Merchant

Amazon and other e-commerce disruptors are turning long-held retail models upside down, but in doing so they create a lifeline for retailers who see them as an opportunity rather than a threat.

The breaches at large retailers and other companies are continuing, making it time to fully embrace a new authentication method.

A deal between Ford Motor Credit and a San Francisco-based startup will give car buyers the option of customizing their own loan terms.

Target Corp. has demonstrated payments innovation in many ways, including participating in an early pilot of mobile payments with Starbucks, and driving its payments volume to lower-cost debit rails via its Red Card.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. raised its full-year sales forecast after quarterly results beat estimates, as Chinese spending stays strong and the company wrings revenue from fledgling areas such as cloud computing, entertainment and search.

New York-based security company Hypr Corp. is working to use biometric authentication as a glue for the currently fragmented state of mobile and online payments.

Add package pickup to the growing list of things banks are doing with branches as foot traffic declines.

U.K. supermarket giant Tesco has long supported Apple Pay at its contactless-enabled checkout locations, and now it also supports mobile payments through a proprietary app it’s rolled out to its nearly 7,000 stores.

Credit card issuers usually reserve their richest rewards for customers at the higher end who are willing to pay steep annual fees. But a recent surge in credit card rewards deals targeting mainstream consumers signals a key strategy shift for issuers.

Donald Trump was sworn in Friday, but banking industry executives have spent the last two months envisioning a vastly different political, economic and regulatory climate. The dominant question in coming months will be how realistic those expectations are.