

The card company and financial institutions are collaborating with cross-border settlement platform Carbonplace to improve processing and risk management for environmentally-focused transactions.