Online payments

The use of one-time tokens has picked up steam in the past year, especially with merchant groups waiting for EMVCo to release specifications for a payment account reference.

Arkadi Kuhlmann, the founder and CEO of the neobank Zenbanx who pioneered branchless banking at ING Direct, explains why he stopped pursuing a bank charter and made a deal with Social Finance.

The acquisition should allow the San Francisco-based online lender SoFi to fulfill a long-standing goal: offering a deposit account to its young, upwardly mobile customers.

The bank's next big challenge is to find a place where the emerging technology best fits its needs.

Amazon.com Inc. and PayPal Holdings Inc. have discussed letting shoppers pay for Amazon purchases using their PayPal accounts, highlighting how PayPal can attract new partners since its 2015 split from Amazon rival EBay Inc.

As Facebook users increasingly deal with personal and payment data, the social media giant is turning to the Security Keys standard hosted through the Faster Identity Online Alliance for stronger authentication.

Since the dawn of online bill payment, billers and banks have been waging war to handle the payments on their own sites. At last, a victor may be emerging.

The method is still based on paper money, but the model includes steps that get consumers ready to adopt e-commerce. Given the region's smartphone penetration, that's an inevitability.

Boston-based Buildium, which provides a software platform for real estate property managers, has expanded its ePay online payment service to Canada, marking the first region outside the U.S. where Buildium supports electronic payments.

The breaches at large retailers and other companies are continuing, making it time to fully embrace a new authentication method.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. raised its full-year sales forecast after quarterly results beat estimates, as Chinese spending stays strong and the company wrings revenue from fledgling areas such as cloud computing, entertainment and search.

New York-based security company Hypr Corp. is working to use biometric authentication as a glue for the currently fragmented state of mobile and online payments.

The new approach is designed to make is possible for issuers to react speed their reaction to online fraud.

The e-commerce company is expanding the buy buttons from one-off buttons used in the home to order items like soap or toilet paper.

Technology toolkits such as application programming interfaces (APIs) have enabled small businesses to use simple programming to extend online payments to consumers, and the same technology can be applied to marketplace transactions.

The wave of new technology for CFOs should include easier invoicing and a user experience that resembles consumer e-commerce.

Tipalti is building a presence at the intersection of electronic media and advertising, where a different kind of 'faster payment' movement is taking hold.

As payments become "invisible," easier execution will also make transactions more safe and power marketing programs

A growing number of U.S. merchants, both large and small, are using online marketplaces to sell their wares worldwide. Payment companies that specialize in currency exchange have taken note.

The PSD2 rules go into effect in 2018, providing a new opportunity for financial technology companies to compete with banks. But there's also an opportunity for banks.