Payments

Despite some significant advancements in the past two years, rifts are already developing in the U.S. move to faster payments.

Google's ambitious new gaming platform, Stadia, could fundamentally change the way people make purchases online, according to Daniel Wolfe, editor in chief of PaymentsSource.

Person-to-person payments have become table stakes for institutions looking to attract and retain younger customers. The service may also be one of the keys to keeping big-tech insurgents like Amazon at bay.

TenantCloud, which launched in 2014 to help landlords manage their businesses, has partnered with Dwolla to enable property management companies to collect rent payments through its platform via ACH.

Web and mobile bill payment service provider doxo now supports Apple Pay as a payment option.

Lyft, the No. 2 ride-share competitor behind Uber, recently filed its Form S-1 Registration Statement with the SEC in preparation for an IPO, and the data it revealed is eye-popping.

There is a growing proliferation of social P2P technologies within the U.K. banking sector, but the market for such payments is vastly different from that in the U.S., where social payment apps have found a welcoming audience.

In the era of digital transformation, it can be easy to mistake activity for achievement. A disciplined approach is needed, writes Tim VanTassel, a vice president at FICO.

Legislation banning shops from refusing to accept cash has moved swiftly this year. But this trend is running head-on against retail models like Amazon Go, which are built from the ground up to operate without cash.

Mobile technology provider Branch is expanding a work scheduling and payment app it makes available to companies, enabling the Pay feature to help hourly workers forecast hours and advance their pay.

The Instagram social media platform is testing a checkout feature powered through PayPal to provide users the option to purchase goods without leaving the app.

The credit card network has teamed up with an ICBA unit and the fintech Urban FT to offer a payments services program tailored to community banks trying to keep pace with bigger banks.

AI can help reduce risk, make more loans and find ideal members for credit unions.

Under the recently appointed Director Kathy Kraninger, the bureau has the opportunity to address numerous problems with its collection and presentation of consumer grievances.

The bank is tying manager pay to inclusive hiring; Cboe Global Markets to stop trading bitcoin futures.

The companies could bring something new, such as merchant acquiring to community banks, but their merger could also cause anxiety about giant vendors.

Bank technology giants FIS and Fiserv are spending nearly $66 billion between them in just the past few weeks to add a broad swath of payments technology — including a few key nuggets that will help them go toe to toe with fintechs.

The tech company has taken World Wire, its blockchain-based cross-border payments network, live in 72 countries.

An initiative by Visa and Lloyds doesn't go far enough and is counterintuitive to the card network's move to reduce cash, argues Mark Horwedel, a strategic consultant to CMSPI.

The $35 billion deal could create "a global payments giant"; with the number of community banks dropping as low as 5,477, it may be time for new ones.