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Just as the Apple Watch prepares to land in the U.K., Barclaycard is launching three new high-tech accessories of its own — and borrowing Apple's practice of attaching a higher-than-average price tag to its wares.

Retailers increasingly prefer software to execute fast point of sale updates, leading longtime hardware provider NCR to use a centralized digital hub to help merchants avoid the cost and time of 'rip and replace' projects.

Citigroup has agreed to acquire Brooks Brothers' credit card portfolio and issue cards on behalf of the clothing retailer.

An Automated Clearing House joint venture in Europe will help handle increased cross-border transactions in the Single Euro Payments Area and keep the processors on track to adjust to any future faster payments initiatives.

While nobody knows what technology entrepreneur and payments executive Jack Dorsey will do next, a series of circumstances are making Twitter a possible permanent move.

Digital Asset Holdings, the blockchain technology startup led by JPMorgan Chase alum Blythe Masters, is expanding its capabilities by acquiring other such firms.

Digital payments company Payveris and credit union support company EPL have jointly announced an electronic bill payment product.

In Washington Heights, a small startup has found a new opportunity by building a business to business platform to serve the numerous storefront remittance providers in the largely Latin American neighborhood in Upper Manhattan.

Canada's suretap mobile wallet provides service to most of the country's mobile carriers, but its coverage map omits Apple handsets and most Canadian banks.

We polled a number of prominent women in banking to ask who they believed should replace Alexander Hamilton as the face of the $10 bill. Here are some of their suggestions.

To address the impact of American Express President Ed Gilligan's death in May, the card network has changed some executive roles and revised its internal corporate structure.

Which woman would KeyCorp's Beth Mooney or Citi's Suni Harford put on the new $10 bill? See the top picks from some of our favorite women in banking.

Although it's been widely suspected that merchant EMV compliance will be low in October when the liability shift deadline kicks in, a new Javelin Strategy & Research report is projecting as many as 75% of all merchants will not make the deadline.

SRS Acquiom, a provider of merger and acquisition services, has appointed former JPMorgan Chase executive Heidi Miller to its board.

London-based Currency Cloud has closed out a Series C funding round, attracting $18 million from new and existing investors.

The U.S. likely didn't need an extra shove to adopt an international payment messaging standard vital to a faster payments network but, just in case, the U.K.'s Payments Council is making it easier to do so.

Green Dot late Monday announced a five-year renewal of a prepaid card contract with Walmart, though the retail giant will get a larger share of revenue.

Payments technology provider Global Payments Inc. is formally launching American Express' OptBlue small business suite in Canada, providing fuel for Amex's recovery from the loss of Costco's cobranded card business.

E-commerce technology company Spindle and payment gateway PayLeap are combining products in an attempt to lower costs for small to medium-sized gun clubs.

Realex Payments, a division of Global Payments, has signed a three-year deal to process e-commerce and call-center transactions for insurance provider Aviva.