Investment

Restaurant point of sale and back-office management provider Toast has received $115 million in Series D funding that the company plans use to develop technology and expand its market.

Brett King queries science fiction writers Kevin J. Anderson and Harry “Doc” Kloor about the practical future for emerging technologies like avatars and voice recognition.

The consortium's Corda Enterprise is designed to let blockchain applications exist behind a company’s firewall but still interact with outside partners.

The film industry may be setting new box office records this year, but it still struggles with how to adapt its distribution methods for a digital audience. That's where blockchain — the distributed ledger technology originally developed for bitcoin — plays a starring role.

All service providers, even those with a strong security posture, are only as secure as the Home Depots, LinkedIns and Equifaxes of the world, argues George Avetisov, chief executive of HYPR.

The rise of AI, high-frequency trading and other complex activities is all the more reason for policymakers and financial executives to sharpen their understanding of science, technology, engineering and math.

Nanopay is planning to add bank, processor and accounting software partners for a B2B cross-border and domestic transfer service which it says exceeds the performance of blockchain-based systems.

A new malicious spam campaign that has been targeting Internet users in the U.K. serves as an important example of how banking malware targets business as well as home users.

Banks need to be prepared for increased regulatory scrutiny as they adopt artificial intelligence technologies.

The fundraising is a sign of the rise in the anti-money-laundering market, which is expected to reach $4.26 trillion worldwide in less than a decade.