Payments

Amazon is revamping its cobranded rewards card, adding a higher tier of rewards for people who pay a $99 annual fee — as 65 million people already do — for Amazon Prime membership.

Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati has added Android Pay and Microsoft Wallet to its mobile payment offerings, supporting a total of five mobile wallets.

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One of the chronic flaws of retailer-driven loyalty programs is that often it’s hard to actually get the rewards. Consumers complain that it takes too long or steps required are too cumbersome to conveniently redeem their points.

By providing lots of data, and encouraging consumers to carefully examine their statements, merchants and payment companies can reduce fraud and chargebacks.

Nana Murugesan, Samsung vice president and general manager, spoke to PaymentsSource about Samsung's strategy for making its mobile wallet stand out in the increasingly competitive digital payments market.

Several startups and Mastercard are looking to free companies from the limitations of traditional corporate cards and time-consuming expense reports.

Several startups and Mastercard are looking to free companies from the limitations of traditional corporate cards and time-consuming expense reports.

In oral arguments held before the Supreme Court Tuesday, liberal justices appeared to struggle with plaintiffs' argument that state bans on credit card surcharges violate retailers' free speech, while the bench's conservatives appeared concerned about how states apply those bans.

Manhattan-based Municipal Credit Union has launched a cloud-based open API platform from Payveris that supports digital payments and commerce, including account-to-account transfers, bill payment and other services on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

Bank technology provider D+H Corp. is expanding its role in the expected launch of The Clearing House Real-Time Payments System by offering banks cloud-based testing to simulate a connection to that system.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. pioneered shopping on the internet in China. Now it thinks it can teach old-school retailers a thing or two about real-world commerce.

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Digital merchants don't necessarily have to open a store, but they can still benefit from the tactics of brick-and-mortar retailers, according to David Schwartz, vice president of e-commerce at Wix, a Tel Aviv-based technology company.

Integrations with software as a service providers are enabling small online retailers to partner with and compete against the mega-retailers across all major channels.

Late-payment rates on bank-issued credit cards and auto loans rose during the third quarter of 2016 to their highest levels in more than two years, according to a new report.

Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay may seem to have a marketing edge over retailers' mobile wallets, but there is strong momentum among apps that serve individual merchant brands.

Eastern Bank in Boston has hired a former Citi Cards executive to oversee its consumer-lending business.

Miami-based NovoPayment, a payment provider with broad reach in Latin America, has upgraded its platform to support corporate bots enabling consumers to conduct person-to-person payments and other transactions within Facebook Messenger, the company said in a Jan. 9 press release.

Around the same time PayPal spun off from eBay Inc. to become its own company last year, it also took on the global money transfer provider Xoom. This acquisition may have been overshadowed by PayPal's bigger news, but it remains key to the company's post-eBay strategy.