Online payments

The companies could bring something new, such as merchant acquiring to community banks, but their merger could also cause anxiety about giant vendors.

PayPal is expanding its Instant Transfer service beyond debit cards, establishing a service for instant money movement from PayPal accounts to bank accounts.

As president of enterprise strategic partnerships at American Express, McNeal has been right in the middle of developing the technology and use cases for Amex to advance in a digital and virtual payments world.

When Claire Gates joined the Paysafe Group two years ago, she was determined to demonstrate to payments industry leaders that bringing fresh ideas into fintech is gender agnostic.

While a career in payments can allow a person to touch on many different aspects of payments services, PayPal's Prashanthi Ravanavarapu can say her focus has remained quite clear.

Whenever Facebook adds something that more closely ties its network to shopping, service or payments, it has an immediate ripple effect. And Marketplace is becoming a major part of Facebook’s influence.

Meituan Dianping is reaping the benefits of scale in its core food delivery division as it feels the pain of competition from arch-foe Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in smaller businesses such as hotel bookings.

Laybuy, a New Zealand-based payment processing firm that allows customers to pay for purchases in installments, is launching in the U.K.

There may be plenty of fish in the sea, but there's also plenty of phishers. In today's digitally-driven culture, many people find their future spouse by dating online — and there are even financial advantages to doing so — but there are also major risks.

Many fintech startups are working to streamline various aspects of payment acceptance for global online merchants, and Modo wants to give those merchants more control over the payment service processors they use.

The bank-run Zelle P2P network was designed without the social media-esque touches that made Venmo a hit among millennials. And as one might expect, half of all new P2P users are 45 and older.

China dwarfs the U.S. market in e-commerce adoption and is likely to be soon giving lessons to internet executive from U.S. and Western countries.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s business-to-business trading platform has forged its first U.S. partnership with a large company as it teams up with Office Depot Inc.

EBay Inc. has reached an agreement with Elliott Management Corp. and Starboard Value, appointing two new directors to the board and paving the way to potentially carving off some of its businesses.

JD.com Inc. posted fourth-quarter revenue ahead of estimates, as Singles Day promotions helped the Google-backed online retailer fend off competition despite a decelerating Chinese economy.

The subscription services industry is a booming market that has drawn-in hundreds of startups, millions of dollars in venture capital and changed many aspects of how people shop.

Consumers are expressing an ever-increasing interest in making digital Person-to-Person payments to friends, families and even businesses for bills, shared expenses or temporary loans. Digital P2P payments are quickly beginning to displace other payment forms such as cash and checks due to their convenience and growing ubiquity.

The venture capital arms of Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Salesforce.com Inc. are investing in U.K. payments startup GoCardless, which has has raised an additional $75 million to fund expansion.

JPMorgan's blockchain effort could lead to solutions that overcome industry skepticism and regulatory concerns and perhaps attract more mainstream retail interest.

A bounty of stolen payment credentials and complex processing makes online travel booking a crook's delight, but machine learning could be the tonic to combat a wave of fraud.