Payments

In launching a new international account for its business clients, Starling Bank is converting the bank's debit card to support payments in either pounds or euros.

PayPal is adding rewards to its Venmo credit card in a way that seems to echo Apple's strategy with Apple Card.

Finabler’s Xpress Money cross-border transfer service has partnered with Geoswift to enable consumers in global markets to send funds in real time to Chinese bank accounts.

Mastercard is aggressively building a business payments ecosystem as it keeps an eye on political headwinds it has little control over.

Congress should get behind the Fed's effort to launch a real-time payments service instead of getting in its way.

President Xi wants faster research on blockchain, the technology behind digital currencies; low rates bring best home loan quarter in 14 years.

Nobody will be keen to go toe-to-toe with the Fed, which is the financial systems’ paramount regulator and central bank with virtually unlimited resources, says Intrepid Ventures' Eric Grover.

Uber launched a series of financial services to provide real-time wage payments and enhanced account features in a single app, seemingly putting Uber in the role of a digital bank.

A few weeks after debuting voice-supported recurring bill payments in India, Amazon is extending a similar feature to most of its markets.

Flywire is working with Bank of America to streamline cross-border payments for the bank’s higher education and corporate clients, whose foreign transaction traffic is rising along with global commerce.