Investment

Even consumers are fed up with passwords, which seem to do little to deter hackers, but Visa says there's still some life left in the dated authentication method.

Ant Financial, Alibaba’s finance affiliate controlled by billionaire Jack Ma, agreed to buy a stake in the Brazilian payments firm StoneCo Ltd after the company prices its initial public offering, joining Warren Buffett in investing in Brazil’s booming financial-technology startup landscape.

Self-sovereign identity solutions are becoming increasingly common as credit unions move away from less secure authentication methods.

Indian wallet provider Paytm has entered the Japanese market in a joint venture with SoftBank Group and Yahoo Japan.

Trade groups are calling on Congress to further delay NCUA's risk-based capital rule and extending a helping hand to red-state Democrats in tough reelection battles.

At Barclays' fintech accelerator, this year's class has fresh takes on personal financial management, recruiting and trade finance.

As VR and AR mature, new possibilities open up for customer interaction in a virtual space.

Crowdsourced cybersecurity is making inroads into the world of big banks, even though there is a risk bad actors will exploit the opportunity.

Banks should work to shield some customers who may otherwise be flagged or blocked by AI-powered safeguards, and consider using alternative data to expand services to the underbanked.

Stripe’s expanding global profile has come with a growing security risk operation, which will now be overseen by former Google security expert Niels Provos.