Payments

Mobile e-commerce is growing fast, and online retail fraud levels are keeping pace with this expanded sales volume.

The larger the business grows, the more difficult and time-consuming it will be to make the fundamental changes required, according to Justin Shipe, vice president of information security for CardConnect, and Aaron Largent, director of infrastructure for CardConnect.

In the months since President Trump’s America First policies forced China's Ant Financial to abandon a proposed deal to buy Dallas-based MoneyGram, the U.S. company has forged other key partnerships to build a global digital remittance network.

Italy’s domestic debit network Bancomat is integrating the country’s Jiffy P2P service to expand mobile payment services to 37 million bank customers.

A new study shows transactions with credit union plastic on this year's Amazon Prime Day were up 41 percent.

Seeing an opportunity to address the multi-billion dollar cannabis industry’s needs for payments processings, Zodaka is launching with a system that focuses more on price than process.

Business owners are understandably reluctant to allow employees, contractors and freelancers take the company credit card. But asking them to use a personal card raises other issues, such as scanning receipts for reimbursement.

Emerging faster-payment technology can address processing and settlement gaps between banks and fintechs that can cause financial challenges for families, according to Rahm McDaniel, vice president of strategic solutions for Q2 Holdings.

Stock options offered employees during the financial crisis are now worth $3 billion; the JPM CEO says he talked with Jeff Bezos about a job two decades ago.

Paying international suppliers through a bank portal is a painful, expensive process that creates unnecessary friction for burgeoning cross-border trade. There are better fintech alternatives, writes Karla Friede, CEO of Nvoicepay.

Visa has partnered with U.S.-based fintech novae to launch an omnichannel digital rewards platform for Visa card-issuing banks in Latin America and the Caribbean. The collaboration with San Francisco-based Novae is an example of the card network's open approach to fintech.

As memories of the financial crisis fade, consumers are back to their old spending and saving habits — and that could be a big problem.

The announcement follows a news report that said it routinely and without notification charged higher rates than it initially quoted.

One way for acquirers and independent sales organizations to stand out in a highly competitive field is to devote a part of their business to worthy causes.

TransferMate, a cross-border B2B payments service, has received a $25 million investment from ING Group N.V. to accelerate its global expansion.

The company defended its prices for currency conversions after a report said employees boosted rates for some business customers without notifying them.

Kroger Co., the largest U.S. supermarket chain, said a California subsidiary will stop accepting Visa credit cards beginning next month in a dispute over swipe fees.

In its push to compete more directly with Amazon, Walmart has partnered with American Express, enabling its customers to earn and burn Amex’s Membership Rewards points for e-commerce purchases on Walmart.com.

In a post-Equifax world, independent sales organizations, acquirers and payment processors are under much more scrutiny over merchant account applications and underwriting.

Banks should continually try out new technologies, even after failed experiments.