Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest move by Walmart to gain...
Booking flights is no longer just about charging it to the card — that is, corporate or individual credit cards. Technology has made it possible...
Invoice fraud — changing details so that money is routed to fraudsters’ bank accounts — may have hit Microsoft through one of its own employees. Elsewhere,...
American Express posted results Thursday (Oct. 18) that showed increases in card member spending and a boost in lending activity. Overall, billed business gained 8...
Visa has released a bulletin revealing that many programs marketed as “cash discount” are non-compliant with the payment company’s rules. The company explained that its...
There are few disappointments in life quite as indelible as a long-anticipated vacation that crashes and burns because of a bad experience at a hotel. Most consumers have at...
Mastercard, the payments company, announced on Thursday (Oct. 18) that cardholder signatures will now be optional for the back of credit cards and receipts. In...
Fraudulent noncash payment values have increased by a lot in the U.S. between 2012 and 2015, surpassing growth in noncash payments, the Federal Reserve found....
Few things make a sporting event more interesting than wagering a few bucks (or more) — whether it be a football game between two mediocre...