Payment processing

Amazon has signaled an interest in the French grocery market, spurring Casino's development of a high-tech concept store in Paris.

Despite the real-world use cases being found around blockchain and distributed ledger technology, banks are being warned to be cautious about committing to any such projects.

The company is offering short-term installment loans to its clients’ customers; even institutions not accused of wrongdoing may pay a price.

Worldpay is expanding its U.S. portfolio and has experience in sports betting to lean on.

The technology arms race among payment fintechs is converging on the market for credit and loans, with Square rolling out an installment payment option for consumers that complements its merchant capital option for sellers.

There is an expectation that customers should change and adapt their particular payment habits to match what the retailer has on offer, according to Matthijs Pronk, CCO of Intrapay.

Square Inc. is offering loans to customers to pay for goods and services from merchants that use its payments platform, another move by the company to push deeper into financial services.

Profits at big banks should be solid if not spectacular; the Vermont senator proposes a hard cap on assets held by the biggest banks.

For more than a year, the central bank has been under pressure to speed the development of a real-time payment system. But it faces tough questions about what its own role should be.

Visa is working with the on-demand delivery network Postmates to deliver real time payments through Stripe’s Instant Payouts feature, running on its push payment platform, Visa Direct.