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Atlanta-based bitcoin payment processor BitPay has suffered a phishing attack costing the company $1.8 million.

Small to medium sized businesses are often cast as unprepared for the card network's October deadline for EMV-chip card migration. But how bad can it really be?

Bank executives and outside experts finger technology as the area most in need of improvement when it comes to vetting financial institutions' ability to withstand the next bit economic shock.

Credit-card industry executives always insist that they face strong competition. But the battle between the nation's largest card issuers appears to have intensified in recent months, and it shows no signs of waning.

After the Oct. 1 EMV liability shift takes effect, the process of handling chargeback disputes could get messy for merchants unfamiliar with the new factors in play.

EMV is being touted as the dawn of a new era in credit card fraud prevention. However, there are doubts it will make a significant difference.

Alliance Data Systems has agreed to work with Toyota on a new line of private-label credit cards and to manage the Japanese automaker's existing co-branded card program.

Visa's ATM biometric trial in South Africa has the potential to spread a security technology that has encountered resistance in other parts of the world, including the U.S.

Royal Bank of Canada's marching ahead on two innovations designed to help it blanket the country's mature point of sale and connected devices.

PeerIQ, which provides data to firms that invest in marketplace loans, has raised $2.5 million in early-stage financing.