Online payments

Shortly after spinning off PayPal, eBay shed another unit, the e-commerce powerhouse Magento Commerce, which is working to spread its wings beyond its core specialty of e-commerce sites.

New payment standards have banks worried about compliance costs, but there is an opportunity for innovation for aggressive institutions.

Businesses are shedding paper checks in favor of electronic payments, but the migration is not as easy as consumer payments.

Splitit has partnered with Magento, the open-source e-commerce platform, enabling merchants to integrate Splitit’s monthly credit payment option into their checkout processes.

There's been a lot of funding flowing into technology that targets the spending of Chinese travelers as they visit other countries. But this narrow use case isn't the only opportunity for investment and innovation.

The 2012 Jobs Act let regular Americans invest in startups, spawning a glut of crowdfunding sites offering real ownership stakes in return for cash, rather than the new smartwatches or electric skateboards available on pioneering platform Kickstarter.

Germany's Wirecard is expanding again through the acquisition of MyGate Communications, a small but fast-growing payment services provider based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Visa, Global Payments Inc., Samsung and Arval will help the bank operate Spain's first Payment Innovation Hub in Barcelona.

Machine learning, Siri and Alexa are taking off quickly, particularly among younger consumers. Banks and payment companies need to get in the game now.

Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to buy Dubai-based online retailer Souq.com, betting that e-commerce in the Middle East is poised to take off.