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To pitch their payments system of the future, U.S. banks hired Daveed Diggs, an actor best known for playing Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in the Broadway musical "Hamilton."

On-card biometrics is the final piece of the puzzle to bring trust and security to contactless payments without compromising convenience, writes Lina Andolf-Orup, global product marketing manager at Fingerprints.

Retailers used to be able to hold onto their physical presence as a differentiator against Amazon. In the past year, Amazon has taken even that advantage away.

Sponsoring air shows, celebrating the Air Force and more ways credit unions are giving back.

The private equity firms plan to sell a total of 3 million shares in the Houston company in coming weeks.

The data-sharing directive has gotten off to a rocky start overseas, underscoring the need for domestic banks to start educating customers about the model well before it’s adopted stateside.

Banks will have to show they can withstand “severely adverse” conditions; the office will be under the direct control of acting director Mick Mulvaney.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon patents wearable tech; Grab expands; New tech for the gig economy; Messenger payments expand in Belgium.

Strong holiday spending was marked by active e-commerce spending, providing an impetus to invest in more digital payment technology.

For financial institutions to match Venmo and Apple Cash's power, they need an embedded, mobile and social payment strategy, write Richard Crone and Heidi Liebenguth of Crone Consulting.