Venture capital

Qapital's funding round comes as banks are increasingly adding money management tools to their mobile apps.

ID.me raised $19 million in a Series B round that was led by FTV Capital and included USAA.

San Francisco-based Align Commerce, which leverages blockchain and other technologies to enable cross-border payments for small- to midsize businesses, has rebranded itself as Veem and landed $24 million in funding to expand its operations.

Venture capital often moves like a tide. Janet Bannister seeks opportunity that's just a bit farther out.

The Most Influential Women in Payments are the ones taking risks with new ideas and investments, and developing the technology that will forever change the way people handle money. Not only do they set an example for their peers, they are unafraid to learn from newcomers and are diligent about encouraging a freshness and diversity of ideas.

Quona Capital Management Ltd. raised $141 million for the Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund, which will invest in companies that provide financial and other services to underserved customers in emerging markets.

Everybody thinks business travel payments and bookings are a headache, until consumer-style rewards are thrown in.

A joint venture the California company operates in China opened its first branch in Shanghai in 2012.

Capital One co-founder Nigel Morris discusses how his venture capital firm, QED Investors, helps banks and fintechs better understand each other.

A core processing startup gets $16 million and a U.K. challenger bank raises $27.6 million.

The payments technology revolution of the past few years has given consumers myriad new ways to shop across different channels. Business payments have not enjoyed the same level of attention.

The wave of technology that's turned card swipes into dips, phones into wallets and micro merchants into global sellers will proliferate, says Andrew Rueff of Waud, a Chicago-based private equity firm.

Nyca is one of the most active venture capital firms in fintech globally and its second fund should give it plenty of dry powder to pursue further deals.

Dwolla is pitching its faster payments system to the Federal Reserve Bank as it contemplates the facets of a future system in the U.S.

Loyalty programs can be a mixed blessing. When they work as advertised, they can lock in consumers and build relationships; when they fail, they vex shoppers and sour relationships.

Mastercard has announced a partnership with billionaire investor George Soros to work on a for-profit humanitarian project called Humanity Ventures that could bring aid to migrants and refugees around the world.

Hong Kong-based OKLink, a blockchain-based digital payments network specializing in international remittances, is now available in Vietnam, the twenty-first country it's reached since launching six months ago.

Kasisto, a provider of chatbots to banks, announced Thursday a $9.2 million Series A funding round led by Propel Venture Partners with participation from Mastercard and Commerce Ventures.

Disruptors have chased banks for years with the promise of easier and more social payments and other services, but only recently have they started wielding a weapon that should have incumbents worried, says investor Adam Dell.

Swedish mobile point of sale company iZettle has raised about $80 million in funding, in part from U.S. investors.