Payments

This will be a pivotal year for business and our economy, a time when small businesses streamline, simplify and define their own new normal for the long run.

Discovery Bank in South Africa and other overseas financial companies say healthier customers are more profitable. They are giving reward points, gym subsidies and even free Apple Watches to those who meet fitness goals.

Mastercard and MetaBank are helping the earned wage access provider Clair overhaul its technology platform and service offering.

Mastercard is helping earned wage access provider Clair overhaul its technology platform and service offering.

Newer partners like the Isreali fintech First are building connections to help stores enroll.

The arrangement, which focuses on merchant services, comes about six months after Global Payments secured a similar partnership with Amazon Web Services on the issuer side of its business.

Merchants are making a miscalculation on data management, says FreedomPay's Chris Kronenthal.

A showdown between megabanks such as JPMorgan Chase and the likes of Apple and PayPal could be the prelude to a broader fight.

The ability to manage both domestic and international invoices through the same AP automation and workflow creates enormous operational advantages for finance teams and the line of business, says MineralTree's Nicolette Medina.

JoomPay has launched a new P2P service for money transfers across Europe, operating as a socially focused spinoff of the Joom e-commerce marketplace.