Technology

Walmart adjusted two of its long-standing, in-house offerings this week, saying it was lowering the rates for its domestic Walmart2Walmart money transfer service and adding a digital money transfer service with Bluebird2Walmart.

The global messaging network Swift and its fintech challenger, Ripple, have been vying for bankers’ hearts and minds for more than a year. Whoever prevails, their latest moves could bring needed change to how international banking is done.

In the midst of some company restructuring, Total System Services Inc. delivered a 60% increase in total revenue during the first quarter of 2017 at $1.2 billion, compared to last year's $739 million.

Shareholders reelected all of the bank's directors, though some got only slightly more than 50% approval; exchanges having trouble processing deals in dollars.

The bank uses machine learning to customize content in real time on its website for every user, based on their behavior during their session.

There has been a lot of activity lately around modernizing cross-border transfers through the use of blockchain and and cloud-hosted technology, but despite the potential savings in cost and time, none of these methods has caused a meaningful decline in the use of cash.

Consumers are comfortable with push payments, which makes them a good fit to boost usage of digital wallets and other mobile payment options.

Vantiv has agreed to acquire Paymetric, an Atlanta-based company that automates business payments processing.

With The Clearing House still targeting November for the launch of its Real-Time Payments service, it relies on a wide range of partnerships to introduce this offering to the banks that would use it.

The startup Dave (just Dave) sells an app that forecasts short-term bank balances and sends users small-dollar advances when necessary, part of a wave of efforts to improve consumers’ financial health using digital tools.