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Every transaction is traceable on the blockchain — though only to the addresses that initiated it. Compare this to Fedwire Funds Service and ACH payments, which don’t have this transaction history available, writes Bob Rutherford is the CEO and founder of Hedge.

The Supreme Court is tossing a wrench into online payment processing at a time when tariffs are already threatening popular cross-border e-commerce and online marketplaces.

American Express prevailed Monday in an eight-year antitrust battle with the government. Here’s a look at how other card networks, banks, retailers and consumers will be affected.

Wells Fargo & Co. is finally going after the young and points-hungry by boosting rewards on one of its premium cards.

Two collaborations in the past week show how office vendors are using automation to free health care patients and office staff from an overwhelmingly paper-heavy process of invoicing and payments.

Once companies can recognize their customers without constantly asking security questions, they can shower them with benefits to enhance the shopping experience while bolstering their brand, writes Robert Capps, vice president at NuData Security, a Mastercard company.

Denver-based P2Binvestor plans to use the new funds to expand its bank partnership program.

In the evolution of mobile wallets, many companies have toyed with the idea that rewards would be a key driver for adoption. Others insist the improvements in speed and convenience are compelling enough on their own. Apple has parlayed both concepts into its promotions.

From regulations such as GDPR and PSD2 to conversations at major conferences, financial services and payment companies are coming to grips with how vital it is to step up ID protection, according to Lina Andolf-Orup, global product marketing manager at Fingerprints.

CRM solutions have proved useful in providing a technological infrastructure for gathering data on a customer, but they are just that—an infrastructure. The larger difficulty is often managing the content and messaging that goes through the CRM pipeline, according to Patrick Kehoe, executive vice president of Messagepoint.