Online payments

It’s been a rough year of politically charged headlines and financial woes for Facebook, pressuring the social network to do more with its Messenger app's huge and largely unmonetized user base.

Adyen NV published its first earnings report on Wednesday, following the soaring value of the Dutch firm’s shares since its blockbuster public offering in June.

One expert says the U.S. lags behind other countries, but changes are coming soon – and fast.

The acquisition is further evidence that Paytm is continuing to diversify from being just a payments app and into more of social media app with a payments capability.

Zillow claims 35 million renters visit its websites and mobile apps each month in search of a home or apartment. This network of landlords and renters has been built off the back of listing property values, real estate sales, taxes paid, photos and more for homes, condos and apartments.

Pinduoduo's controversial IPO was seemingly a world removed from western merchant acquirers, but it's yet another example of how social payments can upend conventional relationships between merchants, shopping and payment processing.

After peaking at $411 million in September, the amount of money the largest 17 crypto merchant-processing services received in the best-known cryptocurrency has been on a steady decline, hitting a recent low of $60 million in May.

Emerging faster-payment technology can address processing and settlement gaps between banks and fintechs that can cause financial challenges for families, according to Rahm McDaniel, vice president of strategic solutions for Q2 Holdings.

In its push to compete more directly with Amazon, Walmart has partnered with American Express, enabling its customers to earn and burn Amex’s Membership Rewards points for e-commerce purchases on Walmart.com.

AWS's recent tech summit, with strobe lights and throbbing sound system may have felt more like a music festival than a conference, but one thing was clear: the symbiotic relationship between the online juggernaut and financial services runs deep.