Payments

The world's largest payment network is making changes to how it deals with merchants who want to charge customers extra when paying with a credit card.

Lawyers representing the man accused of killing technology executive Bob Lee are attempting to poke holes in the prosecution's case, questioning the motive and the thoroughness of the police investigation in what's likely a long-term strategy to raise enough doubt to exonerate their client at trial.

Flywire, Visa and Mastercard all entered partnerships that anticipate a post-pandemic recovery. But politics are still keeping them from getting deeper into the market.

In July's roundup of American Banker's favorite stories: A Zelle outage at JPMorgan Chase could cause headaches for other banks, talking points for understanding FedNow, the Elkhart, Kansas-based Heartland Tri-State Bank is shuttered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and more.

U.S. financial institutions should look to the U.K. for tips on fighting real-time payments fraud.

Payment companies hope the government-backed rail could spur both domestic and international growth for instant settlement.

Elon Musk's vision of an everything app that includes banking capabilities may not be what Americans are looking for, said Max Levchin, who co-founded PayPal with the world's richest man.

In her day-to-day job directing activities at the card network's Start Path accelerator, Sabrina Tharani helps nurture companies that are developing new payments products and services.

The bank hasn't explained why person-to-person payments, bill processing and account-transfer services went down for parts of two days this week. But observers suspect glitches in its legacy systems could occur at other financial institutions and increasingly affect real-time payment networks.