A payments platform created by India’s largest retail banks surpassed a billion transactions in October, a milestone that affirms the tremendous growth of services offered by U.S. giants from Walmart Inc. to Amazon.com Inc. and Google.

AI can be utilized for back-office efficiencies like conducting compliance tasks and automating manual, paper-based processes. This redirects resources and human capital in a way that is likely to increase productivity, says Episode Six's John Mitchell.

Back in early 2013, the website BitcoinTalk.org asked users to select a slogan for the embryonic cryptocurrency. The winner was “Magic Internet Money,” with runners-up “In Crypto We Trust” and “You Asked for Change, We Gave You Coins.”

Apple CEO Tim Cook has called Apple Card the "most successful launch of a credit card in the United States ever." If that's true, the company is banking on it to jolt lagging iPhone sales by adding an installment payment option.

Revenue growth, especially at scale, is never an accident, and requires a different approach to payments management, says Chargebee's Krish Subramanian.

Dave & Buster’s will introduce mobile payments technology to its self-service kiosks dispensing game cards at the North American restaurant chain that combines dining with video games and other entertainment.

Consumers needed payment platforms that could handle internet payments, and startups quickly filled the void, says Chief Outsiders' Mark Coronna.

PayPal is adding rewards to its Venmo credit card in a way that seems to echo Apple's strategy with Apple Card.

Many small banks remain skeptical of the payments network because it is owned and operated by big banks and they are waiting for the Federal Reserve to launch a rival service.

Congress should get behind the Fed's effort to launch a real-time payments service instead of getting in its way.

As consumers are increasingly moving to mobile devices to conduct financial transactions, they are enticing fraudsters to follow them into the mobile channel, according to new research from TransUnion's iovation unit.

American Banker Capitol Hill reporter Neil Haggerty shares how the D.C. community reacted to Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony and how it looks at the project now.

Uber launched a series of financial services to provide real-time wage payments and enhanced account features in a single app, seemingly putting Uber in the role of a digital bank.

A few weeks after debuting voice-supported recurring bill payments in India, Amazon is extending a similar feature to most of its markets.

Halloween is often overlooked as a minor holiday that involves no gift-giving. The reality is that Halloween marks the beginning of a long consumer spending spree that goes through major holidays including Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali and others.

The card networks’ new buy button, called "click to pay," is merely a stepping stone to providing a foundation for pervasive, invisible payments.

Digital payments and new financial services add complexity to the rules, says Joel Sherwin of Weinberg Gonser LLP.

PayPal announced a record-breaking quarter on multiple fronts including overall growth in total payment volume , yet one issue still dogs PayPal — it loses money on the majority of Venmo users.

The real opportunity to achieve financial empowerment lies with the companies that are most intimately connected to people's lives, says Rapyd's Eric Rosenthal.

Investors are looking to understand the potential impact from the upcoming loss of eBay Inc.’s business.