Technology

A year after trying to save faltering payday lender Wonga, Balderton Capital is investing in the other side of the model by leading a $19 million Series A funding round in Wagestream, a U.K. startup that provides flexible payroll technology to avoid payday loans.

Emin Gun Sirer, one of the higher-profile academic experts on blockchain technologies, is launching his own cryptocurrency coin and network with funding from some of the biggest venture capitalists in the field.

Amazon.com Inc. has launched many brick-and-mortar experiments in the past few years: bookstores, grocery pickup kiosks, cashierless convenience stores. Yet none of these have shown as much promise as the e-commerce giant’s unlikely partnership with Kohl’s Corp., the very definition of an old-school retailer.

Universal standards such as the nonprofit nexo can support card payment acceptance stakeholders through a portfolio of implementation specifications and messaging protocols that harness the power and interoperability potential of the ISO 20022 standard.

While the European Union positions itself as one common, homogeneous market, the reality is that the European e-commerce market is very diverse with both leaders and laggards.

The Federal Reserve is considering revising Regulation D, which limits consumers to six transfers per month on savings and money market accounts through certain methods.

Advancements are bringing improvements to risk and user experience, but global reach remains a top priority, writes Marc Recker, global head of institutional market management and cash management for Deutsche Bank.

Ticketmaster has battled fraud in paper ticketing for years — but mobile technology introduced new ways for fraudsters to steal, resell and counterfeit high-priced digital tickets.

JPMorgan Chase is buying InstaMed, a cloud-based health care payments platform that’s seen significant growth in recent years from consumer medical payments.

Pangea says it is developing a digital account after customers complained that the bank relationship they had wasn't "for them."