Payments

Regulators are investigating the technology giants over concerns their financial apps are violating competition rules. That and expanding tech in emerging markets highlight this week's American Banker global payments roundup.

The industry's top leaders, including The Most Influential Women in Payments, will be on hand to discuss innovation, compliance, risk, crypto and more.

The Trump administration's orders to stop supervisory exams at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are seen as a potential conflict of interest for Elon Musk, whose company X would have been overseen by the bureau when it launches its payments wallet.

The amended language in the bank's terms and conditions will halt payments to social media sellers. It comes as banks on the P2P app face increased political pressure to step in and stop payments to scammers on the platform. 

The company sells capital markets technology to small banks that have growing international processing needs, betting the lack of client overlap prevents a big bank/small bank competition.

The fees are controversial for card networks and consumers, but the impact on banks has been muted. Here's why that could change.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said reserve banks will no longer factor "reputational risk" into master account decisions. The crypto industry is encouraged by the commitment, but says more changes are needed.

The rollout of new technologies in point-of-sale retail payments in the U.S. has historically been slow, and consumer adoption of those new payment flows can be even slower. Can consumers' propensity for self checkout help push adoption?

CEO Cameron Bready told analysts that the company's changes in management structure, product reorganization and strategic retrenchments will show up in earnings later in 2025.

The payment card industry must upgrade encryption before quantum computers render current security methods obsolete, FS-ISAC warned.