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MasterCard Inc. plans to help its cardholders address issues that arise from identity theft, while also extending its zero liability policy to include PIN-based and ATM transactions.

There’s no doubt that the payment industry has gone through significant changes over the last few years. The implementation of stringent federal regulations presents a number of challenges for payment processors. And with increasing instances of frauds and disputes, merchants and customers alike are expecting payment service providers to ramp up in terms of security measures, yet still make transacting easy for them.

The fleet card provider WEX Inc. has extended its contract to provide private-label and fleet card services for Phillips 66.

More community banks are offering Small Business Administration loans far beyond their local markets, hoping that the income boost outweighs the long-term risk of lending in unfamiliar regions.

Traxpay Inc. wants to provide flexibility and speed when business-to-business payments hit unexpected snags that traditional banking systems can't resolve.

As anyone who has purchased an airline ticket online can attest, published prices are a relic of days gone by. Adjusting prices in real time to reflect continuous changes in consumer demand and changing understanding of underlying supply costs—or dynamic pricing—has become increasingly common.

Five years after the enactment of major reforms to the U.S. credit-card market, industry opposition has quietly faded into acceptance. Bankers certainly aren't celebrating the 2009 legislation, but they're not condemning it, either.

Authentify Inc. says its new mobile authentication platform will work with the Samsung Galaxy S5's built-in fingerprint reader.

Merchants are fighting fraud with machine-learning systems, a self-updating alternative to rules-based fraud detection methods.

Jumio Inc. has formed the Bitcoin Identity Security Open Network (Bison) to enable its clients to share fraud trend data.

LifeLock Inc. left many of its customers "extremely frustrated" when it pulled its mobile wallet app off the market last week because of potential security gaps, but those customers understand it was the right thing for the company to do, CEO Todd Davis says.

About a half year after Target suffered a massive data breach, the retailer is still anticipating further financial hits.

eBay is asking all users to change their passwords following an attack on a database that contained encrypted passwords and other user data.

Data thieves are generating various revenue streams based on the type of consumer credentials they can compromise, a new security study says.

Analytics of consumer payments data has transformed the ways credit card companies understand and engage their customers and prospects.

WASHINGTON — Consumers with medical bills in collection can see their credit scores hit by as much as 22 points compared to those with other types of debt, according to a study released Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Visa Inc. has joined the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance's board of directors to help develop and deploy stronger online authentication standards.

Jumio is working with the European Bitcoin exchange Safello to provide faster verification of customers.

As consumers get more comfortable with biometrics, the technology could have more uses for payments and other financial transactions.

LifeLock Inc. has temporarily pulled its LifeLock Wallet app off the market to address security issues.