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Calling it a first in international payments, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication [Swift] is providing a cross-border, real-time payments tracker for banks handling global transactions.

Long Game uses behavioral economics and the mass popularity of lottery games to redirect lottery spending toward savings.

Target Corp. agreed to pay $18.5 million to settle state lawsuits over a 2013 hack of its database when the personal information of millions of customers was stolen, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

A Nebraska banking veteran put up $1 million of her own money to create a microlending program that doesn't require business owners to provide traditional collateral.

With the future of payday lending in flux, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has the ability to help provide consumers with a better credit option.

Apple Pay's recent move to waive the £30 contactless transaction limit in the U.K. removes one of the key restraints it faced when competing with credit and debit cards at the checkout. But at this point in the mobile wallet adoption cycle, does this change really matter to consumers and merchants?

Better information security will remain the foundation of success as the financial services industry moves quickly to engage new business models.

The money will be used to hire more people. It is also a morale boost for the group, which has suffered some high-profile recent defections.

Garden Savings FCU aims to boost brand awareness by focusing on some of the things that make New Jersey unique.

Bank agrees to pay $97 million as DOJ drops criminal charges involving money laundering at Citi uni; digital currency price roars past $2,200 as Japanese catch the bitcoin bug.