Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors.
Google appears to be following through on promises to integrate the major payment networks’ digital wallets within Android Pay.
Consumers with a PayPal account and those who have registered payment cards with Visa Checkout or Masterpass may soon be able to add those payment options within the Android Pay app, according to analysis of the app's latest version by the tech news site Android Police. The details were discovered in a teardown of a new version of Android Pay, the report states, also indicating that PayPal payments would be enabled by the use of a virtual discover card.
Google last fall said it planned to integrate digital wallets from Visa and Mastercard within the app.
An attendee displays the Google Inc. Android Pay icon on a mobile device for a photograph during the Google I/O Annual Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, May 28, 2015. Google Inc. unveiled payment services, security upgrades and access to HBO movies and shows for its popular Android software, seeking to push back against growing competition from rivals such as Apple Inc. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Banking has long been overseen by independent agencies, though that independence has been waning for years. With the Supreme Court poised to weigh in, experts are questioning where — and whether — to redraw the line between politics and policy.
The regulator and conservator of two influential loan buyers with government ties is considering digital currency's increased use in qualifying borrowers.
The Texas attorney general has accused WEX Bank of "debanking" a firearm supplier, but the Maine-based bank said it does not discriminate against any industry.
Der Spiegel and other European publications say the company continued to serve porn sites and money launderers even after regulators cracked down on it.
