Payments

A federal judge blocked state regulators from suing the agency over its new charter, but it’s still unclear whether fintechs would even apply.

Vibrant Credit Union sees great value in converting its members to mobile and digital payments. And days like Amazon Prime Day can be critical for its digital wallet strategy.

Vikram Pandit says digital push could force “creation of 21st century regulation”; Fed will conduct $75 billion overnight repurchase agreement operation.

The deal between one of the largest U.S. banks and a dominant data aggregator is designed to give customers more control over their data.

Staying on top of new threat sources isn’t easy, but things will keep getting worse if we can’t openly discuss the matter, says Monica Eaton-Cardone, COO of Chargebacks911 and CIO of its parent company Global Risk Technologies.

Online and cloud-hosted B2B services are on the rise, breaking apart traditional payroll and exposing pain points for technology developers to address.

The launch of the products comes more than a year after Capital One wrested the Walmart partnership from Synchrony Financial.

To eke out growth in the mature payments terminal market, Square is taking its newest NFC-enabled hardware to markets outside the U.S. with heavy contactless card penetration, where some merchants are likely to be behind the technology curve.

MoneyLion and Varo say familiarity with existing customers — whom they already offer savings, investment and personal finance products — will help them make smart credit decisions.

As the tech giant restructures and reinvents its current lending program, it must take advantage of this increased access to borrowers’ banking data to strengthen and inform its lending decisions, writes Become's Eden Amirav.

In a sign of how much Walmart Inc. is betting on e-commerce, the retailer’s revamped credit-card program with Capital One Financial Corp. offers better rewards for online shopping and checking out with its mobile app.

Fintechs that simply offer cosmetic upgrades to the cumbersome American banking system won't survive.

Months after retooling its Amazon Go store checkout process to accommodate customers who prefer to pay with cash, the e-commerce giant had added a way for consumers to pay for Amazon e-commerce purchases with cash at U.S. Western Union outlets.

Retailers have raised the bar in how they attract customers through rewards and loyalty programs, but not all are well-versed in how their technology also lures fraudsters.

With more players joining the lending industry, it's becoming a more crowded space, and business owners weighing their options are a bit overwhelmed, says Luke Intuit's Luke Voiles.

During a probe that grew out of the Wells Fargo scandal, BofA has acknowledged instances of "potentially unauthorized" accounts but said that the number of examples was "vanishingly small."

It's not a reaction to JPM Coin, the banks says, but a way to speed up international payments for corporate clients.

Travelex is rolling out a suite of B2B payment services through a new API-based platform and sandbox.

Giants like Facebook, JPMorgan Chase and Walmart are all pushing blockchain for myriad use cases, and now Wells Fargo has joined the fray with its own spin on the distributed ledger technology.

A proposal to define wages-on-demand would protect consumers and serve as an example for others.