Online payments

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.