Compliance

Decisions about when and how to implement EMV technology in credit and debit cards are difficult. Many banks have decided to slowly phase it in, despite the fact the delay will open them up to greater potential liability.

Foreclosures and delinquencies may seem like problems from the past, but servicers are still struggling with a massive backlog of distressed loans and a return to normalcy is at least two years away, if not longer.

After a number of high profile security breaches in the past couple of years, consumer trust in the payments system is more fragile than ever.

In two recent overseas incidents, payment companies redefined "security" to suit a specific situation, rather than keeping it the constant that their customers expect.

With the breach threat showing no signs of slowing, security companies are rapidly broadening their systems to simultaneously fight identity fraud stemming from clients' consumers and employees.

Bluefin Payment Systems is making point-to-point encryption available to large merchants that use Heartland Payment Systems as a processor, a key move as U.S businesses grapple with the migration to chip cards.

Kaspersky Lab has unveiled a cyber-heist in which hackers have already stolen $1 billion from banks across the world. Here's what banks should know about how the hackers did it — and what institutions can do to protect themselves.

HSBC has spent billions of dollars in compliance and legal costs, but the damaging scandals keep coming. Renewed attention on the problems at its Swiss private bank could fuel the debate about whether banks this size are too big to manage.

The theft of 80 million healthcare records will cost Anthem Blue Cross more than $100-million, and payment companies are also under threat since the incident may result in a spike in false card accounts.

MasterCard is testing whether the time is finally right for biometric authentication to take over as the standard of customer-facing security.