Our collective work on the real-time payments front is not for naught. That is because the consumer and business needs are evolving, says Bottomline's Jessica Cheney.

Concerns over cash and checks are permanent and will make contactless mainstream, says Global Market Insights' Vinisha Joshi.

Brazil aims to move beyond the era of cash payments on Monday, when the Banco Central do Brasil launches the Brazil Instant Payment System.

Unlike a traditional supply chain, where value and risk travels up and down a set of organizations in a linear fashion, the extended enterprise is a complex network of relationships, says PXP Financial's Koen Vanpraet.

EMVCo, the major card brand-supported venture to establish EMV guidelines and specifications, has begun testing a program to determine if consumer mobile devices can securely accept contactless payments — a move that not only hastens the adoption of contactless payments, but renews criticism over which networks control technology and routing decisions.

For the 2020 holidays, retailers that enable payment flexibility by catering to global shoppers will prepare themselves for lasting success, ensuring they are on the right side of this industry transformation.

In a battle between two giants of ride-hailing and payments, Grab beat out Go-Jek to lead a $100 million fundraising round for the Indonesian government-backed e-wallet provider LinkAja.

The Interac debit network is expanding online and in-store options for Walmart customers throughout Canada, looking to have new technology in place by spring of 2021.

Bitcoin has underpinned the next generation of currencies, while showing that central banks are not necessarily needed as administrators or gatekeepers.

In today’s changing work environment, a one-size-fits-all policy does not make sense. An AI-based system means organizations rely less on an auditor’s luck in catching expenses abuses, and more on a systematic, evidence-based, and consistently fair approach, says AppZen's Andrew Foster.