Technology

In the tug-of-war over merchants refusing either cash or cards embroiling local governments in New Jersey, New York City and Philadelphia, the Iowa State Fair is taking the middle ground. Beginning next year, all fair vendors will be required to accept cash, cards and contactless payments through First Data’s Clover devices.

The rise of Uber, Lyft, Etsy, Kaggle and other forms of freelance work has sparked a new generation of specialist fintechs.

Transaction Network Services has entered a partnership with cloud-based mobile commerce provider P97 to provide a managed tokenization service for mobile and in-vehicle payments.

The rise of Uber, Lyft, Etsy, Kaggle and other forms of freelance work has sparked a new generation of specialist fintechs.

Crooks are using techniques that move quickly, making AI a good bet when searching through many layers of transaction data, according to Jie Wu, a director at GoodData.

The venture capital arms of Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Salesforce.com Inc. are investing in U.K. payments startup GoCardless, which has has raised an additional $75 million to fund expansion.

The cross-border B2B payments startup is introducing a rewards program to help drive repeat usage and expand its network.

CEO Corbat says “thousands” of call center jobs may be lost; Barclays shareholder sells all stock in the bank and Deutsche’s biggest slashes its stake.

With real-time payments advancing, processors need to shore up security, according to David Worthington, vice president of payments at Rambus.

With retailers seeking to discourage cash use and billers increasingly going digital, PayNearMe stands in the middle seeking to further enable the very people who depend on being able to use cash: the underbanked and unbanked.