Australians' love for contactless payments is driving the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group to incorporate mobile withdrawal technology to its ATM network.

Sourcemedia's annual PayThink conference is always productive and informative, and this year's event was no exception.

State regulators are planning to sue the agency over its special-purpose charter, but the charter would be an important step forward for the regulatory system.

It seems that every year, at least since Apple Pay launched in 2014, it’s the “year of the mobile wallet.” And each year, like clockwork, the banks end up disappointed in the lack of traction in mobile wallet usage and adoption.

Entry of Alipay and WeChat Pay into the U.S. market will spur banks to innovate, according to Sarabjit "Ruby" Walia, executive vice president and head of digital retail banking and wealth management at HSBC

Contactless payments are a big success story in most countries around the world—including developing markets—but not in the U.S.

John Thomas, head of U.S. payments and data strategy at TD Bank, says banks are approaching innovation the wrong way.

Even among the experts in the payments industry, people still use cash. Banks can't ignore this, according to Paul Amisano, senior vice president for enterprise digital and payments strategy at BB&T.

The Merchant Customer Exchange may not have succeeded, but there is still value to the concept that drove the retailer-driven wallet, according to Brian Crist, chief payments counsel at Uber.

Stripe has just closed a $245 million funding round that ups its value from $9 billion to $20 billion, said co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Patrick Collison. Several large new customers have also been listed on Stripe's website this week, including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Uber Technologies Inc.

Employees are typically a company’s first line of defense when it comes to most threats. As such, it is important to train them on how to identify cloud cryptojacking attacks, according to Anurag Kahol, CTO of Bitglass.

Wells Fargo exec Michelle Ziolkowski was fed up with writing checks, but her piano teacher didn't want to go digital. So Ziolkowski started tracking her check-cashing behavior.

Merchants increasingly fall short of security standards as digital commerce innovation pressures risk management.

Zelle doesn't require a bank or credit union to participate in its network to allow it to receive funds; so even Zelle holdouts will see some activity on their accounts. This allows credit unions to compare members' demand to usage, and to determine whether signing up with Zelle is worth the trade-offs.

European banks are testing rings, watches and bracelets that are linked to credit and debit accounts; European regulators appear keener on increasing competition than U.S. counterparts.

Leslie Godridge is pushing U.S. Bancorp to the cutting edge in corporate payments, including helping lead the roll out of a real-time payments platform.

Square’s online payments APIs and Square Invoices are adding support for Google Pay, which the mobile point of sale company hopes will streamline checkout for online stores and websites.

The variety of these new devices may seem random or experimental, but each is responding to a specific threat to Amazon's work in voice-controlled commerce.

Amazon is reportedly weighing plans to expand its cashierless Go convenience stores to include up to 3,000 units by 2021 — but traditional convenience stores may not feel the effects as much as the fast food market.

Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos sees eliminating meal-time logjams in busy cities as the best way for Amazon to reinvent the brick-and-mortar shopping experience, where most spending still occurs