Payments

With R. Scott Blackley planning to leave for a role at a health-insurance startup, the credit card giant is promoting longtime executive Andrew Young.

By allowing access to public chains, CBDCs could render much greater, and even revolutionary, functionality, says Cypherium's Sky Guo.

Mastercard Inc. promoted Linda Kirkpatrick to president of North American operations as incoming Chief Executive Officer Michael Miebach shuffles some of his top managers before taking the reins next month.

Retailers and merchant acquirers need to adjust to new media in the new year, says Zycada's James Brear.

EBay has hired Discover’s top U.S. cards executive, Julie Loger, for the newly created position of global chief growth officer.

To address a growing demand for contactless payment methods during the coronavirus pandemic, 7-Eleven has launched a mobile wallet for customers to use at participating U.S. stores.

After tests with several banks that established Swift's ability to connect its Global Payments Initiative faster payments rail to domestic networks, the financial and messaging standards organization is activating the service in the U.K.

Visa Inc. said growth in spending on its cards in the U.S. slowed last month as coronavirus cases surged across the country.

Grab Holdings Inc. and Gojek have made substantial progress in working out a deal to combine their businesses in what would be the biggest internet merger in Southeast Asia, according to people with knowledge of the talks.

Especially in a remote environment, the ability to adapt within days to shifting call volumes, different call center locations, new agent groupings, or utilizing a configurable interactive voice response system cannot be underestimated, says Genpact's Jason Osborne.

Whenever a technology moves into the payments or financial data ecosystem, it alerts fraudsters to probe it more intensely — and ultimately, figure out a way to use it as an attack vector.

Salesforce.com Inc. agreed to buy Slack Technologies Inc. for $27.7 billion in cash and stock, giving the corporate software giant a popular workplace-communications platform in one of the biggest technology deals of the year.

Libra is distancing itself from Facebook not only through a name change, but also by attempting to draw attention toward its digital payment rail instead of the creation of alternative money.

Marketplace payments technology provider ConnexPay has secured additional funding from investors to reach $15 million, and it will use its funding to increase product offerings in the travel industry and expand in other e-commerce sectors.

Digital workforce collaboration apps like Slack are hot acquisition targets, particularly for a company like Salesforce, which needs to compete with enterprise technology companies while making it easy for its clients to execute an "invisible payment" that's embedded in cross-selling and marketing.

Payments fintech Ebanx is partnering with Brazilian digital wallet provider PicPay to provide a new payment option for global merchants selling products in Brazil.

Suning.com Co., one of the largest retailers in China, is considering selling a stake in its e-commerce business as it aims to ease financing pressures, according to people familiar with the matter.

As the pandemic continues to expose vulnerabilities, executives need to alter and reshape their risk management strategies with purchase to pay in mind for future success, says Proactis' Jan van der Pouw.

Just months after revealing it was testing lending directly to consumers through its Cash App, Square says it is buying the tax business of Credit Karma to bring tax preparation to Cash App customers.

Moscow-based JSC Post Bank has established a merchant acquiring agreement with JCB International to allow JCB cardholders to withdraw cash from all of the bank's ATMs and make payments at Post Bank point-of-sale terminals in Russia.