Payments

With so many personally and financially impacted by COVID-19, consumers have made it clear that the way customers pay for goods or services can no longer follow a one-size-fits-all approach, says eBay's Alyssa Cutright.

The growing pressure on app stores to allow multiple payment methods may prove to be as disruptive as the Durbin amendment was to debit card payments.

Building the processing tech was the easy part. Finding the right mix of users and transactions posed many challenges.

The operation will employ 1,000 people in a predominantly Black community. The move is part of the city's push to create job opportunities beyond the downtown area.

The operation will employ 1,000 people in a predominantly Black community. The move is part of the city's push to create job opportunities beyond the downtown area.

Square Inc. has agreed to buy a majority stake in Tidal, the streaming music service led by rapper Jay-Z, as part of an effort to expand the company’s suite of financial tools to musicians and emerging artists.

Linking a variety of services to a payment account opens a new more flexible world of financial services, says Tribe Payments' Alex Ressish.

The update, delayed from last year, would be the most substantial change to the interchange rate structure in a decade — and the card networks have not signaled plans to delay it further.

COVID-19 has pushed an increasingly popular, non-traditional POS lending product into the mainstream.

Some bank regulators are allowing companies that offer digital currencies to apply for a charter, potentially giving them a path to the Federal Reserve system without proper oversight.

The post-pandemic world requires serving multitasking consumers. Checkout.com exec and "Card Forum: Contactless" presenter Bradley Riss discusses how that works in a preview of our virtual conference.

Challenger banks and fintechs can't be considered rivals, says Episode Six's John Mitchell.

Building the processing tech was the easy part. Finding the right mix of users and transactions posed many challenges.

The overwhelming success of Square’s bitcoin trading service creates new opportunities for its bank to work with underserved markets.

The overwhelming success of Square’s bitcoin trading service creates new opportunities for its bank to work with underserved markets.

The mass shift to remote work has blurred lines between consumer and business pay, creating a greater push for digitization, says Billtrust's Justin Main.

Toronto-based Ethoca is seeing rising demand from banks and merchants for granular details about purchases, so it’s renamed and tweaked its service delivering digital details.

The insurance industry has shied away from crypto, but as the market gets larger opportunity will arise for insurers, says InsuranceQuotes.com's Brian O'Connell.

CardX, which enables merchants to add a fee for accepting credit cards, won by showing how its product provides transparency to consumers.

In adding Goldman Sachs veterans Omer Ismail and David Stark, the retail giant can enhance products such as Walmart Pay, Walmart+ and its fintech pact with Ribbit Capital.