Payments

Barclays plc has spent years experimenting with creative ways to promote mobile payments, and it's not showing signs of stopping.

Events like the recent government shutdown present opportunities for banks to help customers when they need it most.

SIFMA approval could bring new competitors and housing finance reform; number of applications rose but amount borrowed still lags other firms.

The mobile revolution is turning Western Union into a very different company, one that must adjust to new ways to pay while pouring substantial resources into fending off the threat of e-commerce.

INTL FCStone's Global Payments Division's foreign currency pricing has picked up enough momentum to extend beyond its initial launch to more than 350 correspondent banks globally.

Small-business projects in India and Latin America will provide a test of how well an open source blockchain can reduce the fraud that can occur when businesses try to free up capital from outstanding payments.

The State Bank of India and Hitachi Payment Services plan to bring their heft to a joint merchant acquiring venture to expand digital payments in India.

Companies are scrambling to shore up Brexit strategies to ensure their payment systems work, a difficult if not impossible task given the political uncertainty. But it’s also an unavoidable complication, which Tipalti hopes will provide a boost for its service, which is built to expect uncertainty.

Fuel-card giant FleetCor has been working to diversify its payments operations by expanding corporate payments services, and now it’s buying Nvoicepay to speed up the process.

Pan-European payments and transaction services provider equensWorldline has launched its domestic interoperable P2P mobile payment scheme across the continent.