Ant Financial, the Chinese financial services affiliate of Alibaba, has inked a deal to acquire WorldFirst, the U.K. payments company. According to a report in Bloomberg,...
Mastercard, the Purchase, New York payments company, announced Wednesday (Feb. 13) that its chief financial officer is retiring. In a press release, Mastercard said that...
Contextual commerce is everywhere, and much desired by consumers (just check out some of the latest stats from the Digital Consumer Report). But merchants need...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Societe Generale’s selection of HPS for payment operations technology...
Lawmakers and regulators in the U.K. called for an overhaul of the cash system in the country to avoid people from being completely shut out. Reuters, citing...
For consumers, and increasingly for businesses, speed is coveted when it comes to payments. That’s especially true as transactions are done in bits and bytes...
Go back a generation or two and imagine the construction of the Gateway Arch — the sleek, shiny monument to westward expansion that stands along the...
One of the participants in one of the biggest payments megadeals to date has made recent gains — a good sign for all the changes...
Fiserv's Q4 results were in line with a preliminary announcement, including 6 percent payments growth. As the deal with First Data sinks in and becomes...