Payment processing

BBVA Peru is the first bank to deploy a real-time mobile payments platform designed by YellowPepper, following Visa’s May 2018 investment in the Miami-based fintech.

It's unclear whether the Trump administration can or will declare a national emergency as part of the trade dispute between the U.S. and China, but the discourse alone could disrupt major business relationships that involve American retailers, payment companies and Chinese firms.

Blockchain and distributed ledger technology offer many of the basic elements that are essential components for PCI DSS compliance, writes Doug Wick, chief product officer at ALTR.

Crypto technology will play a major role in the central bank's real-time payments system.

In a world where not all gig workers can afford to be choosy, nor all companies agree to go against internal policy and pay early, innovation in pay advance products can provide a mutually beneficial solution, according to payments marketing consultant Gabriel Onyango.

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters and over a hundred other lawmakers want the agency to go forward with a mandatory underwriting requirement for payday loans.

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Financial crime screening solutions that are fueled by high quality sanctions and screening data will be a crucial component to achieving success in this complex compliance environment, writes Accuity's Nirhjar Daripa.

There is always the chance that privileged employees will either become bad actors who use their access to confidential data for their own gain, or that they will succumb to a hacking attempt and thereby open the door to an external bad actor, says Unisys' Maria Allen.

If firms don't enroll consumers quickly for card accounts, it suggests other elements of the institution may also be suspect, says Kofax's Dermot McCauley.