Compliance

Bitcoin companies are looking to win business from large corporations by offering more of the security features that traditional payments providers have long used.

Facebook is reportedly close to obtaining a license to operate as an electronic money institution in Ireland, a move that builds on the company's years of experience handling payments on its home turf.

An engineering student at Lund University in Sweden has created software that allows shoppers to pay for food by scanning their hands.

SmartMetric plans to introduce a facial identification feature to its biometric payment cards within the next six months.

This rise in data breaches and their resulting cost have companies asking “Am I doing enough to protect my data?” As breaches are expected to continue escalating, taking the proper steps to protect your data has never been more relevant or important.

Visa has created a new top post overseeing risk and public policy and named its next general counsel.

Retailers have been entangled in a legal showdown with Visa and MasterCard over swipe-fee rates for nine years now, and despite the approval of a $5.7 billion settlement in December, the battle is far from over.

PayPal is recommending that some businesses upgrade their Payflow Gateway integrations to eliminate the risk of vulnerability associated with the widespread Heartbleed bug.

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service has backed down in its dispute with the credit union community over unrelated business income tax and cleared almost all CU products at stake in related litigation.

Prepaid program managers face a much different set of considerations than banks do when deciding how to deploy EMV-chip cards in the U.S.