News Topic: Digital payments

GOP senators push House colleagues not to change Dodd-Frank rollback bill; agencies respond to consumer complaints about debt collectors. ... Read full article

Smaller bank stocks have outperformed the big banks with the prospect of Dodd-Frank rollbacks; Trump “very strongly” pondering TV analyst for adviser role. ... Read full article

Speaking at the Economic Club of New York in Manhattan, PayPal Chief Executive Officer Dan Schulman said cryptocurrencies have a very uncertain future. ... Read full article

A sophisticated campaign by Russian actors seeking to manipulate the 2016 U.S. presidential election through social media included stealing the identities of Americans and using accounts at PayPal to aid their effort. ... Read full article

Four of the startups are focused on business and consumer bill payments, and a fifth offers student loan repayment assistance as an employee perk. ... Read full article

It’s no secret that financial services organizations are on a digital transformation journey. ... Read full article

The San Francisco startup behind the cryptocurrency XRP claims it can send money around the world faster, cheaper and with greater transparency. ... Read full article

Commercial customers, including small businesses, seem ready to pay up to shift to faster, more sophisticated electronic invoicing and payments, and enterprising banks that provide them the technology to do so could find it lucrative. ... Read full article

With so much uncertainty, the only thing that's clear is how different the sector may look a year from now. Here's an overview of the leading trends in technology that will impact banking in 2018. ... Read full article

Some firms are investing in technology to help insurance clients shift to paperless payment processing. ... Read full article

Assemble allows Mastercard partners or issuers to provide checking, budgeting and payment features, as well as additional money management. ... Read full article

In a relationship-based business, it’s not enough to sell your customers a sharp tool to pay for things. You also have to help them avoid cutting themselves with it. ... Read full article

The Federal Reserve Board's vice chair of supervision said that digital currencies hold the potential for innovation but that the financial system's security and resiliency are more important. ... Read full article

Only a few banks have so far integrated with Amazon’s personal voice assistant service. ... Read full article

Cryptocurrencies will not gain widespread traction with corporations and governments as long as there remain crucial questions about their volatility, risk, volume and shadowy affiliations. ... Read full article

Banks are still using traditional sales processes that rely heavily on branch traffic. ... Read full article

The explosion of interest in digital assets this year, and the multiplying of their market value, are making cryptocurrency debit cards newly attractive. Banks could partner with intermediaries or issue the cards directly, but obstacles remain before that ... Read full article

Data breaches and payment hacks require not only tech measures, but crisis management. Had Equifax gotten out in front of the story, particularly during the slow news period of August, it would have earned kudos and perhaps mitigated some of the public ... Read full article