Improvements in digital receipts should be enough to spur greater adoption, argues Mike Golebiowski, president of IBT.

Emin Gun Sirer, one of the higher-profile academic experts on blockchain technologies, is launching his own cryptocurrency coin and network with funding from some of the biggest venture capitalists in the field.

Amazon.com Inc. has launched many brick-and-mortar experiments in the past few years: bookstores, grocery pickup kiosks, cashierless convenience stores. Yet none of these have shown as much promise as the e-commerce giant’s unlikely partnership with Kohl’s Corp., the very definition of an old-school retailer.

Universal standards such as the nonprofit nexo can support card payment acceptance stakeholders through a portfolio of implementation specifications and messaging protocols that harness the power and interoperability potential of the ISO 20022 standard.

While the European Union positions itself as one common, homogeneous market, the reality is that the European e-commerce market is very diverse with both leaders and laggards.

Advancements are bringing improvements to risk and user experience, but global reach remains a top priority, writes Marc Recker, global head of institutional market management and cash management for Deutsche Bank.

Pangea says it is developing a digital account after customers complained that the bank relationship they had wasn't "for them."

Amazon led a Series G funding round worth £475 million (about US$575 million) with three other investors for London-based food delivery company Deliveroo.

The fintech M&A wave is sweeping over the dining and fast-food industries, with major companies like Amazon, Walmart and American Express spending on smaller firms that focus on digital food delivery and payments.

The idea stablecoin environment has variety, diversity and is decentralized, argues Matt Branton, CEO of Neutral.