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Emerging faster-payment technology can address processing and settlement gaps between banks and fintechs that can cause financial challenges for families, according to Rahm McDaniel, vice president of strategic solutions for Q2 Holdings.

Synchrony Financial designed its first voice assistant technology for Amazon Alexa around Amazon’s store card, serving as a template for the private-label card issuer’s other retail clients.

Though financial institutions with online bill payment services still command the largest share of the bill payment market, it’s a category with many friction points ripe for disruption.

Bill payment proved too unwieldy for Intuit’s personal finance app Mint, and the feature will be discontinued in June, about 18 months after it launched.

Though financial institutions with online bill payment services still command the largest share of the bill payment market, it’s a category with many friction points ripe for disruption.

Before Paytm became one of India's most popular mobile wallets, it was a little-known bill payment app that launched in 2011 and spread by word of mouth. Now Paytm is revisiting that history in Canada, though its challenges in North America are very different than what it faced in India.

Web and mobile bill payment provider Doxo is taking its first step into cash payment options by partnering with Coinstar to enable cash bill payment at thousands of coin-counting kiosks in retail locations.

More e-commerce companies see recurring billing as a key revenue model, a trend that convinced Stripe to try to lower the bar to entry.

The Fed's catalog lays the foundations for an invoice standard to accelerate the adoption of electronic invoicing by U.S. businesses, and boosts interoperability by avoiding the myriad standards found in Europe, writes Roger Hatfield, vice president of North America for CloudTrade.

A growing number of fintechs are finding ways to cater their offerings to credit union members, including one co-founded by a former credit union CEO.