Payments

Both major brands are accelerating a move away from traditional checkout, and all retailers need to make adjustments for the future.

Lawsuits can be costly and time-consuming for all parties, so many plaintiffs’ attorneys are now trying to win quick settlements for their clients by bombarding banks with letters simply threatening them with lawsuits. One plaintiffs’ attorney admits to sending 250 such letters a month.

The mobile ticketing service is aimed at reducing lines, and is similar to a deal Atom has in place with Regal Cinemas.

There's been a rapid growth of cross-border payments and remittance startups, and CIBC responded with a major project designed to streamline transactions.

Maikki Frisk will become the Mobey Forum's executive director early next year, replacing Sirpa Nordlund, who is moving to a payments startup.

The growth that followed the turnover of Costco's payment cards from American Express has been greater than expected, according to the bank.

To launch its payments platform, Digitzs used crowdfunding as an alternative to the traditional venture capital. Its founder explains how it made that happen.

Consumer tastes for person-to-person payment apps differ widely from one market to another, and also change rapidly over time.

Legacy systems will be pressured in the year ahead to keep ahead of e-commerce, international regulations and other emerging risks.

One of the earliest bitcoin companies, Circle has attracted several rounds of investments and is beginning to diversify its strategic focus.

The collaboration gives Apple Pay an entry into the freelance payment market, an industry that's growing fast but underserved.

The Secure Keys dongle has worked well to vet internal staff at Google, and the search giant sees a number of other uses for the hardware.

Merchants and businesses will be able to access shared technology tools to automate payments and other transactions connected to treasury management.

Citigroup in early December added its 1 millionth new customer to the Costco card portfolio it acquired earlier this year.

President-elect Trump has a number of options to change the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its leadership, but each moves carries at least some risk.

The company hopes to build off of its successful mobile app by adding new ordering technology. A massive international expansion of its store footprint is also in the works.

Mobile wallets can be the single location for not just cards, but a wide variety of financial and customer services that banks provide.

In short order, Mastercard, Visa and now Amex have made rapid strikes designed to not only bolster identity protection for online commerce, but to make that protection nearly invisible to the consumer.

Intuit's personal finance app Mint has launched a bill tracking and payment function to keep customers on top of their bill management.

Vantiv has made a name for itself the past two years in advancing integrated payments at the point of sale, while also welcoming application developers to interact with the company's technology through Vantiv ONE. Its latest move puts its focus on e-commerce.