It took a few years for mobile wallets to get past the aura of just a "cool technology" looking for a problem to solve, but Google Pay and its peers are clearly finding their niche as a way to embed payments with customer engagement tools.

Debit cards often lack the rewards and spending power of credit cards, and thus do not figure prominently in TV ads or direct mail flyers. Yet despite these limitations debit cards are beloved by millennials and anyone else who wants to avoid credit card debit.

The Fed's development of a real-time payments systems has sparked a pointless debate about paper checks.

Amaten, Japan’s largest gift card exchange platform, is expanding its current operations using blockchain in partnership with the decentralized cloud computing network and smart contract provider aelf.

There are at least 250,000 software companies around the world that have the potential to become electronic payments companies, writes Infinicept's Todd M. Ablowitz.

Its approach appears to exclude retailers and small business owners––the very commercial market that would stand to benefit the most from Libra’s social mission, says HotNow's Nithinan Boonyawattanapisut.

If the retail giants' Merchant Customer Exchange payments venture collapsed under the weight of trying to create a one-size-fits-all mobile wallet to bypass card networks, then the implosion of that joint venture was the best thing that could have happened.

BBVA Peru is the first bank to deploy a real-time mobile payments platform designed by YellowPepper, following Visa’s May 2018 investment in the Miami-based fintech.

House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and a bipartisan congressional delegation met with Swiss government officials last week to discuss Facebook’s plans to launch and operate a digital currency.

Crypto technology will play a major role in the central bank's real-time payments system.