Merchant

Financial institutions need to alert customers about emails or websites that pretend to offer important COVID-19 information but instead could end up stealing their account numbers or logins.

Payments software company SpotOn Transact has completed a $50 million funding round that included investments from 01 Advisors, a firm founded by former Twitter executives.

The Fed can take steps now to speed up existing networks.

Contactless cards are a potential refuge for consumers who fear plastic and cash are carrying COVID-19.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s parcel and meal delivery arms have returned to pre-coronavirus outbreak staffing levels, the latest example of how China’s largest corporations are getting back to work after Beijing’s entreaty to safeguard economic growth.

Brendan Coughlin, head of consumer banking, explains how Citizens established its relationships with Apple and Microsoft for point of sale financing and how they've evolved.

In announcing plans to export Just Walk Out to other retailers, Amazon rattled the emerging autonomous checkout industry and raised questions about its ability to amass even more data than it already has about consumer consumption patterns.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will have a busy week starting with Director Kathy Kraninger testifying before lawmakers on Tuesday.

If a checking account doesn’t come with checks anymore, can it still be called a checking account? It’s a valid question that the financial services industry should be asking itself.

Credit card issuers caught in the trap of chasing new customers with increasingly costly rewards-point programs are trying something new: letting more users redeem rewards directly with merchants instead of acting as the intermediary.