Payments

With suppliers adopting digital payments at a more significant rate, it feels like we’ve reached the tipping point where checks are becoming obsolete on a broader scale, says Nvoicepay's Josh Cyphers.

More people are coming to WU.com to pay bills or send P2P transfers, and the company is focused on making this audience more lucrative.

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.