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Decentralizing staff makes strong internal controls even more important, Josh Cyphers and Derek Halpern of Nvoicepay write.

James Freis took charge of Wirecard AG on Friday and the question he faces on Monday is what, if anything, he will be able to salvage of the payment company.

An article in The Atlantic warning that collateralized loan obligations will be banks’ next downfall overestimates the risk of these securities.

Craig Leonard, who has spent a decade at Harvard University Employees Credit Union, will take the helm in July following longtime CEO Gene Foley's retirement.

Big banks will need to show how well they can withstand three different scenarios before they can pay dividends; the German payments company is still looking for $2 billion of missing funds.

As more people create false identities to open card accounts, Visa has launched a new scoring system that takes advantage of the card brand's scale.

Consumers are parking their funds at financial institutions as lending slows and interest rates remain near zero, making it difficult for credit unions to deploy these deposits.

China has a huge market and entrenched payment firms, but a record of digital adoption that makes it a prime market, says PPRO's Steve Villegas.

The Biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel was meant to explain why people throughout the world speak different languages, but in the modern-day payments version it apparently applies to the complex and problem-ridden transaction chargeback process.

Business owners are changing banks at three times normal levels, a trend researchers attribute to their difficulty in obtaining emergency loans. If the forgiveness stage of the Paycheck Protection Program proves arduous, that rate could climb much higher.