July 05, 2024
Mastercard and LuLu Collaborate on Cardless Payments

Mastercard is expanding its partnership with Dubai-based retail conglomerate LuLu Group. The collaboration, announced Friday (July 5), will extend across the markets of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab...

July 05, 2024
Neobanks See An Opportunity As Banks Move Away From Free...

The arguably natural consequences of fee caps and limits on debit interchange — and the uncertainty of the regulatory climate — are now showing up with an anticipated pullback by...

July 05, 2024
Visa and Tangem Unveil Combined Payment Card-Crypto Wallet

Switzerland-based cryptocurrency wallet maker Tangem AG has launched a payments partnership with Visa. The collaboration, announced Friday (July 5), has resulted in a Visa payments card combined with a hardware wallet that lets Tangem users...

July 05, 2024
Global Real-Time Payments to Top $58T by 2028

Real-time payments continue to advance globally. Banks, FinTechs, corporates and governments are all pursuing initiatives to accelerate payments for their citizens and customers. Real-Time Payments in the United States In...

July 04, 2024
Crypto’s Three Priorities for 2024: Interoperability, Acceptance, Regulation

Halfway through 2024, and the cryptocurrency and blockchain space finds itself at a critical juncture.  It is the same critical juncture, or at least one strikingly similar, that the crypto...

July 04, 2024
Everything You Probably Didn’t Know About Bank Holidays

July 4th is one of the 11 bank holidays observed in the United States. And yet: Though the branches may be closed, the digital channels still are accessible, which means...

July 04, 2024
They Said That: Notable Quotables From the Week of July...

Every week we scan our interviews, opinion pieces and news stories for the quotations that give us a sense of where we are as a connected economy in the payments...

July 03, 2024
AI Reshapes Banking: Promises and Pitfalls as Industry Grapples With...

As artificial intelligence revolutionizes the banking sector, industry leaders from UBS and McKinsey highlighted the potential and challenges facing financial institutions. Concerns range from return on tech investments to the...

July 03, 2024
CFPB’s Spotlight on Medical Payment Products Threatens Chilling Effect on...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is sharpening its focus on healthcare payments, and the result may be that at least for some consumers who have shown interest in payment...