Payments

After an appeals court sided with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in February, the CFPB and PayPal filed a round of legal arguments in late May to resolve remaining claims from a lawsuit PayPal first filed in 2019.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is advising consumers to transfer money stored on nonbank digital payment apps such as PayPal, Venmo and Cash App to insured banks and credit unions.

The ill-conceived proposed rule would increase costs for a significant majority of credit card customers.

The search giant is adding travel, health care and other consumer services to encourage users to stay within its ecosystem.

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The founders of Vesey Ventures are most interested in startups that want to play nice with the giants of the banking and payment industries.

The lawyer representing tech entrepreneur Bob Lee's accused killer has quit, following a disagreement with her client over how quickly he should press forward with his defense against murder charges.

After years of attempting to pivot away from its historic reliance on ATMs and point-of-sale hardware in favor of software, one of the industry's mainstays is running out of options.

Credit-card issuers and other lenders are developing financing options focused on managing interest, rewards and credit scores for consumers who face ongoing economic pressures to their budgets.

Because the youth account must be tied to a parent or guardian, it guarantees that an adult must also sign up — or keep active an account they may have left unused.

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The success of central bank digital currencies will be directly tied to their usability — by both individuals and businesses.

The product, designed for wealth management customers, is the first in the U.S. to implement Mastercard's Touch Card, which helps people distinguish credit, debit and prepaid cards through a notch on the card's edge.

To demonstrate the value of a central bank digital currency to small businesses, the U.S. card network is using Brazil's Real Digital to cut costs for local growers.

The Cincinnati, Ohio, bank targeted Rize Money due to its "ease of accessibility," according to Fifth Third's head of wholesale payments. The acquisition comes as the $205 billion-asset bank has seen wealth and asset management revenue decline in recent years.

A processing rail that's always turned on can potentially help a credit union that's multiple time zones away from partners, or a community bank looking to automate payroll.