Payments

In theory, the beauty of e-commerce is that a merchant can court any shopper in any part of the world with an internet connection. In practice, attracting a shopper and providing them with the customer experience they expect will look different in every country, says Lee Clifton of JP Morgan Merchant Services.

The number of downloads for alternative lending apps that allow users to pay for purchases over time skyrocketed by 285% during the Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday period for 2019, compared to the same period in 2018.

American shoppers were quick off their marks early in the holiday-shopping season as retailers rang up the best sales increase since 2013, led by online purchases, according to a BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research report.

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, says Intelledox's Neal Keene.

The year 2019 kicked off with a series of mutli-billion-dollar mergers and acquisitions designed to shake up the dynamics of the payments industry. While this was taking place, Elavon had its own plan for extending its influence through M&A.

Large banks’ embrace of PSD2-influenced open banking has often been reluctant. Not so for Citigroup.

Nationwide Building Society is investing in the U.K. fintech charity app Percent, broadening Nationwide's support of charities and expanding Percent’s user base beyond its traditional core segment of students and young adults.

In the race to make shopping as easy as possible, a growing group of companies has turned to a strategy that seems impossible in our security-saturated world: the honor system.

Third party and payment attacks are an expanding threat, says says Jscrambler's Rui Ribeiro.

'Why fix what isn't broken?' is the wrong question for AP automation, where manual processes are adding labor and costs, says Nvoicepay's Ron Nachmann.

Paytm and Walmart are each offering credit in India to obtain a competitive advantage in an environment that's typically more welcoming than that of China.

More health plans are turning to technology-driven methods to address the growing mental health needs of their members.

The agency announced changes meant to reduce compliance costs and allow some institutions to provide estimates rather than disclose exact prices for international money transfers.

Former T. Rowe Price portfolio manager Henry Ellenbogen is making Rapyd his first bet.

First Horizon Bank has chosen to utilize FIS’ Relationship Rewards white label solution to provide faster rewards payouts that focus on the entire bank-customer relationship and not just individual transactions.

First Horizon Bank has chosen to utilize FIS’ Relationship Rewards white label solution to provide faster rewards payouts that focus on the entire bank-customer relationship and not just individual transactions.

Apple has launched its contactless Apple Pay Express Transit Mode, which does not require authentication such as Touch ID, for the Transport for London mass transit services.

Apple has launched its contactless Apple Pay Express Transit Mode, which does not require authentication such as Touch ID, for the Transport for London mass transit services.

The CFPB has promised an equal-access rule for small-business lending for nearly a decade. But Apple’s recent discrimination inquiry into its credit card could force the agency’s hand.

PayPal is moving ahead with plans to integrate with both Amex and Discover, and the details of how PayPal will work with these card networks are starting to take shape.