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.

Merchants don’t stick to the binary simplicity of online and offline anymore. They are reaching their consumers through a wide array of channels including mobile, kiosks, chatbots and call centers, writes TJ Sharkey, senior vice president of financial institutions, acquiring and processing at Mastercard.

When it comes to the pizza industry, online and mobile ordering has generally been the province of chains like Domino’s, Pizza Hut and California Pizza Kitchen. But smaller shops are looking to get a slice of this market.

Facebook will continue to prohibit ads for other risky financial products including binary options and initial coin offerings.

Malaysian consumers may use GrabPay Credits to pay for GrabFood, rides and any participating merchants, by tapping the GrabPay icon, selecting pay, and scanning the merchant’s QR code.

Unlike non-data-driven processes (paper), bidirectional visibility allows for more agility and speed with the digital platforms and technology that support transactions, writes Matt Clark, president and COO of Corcentric.

Gromit Unleashed 2 will be incorporating contactless donation points along the art trail to aid the Bristol Children’s Hospital — a project that is as much a necessity as it is an innovation in the U.K.'s aggressively contactless environment.

The Supreme Court is tossing a wrench into online payment processing at a time when tariffs are already threatening popular cross-border e-commerce and online marketplaces.

Despite a reputation for being the go-to P2P app of digital natives, Venmo is once again pushing its market in the opposite direction with the debut of a plastic card.

From its origins as the fuel card operator Wright Express that launched 35 years ago, the fleet card provider WEX has aggressively expanded to other corporate sectors including travel and health care. But fleet cards still inspire some of the company’s most interesting innovations.

Two collaborations in the past week show how office vendors are using automation to free health care patients and office staff from an overwhelmingly paper-heavy process of invoicing and payments.

The warning doesn't touch on blockchain's nonfinancial applications, where it is making more of an impact, contends Joseph Thompson, CEO and co-founder of AID:Tech.