Payments

It sounds like something that should be simple — letting a customer pay off their credit cards with a new personal loan — but it's not, according to Dave Girouard, Upstart's CEO.

Banks are increasingly sharing data and must brace for new regulations protecting that data.

New data from CO-OP Financial Services shows the Christmas season could be a bright one for credit unions and their card portfolios.

Removing the checkout means removing a key bottleneck that retailers rely on to sell tabloids, gum and candy.

European challenger bank N26 is adding a range of promotional incentives for using its debit card as it expands in the U.S.

Visa has formed a strategic partnership with Global Processing Services. It also announced its Visa Direct debit push service will power real-time cross-border payments in Europe via TransferWise.

B2B global payments provider Payoneer is acquiring German fintech Optile to expand its services to include consumer-to-business payments acceptance.

The leader of a new Compliance and Payments Task Force dives into how it will address emerging issues of counterterrorism financing in the digital age.

In many nations, transit fare payments are seen as a key first step toward the adoption of mobile and wearable payments. In the Netherlands, this wasn't the case.

The region is technologically advanced, but still has a large percentage of underbanked consumers, says PPRO's Javier Vallaure.

Payments technology operator Nets’ Creation Lab has launched a pilot that uses facial recognition alone to authorized payments with one merchant in Copenhagen.

A former derivatives trader who spent 14 months as finance chief at Toyota’s innovation hub launched a non-profit that aims to turn cars into rolling wallets able to autonomously make and receive payments in a virtual currency.

BMO Harris Bank in Chicago recently became the first financial institution to offer a Mastercard that allows transgender and nonbinary people to use their preferred names. Members of that community often experience disproportionate financial hardship, in part because of employment discrimination.

BMO Harris Bank in Chicago recently became the first financial institution to offer a Mastercard that allows transgender and nonbinary people to use their preferred names. Members of that community often experience disproportionate financial hardship, in part because of employment discrimination.

Goldenwest Federal Credit Union is taking another crack at bringing home an underperforming revenue stream, hoping support for due date payments can spur more members to use the service.

Not only are cryptocurrencies treading deep into the muddy waters of regulation, but they still lack the trust of most of the banked population, says Tidal Commerce's Drew Sementa.

As more industries explore the potential of providing faster access to wages, restaurant management software provider Delaget has partnered with financial wellness mobile app provider Branch to expand the reach of instant earned wage access availability.

With customers now having the opportunity to onboard across multiple devices and channels, or even through a call center, the likelihood of an inconsistent experience is drastically increased, Neal Keene of Intelledox says.

Issuers have started adding metal to their credit cards; banks have been “slow” to add diversity in executive ranks, filings suggest.

Denise Leleux has worked in financial services for more than two decades, but it’s a detour to Tesla’s marketing department that sparked an idea as to how accounts receivable and supply billing can take lessons from the transportation market.