Investment

A group of big financial institutions wants to use the blockchain to make it easier and less costly to track home mortgages packaged into securities.

As senators weigh anti-money-laundering reforms, they reiterated their desire to include cryptocurrencies as part of legislative discussions.

This dangerous "wild west" scenario of fraud and breaches is pushing improving or revamping online authentication to the top of this year’s to-do list for both online companies and governments, writes Robert Capps, vice president of business development for NuData Security.

In a move rare for the industry, the bank bought a team of data scientists to bolster its artificial intelligence efforts in areas including product recommendations and fraud prevention.

Credit unions, trade associations and others wishing to join the Credit Union National Association's class action suit against Equifax have until the end of January to do so.

Gift card giant Blackhawk Network will be acquired by the tech investment firm Silver Lake, along with P2 Capital Partners, for $3.5 billion in a move underscoring investor interest in the shift to mobile digital technology, where Blackhawk devoted millions in recent years.

Payments security experts are warning of the risks to some merchants with payment systems that transmit cardholder data from the processor back to the point of sale from the Spectre and Meltdown computer chip flaws.

Bank of America Corp. may not be willing to help customers invest in bitcoin, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t plowing into the technology underlying the cryptocurrency.

Venture capitalist Spiros Margaris offers a level-headed perspective on the hotly debated cryptocurrency alternative to traditional methods for funding young companies.

With less than three months before the PCI DSS Requirement 8.3 takes effect, all involved in the handling of cardholder data must take definitive steps to review, implement and upgrade their multifactor authentication strategies and implementation to assure compliance, writes Dirk Denayer, business solutions manager at VASCO Data Security.