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If it seems there's a little bit of Disney magic in Carnival Cruise Lines' Ocean Medallion, it's because the executive overseeing the Carnival project cut his teeth on the Disney Magic Band.

The Prime Day event is also a chance for Amazon to showcase a new range of devices and payment options — and to sell those devices at a discount to get them into more people's homes.

It will be the third collaboration together for the new CEO and CTO at Pivotus Ventures.

The graveyard of defunct all-in-one startups includes companies like Coin, Swyp, Stratos and Plastc. But whenever one of these companies failed, its technology simply moved on to a new owner.

Companies of all sizes have attempted to serve kids and teens with prepaid cards or digital wallets with parental controls, but there are very few success stories. GoSave's twist is that it doesn't make a card or an app the focus of its experience.

For stores that don't want such a high-tech makeover, options for automatic checkout options are being built on a much simpler foundation.

U.S. Bank is firmly committed to voice assistant technology, but remains cautious about enabling all forms of money movement via verbal commands.

HSBC is the first bank in the U.S. to deploy SoftBank's lifelike Pepper robot in a branch to help customers learn about bill pay, remote check capture and even ask the weather — but in Pepper's current iteration, it won't take deposits or payments.

PayPal is spending billions on M&A to throttle the heightened competition it faces from the likes of Square and Stripe.

From the opportunities — and threats — in artificial intelligence to envisioning a world in which "Wi-Fi is like air," here is what everyone was buzzing about at American Banker's Digital Banking conference.

According to one analyst, the threat from fintech was overrated – but there are plenty of other tech trends credit unions need to be ready for.

Banks will need to evolve further and faster to reach consumers in an interconnected, always online world, according to industry leaders.

Virtual reality is seeing significant leaps in technology, with immediate applications to gaming and entertainment that foreshadow richer applications for VR in commerce.

Unless near zero-friction identity security is embraced, connected devices cannot be used for payments in a substantial way, according to Xavier Larduinat, manager for innovation at Gemalto.

Mobile technology can infer a user’s identity and make device-based decisions on the validity of a transaction, writes Kayne McGladrey, an IEEE member and director of information security services for Integral Partners.

Welcoming automation into our industry with less friction and fear happens when we understand its overwhelming benefit to our futures and the quality of our work, writes Lauren Ruef, a research analyst for Nvoicepay.

Synchrony Financial designed its first voice assistant technology for Amazon Alexa around Amazon’s store card, serving as a template for the private-label card issuer’s other retail clients.

PayPal is dusting off the idea of conducting commerce augmented reality glasses, a concept that fell flat five years ago. But a half decade is an epoch in technology time, enough to reevaluate the competitive necessity of AR payments.

The rise of digital options is evolving payments from infrequent large transactions to a constantly flow of smaller payments, and companies that don't adjust risk being left behind, according to Luis Valdich, managing director of venture investing at Citi Ventures.

Dubai-based ride-hailing app Careem Networks FZ has revealed a cyber incident in January where hackers gained access to systems that hold customer and driver account data.