Payments

Ant Group's Alipay teams up to expand mobile wallet acceptance, CaixaBank forms a cybersecurity consortium, Santander plans buy now/pay later for businesses, and more.

A Visa executive explains how China's long lockdown held back Asia's travel-spending recovery and why government policies, economic trends and even the hit Netflix series "Bridgerton" caused post-pandemic cross-border travel spending to spike in many parts of the world.

As one U.S. CBDC project comes to a close, it's increasingly clear that government-backed currencies can't succeed unless they are interoperable on a global scale.

By adding the Atlanta-based Paya, the Canadian payment technology firm can expand its client base in business-to-business transactions, government agencies, utilities and health care.

Chatting up Square, Afterpay's Mexico vamoose and more in banking news this week.

By opening a recording-artist accelerator featuring virtual worlds and nonfungible tokens, the company plans to reach an industry that appeals to young consumers.

Credit card interest rates are expected to reach a four-decade high this year, a positive for lenders poised to benefit from the increased income while painful for consumers facing escalated borrowing costs.

The rise of legalized online sports betting has pushed the payments industry to create some of its stiffest defenses against scams.

As 2023 begins with an aura of economic uncertainty, businesses will seek a competitive advantage in how they accept and initiate payments, Dwolla COO Dave Glaser contends.

Swift adds a top exec from Mastercard, Visa expands mobile pay in Oman, Turkey tests a CBDC; and other global financial services news.