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With more patients paying part or all of their health care expenses directly, health care providers find themselves thrust into the world of consumer payments and collections, where providers face different costs, risks and expectations than they did working primarily with insurance companies.

Beacons—those little Bluetooth mechanisms stores use to beam ads to shoppers' phones—may someday play a critical role in payments. But the technology is still years away from being a practical alternative to cards and NFC-based mobile wallets.

Voice biometrics, fingerprint recognition, device ID and behavioral analytics are at long last becoming accurate and convenient enough for prime time.

With the release of Sen. Shelby's regulatory reform bill, the debate over the legislation is just beginning to take shape. We sort through the possibilities for how it will unfold.

Mitek on Tuesday rolled out a new imaging technology for financial services companies called Photo Verify. It lets bank customers take a smartphone photo of their driver's license to verify their identity.

Contrary to the popular belief that recent college graduates are too mired in student loan debt to be interested in borrowing — and wouldn't be the best of risks for a lender to take on — two new surveys suggest grads not only have an appetite for loans but are also likely to manage their debts well, making them an appealing market for credit unions.

WASHINGTON — A new mortgage disclosure regime due to take effect on Aug. 1 is unlikely to cause closing delays, according to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray.