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As perhaps the world's most wide-reaching, comprehensive data protection rule, the General Data Protection Regulation is having a ripple effect that almost seemed inevitable.

The U.S. fintech hopes its service will help encourage financial inclusion in Mexico, where 65 percent of the population is in the informal economy.

Recent data from NCUA showed a lot of positives for the industry, but it also revealed some potentially worrisome trends.

Walmart is already a retail heavyweight, and it has never shied from innovative projects to change the way people pay.

In the past few years the Chinese government has loosened restrictions on foreign travel, enabling millions of its citizenry to visit foreign lands. Along with a greater ability to travel is the enhanced prosperity Chinese consumers have reaped at home — and now bring with them on vacations to purchase foreign goods.

A wide range of Republican priorities that affect the payment, retail and fintech industries could stall or entirely flame out if Democrats make substantial gains in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

Despite the fervor over mobile wallets and banking, one day consumers may never need to open a dedicated bank or payment app.

Chinese tourists visiting the U.S. and Canada will be able to use Alipay at HMSHost-operated restaurants in most major airports.

India’s government has been aggressively (and, at times, dramatically) pro-digital commerce — but not necessarily when it involves foreign companies.

Getting companies to share fraud fighting intel is a tough game, but Forter has played it well enough to draw a fresh round of funding to boost the Israeli fintech's profile in the U.S.

Comparing the U.K. payments landscape to that of the U.S. is sometimes like comparing apples to oranges according to Ankit Kumar, manager of digital payments and mobile financial services at Gemalto.

Worldpay is expanding its U.S. portfolio and has experience in sports betting to lean on.

The push for faster payments in the U.S. has suffered from the lack of a government mandate, which in other countries resulted in a common, streamlined system. Now it's time for the disparate U.S. platforms to come together.

China’s Golden Week started on Monday and with it, global cities and merchants are boldly promoting Alipay in an effort to capture Chinese tourist dollars. At the same time, merchants are building out a competitive acceptance network that could someday rival the major payment card networks.

The payments industry is engaged in 40 active real-time payments programs worldwide, but it's not as chaotic as it sounds — except in the U.S.

Contactless payments are a big success story in most countries around the world—including developing markets—but not in the U.S.

New York- and Tel Aviv-based Behalf provides point-of-sale financing for SMEs making e-commerce purchases from large merchants. Visa will offer Behalf’s SME clients reusable, tokenized Visa virtual cards which give businesses instant loans for their purchases and flexible repayment schedules.

The single-platform transfer is part of London-based Moneycorp's full integration of Commonwealth FX, a U.S.-based corporate international payments business it acquired at the start of the year —and part of a strategy to expand its U.S. market.

The payments technology that powers international trade is crucially important because it helps streamline the processes and trim the costs of conducting business overseas, according to Darren Hutchinson, head of commercial in the Americas for WorldFirst.

Product diversification has boosted Revolut's valuation, and will make or break the company as it battles myriad competitors and a challenging geographic expansion.