Fintech

In his first day as Global Payments' chief executive, Jeff Sloan shared his thoughts about how a new security initiative from Visa, MasterCard and American Express could affect his company.

Cardlytics has adopted a new logo, which it says reflects the company's evolution as an advertising platform for consumers, merchants and financial institutions.

Credit unions should be offering more insurance and investment services and need to do a better job making members aware of these offerings.

Synchology's Branded Payments Platform allows merchants to offer prepaid cards with their brands' loyalty and rewards programs.

Because third-party processors are on the hook for losses from fraudulent transactions, they have as much interest in eliminating bad actors as anyone.

BOSTON – IC Federal Credit Union took a top prize at the New England Financial Marketing Association awards last week for its recent YouTube Gen Y campaign.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.—Big banks are now holding the line on free checking. After a steep decline in the percentage of free checking accounts, 38% of checking accounts offered by major banks are free, down just one percentage point from last year, according to Bankrate.com’s 2013 Checking Survey.

Building on a new mobile payment gateway that MasterCard developed for Egypt, an Egyptian bank last week launched the Phone Cash mobile wallet for consumers.

General Payments Systems has developed a software and hardware system that will allow its government agency clients to automate the collection of payments by check.

Alan Reiner, 30, thought he wouldn't find any career more interesting than missile defense simulations, but the self-described nerd left physics recently to work full-time on an ultra-secure Bitcoin wallet, Armory.