Payments

New data from CO-OP Financial Services shows the Christmas season could be a bright one for credit unions and their card portfolios.

Removing the checkout means removing a key bottleneck that retailers rely on to sell tabloids, gum and candy.

European challenger bank N26 is adding a range of promotional incentives for using its debit card as it expands in the U.S.

Visa has formed a strategic partnership with Global Processing Services. It also announced its Visa Direct debit push service will power real-time cross-border payments in Europe via TransferWise.

B2B global payments provider Payoneer is acquiring German fintech Optile to expand its services to include consumer-to-business payments acceptance.

The leader of a new Compliance and Payments Task Force dives into how it will address emerging issues of counterterrorism financing in the digital age.

In many nations, transit fare payments are seen as a key first step toward the adoption of mobile and wearable payments. In the Netherlands, this wasn't the case.

The region is technologically advanced, but still has a large percentage of underbanked consumers, says PPRO's Javier Vallaure.

Payments technology operator Nets’ Creation Lab has launched a pilot that uses facial recognition alone to authorized payments with one merchant in Copenhagen.

A former derivatives trader who spent 14 months as finance chief at Toyota’s innovation hub launched a non-profit that aims to turn cars into rolling wallets able to autonomously make and receive payments in a virtual currency.