Amid the global explosion of e-commerce and demand for digital money transfers, Visa is acquiring YellowPepper to help drive tokenization and real-time payments in Latin America.

Cross-border payments provider dLocal has expanded its network services in Africa and developed new partnerships in Nigeria and Egypt.

Expect to see other credit card companies join the race to customize rewards to customers to maximize appeal and customer lifetime value, says RevTrax's Jonathan Treiber.

Even as consumers shift more spending away from cash and the market for personal travel picks up, the coronavirus pandemic is still exerting a heavy toll on Mastercard's consumer and corporate spending.

The inability for an e-commerce merchant to know about a fraud problem at another merchant checkout page can limit transaction monitoring and security.

Global expansion is challenging even under the best of circumstances – but payments don’t have to be, says Rapyd's Eric Rosenthal.

Michael Moeser, senior analyst at PaymentsSource, talks to Chris Lybeer, chief strategy officer at Revel, about the trends driving digital payments in the restaurant industry.

Artificial intelligence technology captures invoice data in any format and from any source, creating opportunities for myriad benefits in the organization, says Kofax's Michelle Trapani.

Click to Pay is based on EMVCo’s Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) industry standard, acting as a form of guest checkout which alleviates the need for cardholders to manually enter personal and account information to shop at unfamiliar merchants.

Amy Coney Barrett will assume a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, just as it prepares to hear a case on the Affordable Care Act that could toss years of advancement in health care payments into disarray.

Business leaders have come to understand the role that people play in cybersecurity fiercely working to establish a strong security culture within their own organizations, says KnowBe4's Javvad Malik.

The brand's youthful customer base will make its model common among other payment companies, says TLGG's Katrin Zimmerman.

The 2020 election could draw the most voters in history, along with a record haul for campaign contributions, with fundraising thus far favoring Democratic candidates both generally and in the finance and technology industries, which cover most financial institutions and payment firms.

A limited federal government constrained by the Constitution and conservative courts can’t easily exercise broad authority over digital finance, says DailyPay's Matt Kopko.

Skipify is working with Google's Gmail to enable shopping and purchasing for email users.

Small and midsize merchants in North America continue to struggle with the effects of COVID-19 on their bottom lines, but those who have developed an online presence and made changes to in-store payments have found the process to be a vital step.

For the 44.6 million households who rent, coming into the crisis almost 27% were already paying half or more of their monthly income on housing. That meant they had litte ability to save for an emergency, let alone a pandemic that would cause record job losses.

Compliance can't be a bolt-on solution. It's critical to build it in from the start, across your people, technology and partnerships, says Hummingbird's Joe Robinson.

With face-to-face service altered, banks need to improve their data game to build new payment services, says Tealium's Heidi Bullock.

As merchants and consumers increasingly favor contactless payments over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Visa is removing obstacles to contactless acceptance.