Technology

As rising inflation and supply-chain shortages create new urgency for businesses to settle transactions quickly, more community banks and credit unions are recognizing the need for instant payments, according to The Clearing House.

To ensure authenticity, Community First Credit Union had its AI-powered voice system learn by communicating with Spanish-speaking employees who could teach it local terms and mannerisms.

Younger people can lose thousands of dollars when they fall victim to fraud. Their ties to the digital world are both protective and compromising.

Walmart named PayPal Chief Financial Officer John Rainey as its new finance chief, turning to a company outsider as it seeks to build a financial technology venture and a membership program.

A few months after cutting ties with its Diem stablecoin project, the company formerly known as Facebook is testing a virtual world marketplace.

"With ACH payments there's a latency in how they are processed; it can take two to five days. Things can happen," warns Silvana Hernandez, senior vice president of digital payments at Mastercard.

A community development financial institution in New York City says it's the first U.S. bank to launch a contactless payment ring. It's betting that novelty will be part of the draw.

Job stress is multiplied by artillery strikes, evacuations, air raids and atrocities.

Each company has introduced its own program to give dealerships access to real-time digital transactions.

April and Column Tax are among the startups capitalizing on the idea that taxes are part of a person’s financial life and banks are most suited to help with tax preparation and filing.