Western Union's online strategy is paying off, as web transfers help overcome softness in troubled local markets.

Relying on a "community-based" fraud approach can reduce friction and abandonment, increase sales and revenue, delight your customers, and help protect your brand and reputation, says Accertify's Jeff Wixted.

The U.S. telco sector has worked hard to control the mobile wallets developed on its phones. While its earliest efforts didn't last long, companies like T-Mobile and Sprint took decidedly different paths to reach where they are now.

Sports betting is a boon for gaming payments, but technology compliance has long odds, says Global Payments Gaming Solutions' Christopher Justice.

Whether it’s an online sale or a corporate supply chain, the need to silently transfer and convert currencies is inspiring a mix of rapid product development and investment.

The rise in food delivery options is affecting restaurants of all kinds. It's a trend driven by consumers' strong appetite for mobile ordering and payments.

Curve has decided to take advantage of the work done by the major mobile wallet brands by adding support for Apple Pay and the other major wallet apps. This addition is designed to make Curve, and the Pays, a workaround for banks that don’t support all three major mobile wallets.

IoT and advances in countries like Sweden and China show cash can become obsolete, says Computop's Ralf Gladis.

Fare payments software provider Masabi has completed an investment from Shell Ventures as an extension to the fintech's recent $20 million growth fund through Smedvig Capital and MMC Ventures.

A new report from PSCU shows increases in spending levels and transaction volumes, along with a surge in mobile wallet usage during the holiday shopping season..

Wirecard has teamed with wirecube, an Austrian software maker of digital retail checkout technology, to pilot cashierless checkout targeting travelers in Munich’s airport.

Visa typically adjusts its interchange rates every April and October, but this year it is getting an atypically strong response.

Accounts payable teams are under a mountain of invoices and have little time to process. That means costly invoice problems fall through the cracks, says AppZen's Anant Kale

Barclays, in an effort to counter digital fintechs in omnichannel merchant acquiring, is working with BigCommerce to offer multichannel transactions enhanced fraud detection to its nearly 60,000 merchants online and improve fraud detection.

Investors have made a $10 million bet on Stori, which is pushing mobile money over a branch network to bring more consumers into Mexico's banking system.

It’s the universal travel faux pas: You arrive at a hotel, receive your luggage from the bellboy, reach into your pockets, scour your wallet, and turn up … nothing. Or, perhaps worse, a large-denomination bill you’re too embarrassed to ask them to break.

Stock markets have endured dramatic swings since the coronavirus erupted in China and talks of pandemics surfaced. But the notoriously volatile bitcoin market has been steadily climbing as investors see value in crypto's ability to thrive as traditional financial rails are under pressure.

For the first-time, over half of all product and service purchase transactions in Russia were paid for using non-cash payment instruments.

As the incumbents gets bigger, the innovation that created the urgency continues unabated.

Oceanpayment, a payment service provider launched six years ago in Shenzhen, China that specializes in global online e-commerce transactions, has agreed to provide merchant acquiring services for JCB, Japan’s top credit card brand.