Payment processing

While many public policy initiatives focus on the 1.7 billion “unbanked,” we rarely hear about the nearly 1 billion people who do have a bank account and a smartphone but have no credit card nor cross-border-enabled debit, writes Eric Rosenthal, managing director of the Americas at Rapyd.

It took some time to get there, but mobile wallets may have finally found their niche — boosted more by e-commerce than by the point of sale systems they were designed for.

The financial services industry has plenty of tasks, such as card issuance, that can benefit from the automation that artificial intelligence brings, writes Jie Wu, a director at GoodData.

The future of payment is already drastically affecting the retail industry. While retailers will need to adapt their digital strategy yet again, this shift in consumer trends presents yet another opportunity for success, Steve Davidson, vice president of warranty products for Fortegra.

ACI Worldwide has added new digital in-store payment capabilities for merchants as an upgrade to its current real-time, cloud-based payments software.

As major vendors consolidate, financial institutions should be looking to adopt emerging technologies, rather than relying solely on legacy firms to provide services.

Mastercard has dropped its name in many brand references but it’s adding a customized sound, which consumers may begin to hear soon as they pay in stores and through voice assistants.

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Swift is showing more swagger in its rivalry with Ripple thanks to progress it has made with a multifaceted payments-tracking technology called GPI.

Unintentional friendly fraud happens more often as a result of poor consumer and poor issuer (bank) education, and a lack of consistently applied policies, according to Monica Eaton-Cardone, COO of Chargebacks 911.

Swift is showing more swagger in its rivalry with Ripple thanks to progress it has made with a multifaceted payments-tracking technology called GPI.

Nordea Finance will license Divido’s white-label point of sale lending platform for launch to retailers across several Nordic countries.

Both banks and credit unions in fact do a lot today to better the world. Collectively, they pour billions of dollars into their communities and causes that align with their respective mission, writes Elena Pierce, COO of In/PACT.

Fintechs and payment startups are creating a range of solutions to SME financing, from crowdlending and invoice-backed factoring to digitalization and formalization of business processes, according to OmniBnk's Andrés Abumohor.

Peru is planning a real-time payment system with Vocalink that will put the country on par with similar systems in Thailand, Singapore, the U.S. and the U.K.

Unattended retail, which traditionally meant vending machines, laundromats and very small mini-stores, is benefiting from the same trends that make Amazon's cashierless stores possible. But is there room in the market for both models?

Making micropayments feasible and viable for businesses will open up a whole new world of online commerce that was just not possible before, writes Sushil Prabhu, CEO of OpenCrowd.

Ingenico has hired a new chief financial officer with M&A experience, days before the embattled payments equipment and software provider's plans to announce lower-than-expected 2018 earnings.

U.K. credit unions have traditionally been associated with loan and savings products, but the industry is eyeing a move into the payments markets to offer an alternative to traditional banking.

Proposals that would have financial firms monitor or refuse to finance certain firearms purchases are misguided, putting the onus on unelected corporations.