Payments

After two years of development and fundraising, Kerv Wearables says it is launching the Kerv Ring as a contactless payment device using a Mastercard prepaid account and the card brand's EMV chip technology.

If the megabanks' Zelle person-to-person payment service takes off, it will serve as much as a blueprint for collaboration as it does for digital payments.

Just as Intuit has to find a way to meld consumer and business technology for accounting in the 1990s, financial institutions have the same challenge, and opportunity, today with small business payments technology.

First Data Corp. and Fleetcor are bringing their various gift card operations together in a joint venture designed to streamline distribution and share digital gift card technology.

Hoping to remove almost all touch-based input from mobile payments, RBC has launched money transfers with Siri, Apple's voice-activated digital assistant.

Oro Inc., a rising force in the emerging $7 trillion business-to-business e-commerce market, is teaming with PayPal to streamline transactions as more global suppliers move their sales online.

The Most Influential Women in Payments are the ones taking risks with new ideas and investments, and developing the technology that will forever change the way people handle money. Not only do they set an example for their peers, they are unafraid to learn from newcomers and are diligent about encouraging a freshness and diversity of ideas.

Consumers are worried about paying bills on time and want the convenience of real-time payments, making e-bills an important option for financial institutions.

LendingArch is offering what amounts to installment payments for Canadian health care expenses, hoping to take a bite of the credit card market for consumer-direct health care payments.

By now most of the world knows of the disruption India's monetary system has undergone as its government discourages paper cash and pushes digital alternatives, stopping short of outright forcing the issue. But there's another challenge within the market.

Quona Capital Management raised $141 million for the Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund, which will invest in companies that provide financial and other services to underserved customers in emerging markets.

Because he is blind, Chris Danielsen assumed he’d need a friend to help him deposit a check remotely. But he did it on his own using USAA's mobile app.

U.S. corporations with heavy international payments traffic between buyers and suppliers are looking for ways to use financial technology to streamline processes.

Chip cards have decreased card fraud, but online fraud is on the rise. By asking the right questions, merchants can find payment partners that can fight the fraud migration.

The investment will help BillPro's international expansion ambitions in a cross-border payments market that's expected to expand for technology-driven providers.

Other quick serve establishments such as Starbucks have had challenges in managing the changes in customer flow that accompany order and pay.

Technology and payment companies are both trying to get businesses to automate supply chain payments, but for years their efforts have stalled.

The Indian government's major change in cash policy and push for digital payments attracted the Chinese company to increase its stake in India's Paytm.

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