Data security

The payment giant's technology chief says he has an eye on bitcoin, the blockchain and the fintech competitors that have flooded the payments arena — and vows his company will consider partnering with some of them and can beat the rest.

Hackers believed to be working from China accessed the computer systems of top officials at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., according to a top House lawmaker investigating the incident.

When a breach of the world's major e-mail service providers was reported last week, it drove home the fact that a single stolen password can put numerous accounts in danger.

Unless the U.S. card business is able to offer merchants scaleable solutions that are cheaper and quicker to implement, there is a serious risk of full EMV migration taking several years to complete.

Walmart and Visa have had a long and volatile relationship, and the retailer's latest lawsuit against the global card brand gives voice to a struggle that many other companies are too small to fight.

Officials from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bangladesh Bank and the payments network Swift vowed Tuesday to catch the thieves who took $81 million out of the Bangladesh central bank's account at the New York Fed.

While bitcoin is viewed as "secret currency," the technology behind the cryptocurrency is immensely useful to financial services companies in preventing hacking.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. sued Visa Inc.’s U.S. unit, saying the company wants the retailer to use a less-secure method for verifying debit cards in order to route transactions through its own networks.

Officials from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bangladesh Bank and payments network Swift vowed Tuesday to catch the thieves who took $81 million out of the Bangladesh central bank's account at the New York Fed.

ACH Alert has been providing fraud protection for Automated Clearing House, debit and wire transactions at banks for more than six years, but it's probably never been in a better position to draw attention to its real-time process.