Should an industry square off against its regulators or partner up with them? The answer shapes consumers’ access to financial products, and thus their financial lives. An acrimonious relationship stifles innovation, leaving consumers with fewer options to meet their financial needs. Unfortunately, many signs point to a lot of future …

Apple’s venture into BNPL may prove more difficult for the computing giant than it thinks. When Apple officially announced its new Apple Pay Later feature this summer, many in the industry weren’t surprised. Yet it ushered in renewed anxiety for existing card-based BNPL market leaders, as it added another layer …

Fiserv Inc. has struck a deal with petroleum company Sunoco LP to implement its Carat commerce platform across more than 5,500 service stations. The deal will enable Sunoco dealers to streamline payments by connecting in-store, in-app, at the pump, and in-car payments through the Carat platform. Sunoco dealers will also …

With nearly 1 out of 5 shoppers abandoning their carts due to a long or complicated checkout process, today’s merchants are challenged to close retail sales. Combine this with the fact that many merchants have not updated their payment systems in two years, and the result is an inability to …

Payments processor Global Payments Inc. reported revenue of $2.29 billion for the September quarter, up 3.8% year-over-year. Revenue for the first nine months of the year totaled $6.72 billion, up 6.2%. Global Payments expects to close on its $4 billion acquisition of EVO Payments Inc., announced in August, in the first quarter of …

With data sharing via open-banking arrangements becoming increasingly vital in the payments business, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday released an outline of a “data-rights rule” it is preparing that would govern how consumers’ financial information is shared among players such as banks and payments companies. The proposed rule …

Mastercard Inc.’s top executives early Thursday underscored a strategy for the company involving a diversity of payment flows and new network opportunities such as open banking and cryptocurrency. At the same time, the company’s leadership made plain the company will compete for debit volume in the wake of a Federal …

Financial-services technology provider Jack Henry & Associates Inc. launched a real-time peer-to-peer payments platform, based on the Digital Payments Platform from the payments-technology firm Payrailz. Jack Henry acquired Payrailz in September for undisclosed terms.Gr4vy, a U.S.-based payments-technology provider, said Australia’s Woolworths Group will use the company’s payments-orchestration platform to run the retailer’s Wpay service. …

Open banking is getting closer to mass relevance for financial-technology companies. A study released Monday by Discover Global Network and 451 Research found that fully 78% of fintechs said open banking is relevant to their business. One likely factor behind that trend is the positive consumer sentiment that fintechs are …

BNY Mellon announced early Monday it has launched a payments platform called Vaia, which allows clients to offer real-time payments, same-day automated clearing house transfers, tokenized payments, debit cards, and payments through the Zelle peer-to-peer payments network. The nation’s 10th-largest bank by assets said the panoply of payments capabilities can …