Payments

Person-to-person payments have become table stakes for institutions looking to attract and retain younger customers. The service may also be one of the keys to keeping big-tech insurgents like Amazon at bay.

Mastercard and Lazada, an Alibaba affiliate, have joined forces to collaborate on e-commerce systems for developing markets in the Southeast Asia region.

The market for P2P payments is finally taking off after years of false starts, but there are still many unanswered questions. The biggest one: How do banks get value out of offering this service free of charge?

Despite some significant advancements in the past two years, rifts are already developing in the U.S. move to faster payments.

Person-to-person payments have become table stakes for institutions looking to attract and retain younger customers. The service may also be one of the keys to keeping big-tech insurgents like Amazon at bay.

TenantCloud, which launched in 2014 to help landlords manage their businesses, has partnered with Dwolla to enable property management companies to collect rent payments through its platform via ACH.

Web and mobile bill payment service provider doxo now supports Apple Pay as a payment option.

There is a growing proliferation of social P2P technologies within the U.K. banking sector, but the market for such payments is vastly different from that in the U.S., where social payment apps have found a welcoming audience.

In the era of digital transformation, it can be easy to mistake activity for achievement. A disciplined approach is needed, writes Tim VanTassel, a vice president at FICO.

Mobile technology provider Branch is expanding a work scheduling and payment app it makes available to companies, enabling the Pay feature to help hourly workers forecast hours and advance their pay.