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Fintechs that offer installment loans are having a major impact on credit card lending — and many card issuers are ill equipped to compete.

If cryptocurrency is on its way to becoming a mainstream payment method in the U.K., it will be due to an increased appetite from major card networks for forming alliances with leading cryptocurrency providers.

Visa's tokenization began as a way to shield digital commerce and has developed into a major catalyst for Visa in landing partnerships.

Visa’s recent green light from U.K. regulators to complete its Earthport acquisition was more than just the clearing of a regulatory hurdle — it was a revealing look at how important it has become for the card networks to diversify.

Restaurants, electronics sellers and digital-goods merchants are seeing sharp spikes in fraud as criminals find creative new ways to interfere in online and mobile commerce.

Despite seismic shifts in the payments landscape over the last 45 years, how we handle chargebacks remains more or less the same, writes Monica Eaton-Cardone, COO of Chargebacks911 and CIO of its parent company Global Risk Technologies.

Visa and Mastercard are driving digital transactions by financially empowering women in emerging markets who are unbanked but manage their families’ spending. The card networks are particularly targeting women in gig economy jobs and women-owned businesses.

Here are seven startups that received multimillion-dollar venture capital investments in recent weeks to accelerate the development of banking products and services.

Much like Visa's CEO, Mastercard's top executive is viewing the recent mergers in the payments industry as a chance to build partnerships rather than a competitive threat.

Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. ended nearly two decades of European Union antitrust scrutiny with a pact that requires them to reduce fees for foreigners shopping in the region.