Analytics

Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal will replace advertising on some shows next week with content paid for by American Express Co., another sign of how programmers are testing new strategies as consumers become less tolerant of 30-second commercials.

Through a partnership with fraud prevention provider Ethoca, Total System Services Inc. is offering card issuers and merchants a new tool to prevent e-commerce chargebacks.

The FBI's fight with Apple over access to a locked iPhone could undermine software security for financial institutions and their technology vendors and make it harder for banks to do business internationally or use cloud computing.

China UnionPay and Visa signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday to jumpstart collaboration between the two companies.

More borrowers with spotty credit are failing to make monthly car payments on time, a troubling sign for investors who have snapped up billions of dollars of securities backed by risky auto debt.

The expected 100% growth in card not present (CNP) fraud by 2018 threatens small and medium businesses as well as enterprises, and companies need to shore up their data and customer analytics now to stem the tide.

It would be hard to find two people more qualified to start a security company than Frank Abagnale and Ori Eisen.

Fraud from organized crime and hackers may attract the spotlight from payment companies and security vendors, but issuers and merchants consider friendly fraud the main nemesis.

Online gambling is like gun shows and weed—legal and very lucrative, though with enough regulatory baggage that most service providers are reluctant to go near them.

There is a different feel to the troubles American Express faces today, mainly because its lost Costco relationship represented what might be one of the last of its kind — a deal in which a large retailer gives exclusivity to a certain card brand and tells customers how to pay.