Payment processing

More businesses are considering moving away from cash and checks, according to a recent survey by Citizens. That should be a wake-up call to smaller institutions, said Michael Cummins, who oversees treasury solutions at the regional bank.

Fintechs that offer installment loans are having a major impact on credit card lending — and many card issuers are ill equipped to compete.

The digital banking provider Simple has been part of BBVA for five years, and its reputation as an easy way to handle and transfer digital money has only grown in that time frame through the addition of faster payments and P2P services.

Following the FIS-Worldpay and Fiserv-First Data deals, the payments and bank technology industries are in the midst of major consolidation, and TSYS is looking for a merger partner to stay competitive.

Payments technology provider AscendantFX has added an international payment scheduling service to its APay online payment platform to help corporations automatically schedule and submit batches of cross-border transactions in advance of due dates.

Insecure software development and insufficient use of security best practices creates significant risk for both consumers and commercial organizations alike, writes Carl Wright, CCO of AttackIQ.

Online lenders now have close to 40% of the unsecured personal loan market, much of which is refinanced credit card debt. Some financial institutions' card portfolios are taking a hit.

Even though the General Data Protection Regulation has put data security and privacy top of mind throughout Europe in its first year, it is not likely the U.S. will see a similar federal mandate anytime soon — if ever.

Square is changing an earlier ban on cannabis payments and is conducting a pilot, raising the possibility that cannabis merchants may get greater access to banking and payment processing.

Online lenders now have close to 40% of the unsecured personal loan market, much of which is refinanced credit card debt. Banks' card portfolios are taking a hit.

Cloud-based treasury software provider Kyriba is partnering with JPMorgan Chase to launch a real-time payments API integration for its mutual corporate finance clients.

Targeting a 100% gpi ratio for Swift payments among banks will be crucial to enlarging the global reach of payments, writes Marc Recker, global head of institutional market management and cash management for Deutsche Bank.

New Yorkers won’t have to worry much longer about perfecting their subway swipe.

Some technology upgrade can leave databases open to the public internet, creating more risk for payment credential exposure and other risks, contends Ameya Talwalkar, co-founder and chief product officer of Cequence Security.

Payment processors and fintechs are rapidly consolidating in a series of M&A deals, and Canadian payments company Nuvei is making its bet via a $889 million deal to acquire SafeCharge.

Avidia Bank joins the network even as other community banks call on the Fed to create its own real-time payment service to compete.

A German fintech firm that counts PayPal Holdings Inc. among its investors wants to expand its internet platform for bank-savings products to the U.S.

Mastercard is making a niche play in the hot point of sale financing market, teaming with Dividio and lastminute.com to offer installment loans at checkout.

Seven European banks are testing Swift's Global Payments Innovation real-time cross-border payments through the continent's Target Instant Payment Settlement process.

Visa's tokenization began as a way to shield digital commerce and has developed into a major catalyst for Visa in landing partnerships.