Payments

The deal marks the first time that the retail giant will enable its customers to use fixed-rate loans, rather than credit cards, for big-ticket purchases in its stores and online.

The CEO of the nation's biggest bank gave the fintech props for revolutionizing payments and then building off its success to provide a whole range of services to small-business clients.

Amazon, Accenture and Mastercard are using digital identity, blockchain and mobile payments to crack a window into sustainability and inclusion, but they’re also gaining potential retail benefits by capturing consumers who crave information about the origin of products.

Hong Kong's mobile wallet AlipayHK has expanded to enable cross-border payments for the first time in Japan and other regions of the Greater Bay Area.

Walmart India will partner with the PhonePe network to offer a mobile payment option at Walmart's B2B cash-and-carry stores.

The agency’s proposed changes to its standard for small-dollar loans will help ensure underbanked consumers still have access to credit. Concerns about predatory lending are overstated.

As blockchain and other emerging innovation pour into the B2B market, Bottomline Technologies believes bank collaborations with smooth deployment and user experience can lure anxious businesses away from checks.

Consumers are expressing an ever-increasing interest in making digital Person-to-Person payments to friends, families and even businesses for bills, shared expenses or temporary loans. Digital P2P payments are quickly beginning to displace other payment forms such as cash and checks due to their convenience and growing ubiquity.

The cross-border B2B payments startup is introducing a rewards program to help drive repeat usage and expand its network.

Visa and Mastercard plan to raise interchange while battles over those rates and other levies such as merchant surcharging rage on, setting the stage for extra merchant expense, consumer costs and even more squabbling.