The consortium joins a growing list of cross-industry groups exploring uses for distributed ledger technology.

The integration is designed to improve user experience for international transactions.

Pangea’s instant-transfer app serves six Latin American countries and it’s eyeing expansion to Asia, with a formula based on speed and simplicity.

Automated teller machines have come a long way since Barclays rolled out the world’s first ATM at a branch in north London 50 years ago. Here’s a look at some of the milestone moments and key innovations in ATM technology over the past five decades.

Since e-commerce retailers often don't have the same personal relationships as traditional retail, it can be harder to dispute chargebacks.

Messaging app Kik Interactive is the latest and potentially most well-established company to delve into a quirky new form of fundraising -- creating its own digital currency.

At the recent Google Marketing Next event in San Francisco, Google revealed a new service designed to close the loop between online advertising and offline card payments. It's a service that should have marketers salivating, but it could easily backfire.

CityBase would like to eliminate the significant difficulties consumers face when paying bills to government entities — and in doing so, lay the foundation of a more digital form of conducting business.

As volume grows, fraud and security risk will expand as well. Merchants and issuers can't afford to avoid the extra work to secure the channel.

Klarna, the Sweden-based online lending provider, is changing its name to Klarna Bank, part of a series of recent moves in its market underscoring the rising popularity of instant or installment financing.

Gift card marketplace provider Raise is launching a mobile wallet for gift cards to turn them into somewhat of an alternative currency.

The advantage of biometrics (what you are) over passwords and PINs (what you know) can be distilled to a single factor — what you know can be easily shared.

There are hundreds of millions of users that store credit cards with Google but don’t use Android Devices, giving Google the chance to take advantage of data it already has to improve functionality.

Third party mobile payment apps are resetting consumer expectations, and retailers must embrace the technology, writes Joe Leija, general manager of North America at Ingenico ePayments.

Unlike some other family spending tools in which parents dictate what their children can spend on prepaid cards, Malauzai Software and payment technology provider Vantiv are delivering an application that encourages users to let the child decide what to spend.

The company behind Android Pay is giving more tools to developers and inking more partnerships in the payments industry. Here are some of the biggest developments surrounding this year's Google I/O event.

The Treasury secretary says the Trump administration doesn't support separating commercial from investment banking; wealthy neighborhoods are designated as low-income, benefitting banks with branches there.

Brick-and-mortar retailers are using technology to transform their physical stores into an Amazon-like digital experience.

3DS 2.0 is designed to vastly improve cardholder authentication, and in so doing, improve the digital checkout and payment process.

Wells Fargo is expanding its fintech accelerator so it is better positioned to connect with customers through channels like the internet of things.