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By using the app, which will go live Monday in a pilot program, customers can point their phone at a vehicle and get an augmented reality overlay that provides all its critical info: the make, model and year of the car, as well as its price range and other information.

Trading floor layoffs may be ahead as revenue declines; Goldman Sachs to expand its consumer bank to the U.K.,

Stripe’s software development kit, application programming interfaces and other recently added features for merchants place it in almost all parts of the payment value chain beyond its e-commerce forte.

Brian Roemmele debriefs on Alexa’s new range of voice-activated appliances, and Dmitry Malyanov, co-founder of AdHive, shares some of the questionable ICO promotion tactics he’s seen.

London-based digital payment provider Revolut has applied for an e-money license in Luxembourg in case the Brexit impact creates legal complications.

Online commerce is today dominated by a small handful of middlemen marketplaces that charge outsize commissions for access to a consolidated buyer pool. But new technology can change that model, writes KJ Erickson, CEO and co-founder of Public Market.

By using the app, which will go live Monday in a pilot program, customers can point their phone at a vehicle and get an augmented reality overlay that provides all its critical info: the make, model and year of the car, as well as its price range and other information.

Few bankers can claim to have created a new financial market. But JPMorgan Chase Chief Regulatory Officer Sandie O’Connor can.

Whereas most regulators appointed in the Trump administration are focused on rolling back the post-crisis framework, Nellie Liang helped create it.

Brian Brooks, the mortgage giant's general counsel, is leaving this week to head the legal team at Coinbase.

Uber’s corporate existence has jumped from one PR crisis to another, but the company has always been lauded for how seamlessly it handles payments. Until now.

Executives from four companies—Worldnet co-founder John Clarke, Payrailz CEO Fran Duggan, CardFree CEO Jon Squire, and Sionic Mobile CEO Ron Herman— view Uber and Amazon as drivers of the shift to an "unattended" retail experience that removes human interaction from the process of making a payment.

Mary Daly succeeds John Williams, who left the bank earlier this year to run the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Jet.com has added a range of improvements including voice-controlled shopping lists, faster delivery turnarounds and customized delivery options including same-day grocery delivery in Manhattan

Digital currencies can outlast bitcoin's volatility because they are more egalitarian than the traditional payment system and offer a better alternative for emerging countries, the cryptocurrency exchange says.

By bringing Prime benefits to the movie industry, through discounts or a MoviePass/subscription-based model, Amazon could entice even more users to its loyalty program, writes Tom Caporaso, CEO of Clarus Commerce.

At a glance, New York regulator's first license to cryptocurrencies appears to be a good sign for other digital currencies. But there's a catch.

Rising tariffs are rapidly increasing the cost of building materials, putting banks at risk.

John Gerspach is scheduled to leave next March after 10 years and be succeeded by Mark Mason; ING will pay nearly $900 million for failing to stop money laundering by clients.

Uber’s latest app update adds a stored-value account that incentivises riders to dive deeper into the Uber ecosystem — and away from their bank or mobile wallet provider.