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Deutsche's investment in Modo Payments is a bet that banks need to spend money on technology that connects to popular non-bank payment apps.

The real-time ticker of strangers’ spending habits could soon go away.

Zelle is working on ways to ensure that customers can safely pay small businesses as well.

Shoppers using the retailer’s namesake and Hollister apps will be able to select the popular payment platform as an option when checking out

On the surface, the Uber-Venmo partnership sounds like a coup for Venmo, getting its brand into the app that defined the ride-sharing category. But the partnership is a much bigger deal for Uber.

The ride-hailing giant is the largest retailer to accept Venmo payments to date, and the move is an indication of how the platform plans to make money.

In the era of digital and mobile payments, many banks and tech companies have strived to completely do away with cash, checks and cards. But quite a few have had to concede that the market isn't quite ready to give up the physical trappings of payments.

PayPal has many brands with which it wants to permeate online commerce, but it doesn't need a separate button for each one.

Despite a reputation for being the go-to P2P app of digital natives, Venmo is once again pushing its market in the opposite direction with the debut of a plastic card.

As competition from the bank-powered Zelle mounts, the popular social P2P app Venmo is phasing out support for online payments in favor of its mobile app.