Payments

Grab and Mastercard have formed a partnership extending the reach of the ride-hailing app by making a prepaid card available to Grab's 110 million users across Southeast Asia.

Chinese tourists visiting the U.S. and Canada will be able to use Alipay at HMSHost-operated restaurants in most major airports.

The hacks keep coming — most recently to Facebook and the federal government’s health insurance sites — and consumer trust in online security systems disintegrates along with them, according to a number of recent surveys.

Many of the factors that make Uber a natural fit for restaurant delivery don’t apply for groceries, according to Pradeep Elankumaran, founder and CEO of Farmstead.

Fintechs usually focus on niches rather than trying to be a one-stop shop for every type of merchant. But for Nvoicepay, bigger clients mean bigger opportunities.

A smaller provision for loan losses helped counteract declining loan volume and higher expenses during the third quarter.

American Express Co. said the U.S. Department of Justice and several regulators have sought information on its foreign-exchange international payments business.

Zelle processed 116 million transactions during the third quarter as its payment volume jumped to $32 billion, while Venmo's volume increased 78% to nearly $17 billion.

American Express has positioned itself as a small-business champion for decades, but its partnership with Amazon illustrates the paradox of supporting mom-and-pop shops by enabling them to buy supplies from their largest competitor.

Even consumers are fed up with passwords, which seem to do little to deter hackers, but Visa says there's still some life left in the dated authentication method.

Ant Financial, Alibaba’s finance affiliate controlled by billionaire Jack Ma, agreed to buy a stake in the Brazilian payments firm StoneCo Ltd after the company prices its initial public offering, joining Warren Buffett in investing in Brazil’s booming financial-technology startup landscape.

Amazon.com Inc. and American Express Co. are upping the ante in their bid for small-business spending.

Zelle processed 116 million transactions during the third quarter as its payment volume jumped to $32 billion, while Venmo's volume increased 78% to nearly $17 billion.

The Zelle network processed 116 million transactions during the July-September 2018 timeframe with a total value of $32 billion in payments.

Cryptocurrency companies hope P2P transfers will prove habit-forming enough to convince consumers to try out a new currency.

Less than a month after eBay dropped PayPal's status as its preferred payment provider and implemented a new payment process for some users, one in 10 of those users is completing purchases via Apple Pay.

Indian wallet provider Paytm has entered the Japanese market in a joint venture with SoftBank Group and Yahoo Japan.

In a move designed to improve access to financial products for consumers with low credit scores and short credit histories, Experian, FICO and Finicity are developing an "UltraFICO" score that lets individuals share checking and savings account data and help lenders better assess risk.

The international payments infrastructure has reached a point where consumers can use their cards in many parts of the world as easily as they can in their own country. But finding retailers who can accept all of these cards is a completely different story.

Today, you can sell anywhere in the world successfully with just a single payment gateway integration, writes Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO of BlueSnap.