Online sellers are starting to take a closer look at their checkouts. No wonder. The technology plays a key role in whether they can tap into the boom in e-commerce. Checkout is the point at which the consumer either completes her purchase or doesn’t. A checkout process that is slow …

After panicking when Bitcoin surged, central banks reconsidered the new technology of money and ostensibly figured out how to fashion it into the most powerful population-control tool ever— a means for fine-tuned surveillance of subjects and citizens alike, and a weapon to monitor people and steer them according to their …

A federal appeals-court ruling handed down in October rattled advocates of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and they haven’t stopped quivering since. That’s because the decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit does what years of detractors’ objections and arguments have failed to do—it strikes at …

Block Inc.’s Cash App unit says it is attempting to make it easier for consumers to salt away money with the introduction of Cash App Savings. The new feature allows Cash App users to deposit savings into a separate account within the app, build additional savings by rounding up their …

Banking and payments professionals should watch for action from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on key areas such as open banking, credit card late fees, fintech partnerships, and buy now, pay later plans, warns Strategic Resource Management, a consulting firm. American Express Co. released its American Express Business Blueprint, a digital cash flow management service …

Money-transfer firms are looking for new ways to leverage their extensive international networks, with the latest development emerging early Wednesday as MoneyGram international Inc. announced it is opening its system to BOTIM, a voice-over-Internet protocol (VOIP) provider with 90 million users in the Middle East and Africa. The deal, which …

Payments provider Sionic said it has agreed to provide its Pay-by-Bank faster-payments service to payments platform iVertical Payments Network to allow consumers to load gift cards directly from their bank accounts. A buy now, pay later startup called Tranch said it has raised $100 million in seed equity and debt funding. The round was …

Discover Financial Services posted single-digit growth rates for both its Pulse and Discover network units in the fourth quarter of 2022. Discover on Thursday said volume on its Discover Network was $58.1 million in the quarter, a 9.2% increase from $453.2 million in the year-ago quarter. Pulse, Discover’s debit network, …

The Digital Dollar Project early Wednesday issued recommendations that include bigger investments by the federal government in researching a tokenized digital dollar. The group also called on the United States to exert leadership internationally in setting global standards for government-issued digital currencies even if the U.S. itself ultimately refrains from …

Oracle Corp. said restaurant chain Big Boy Restaurant Group LLC will adopt its Micros Simphony Cloud Point of Sale and Oracle Payment Cloud Service. Payments provider Paysafe Ltd. said it has expanded its processing services to sports betting in Ohio. The move follows on the heels of Paysafe’s entry in the Maryland sports-betting …