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Wearable identity and authentication startup Bionym released software development kit documentation and an online forum to get developers coding apps for its forthcoming wristband, called Nymi, on Monday.

The Chinese online payment provider Alipay has added a number of security products from CyberSouce, a Visa-owned e-commerce management provider.

The PCI Security Standards Council's hacker-inspired data mapping plans are crucial to protecting super-interconnected enterprise systems.

MasterCard is adding SumAll's data tools to the card network's Simplify Commerce platform in an effort to provide small merchants with options that might otherwise be out of their reach.

Rather than simply continuing to absorb the losses from account takeover attacks, institutions should be reevaluating the effectiveness of their authentication methods and increase security to better prevent fraud.

Mobile phone numbers and e-mail addresses are increasingly vital to verifying a consumer's identity to protect against fraud.

ACA International released a white paper Thursday analyzing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau consumer complaints regarding debt collection.

Allied Wallet is developing new payment technology that allows users to identify themselves by using an add-on fingerprint sensor, and also plans to build biometric acceptance for merchants.

U.S. Bancorp in Minneapolis plans to join the American Express credit card network by fall 2014.

The Chinese online payment provider Alipay has added a number of security products from CyberSouce, a Visa-owned e-commerce management provider.

Microsoft and mobile commerce provider FreedomPay have developed a system that integrates digital payments with a company's underlying business processes.

Just as legal online gambling gets started in the U.S., banks and payment processors are refusing to play.

MasterCard, echoing remarks made 16 hours earlier by Visa, is placing security at the heart of its emerging payments strategy.

A three-judge panel on Wednesday vacated a decision to dismiss Fair Debt Collection Practices Act claims against a mortgage company and three servicing and debt collection agencies.

U.S. Bank has launched a travel payments engine that provides unique identifiers for each transaction instead of a centralized billing umbrella.

Heartland Payment Systems will be a distributor of American Express Merchant Financing, a program that allows small businesses to obtain credit based on annual card processing volume.

Banks may soon bear more responsibility for raising red flags about the conduct of businesses that use the automated clearing house payments network.

More small merchants are starting to comply with the Payment Card Industry security standards, which describe how to protect card data, but many merchants still do not have an incident response plan in case of a data breach.

Chip-testing provider Fime has developed an infrastructure and laboratory for Discover's contactless D-Payment Application (D-PAS) products.

JPMorgan Chase heavily markets its Sapphire Preferred card to travelers, but without an EMV chip, the Sapphire card was losing its luster for some users.