Payments

Battling a sea of technology companies and major incumbents like Western Union and Travelex for a share of the international payments and currency exchange pie may seem like an uphill climb for a smaller company with less of a track record.

ABN Amro is using cross-platform mobile messaging app WhatsApp as a payment request channel for a new person-to-person payments app.

The market for one-touch home supply-ordering services like Amazon Dash is heating up, and forecasters say it’s not just homes, but offices and organizations that could fuel growth, from a surge in “smart” buildings wired with devices to order items with the push of a button.

Costco customers have deluged the retailer's Facebook page with hundreds of complaints about a new credit card from Citigroup, saying they endured lengthy wait times and had trouble activating accounts.

Early Warning's clearXchange is starting to show the bank-led network's potential to catalyze faster processing, and now the enterprise is also executing on its broader goal to power other products beyond person-to-person transfers.

After saying it would not support Android Pay in the U.K, Barclays is leaning on device agnostic mobile technology and its own developers to launch its own payments app for the operating system.

Microsoft is in the process of rolling out a mobile wallet for its small share of the smartphone market. But the company has been steadily developing this technology across much bigger platforms.

The digital revolution has not been kind to independent sales organizations and others in the merchant acquiring market, which has seen its long-standing business model upended by the mobile point of sale and other new technologies.

Who is Microsoft Wallet for? With just 1.6% of the U.S. smartphone market as of January, it's unlikely that even Microsoft believes Windows Phone users are a huge untapped audience for mobile payments.

Bank of America is betting on consumers’ future intentions over their current actions when it comes to building its digital wallet strategy.

Consumers deserve disclosure and the protections enjoyed by payroll card users, but it is critical that regulations do not put providers out of business.

Four state-run banks in Thailand and 15 corporations will soon begin registering for PromptPay, formerly known as the AnyID scheme, a national payments platform that will allow users to send money with only their national ID or mobile phone number.

The term real-time payments is a slight misnomer. It focuses the industry and the market on the outcome instead of the input.

Facebook is poking its fingers into a lot of seemingly unrelated businesses, but commerce is always at the heart of its efforts. Here are some ways Facebook is building a new foundation for payments.

Many of the major mergers and acquisitions in the payments industry the past few years have had an underlying goal -- improve chances to make a splash in retail omnichannel payments.

Apple Pay has underperformed most expectations, but there are signs the technology company's iconic brand can draw mobile payment users when the marketing is in the right place.

Come this fall, Apple will begin to allow third-party apps to access several of its internal capabilities, most notably Siri's application program interface.

Check image specialist CheckAlt has acquired receivables transaction management provider Klik Technologies, a deal CheckAlt hopes will boost its profile as the financial services and corporate payments markets turn toward mobile-based technology to process checks.

Ally Financial has introduced its first credit card, as the online bank continues to add products to complement its staple car loans and online bank.

Visa appealed to the public as it responds to Walmart's decision to stop accepting the network's cards in Canada, accusing the retailer of "unfairly dragging" millions of shoppers into private negotiations over card fees.