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Issuers like Chase and Citi that added installment features to compete with digital lenders will need to think beyond traditional card options.

Kenneth Montgomery, a top executive at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, will head the push to make faster payments available across the industry in the next four to five years.

Square's working to boost its appeal to third-party developers, especially as a growing number of competitors and broader economic challenges loom on the horizon.

Were the Fed to develop its own payments platform, it would be expensive, duplicative, inefficient, and curtail development of real-time services, argues the National Taxpayers Union's Thomas Aiello.

Black and Hispanic owners of one-person businesses are more likely to be discouraged from applying for financing, and they’re less likely to receive financing when they do apply for it, than their white counterparts, according to a new report from the New York Fed.

The Massachusetts Democrat is questioning a claim by the agency about the amount of redress available to those affected by the credit bureau's 2017 data breach.

Checkout-free technology is very limited in availability and very much a work in progress, but developers and investors are relying on its promise to accelerate payments' broader evolution from streamlining execution to determining intent.

Fintechs can help integrate payments into banking systems while solving the compliance problem, says Joel Sherwin of Weinberg Gonser LLP.

The San Francisco-based fintech is using JPMorgan Chase’s real-time payments service to power the new overdraft prevention tool.

The tougher authentication standards will take time and effort, but will strike a blow against fraud, writes Andrew Mortland, vice president of product at Accertify.