For Jenny Surane's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
A lull in processing a key coupon payment heaped global attention on a part of banking rarely in the spotlight: The staid back-office mechanisms that handle trillions of dollars daily.
PayPal is looking to deepen its push into buy-now-pay-later products, with Paidy a standout provider in a country where nearly three-quarters of purchases are paid for with cash.
Apple Inc. pitches its new card as a model of simplicity and transparency, upending everything consumers think about credit cards. But for the card's overseers at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., it is creating the same headaches that have bedeviled an industry the companies had hoped ...
