A cash management offering by Mastercard and Strands is the latest example of new answers to commercial clients' demands for better digital services.

In this highly competitive environment, catering to the unique needs of each customer is more important than ever, writes Matt Clark, president and COO of Corcentric.

Both South Korea and Japan, for example, are crypto-friendly countries, but they’re also cracking down on anonymous cryptos, citing money laundering risk, according to Bob Rutherford, CEO and founder of Hedge.

Entrust Datacard, which serves both sides of the physical and digital payments spectrum, sees the categories' fates as intertwined. The more momentum digital and mobile wallets have, the more opportunity they create for their plastic counterparts.

"Banks should be investing in innovation in this area or risk getting left behind," a fintech CEO warns.

Concentrating more on the data delivered through a customer database, Chargebee began focusing on what was driving consumer success for a company, and turning that into a revenue generation point.

The crypto market has been in bear territory recently, and Facebook's removal of its bitcoin ad ban can help a resumption of cryptocurrency expansion, according to Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group.

Ethiopian Airlines and CellPoint Mobile have partnered in providing its travelers with alternative payment technology.

Blockchain provides greater data management tools and improved connections between insurance payments and medical care, says Jeremias Grenzebach, co-founder and core developer at Dentacoin Foundation.

Nets has been a dominant payments technology player in the Nordic region for years, helping to drive the region's high proportion of mobile and digital transactions. Armed with fresh venture capital funding, Nets wants to expand its influence broadly across Europe.

Alipay is deepening its reach to Chinese consumers in the U.S. through a partnership with 99 Ranch Market, a 50-store chain of supermarkets specializing in Asian products and food.

Buying a startup or running an accelerator program isn’t enough to help banks truly prepare for the coming digital age.

In the era of digital and mobile payments, many banks and tech companies have strived to completely do away with cash, checks and cards. But quite a few have had to concede that the market isn't quite ready to give up the physical trappings of payments.

U.S. Bank is firmly committed to voice assistant technology, but remains cautious about enabling all forms of money movement via verbal commands.

PayPal has many brands with which it wants to permeate online commerce, but it doesn't need a separate button for each one.

Toronto-based Mint Corp. is taking advantage of the UAE government’s ambitious plans to develop a digital, cashless society.

Seeking to bolster digital identity and transaction security at the world's largest banks, OneSpan is partnering with Nok Nok Labs to provide authentication for mobile and online accounts, favoring biometrics or other technologies over static passwords.

Ticket sales company Ticketmaster has warned customers in the U.K. that malicious code running on its website could have led to personal data and payment details being stolen. This kind of breach through third-party JavaScript code is quite common and may go undetected for months.

Capital One Financial Corp. is limiting how account data flows to outside apps for managing finances, prompting a backlash from the bank’s customers who say they have been locked out of their own information.

Businesses are accustomed to on-demand processes and easy digital transactions in the consumer app economy, and now expect the same experience in their business supply chains, according to Jamshed Khan, tech chief at LeaseQ.