Technology

Innovation in the consumer payments sector vastly outstrips innovation in the business payments sector but that need not be the case according to Bottomline Business Payments Roundtable participants.

Digital innovations have utterly transformed payments, making every choice more personal—and more mobile.

Using technology and creativity, banks help clients—big and small—reduce paperwork and costs.

Banks tap into technology and social media to satisfy corporate clients, traders and retail customers.

If innovation doesn’t deliver value to customers, what’s the point?

US efforts to stymie Huawei are creating opportunities for the company's rivals in Asia and Europe.

Michael Quinn, managing director of Cyber Risk at Kroll, tells Global Finance about corporate cyberthreats and how he helps corporate hacking victims investigate and develop response plans for digital attacks.

Uber could end up being the largest-ever tech IPO or it could be a letdown like Lyft.

Russia's Sberbank is helping the country's tech start-ups find American investors and transforming itself in the process.

Automation both destroys jobs and puts a premium on the jobs that only people can do.

What if you could sell your own data instead of social media giants monetizing it for themselves?

Innovations like AI and robotic automation are radically changing the workplace. But they are also changing the nature of work itself for the next generation.

Is the world reaching peak smartphone saturation?

Cryptocurrencies and associated technologies are welcomed by the Swiss.

Competition is stiffening as ride-hailing companies extend their model into emerging markets. Even Uber, the giant of the field, faces hard choices.

Roger Park, a partner at EY, leads innovation across the Americas for the financial services sector. He talks about EY’s dedicated innovation spaces and how technology is transforming work.

Traditional banks and upstart challengers alike are pushing innovations to create the bank of the future. What might such a bank look like?

The few corporations that have embraced cryptocurrencies tend to be small or troubled. However, spinoff technologies from digital currency such as blockchain are likely to play a major role in corporate finance and international banking.

MIT Media Lab’s Michael Casey, co-author of The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything, talks with Global Finance about how the new technology could change business—and how business leaders might need to change their thinking to take advantage of it.

While we are witnessing a global race for instant payments, this momentum isn’t likely to result in a global real-time payments solution anytime soon.