Customer demand is proving to be one of the strongest motivators for financial institutions to get involved in on-chain infrastructure, according to new American Banker data. After doing so, bankers ...

Global Payments Inc. and Shift4 Payments, Inc. both trade at low EV/EBITDA multiples, reflecting sector-wide pressure and recent M&A-driven debt loads. I rate both GPN and FOUR as Buys, favoring GPN ...

What "bank" is to "the economy" as the bedrock, the "money movement platform" is to "bank." Platforms need to be robust, resilient and risk-balanced. The speed of payment to a beneficiary depends on ...

Citi’s core payments thesis is blunt: own and integrate the entire payments value chain globally to stay on top. The bank touts a #1 global market position in institutional payments with an estimated ...

Key insights: Banks are making pragmatic pivots with blockchain, but is that enough? What's at stake: There is a persistent narrative around stablecoin payments that overstates its impact and scale.

The systemic importance of high-value payments to banks’ operations and offering – and, by extension, the global economy – means they are almost always a key priority when exploring a new payments ...