Payments

To eke out growth in the mature payments terminal market, Square is taking its newest NFC-enabled hardware to markets outside the U.S. with heavy contactless card penetration, where some merchants are likely to be behind the technology curve.

MoneyLion and Varo say familiarity with existing customers — whom they already offer savings, investment and personal finance products — will help them make smart credit decisions.

As the tech giant restructures and reinvents its current lending program, it must take advantage of this increased access to borrowers’ banking data to strengthen and inform its lending decisions, writes Become's Eden Amirav.

In a sign of how much Walmart Inc. is betting on e-commerce, the retailer’s revamped credit-card program with Capital One Financial Corp. offers better rewards for online shopping and checking out with its mobile app.

Fintechs that simply offer cosmetic upgrades to the cumbersome American banking system won't survive.

Months after retooling its Amazon Go store checkout process to accommodate customers who prefer to pay with cash, the e-commerce giant had added a way for consumers to pay for Amazon e-commerce purchases with cash at U.S. Western Union outlets.

Retailers have raised the bar in how they attract customers through rewards and loyalty programs, but not all are well-versed in how their technology also lures fraudsters.

With more players joining the lending industry, it's becoming a more crowded space, and business owners weighing their options are a bit overwhelmed, says Luke Intuit's Luke Voiles.

During a probe that grew out of the Wells Fargo scandal, BofA has acknowledged instances of "potentially unauthorized" accounts but said that the number of examples was "vanishingly small."

It's not a reaction to JPM Coin, the banks says, but a way to speed up international payments for corporate clients.