Payment processing

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.

Wirecard AG expects an investigation by an outside law firm to dismiss concerns of accounting breaches and validate conclusions already made by an internal inquiry, as it looks to move past fraud allegations.

One solution would be to move to infrastructures where card issuers can share the cost of offering rewards with the retailers — making it a win-win-win situation, according to Mehmet Sezgin, CEO and founder of myGini.

The payment systems within these games are conducive to various types of fraud, including account takeovers, that can result in crippling chargeback claims, according to Suresh Dakshina, president of Chargeback Gurus.

The European Commission says eight unnamed banks operated as a cartel in the €7 trillion eurozone government bond market; authorities detected a 150-foot tunnel leading to a JPMorgan Chase branch in Florida.

Just as Silicon Valley companies are happy to supply their employees with millions of dollars in free meals and snacks at the office to supplement incomes, many Chinese companies are similarly, indirectly liberal outside the office, around expenses, writes Josh Anish, director of marketing at AppZen.

Banco de Mexico (Banxico), Mexico's central bank, is developing a free mobile payment system to increase digital transactions — and while it is meant to target cash use, it may inadvertently cannibalize card payments as well.

Payment companies and businesses that want to leverage blockchain need to properly connect the decentralized platform they use to existing databases and back-end systems, writes IIya Pupko, chief architect at Jitterbit.

Visa CEO Alfred Kelly said the company's earnings, though solid, could suffer if if politicians in Washington and London don’t resolve their biggest issues.

Just five months after first reaching a $20 billion valuation, Stripe has attracted another $100 million investment that's put it past $22.5 billion, allowing the fintech to put even more pressure on the legacy acquiring industry.

The U.S. e-commerce explosion is driving about $150 billion annually in returns, and Returnly is riding the trend with a service to eliminate the waiting time for consumers to receive funds from items they plan to return to the merchant.

Wirecard AG shares dropped as much as 25 percent after a report that a senior executive at the payments company was suspected of using forged contracts for several suspicious transactions.

Given the competitive nature of the current marketplace and the low probability that interchange rates will actually go up, issuers and processors need to continually evaluate their infrastructure, writes Steve Gilde, director of global product marketing for Paragon Application Systems.

The Atlanta fintech is looking to expand rapidly beyond its roots of arranging financing for home improvement projects.

Uber is expanding its rewards to cover more U.S. cities, yet the program continues to stay complicated and stingy — consumers may need to spend up to $500 on eligible rides and Eats purchases just to get a $5 Uber Cash reward.