China's rapid urbanization is causing a payments technology gap between the city and country, leading the government to issue a plan to bring digital payments in small towns and rural areas, a move that should also boost volume for Ant and Tencent's payments businesses.

The Electronic Transactions Association has appointed one of its executives, Amy Zirkle, to serve as interim CEO while the organization begins its search to replace Jason Oxman.

The all-in-one card market has been a dead end for many years, with products like Coin, Swyp, Stratos and Plastc doomed to be mere footnotes in the history of fintech. Curve is determined to avoid the same fate, and it says PSD2 is its ticket to success.

More than three dozen organizations are asking the FDIC to reject Square’s pending application to become an industrial loan company, according to a letter filed Tuesday.

Payments Canada, which provides clearing and settlements, has hired payments infrastructure firm SIA as the application provider for Lynx, its new high-value payments system.

Whether they process cards, bank accounts, cash, or whatever comes next, digital payment systems must be reliable, flexible and ever-advancing, writes Michael Kaplan, chief revenue officer at PayNearMe.

As blockchain and other emerging innovation pour into the B2B market, Bottomline Technologies believes bank collaborations with smooth deployment and user experience can lure anxious businesses away from checks.

Dan Schulman predicts digital payments market may reach $100 trillion; the bank exiting Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia.

Consumers are expressing an ever-increasing interest in making digital Person-to-Person payments to friends, families and even businesses for bills, shared expenses or temporary loans. Digital P2P payments are quickly beginning to displace other payment forms such as cash and checks due to their convenience and growing ubiquity.

When a cryptocurrency exchange is unregulated, you need to investigate its security practices yourself, writes Phillips Nizer LLP's Patrick Burke.