PACE Act Could Open Fed Payment Rails Beyond Banks
A new bill could upend who gets to move money in the U.S., giving fintechs and crypto firms direct access...
Paper Prepaid Cards Emerge as an Eco-Friendly Tool to Fight Hunger
Just in time for Earth Day, CPI Card Group’s donation of 25,000 paper prepaid cards to Street Charity underscores a...
Thirty Years and Counting: Bank of America Renews Alaska Air Deal
As loyalty programs become as valuable as the flights themselves, Bank of America and Alaska Air are doubling down on...
Why the BIS Is Worried About Stablecoins
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has raised new concerns about stablecoins, especially given that two issuers dominate the global...
How Banks Are Competing with Fintech Apps for Small Businesses
As small businesses flock to peer-to-peer payment apps, banks are facing a quiet but significant threat to one of their...
The IMF’s Warning to Banks: Share Data to Beat AI Fraud
The International Monetary Fund is urging banks to rethink a long-standing taboo in financial crime prevention—how much data they are...
EBANX Targets Southeast Asia in New Cross-Border Payments Push
Payment services firm EBANX, a key partner in the development of Brazil’s highly successful Pix instant payment system, is expanding...
Amex Bets on AI Agent Payments
American Express is moving to accommodate a new kind of customer—not a person, but an AI agent acting on behalf...
To Fight Fraud, India Proposes a One-Hour Delay on Some P2P Payments
As India's leading instant payments system scales new heights, it’s also becoming a bigger target for fraud—prompting the Reserve Bank...
Making Zelle Work Better for Users—and Banks
By any measure, Zelle has been a success in its nearly ten years of existence. Total volume on the platform...
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