Kate Fitzgerald

To eke out growth in the mature payments terminal market, Square is taking its newest NFC-enabled hardware to markets outside the U.S. with heavy contactless card penetration, where some merchants are likely to be behind the technology curve.

Months after retooling its Amazon Go store checkout process to accommodate customers who prefer to pay with cash, the e-commerce giant had added a way for consumers to pay for Amazon e-commerce purchases with cash at U.S. Western Union outlets.

Travelex is rolling out a suite of B2B payment services through a new API-based platform and sandbox.

Plaid, the San Francisco-based financial technology infrastructure provider, has received strategic investments from Mastercard and Visa as part of a $250 million round of funding. Plaid did not disclose the two networks' specific investments.

As anti-money laundering requirements tighten in many jurisdictions, financial institutions and fraud prevention platforms are ditching legacy AML solutions for newer technology — but alternatives aren’t easy to come by yet.

In response to rising concern about the environment, American Express has redesigned its classic Green Card to contain recycled plastic gathered from the ocean.

Merchants won an extension to comply with PSD2’s new customer authentication rules, but as new rules for issuers go into effect next week, TSYS is rolling out tools that aim to do double duty.

Apple keeps sweetening the deal for prospective Apple Card users, with Walgreens the latest to offer cash-back rewards.

The prevalence of payment cards, against the growing awareness of climate change, is driving some card issuers and manufacturers to revisit the way they use plastic.

FIS has partnered with ControlScan to give its growing number of payment facilitators’ “sub-merchants” a streamlined path to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.