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Through the bank’s new API, small-business customers can feed their bank data into Xero’s cloud accounting technology.

As mobile devices get more complex, self-help will become vital to attract m-commerce and payments, writes James Ramey, CEO of DeviceBits.

The Durbin Amendment is on the chopping block , which could reverse years of savings for merchants and consumers.

Retailers can excel at sales, service and selection, but if the point of sale doesn't have the latest technology, stores will turn off consumers.

Amazon's new service is a chance for all retailers to examine their e-commerce strategy and come up with ways to keep people from leaving sites before making a purchase.

Wells Fargo’s chief marketing officer Jamie Moldafsky shared how social media is helping the bank recover from its account-opening crisis; Maria Vullo explains her tough stance on bank crime, despite maintaining a lower profile than her predecessor.

Innovators offer speed, but banks retain customer relationships and a vast product range that can add services to payments.

Part of Jamie Moldafsky's job at Wells these days it taking an earful on social media, but the immediate feedback offers important lessons about the bank's products and efforts to rehab its image.

Third party 'pays' and app companies like Uber are making the payment almost invisible, and threatening banks' relationships with consumers, writes G. Vedanarayan and David Griffiths of VirtusaPolaris.

Rebeca Romero Rainey, a third-generation community banker who rose to executive leadership in her early 20s, has been tasked to lead the Independent Community Bankers of America at a pivotal time.

Restaurants and other hospitality businesses have suffered a series of breaches. E-wallets can provide extra security and marketing heft at the same time.

Small businesses have not embraced chip cards as quickly as big chains, and there are some adjustments technology companies should make, writes ShopKeep CEO Michael DeSimone.

JPMorgan Chase’s Colleen Briggs and Fiona Greig are among those working on ways to help a growing segment of consumers with wildly fluctuating incomes. Plus, the women of Wells Fargo’s board and a big promotion at Citi.

As restaurant security issues mount, it's important to have a set of sophistiated tools that can mitigate and respond to fraud, writes John Christly, global CIOS of Netsurion.

The payments processing and technology giant should add more merchant services and marketing to its Star network to overcome competitive and regulatory pressure, writes Eric Grover, a principal at Intrepid Ventures.

Kate Quinn, one of American Banker's 25 Women to Watch in 2016, was given expanded duties, and consumer banking chief Kent Stone will retire.

Consumers are comfortable with push payments, which makes them a good fit to boost usage of digital wallets and other mobile payment options.

Vantiv has agreed to acquire Paymetric, an Atlanta-based company that automates business payments processing.

As the smartphones become ATM cards, a new set of security risks emerges. Thorough ID protection is necessary to keep no-card ATMs secure.

Amazon is using its substantial scale to rapidly diversify beyond its e-commerce core, with its latest move being a self-service subscription hub.