The ride-sharing heavyweights Uber and Grab built their markets by making payments seamless, and their expansion plans are similarly hooked into improving payments and other financial services.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it won’t shut the accounts of credit-card customers who reject a new policy of using arbitration instead of the courts to resolve payment disputes.

Targeting consumers with poor or thin credit, Amazon is offering a secured card with rewards on par with those offered to mainstream cardholders.

Mark Graf, who joined the Riverwoods, Ill.-based credit card issuer in 2011, will participate in the search for his successor.

JPMorgan Chase, the biggest U.S. credit card issuer, is reviving a controversial policy that forces credit card customers to use arbitration instead of court to resolve payment disputes.

Credit card issuers are wrong about why card balances are falling — fintechs are luring customers away, according to Wayne Best, Visa's chief economist

Adyen and African fintech Cellulant are working together to expand Adyen’s global payments offering to hundreds of merchants, banks and mobile network operators in Africa.

China UnionPay is assembling the relationships it needs to directly issue cards in Europe, but local saturation suggests UnionPay’s best bet is to use European merchant relationships to counter its own domestic rivals in China rather than disrupting Visa and Mastercard.

While major card issuers such as Chase and Wells Fargo roll out NFC-enabled credit and debit cards incrementally, Bank of America is taking a much more aggressive approach.

American Express is following other major issuers in committing to convert its credit card portfolio to contactless as customers' cards expire.