Technology

Amazon is using its substantial scale to rapidly diversify beyond its e-commerce core, with its latest move being a self-service subscription hub.

D+H Corp. has opened its technology to U.S. banks for testing on The Clearing House’s real-time clearing and settlement network in the next phase of development of faster payments.

Allen, Texas-based Giact Systems is combining its identity and payment verification tools into a single platform called Epic.

Attacks on ATMs and point-of-sale machines are getting more sophisticated and frequent. Crooks are trying to get as much use as they can out of their skimming devices before the migration to chip cards is complete.

Chatbots have been percolating for a while as the next big channel for commerce and P-to-P payments, and the technology hit a fever pitch last week with a slew of high-profile merchant announcements that suggest the technology has reached a turning point.

False IDs are complex and difficult to spot. A combination of biometrics and other advanced security tecnology is needed.

Plans for Bangladesh to develop a digital financial program for the majority of consumers with no access to banks—many of them in rural areas—are beginning to take shape.

Using a program built by Ripple, BBVA has transferred about 50 euro-denominated payments to Mexico from Spain in seconds. Such transactions normally take up to four days to clear, the bank said.

Visa is learning that it its reunification with Visa Europe last summer came at a very good time.

As marijuana legalization spreads throughout the U.S. and the world, companies in the cannabis market must navigate a delicate tangle of new and old regulations. And many payment providers are unwilling to risk working with dispensaries, leading to some inventive workarounds.