P-to-P payments

Few of Apple's numerous patent applications make it to market, but if the consumer electronics giant follows through on one filed last week, iPhone users may have the Siri virtual assistant helping them with person-to-person payments through the iMessage platform.

Zopa is moving away from its longtime status of being a non-bank to apply for a banking license through the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority.

PayPal has added support for Apple Inc.’s Siri voice-command feature for person-to-person payments, following Apple's decision to open Siri to third-party developers.

Trump's election raises a lot of issues for the financial services industry, particularly for companies that operate internationally or rely on emerging technology. Here are a few areas Trump's presidency is likely to disrupt.

When Android Pay launched, Google Wallet became a P-to-P service. That market's getting popular, and Google is responding with a web upgrade.

PayPal still has a big lead over banks’ digital payment offerings, despite the many advances banks have made in recent years, a new study suggests.

The race to dominate person-to-person transfers has been a curious one so far, because P-to-P typically isn’t a money-maker for banks or even for PayPal, whose Venmo unit is generating red-hot growth this year in the category.

When Early Warning acquired clearXchange—soon to be renamed Zelle—late last year, the acquisition was applauded by banks that make up the P-to-P payments network because it brought Early Warning's various fraud detection technologies into play.

SimplyTapp is using host card emulation to make its mobile technology more widely available, in a move to improve performance among young people.

The bank-led clearXchange is changing its brand to reasonate more with consumers

The biggest surprise for many who awaited the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s final rule for prepaid cards was discovering that its reach extends to some of the payments industry’s highest-profile tech firms, such as PayPal Inc.’s Venmo, Square Inc.’s Square Cash and Dwolla.

Citi will join Early Warning's clearXchange, giving the bank-operated digital transfer network a boost as it takes on apps like PayPal’s Venmo.

San Antonio-based Frost Bank this week became the 11th financial institution to join Early Warning’s real-time payments network, which will continue to operate under the clearXchange brand at least through the end of this year.

Millennials hate banks so much, they’d rather go to the dentist than listen to what banks have to say. And digital payment alternatives are taking advantage.

The latest iOS update will soon enable many consumers to initiate payments via voice command, but a German bank is one of the first to take its service live.

NEW ORLEANS -- What do millennials really want from their financial providers? Bankers with average customer ages in baby boomer territory puzzle over this question every day.

Netherlands-based ING is the latest bank to extend person-to-person (P-to-P) payments services to bank customers using popular social media platforms.

TerraPay, a mobile-first international remittance company based in Amsterdam, has acquired Pay2Global, a U.K.-based money transfer service.

ClearXchange has access to a majority of the market's online banking accounts as it takes on Venmo, but there's one thing it may not have.

Over the last few weeks, the expansion of digital person-to-person payment platforms and the resulting growth in consumer adoption has garnered a lot of attention.