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The conversation around advancing the distribution and use of digital currency gets a boost every time the banking system stubs its toe. And there have been many recent examples of financial system problems to point to.

Mastercard is making the much-admired Apple Card-like experience—nearly instant access to a payment card issued on the spot through a mobile device—available through mainstream and digital card processors.

The Connecticut company will receive $120 million in cash from AssuredPartners for People's United Insurance Agency.

PayPal is bringing its contactless Business Debit Mastercard rewards card into five additional European countries.

By taking action today, you can begin to have peace of mind that your previously existing fraud vectors have been sealed off, says PaymentWorks' Thayer Stewart.

Credit unions need to improve their processes to ensure the problems that have arisen with credit reporting during the coronavirus don't happen again.

Speed stands at the forefront of any real-time payments deployment, but the real staying power in new payments innovation rides on the development philosophy of the platform itself.

Michael Moeser, Senior Analyst at PaymentsSource, talks to Jess Turner, EVP of consumer and small business solutions at Mastercard, about how consumers are making payments when they're no longer on lockdown but not quite back to the way things used to be.

COVID-19 has accelerated changes in payments behavior that would otherwise have taken years to occur, laying the foundation for global expansion post-pandemic. But for different parts of the world, this digital transformation had very different outcomes.

The agency issued an interpretive letter on stablecoins two months after permitting institutions to provide wallet services for cryptocurrency holdings.