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The tech giants, along with Apple, PayPal and others, are calling on the Federal Reserve to build a backbone for real-time payments, rejecting large banks’ claims that the task is best left to the private sector.

Germany-based Wirecard is working with Google to enable users of Wirecard’s boon mobile app to pay at any French merchant that accepts Google Pay as it becomes available in France.

Any future machine-to-machine environment calling for communication and transactions will surely include a consumer's option to make payments through such a network. That turns any home or business into its own complex network of devices, routers, sensors, passwords, communication coding and private credentials.

While apps are still a popular way for customers to order and pay, other options are emerging because they're a natural fit for restaurant patrons, many of whom are already heavy users of text, social media and voice technology.

Serverless computing has its proponents — Capital One and BBVA among them — but the service hasn’t yet proven it can fulfill general systems needs in banking.

Worldnet is adding Google Pay to its cloud-hosted platform to address the pressure on payment service providers and independent sales organizations to securely embrace multiple payment channels and computing devices.

The tech giants might be moving into small-business lending, but they’re more likely to take business away from large commercial lenders, not community institutions.

Know how many different ways customers can ask a virtual assistant to move money between accounts? The answer is one of Bank of America’s takeaways from a lot of trial and error this year in launching voice-activated services.

For merchants to reap the full benefits of the modern mobile payments ecosystem, their payments strategy can go beyond accepting a contactless tap-and-go card and encourage use of smartphone payments at the point of sale, writes Jason Oxman, CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association.

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LoanDepot's CEO Anthony Hsieh delivered a bracing message to mortgage lenders on Monday — strong new competitors are coming into this market, so they need to expand their offerings.

Financial firms need to focus developer teams on creating products, not fixing legacy IT issues and bad code.

Technology developers have little choice but to see big data deals like Mastercard’s reported collaboration with Google as an opportunity for deep, actionable analysis, setting aside the chilling effect of privacy concerns and a consumer buy in.

While the card networks have greatly benefited by the global boom in e-commerce, they are confronted with the corresponding growth in digital advertising. This will increasingly lead them to seek out data-sharing deals like Mastercard's reported arrangement with Google, which could prove vital to the networks' future survival.

Google has a validated and ready to roll out mobile payments model that it has developed in less than one year, writes Daniel Döderlein, CEO and founder of Auka.

The deal lets Google learn more about what people buy based on online ads, but raises privacy concerns; checkbooks favor Congressman Sean Maloney.

As the pressure to monetize data in an omnichannel environment increases, so does the fear of misuse.

For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for.

Tez, Google's payment app for the Indian market, is joining the Google Pay family in preparation for a global rollout.

The majority of Play Store users are likely not intentionally using cryptomining on their devices. Therefore, Google needs to take the responsible approach of preventing unwanted or unhealthy usage of their end users’ devices, according to Barry Shteiman, vice president of research and innovation for Exabeam.