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Its newest offering is called Delivery Unlimited, which at $98 a year undercuts Amazon Prime's $119 fee.

High-tech heavyweights like Google, Amazon and Apple have tied payments to broader financial services, added to the view that banks are less relevant, writes Polyient Labs' Brad Robertson.

Bank Independent in Alabama was among the first to let customers bank through Amazon Alexa. Its digital chief, Kelly Burdette, shares how and why.

Amazon is reportedly testing technology that allows contactless payments via a hand gesture, applying technology that would provide valuable insight to fuel other initiatives such as Amazon Go.

Banks have to be more resourceful with technology and less dependent on high interest rates.

The East Lansing, Mich.-based credit union exceeded its growth expectations for card performance during the annual e-commerce event.

The bank is moving a large analytics program and a massive amount of data into Google's public cloud, which its tech chief says is more efficient, secure and better able to handle spikes in demand.

The maturation of e-commerce has ushered in an era of personalization at scale and growing customer demand for convenient, flexible shopping experiences, writes Will Walker, enterprise manager at Roadie.

Virtual assistants are being brought forward into a variety of other internet-of-things devices such as automobiles and appliances, with the goal of finding new moments where consumers are willing to spend money — sometimes guided by machine learning.

The payments system, called FedNow, would go head-to-head against one built by big banks; the senator from Oregon wants Amazon to address vulnerabilities in its cloud data storage.

Banks are right to fear the big tech companies that are eyeing financial services, according to Monish Kumar at Boston Consulting Group, who offers suggestions on how traditional lenders can protect their turf.

A Fed team toured an Amazon facility at about the same time Capital One’s data was hacked; House oversight members want answers from the CEOs of the two companies.

Three GOP members of Congress have sent letters to the companies requesting staff-level briefings on the breach in which an ex-employee of Amazon Web Services illegally accessed data of more than 100 million people who had Capital One credit cards or had applied for them.

As checkout-free stores dramatically reduce — or even eliminate — the need for point-of-sale devices, terminal makers are turning their focus to multichannel services that can keep younger, digital-savvy customers coming into stores.

Banks and fintechs such as payment apps depend on one another a lot more than their marketing messaging would lead you believe. The question is no longer whether they can partner, but how they can work together to optimize those synergies for one another, writes Flywire's Mike Massaro.

By offering Prime subscribers one-day shipping instead of the standard two, Amazon saw a dramatic change in shopping behavior — and a corresponding rise in costs.

New data from PSCU shows a 46% increase in sales volumes for credit union members compared to last year.

Amazon Prime Days, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are a boon for retailers, but the spikes can come at a cost, says Caroline Seymour, vice president of product marketing at Zerto.

When Amazon was busy driving traffic to its site — and the likes of Walmart and Best Buy were aggressively trying to pull shoppers away — it also invited several issuers to compete to be the top-of-wallet card for Prime Day spending.

Optimizing web sites to be able to accommodate more traffic must be a long-term goal, not only the special days, writes Lex Boost, CEO of Leaseweb USA.