Moves like Amazon Go and the e-commerce giant's acquisition of Whole Foods require banks to abandon their "defensive" innovation posture, write Richard Oglesby and Brad Margol from AZ Payments Group.

After a year on the platform, American Express is more involved than ever in mining Facebook Messenger’s benefits as a tool for payments and financial services.

The exchange is adding Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Dash, Monero, Zcash and dozens of other cryptocurrencies in exchange for U.S. dollars.

Payoneer believes British companies will seek opportunities outside of the EU, leading to international payments demand.

Black Friday and other holiday periods with high digital transaction volume may be subject to higher fees.

E-payments are growing fast in China, but a one-size-fits-all approach won't be a winner for merchants, writes Franklin Chu, a managing director at Azoya International.

Theresa Dold joins LevelUp in the new role of vice president of agency strategy to head the company’s focus on restaurant engagement. Dold previously was director of product at sweetgreen, a fast-casual salad chain that last fall stopped accepting cash payments at some of its stores.

India’s largest digital-payments company, Paytm, is seeking a license to set up a money market fund where users can store cash and earn interest, in competition with the country’s banks, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Hike Messenger has become the latest to join India’s already busy digital-payments segment.

Mobile ATMs are generally more secure than card-based machines, but still require more security than more traditional digital transactions, writes Sam Shawki, founder and CEO of MagicCube.

When Wikimedia tries to collect payments in Latin America, it's a mixing two unusual activities. It's a San Francisco-based organization that doesn't have a large presence in the region, and even on its home turf Wikimedia generally doesn't collect frequent payments from consumers.

Automated messaging platform SnatchBot will allow payments inside chatbots by linking to merchant PayPal accounts, making it easier to pair transactions with digital conversations.

Getting a new payment terminal with advanced capabilities is not unlike getting a new phone or computer with its bells and whistles — there's so many new features that some will no doubt go ignored.

Passengers are warming to non-travel mobile payments, and the technology is advancing to enable mobile payments in flight, writes Kristian Gjerding, CEO of CellPoint Mobile.

With midsize businesses still handling the majority of their accounts payable via checks, large corporations are reaping the benefits of digital or card payments. A lot of this has to do with a misunderstanding of the options available to them.

Until now, Amazon's moves seemed like cautious pokes at the deeply ingrained habit of going to a store and paying with a plastic card. Furthermore, any competitors may have seen Amazon's lacking retail store presence as a buffer that kept them at least temporarily safe from the same fate that befell the bookselling world. How naive they were.

Amazon is working aggressively to change the way people shop — especially in the grocery space — but not all of its activities focus on products and store design. The e-commerce giant has also influenced a lot about how people use their payment cards.

Amazon has been making some aggressive moves in the grocery industry in recent months, but perhaps none so aggressive as its just-announced deal to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.

In order for Apple to achieve significant success with its upcoming P-to-P service, the tech titan needs to expand the amount of people who can use the payments feature.

Consumers are making a bold request of their health care providers: Make it as easy to pay for services as it is to buy products from Amazon.com.