Fintech

The company behind the German mobile payments app GO4Q has had a busy — and challenging — summer, adding payments for taxi drivers, golf courses and beer gardens.

Travelex Currency Services has joined with MasterCard to offer U.S.-based travelers a prepaid card that handles currency conversion and uses EMV-chip security.

Groupon aims to attract more merchants to its mobile payment offering by letting them remove the mobile device from the equation.

The U.S. Federal Reserve was given a week to tell a federal judge its position on immediately rewriting regulations setting debit card swipe fees after a court found the current rule unlawful.

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve was given a week to tell a federal judge its position on immediately rewriting Durbin amendment regulations setting debit card swipe fees in the wake of last month’s ruling that the current cap is unlawful.

Realex Financial Services has launched Realex Fire, an account that enables users to create a circle of people to regularly pay.

DALLAS – A new group of merchants, including Delta Airlines, Emerald Foods, Callaway Golf Sales, Duke Energy, Mens’ Warehouse, MGM Resorts and Travelocity, filed suit in federal court here yesterday claiming Visa and MasterCard are violating the Sherman Antitrust Act by operating under identical rules for card acceptance.

DUBUQUE, Iowa -- Dupaco Community CU will pick up four branches with a proposed merger of Iowa Community CU, an $85 million credit union in Cedar Falls.

In another move to win over video game devotees, American Express Co. created a League of Legends-branded prepaid card, which could be more fitting than its earlier efforts to appeal to gamers.

The Federal Trade Commission has proposed additions to the Telemarketing Sales Rule that could have unintended consequences for the underbanked.