Technology

The booming market for smart speakers has prompted WEX and Ai.io to develop an end-to-end voice-activated app to handle travel booking and payments.

U.S. Bancorp’s Elavon has acquired CenPOS, a B2B payments software provider with a heavy focus on large companies in the automotive, travel and entertainment industries.

As BillingTree moves deeper into verticals such as health care, it will be helmed by new leadership as Christine Lee becomes CEO.

Global Payout is providing software to the makers of point of sale hardware for the cannabis industry, integrating payment card processing with other business services common for dispensaries.

New York isn’t giving up on the digital-ledger technology that makes Bitcoin and other tokens work even after last year’s collapse of the cryptocurrency market.

FIs can free their IT team to focus on more profitable projects, reduce the risk of fines and ease the administrative burden of audits, writes Sean Ventura, chief information security officer at Atmosera.

Its data-driven financial management services for workers who live paycheck to paycheck — and a contract with Walmart — have attracted executives from Facebook, Slack and elsewhere as well as a major investment from the head of Box.

Members prize good customer experience so to meet this expectation institutions need to develop a strategy for APIs.

The senator wants Treasury to enhance fraud protection in the Direct Express prepaid program — now a partnership with Comerica Bank — when its contract is rebid in 2020.

Housing and auto sales are just the first sectors to feel pain from rising rates; BlackRock may have identified its next CEO.