Online payments

Genting Cruise Lines, a Hong Kong-based company that operates cruise ships, has formed a partnership with Wirecard to streamline checkouts for disembarking passengers, eliminating long lines to settle charges at the end of voyages.

Europe's PSD2 data-sharing standards are meant to foster cooperation in the market, but banks are getting more competitive as they seek to plug a revenue drain the new rules threaten.

Security is a top priority for financial institutions around the world. In the past few weeks, the U.K.’s TSB Bank has learned the hard way that availability is even more important. And when availability is an issue, security can’t be ignored.

The deal, Walmart’s biggest ever, gives it greater access to India’s e-commerce market, which Morgan Stanley has estimated will grow to $200 billion in about a decade. But it will take some time for the business to turn profitable.

Millennials view the ATM as central to how they manage their money and go about their daily lives, writes Yonas Marcos, president and CEO of Star Financial Services.

Companies such as FleetCor, WEX and U.S. Bank Voyager are in a fierce competition that's driving a wave of innovation as these companies look for advantages in fuel, lodging, tools and other expenses.

The bank and European air carriers are hoping to cut into air fare payment fees that are as high as $8 billion per year.

Often touted as Africa’s answer to online retail giant Amazon, Jumia wants tenfold growth in revenue from Egypt and sixfold growth in the number of products offered on its platform to 12 million by 2021.

It's the latest of several moves Google has made in recent months to enhance the payment app's attractiveness to merchants and consumers.

Visa and Mastercard's "single button" for online payments seems like it would most directly threaten PayPal, but the card networks' campaign puts just as much pressure on Amazon's omnichannel push.

The spread of breached identity information has resulted in an outbreak of new account creation fraud with a new ground zero for the crimes pointing right at Latin America.

Amazon is trying to acquire Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart, in part to gain control over that country's e-commerce market and in part to make sure Walmart doesn't get hold of the company.

Mastercard's CEO sang the praises of a single "button" for online purchases, a stance that puts heat on online payment leader PayPal without the whiff of a direct attack.

Though financial institutions with online bill payment services still command the largest share of the bill payment market, it’s a category with many friction points ripe for disruption.

The California-based CU gave Credit Union Journal a behind-the-scenes view of what can be a painful process, while another expert offered best practices for CUs considering similar moves.

Often thought of as the Square of Europe, iZettle is working to sprint ahead of its American rival.

Square's deal to buy Weebly, a San Francisco-based web design company, is a major weapon in its growing arsenal.

E-commerce platform Magento is giving merchants the option to activate Klarna instant credit for online checkouts.

Visa CEO Alfred Kelly is less publicly adversarial toward market rival PayPal than his predecessor Charlie Scharf, even as Visa's push for a "single button" for online payments seems to undermine PayPal's business model.

PayPal Holdings Inc. reported earnings that beat analysts’ estimates in the first quarter and gave an optimistic forecast for the second, signaling that it’s weathering the loss of EBay Inc. as it continues to sign up new accounts.