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Ever since people started sheltering at home to limit the spread of coronavirus, payments industry experts have wondered how this would affect the use of cash and cards.

Bank of Southern California's all-cash offer for CalWest was reduced by nearly 20% after the buyer's shareholders declined to approve the deal.

Consumers are using their debit and credit cards less, and that's causing a decline in interchange income for credit unions and banks.

Payments are slow, fees continue to increase, and merchants are increasingly feeling the pressure from holdbacks being imposed on them by acquirers. In the pandemic crisis, that's unacceptable, argues Nuapay's Nick Raper.

There is nothing in U.S. federal laws or general payment processes that stops businesses from taking a consumer's money and using it for payroll or to finance a marketing campaign.

The industry dodged a bullet after the former vice president outlasted more progressive rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination. But some worry the presumptive nominee will have to consider calls for tougher regulation from his party's liberal wing.

Cybercrime has emerged as one of the biggest potential sources of risk to the financial system over the last 20 years, and cybersecurity is a paramount concern to bankers everywhere. But can the internet be made more secure?

Computers were invented to calculate quickly and efficiently, and the emergence of the internet opened up enticing new possibilities for communication and commerce. But security has long been an afterthought.

The government's approach to cybersecurity has evolved gradually over the last 40 years, and what we have now is a patchwork approach that serves some critical infrastructures better than others.

The advent of advanced quantum computers could upend encryption as we know it, and a race is on to protect cyberspace before one arrives. But no one knows when that will be, and updating the internet will require a new approach.