Michael Moeser

Standard Cognition raised $40 million in a Series A funding round among five different venture capitalists to expand its cashierless checkout footprint.

Now that states such as Michigan, Utah and Missouri voted in favor of legalization in this year's midterms, legal marijuana is poised to become a growth industry.

Cargo, a provider of in-car commerce systems to the ride-sharing market, is now accepting Venmo as a payment option to complete in-car transactions.

The Madrid-based personal financial management provider Fintonic has partnered with Amazon to offer its Spanish customers a zero percent installment loan for purchases made on Amazon.es.

In its 10th year promoting an unofficial Chinese holiday celebrating singlehood, Alibaba’s online sales hit a record $30.8 billion (RMB213.5), exceeding last year’s record by 27 percent.

PNC is piloting IDEMIA’s motion code card which offers a dynamic CVV2 security code for its commercial clients in an effort to combat card not present fraud.

Intesa Sanpaolo will be testing a new biometric contactless Mastercard in Italy, leveraging technology from Sweden-based Fingerprints AB.

As companies mature out of their startup phase, their sales growth curves begin to flatten and costs start to rise — unless, of course, they change their business model. And that’s exactly what Square is doing to maintain its startup-style growth.

During his time as U.S. attorney general, Jeff Sessions was an outspoken opponent of the legalization of cannabis sales. Now that Sessions has resigned, legal marijuana is poised to become a growth industry.

The Bank of England issued a challenge for consumers who usually pay with cash to go cashless for a week, as an educational experience prior to its upcoming conference, Future Forum 2018.

Payments technology and fleet card provider WEX has partnered with Japanese-based international card network, JCB, as expands its virtual cards into Japan.

FleetCor’s Brazilian electronic toll unit, operating under the brand name Sem Parar, is partnering with McDonald's to enable its customers to make contactless purchases at the drive-thru window.

KBC Bank, a unit of Belgian banking and insurance conglomerate KBC Group N.V., launched a new spare change investing program that rounds up a customer’s daily spend and payment transactions to the next full Euro and invests the difference.

As the gift card market grows and becomes increasingly digital, so has the product's utility. Thus, many consumers are shifting their habits and buying gift cards for themselves either due to an incentive program or to help with budgeting.

Accounts payables automation is a tough sell for companies that don't want to abandon a process they have clung to for decades. But this old process is a big target for fraudsters — and growing.

The Zelle network processed 116 million transactions during the July-September 2018 timeframe with a total value of $32 billion in payments.

Societe Generale launched a contactless biometric payment trial in France for a debit card with a built-in fingerprint reader.

Indian wallet provider Paytm has entered the Japanese market in a joint venture with SoftBank Group and Yahoo Japan.

Mastercard is making the first move among the card networks, again, on moving away from the signature requirement — completely removing the space for a signature from its cards.

The vast majority of card fraud in post-EMV Australia affects digital payments, a trend that has prompted government action, expedited security projects, and financial pressure on banks from retailers.