Online payments

The Indian government's major change in cash policy and push for digital payments attracted the Chinese company to increase its stake in India's Paytm.

Connected devices are expanding quickly, as are payment apps. The combination may make following commerce and security mandates harder in the future.

JD.com Inc. agreed to sell its finance arm for 14.3 billion yuan ($2.1 billion) in cash while retaining a share of its future profits, part of a deal to spin off the fast-growing division and create a strong rival to billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Financial.

Fraudsters have a strong desire to take over a consumer's accounts or create new accounts to commit fraud by purchasing clothes or shoes to resell or initiate other crimes or chargebacks.

Digital payments can make travel payments easier and boost financial services in emerging markets. In some cases, it's doing both.

Sweden-based Klarna has partnered with GhostBed, a U.S. online mattress retailer, as the payments company expands its reach with more direct-to-consumer brands.

Banks are unlikely to develop their own social media platforms, but they may have a chance to overtake this market by customizing the smartphone's keyboard app.

ACI's Universal Payments software for merchants will deliver various payments options to a new Co-op program which covers more than 2,800 stores in the U.K.

How much do Germans like cash? Consider the following common German phrase: "Geld stinkt nicht," which roughly translated means, "money doesn’t stink."

Most new payments and financial services innovation isn't tied to the actual payment, making hosted and cloud solutions a good fit for right sizing resources.

When e-commerce fraud spikes, it can be tempting for merchants to pile on more controls and risk turning away otherwise legitimate transactions that appear to be fraudulent. The alternative is often to shut off these controls altogether and leave themselves vulnerable to criminals.

The mobile device and its embedded technology can make a strong combination to protect user ID, and comply with new European regulations for security.

Linking payments accounts to public profiles is a convenience that makes digital payments as easy as typing a tweet, but after a high-profile trolling incident involving one of President Trump's closest colleagues, it seems there are still issues to work out.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reduced investments in PayPal Holdings Inc., Nuance Communications Inc. and Freeport-McMoRan Inc., according to a regulatory filing Tuesday.

The growing number of Chinese consumers traveling to the U.S. and other countries is becoming a two-for-one opportunity for payment companies. The market's gigantic and growing — and it has a lot of trouble executing transactions.

You’d think financial institutions and retailers in the U.S., with a long list of EMV migration examples to look to in other countries, would have been prepared for fraudsters shifting their attention to e-commerce after security improved at the point of sale. But e-fraud is on the rise, so what's happening?

Consumers want to use e-commerce, digital payments and other new card innovations, but are still wary of fraud. Here's how to help them get over that fear.

Most talk around bots is decidedly consumer-focused, enabling ways for people to schedule an Uber or order lunch. But PayPal, in working with the business chat client Slack, is setting a much different tone.

Swedish payment company Klarna has entered a deal to buy BillPay, a German consumer financing company, bolstering Klarna's merchant reach in central Europe

Traditional brick & mortar stores must upgrade and innovate their experiences to again become destinations in their own right in order to lure back spoiled online shoppers.