Disruptors

The personal financial management platform has been grooming select early-stage companies for 16 months. Now, it’s providing more services to entrepreneurs through its incubator program.

Danish mobile point of sale provider Wallmob is introducing a new tablet stand to a payments market where technology is heavily influenced by the card companies that dominate the region.

Facebook shocked the payments industry during its IPO when it revealed it already got 15% of its revenue from payments. The social network has also proven a fertile ground to other companies that have figured out how to incorporate Facebook's platform into their own offerings.

Two former bank executives are starting a group that will test new ideas for the financial services industry, which has struggled to cope with its digital transformation.

Recognition by a market-based standards organization such as ISO, in the form of a three-letter code, would set the stage for increasing market depth and liquidity of bitcoin trading – in turn facilitating overall consumer and merchant adoption.

UniRush is finding that the audience for prepaid cards is going well beyond the underbanked. The company, which offers the prepaid RushCard, is responding with a new approach to better appeal to this new audience.

Fintech startups, like many young software companies, are using fun recruiting strategies to attract most-coveted technical talent to their teams and to engage people with their brands.

Policymakers and law enforcement should work with the Bitcoin community to realize the potential benefits of censorship-resistant money—and to develop tools and techniques to address the technology’s potential misuse.

Since becoming CEO of U.K.-based VocaLink last year, David Yates has launched a separate mobile payments unit while keeping the processor focused on speeding up payments throughout Europe.

Schools are increasingly relying on digital payments for the cafeteria and activities — a trend that is proving to be fertile ground for payments technology as frantic parents seek ways to keep their kids properly fed and supplied for their education.

Facebook’s new mobile checkout initiative brings heft to the power of social data in areas such as advertising and payments risk, and aims to improve the user experience on mobile apps.

Bank Leumi will host tech entrepreneurs from its home country for a month-long mentoring program in New York, joining other banks in soliciting new digital ideas from outside their organizations.

From California to New York, state regulators have been clamping down on payments industry innovators, forcing some out of business and discouraging others from even entering the market. That raises the question of whether antiquated statutes and ways of thinking have become an impediment to one of the banking industry's most promising growth businesses.

The company behind the German mobile payments app GO4Q has had a busy — and challenging — summer, adding payments for taxi drivers, golf courses and beer gardens.

Florida regulators have fined the payments startup Square $507,000 for operating in the state without a money transmitter license.

Groupon aims to attract more merchants to its mobile payment offering by letting them remove the mobile device from the equation.

At a time when most mobile payment apps use virtual cards, QR codes or contactless payments, Dairy Queen is testing the more experimental location-based approach employed by Square and PayPal.

A probe into PNC Financial Services' mortgage lending is stoking fears that regulators are preparing to crack down on other large banks for alleged loan discrimination ahead of a Supreme Court case that might curb the use of the controversial "disparate impact" theory.

Shopify is integrating payments processing with its online storefronts, enabling merchants to accept and manage Visa, MasterCard and American Express payments directly through Shopify.

The brouhaha over a court ruling that debit card fee caps be lowered overshadowed another problem for banks: the decision could also enable merchants to play card networks against one another on signature debit transactions.