Payments

Lawmakers are taking a closer look at the company’s data collection practices and its work on cryptocurrency payments, raising the possibility of more action down the line.

The idea stablecoin environment has variety, diversity and is decentralized, argues Matt Branton, CEO of Neutral.

The most enlightened regulator or legislator can’t match the dynamic intelligence of billions of market decisions by consumers, merchants, banks, networks and processors, argues Eric Grover, a principal at Intrepid Ventures.

The new initiative could help expose American credit unions to best practices in biometrics, payments and monitoring collateral from their counterparts in Africa, Asia and beyond.

While in its infancy in influencing B2B payments, AI ultimately will change the way businesses of all sizes run their financial operations, writes Rene Lacerte, CEO of Bill.com.

Elavon has joined a collaboration of travel industry partners to streamline the way online travel agencies pay airlines using virtual cards.

American Express has agreed to acquire Resy, a restaurant reservation booking and management platform.

Tencent Holdings Ltd. reported the slowest pace of sales growth since it went public in 2004, as China’s largest company struggles to revive a battered gaming division while battling the country’s decelerating economy.

The Italian family that founded a bank in the 14^th century and pioneered branches and letters of credit is now setting up a tech-forward, crypto-friendly disruptor in the United States.

Once banks offer digital invoice processing and order approvals, small businesses would no longer need to manage the risk and hassle of paper-based transactions, argues Erik De Kroon, CEO and co-founder of Yordex.

As new stadiums are being launched across a variety of sports around the globe with the latest entertainment options, older stadiums are using technology and premium culinary offerings to stay competitive and keep their fans engaged.

"Institutional support" spurs cryptocurrency price gains; the regulation limits what banks can charge for going negative on accounts.

Sainsbury’s has launched the U.K.’s first mobile-only checkout-free grocery store, inviting comparisons to what Amazon Go is doing in the U.S. But their models are far from identical.

It’s no overstatement to suggest that stored value plays a role in nearly all of our daily lives. This suggests that the digital transformation of these instruments should be life-changing. But that hasn’t happened—yet, writes Chris Demetree, CEO of Lazlo 326.

It’s no coincidence that with more than half of consumers ages 20 to 29 now holding credit cards — up from 41% in 2012 — 90-day delinquency rates are at a seven-year high, according to the New York Fed.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has added Apple Watch capabilities to its CashPro Mobile app, so business customers may approve corporate payments on the go.

It’s no coincidence that with more than half of consumers ages 20 to 29 now holding credit cards — up from 41% in 2012 — 90-day delinquency rates are at a seven-year high, according to the New York Fed.

Digit's savings app, relying on JPMorgan Chase's new real-time payments service, will offer customers an instant withdrawals feature that uses savings as a cushion against checking overdraws.

The Clearing House's Real-Time Payments Network has been slow out of the gate, but it's getting some much needed adoption via a collaboration between personal financial management fintech Digit and JPMorgan Chase.

We must challenge ourselves with transparency by neutralizing gender-specific language in company job advertisements to reach a more diverse pool of candidates and drive responses, writes Nicole Baxby, an account director at Featurespace.