John Adams

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.

Card issuers have pushed for more direct access to iPhones for years, and with the tech giant's policies facing fresh political and legal heat, Wells Fargo exec Ukrike Guigui says a more open mobile payment market would benefit merchants and consumers.

The standards body's new guidance would prevent vendors from managing multiple protocols in different countries.

The bank is working with invoicing vendor IFG to simplify the process of paying multiple suppliers.

Shortly after the reveal of Stripe Financial Connections, the CEO of its longtime partner Plaid took to Twitter to accuse the company of exploiting their relationship to build the new service. At stake is the growing market for digital transactions.

Environmental impact calculators, fee reductions and carbon offsets are becoming part of the playbook for BNY Mellon, Visa, Mastercard, Klarna and others.

The card network is making new security tools part of its expansion into non-payment services, hoping it can combat fraud that comes from its own account holders.

A new product called Financial Connections links businesses directly to customers' banks, giving the payment technology vendor a feature that makes it a direct competitor to data-fueled fintechs.