Payments

NatWest joins U.K. banks in limiting crypto, Mastercard teams with fintech in the UAE, and more.

FutureCard, which originally resisted offering a physical card, is adding a recycled-plastic version to reach a wider audience.

Micro-merchants that sell on Etsy and Shopify were briefly unable to accept payments — an issue that could have been catastrophic had it lasted longer.

Signature Bank's payments network — used by cryptocurrency firms looking to exchange fiat currency in real time — is still online even after the lender was put into receivership.

When Circle USDC broke its peg to the dollar days after SVB's crisis, it revealed new uncertainties for cryptocurrency that's designed to resist volatility.

This week in banking news: Discover EVP Diane Offereins is retiring, Worldline enters the metaverse, SNAP pilots mobile payments and more.

Founders are starting to worry about whether startups will be able to keep paying employees following the failure of Silicon Valley Bank.

Brett Mooney returns to the card network as the country manager for Canada, a digital-forward market that is attracting more competition from banks and fintechs.

The major payment card networks are "pausing" the rollout of a new merchant category code to identify purchases at stores that sell guns and ammunition, following pushback from lawmakers in Florida and elsewhere.

The card network is examining how to make incentives more personal by using advanced technology to sift through a trove of consumer spending data.