Fintech

Larsen will hand the reins and the CEO title at Ripple over to Brad Garlinghouse, who is currently the company’s president and chief operating officer.

Open source development has joined blockchain technology in a bid to take a bite out of banks' long-standing control over the international payments market.

PayPal still has a big lead over banks’ digital payment offerings, despite the many advances banks have made in recent years, a new study suggests.

The race to dominate person-to-person transfers has been a curious one so far, because P-to-P typically isn’t a money-maker for banks or even for PayPal, whose Venmo unit is generating red-hot growth this year in the category.

The world's third-largest bank hasn't given up on bitcoin.

Business-led mobile payment apps can build deeper relationships with consumers, and right now that beats the third party mobile wallets.

The popular “Young & Free” program is still widely utilized, but some CUs are crafting their own independent outreach programs and bringing in millennial staffers to run them.

The CU currently known as Mississippi Telco Federal Credit Union will change its name to Rivertrust Federal Credit Union effective Nov. 1, it said Friday.

Samsung sees banking as a long game, and Samsung Pay is its first move. As mobile banking grows, the Korean electronics company believes financial services is ripe with opportunity.

South Korea’s LG last year rolled out LG Pay, a mobile wallet that took an indirect approach to contactless payments by leveraging Bluetooth technology to link to a proprietary “white” card that stored a user’s payment cards. The concept never took off, and a new report suggests LG is making another run at mobile payments, using different technology.