Payments

A Seattle virtual currency provider is embedding its service in Starbucks' popular mobile app.

Opposition is lining up against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s arbitration plan. A Republican-controlled Congress is expected to overturn a final rule even as industry groups file lawsuits to stop it from going into effect. Some attorneys think the arbitration rulemaking is already dead on arrival.

A new analysis from the Federal Reserve shows checks as one of the few non-cash payment types to decline, while many others are on the rise.

The growing number of P-to-P payment options, including Zelle and Venmo, typically rely on a link to a full-featured bank account to fund transfers. ChimpChange is looking at a different audience.

Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions has appointed Hubert J.P. Jolly as its global head of payments and receivables, effective immediately.

A Danish company called Cardlay has closed a $4 million funding round to deploy its white label card management solution to banks.

The Philippines is considering regulations for digital currencies as the government seeks to bolster protection for the increasing number of overseas Filipinos using bitcoin and its counterparts to send money home.

In the headlong rush to revolutionize modern finance, blockchain enthusiasts are overlooking one potentially costly problem: their applications, built on open-source code, may actually belong to someone else.

President-elect Donald Trump has threatened retaliatory tariffs on China if they cheat on their trading obligations. A good place to start would be China’s payment card market.

Royal Bank of Canada is providing a virtual reality "try before you buy" experience for its RBC Rewards customers.

Merchant acquirers say the industry has worked over the course of decades to improve its ethics. But some acquirers report that deceptive practices and dubious tactics still exist, and that the card brands could do a better job at enforcing their own rules.

Sydney-based Octet Finance, a provider of supply chain management and financing tools for small and midsize businesses, has formed an alliance with Mastercard enabling users to make cross-border payments using their existing Mastercard credit and debit card accounts via virtual card technology.

Lloyds Banking Group Plc agreed to buy Bank of America Corp.’s MBNA credit-card business in the U.K. for 1.9 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) in cash, marking its first major deal since being rescued by British taxpayers eight years ago.

Lloyds Banking Group Plc agreed to buy Bank of America Corp.'s MBNA credit-card business in the U.K. for 1.9 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) in cash, marking its first major deal since being rescued by British taxpayers eight years ago.

Alipay's fast growth is partly attributed to the huge size of the Chinese market, but it also deploys strategies that can serve as an example for mobile wallets in other parts of the world.

As long as there has been mobile commerce, there have been calls for different stakeholders to share competitive turf in the name of universal acceptance.

The government of President Michel Temer has signaled that it wants to tackle the staggeringly large spread between Brazil’s benchmark Selic rate - currently 13.75 percent - and the average annual interest on credit cards, which is somewhere north of 450 percent.

A mobile payments app that launched last year for parking lots in Toronto is now available for all parking spots on the city's streets, with PayPal as the newest payment option.

WEX Inc. will issue Chevron U.S.A.’s fleet cards, including all Chevron and Texaco cards for commercial fleets, beginning in early 2018, the companies have announced.

As global e-commerce proliferates, payment platforms are stepping up to cater to U.S. merchants eager to sell their wares in emerging markets. But there can be as many risks as there are opportunities when entering a new market.