Payments

The payment company is using a new OpenAI tool to expand its shopping and customer service technology.

The service was created to meet institutional clients' needs for real-time payments.

The Swedish furniture giant debuts a modest U.S. buy now/pay later loan program via Afterpay, with interest-free terms that are unlikely to anger regulators.

A London-based fintech owner accused of helping drug traffickers launder hundreds of millions of euros through a crypto exchange platform must be extradited to Belgium to face criminal charges, a London judge ruled.

Amazon.com has developed a new version of its cashierless shopping technology for clothing retailers in an effort to expand the system beyond convenience and grocery stores.

A proposal by Sen. Josh Hawley to cap credit card interest rates deserves to be taken seriously, but requires far more detail than the legislative language provides.

As Apple and Android enable smartphones to accept payments with little setup, an exec at the bank's Elavon unit contends countertop devices have a lot of life left.

Alyssa Henry will leave Square on October 2 after nine years at the helm, the Block unit said in a regulatory filing. Square founder Jack Dorsey will once again take the reins as chief executive.

Payments revenue growth is slowing from economic headwinds, lower-cost digital transactions and upstarts cutting into incumbents' profit margins, according to a Boston Consulting Group report. Here's what to expect.

The product will transform customers' deposits into digital tokens that can be sent instantly anywhere in the world, the company says.

PayPal's new stablecoin offering should be setting off alarms at traditional banks, because it could seriously challenge their dominance in the payments space.

Dave Glaser, the company's president, is replacing Brady Harris to move payments fintech's focus to larger clients.

Since the country's instant-settlement network doesn't cover everyone, ANZ is extending its excess capacity to other financial institutions. It's a strategy that's emerging in the U.S. and other markets.

Staring Jan. 1, only amounts spent on fares and Delta credit cards co-branded with American Express will be used to calculate rewards.

Aiming to capture a bigger share of the cross-border payments market, Visa has signed a five-year agreement with the U.K.-based fintech.

This week in global news, Ant gets bullish on AI, PayPal's stablecoin has a fan in the bitcoin world, and more.

The bank aims to use new tech to make account-to-account transfers for merchants an easier option than credit cards.

Republican Josh Hawley, the senior senator from Missouri, says he intends to offer legislation that would cap credit card rates at 18%. For a bill designed to go nowhere, it's a surprisingly good idea.

The buy now/pay later lender expects those increased expenses — brought on by rising interest rates — to eat into one of its key metrics: revenue less transaction costs.

Amex is planning to debut a new luxury lounge at Newark Liberty International Airport, part of the credit-card giant's continued push into travel and entertainment services.