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An omnichannel payment platform offers customers a unified shopping experience across whichever channel they decide to make a purchase, whether via point-of-sale in-store, online, mobile or even telephone, writes Nick Aceto, senior vice president of technology for CardConnect.

A former executive at SunTrust has joined Cardlytics Inc. to help the company expand its partnerships with other banks.

“Liquid” is the best descriptor for this shift because it illustrates the continuum of pay-with-points options, writes Barry Kirk, vice president of customer loyalty for Maritz Motivation Solutions.

The company has fired two additional prime brokerage employees as it continues to investigate accusations of misconduct.

The goal of the competition is to increase diversity in the financial technology industry.

Kathleen Henry and Steven Antonakes have been named to the bank's management committee.

Limited data on fraud is a widely recognized issue and it was decided that incorporation into PSD2 was the most appropriate way to enforce a requirement, writes Matthew Attwell of The ai Corporation.

OEM and other mobile payments can feed sales, marketing and recurring transactions for lenders, according to Steve Yi, co-founder and CEO of MediaAlpha.

The retailer's foray into wealth management is a wake-up call for an industry that often overlooks female investors.

With even the likes of WhatsApp and Google Chrome looking to integrate payment APIs into their offerings, this space is poised up for a lot of disruption, writes Sanat Rao, chief business officer and global head for Infosys Finacle.

eBay’s change of payments processor signals the strong and continuing shift toward local, alternative methods of payment around the world, writes James Booth, head of business development for PPRO.

Cheers to Irene Dorner, who gives Virgin Money its new status as the only major British company with a female chairman-CEO duo. Cryptocurrency is on the minds of some smart women, and Simple tries to be awesome enough to overcome consumer apathy.

JPMorgan Chase said Friday that its female employees earn 99% of what male employees make globally, but women remain underrepresented at senior levels and it hinted the unadjusted numbers it will report soon in the U.K. will be less flattering.

The Boston mutual, which lost its innovation team when it spun off Numerated last year, has hired a State Street executive to oversee a plan to encourage all employees to be more creative.

Retailers should also notice that each transaction with customers contains more than the currency, it contains the potential opportunity to establish a relationship, writes Franklin Chu, managing director of Azoya International.

There are practical lessons from Amazon's service model that can be applied elsewhere, writes Derek Corcoran, chief experience officer at Avoka.

Scarlett Sieber will be based in the bank’s Labs division, working on forging partnerships with fintech firms.

At the U.K. investment bank, women earn 26% less than men and receive bonuses that are 60% lower, according to the lender’s annual report. Overall, it pays women just under half as much as male colleagues.

Amazon Go has swung far to the side of self-service as the company has maximized on technology and eliminated the value of face-to-face interactions. This is not be a recipe for success for every retailer, writes Jon Croy, co-founder and CMO of Point Inside.

By failing to protect their customers’ data, financial institutions and others in the payments ecosystem are risking trust, the most important currency they have, writes David Barnhardt, executive vice president of product at GIACT.