Payments

American shoppers were quick off their marks early in the holiday-shopping season as retailers rang up the best sales increase since 2013, led by online purchases, according to a BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research report.

With customers now having the opportunity to onboard across multiple devices and channels, or even through a call center, the likelihood of an inconsistent experience is drastically increased, says Intelledox's Neal Keene.

The year 2019 kicked off with a series of mutli-billion-dollar mergers and acquisitions designed to shake up the dynamics of the payments industry. While this was taking place, Elavon had its own plan for extending its influence through M&A.

Large banks’ embrace of PSD2-influenced open banking has often been reluctant. Not so for Citigroup.

Nationwide Building Society is investing in the U.K. fintech charity app Percent, broadening Nationwide's support of charities and expanding Percent’s user base beyond its traditional core segment of students and young adults.

In the race to make shopping as easy as possible, a growing group of companies has turned to a strategy that seems impossible in our security-saturated world: the honor system.

Third party and payment attacks are an expanding threat, says says Jscrambler's Rui Ribeiro.

'Why fix what isn't broken?' is the wrong question for AP automation, where manual processes are adding labor and costs, says Nvoicepay's Ron Nachmann.

Paytm and Walmart are each offering credit in India to obtain a competitive advantage in an environment that's typically more welcoming than that of China.

More health plans are turning to technology-driven methods to address the growing mental health needs of their members.