Technology

When life turns upside down, customers and employees need help with finding swift solutions to problems they may have never faced or even considered—and companies require innovation guided by more than a slide deck, says Western Union's Nicole Vogrin.

Anyone who experiences severe side effects as a result of this mass vaccination campaign must go through a relatively little-known program that has existed since 1979.

There’s a dynamic balance between the innovation and resiliency benefits of the messy, creative ferment of many smaller competitors, and an oligopoly or monopoly’s scale economies, says Intrepid Ventures' Eric Grover.

The fast-growing buy now/pay later industry is drawing scrutiny from legislators and regulators who fear it could become predatory.

Payoneer, an online payments specialist, is in talks to go public through a merger with FTAC Olympus Acquisition Corp., a blank-check firm, according to people with knowledge of the matter. FTAC rose as much as 29% on the news.

ByteDance, owner of short video sharing platform services Douyin (China) and TikTok (U.S.), has reportedly launched a payment service for the 600 million users of the Douyin platform.

The Paris-based fintech has added a range of extra features in recent years following the advent of PSD2 and open banking in the EU.

The decentralizing of business payments staff requires agility that's permanent, says Nvoicepay's Lauren Ruef.

Smaller institutions are relying on an issuing system that gives away control over card programs, says Corserv's David Luther.

PaymentSource's Daniel Wolfe sits down with Carey O'Connor Kolaja, AU10TIX's new CEO to discuss the rise in synthetic fraud, the fastest-growing financial crime, and how payments security has been changed by the pandemic.