Walmart named PayPal Chief Financial Officer John Rainey as its new finance chief, turning to a company outsider as it seeks to build a financial technology venture and a membership program.

"With ACH payments there's a latency in how they are processed; it can take two to five days. Things can happen," warns Silvana Hernandez, senior vice president of digital payments at Mastercard.

A community development financial institution in New York City says it's the first U.S. bank to launch a contactless payment ring. It's betting that novelty will be part of the draw.

Job stress is multiplied by artillery strikes, evacuations, air raids and atrocities.

April and Column Tax are among the startups capitalizing on the idea that taxes are part of a person’s financial life and banks are most suited to help with tax preparation and filing.

Two U.K. fintech companies are exploring sale options after sanctions on their Russian billionaire backers have left them struggling to find funding.

The two San Francisco-based companies are seeking to provide a one-click cryptocurrency checkout system to simplify digital shopping.

To increase its share of global card spending through gig-economy fintechs and startups, Amex is extending its rewards through a partnership with digital issuing vendor i2c.

Banks report cyber events to their boards and regulators more than twice as often as they notify their customers and the general public, according to a recent survey. New reporting requirements could change the equation.

The bank's CEO, Mike Butler, finds signs of fraud using software from FiVerity that identifies suspicious behavior patterns across its client network.

Firms such as Visa, Mastercard, PNC and Fiserv say employers can address the labor crunch by making it easier for employees to access and move their money through services such as earned wage access, crypto bonuses and digitized expense management.

Consumer advocates and fintechs say the traditional credit score and lending systems that use it are murky and perpetuate bias. FICO’s leader points out that new FICO scores use expanded data sets, just as fintechs do.

The company provides incentives through the online statements of many large card issuers — but it faces more competition than ever from fintechs and "super apps." To stay in the game, Cardlytics is scooping up more data to sharpen its pitches.

It began as an app for teens, but Current had its eye on cryptocurrency-related services from the start. The goal is to improve on the products it offers customers, such as above-market interest rates.

What good is a travel card when virtual reality eliminates the need to leave home? Amex's patent filings explore the possibilities.

The federal agency says the company’s products are a threat to national security.

The renewal of the e-commerce giant's cobranded card cements an alliance between two giants of their industries — just as both companies are pushing ahead with products such as buy now/pay later loans that put pressure on traditional credit cards.

BCC Group, BCware and Synadia will jointly develop Web3Link, which the companies say will help banks deploy smart contracts that work with their existing technology and decentralized finance environments.

These tech titans still depend on banks to back their payment cards and loans. But their vast audiences mean any financial product they offer is a competitive threat.