Payments

In global news this week, U.K. regulators safeguard cash, Mastercard's CEO weighs in on SWIFT, Deutsche Bank debuts real-time B2B payments, and more.

The payments company Stripe plans to give customers access to bitcoin four years after suspending support for the cryptocurrency.

The invasion drew unprecedented sanctions and withdrawals from dozens of powerful payment firms. The conflict demonstrates how a financial response can be as devastating as a military one — on both sides.

Here's what industry executives have stopped talking about — and what they're focused on today.

After lying low for a couple of years, wealthy consumers are poised to unleash nearly a quarter-trillion dollars in a card-spending binge that only a COVID-19 resurgence could derail, according to Visa's chief economist, Wayne Best.

People shouldn’t completely shun the crypto world after the recent collapse of a popular stablecoin, an official at the International Monetary Fund said Monday. 

The Swedish buy now/pay later company Klarna Bank saw its borrowing costs rise to their highest level on record as rising rates hit the company’s debt and equity valuation. 

For women, the path to leadership isn't always the same one that men take. Talus Pay CEO Kim Fitzsimmons says her career moved fastest whenever she refused to stay in her lane.

The retail chain is uniquely positioned to tie its growing slate of financial products to its customers' shopping needs, both in stores and digitally, said Julia Unger, Walmart's vice president of financial services, at American Banker's Payments Forum.

A more active Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, competition from Big Tech and sanctions on Russia are combining to make compliance a much larger concern than in the past, according to legal experts who spoke at American Banker's Payments Forum.