Kate Fitzgerald

Payments messaging standards provider Swift has opened its global Know Your Customer registry to all the corporations it connects to following a successful test.

WEX will begin managing the fuel card portfolio of Valero Energy Corp. next year, covering 5,000 U.S. fuel stations, as an extension of the partners’ existing card acceptance agreement.

Payment companies looking for relief from international political chaos got a moment of clarity in the form of a decisive U.K. election and nominal progress in the trade war.

PayPal — which is rarely thought of as a prepaid card company — has filed a lawsuit against the CFPB over its rules on prepaid accounts, underscoring the rapid changes in digital financial services and PayPal’s own expanding financial services ambitions in recent years.

PayPal — which is rarely thought of as a prepaid card company — has filed a lawsuit against the CFPB over its rules on prepaid accounts, underscoring the rapid changes in digital financial services and PayPal’s own expanding financial services ambitions in recent years.

France’s Orange Bank, the online bank launched in 2017 by telco Orange, is expanding its mobile payment app’s reach by adding Google Pay through an integration via Wirecard.

Going contactless has been a bigger challenge in New York because of the size and complexity of its transit systems.

European challenger bank N26 is adding a range of promotional incentives for using its debit card as it expands in the U.S.

Visa has formed a strategic partnership with Global Processing Services. It also announced its Visa Direct debit push service will power real-time cross-border payments in Europe via TransferWise.

Payments technology operator Nets’ Creation Lab has launched a pilot that uses facial recognition alone to authorized payments with one merchant in Copenhagen.

PayPal is moving ahead with plans to integrate with both Amex and Discover, and the details of how PayPal will work with these card networks are starting to take shape.

PayPal is moving ahead with plans to integrate with both Amex and Discover, and the details of how PayPal will work with these card networks are starting to take shape.

PayPal extends link to Mastercard; Swatch boots its payments app; and other information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web.

PayPal extends link to Mastercard; Swatch boots its payments app; and other information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web.

With only 17 million users, compared to PayPal’s 300 million, Honey seems minuscule. But this is PayPal's largest acquisition ever by price, and it far eclipses the $800 million PayPal spent in 2013 for Braintree, which owned Venmo.

Apple Pay raises funds to fight AIDS; Amex expands dining reservations; and other information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web.

Discover adds PayPal rewards; Nike gives Apple Card a leg up; and other information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web.

Mastercard is adding customized communications technology from R.R. Donnelly & Sons to power an instant bill payment tool it’s been piloting since last year.

Barclays improves biometrics; Confusion over Libra's regulatory status; and other information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web.

By attaching to Honey and its base of 17 million mostly young, female consumers who use the platform to find the best price on e-commerce deals, PayPal also is aiming to get closer to merchants with customized offers.