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Wire and other payments fraud affected a record number of businesses last year, and the FBI is warning in particular about real estate scams.

Mobile e-commerce is growing fast, and online retail fraud levels are keeping pace with this expanded sales volume.

A group of rival trade associations have put aside their differences and come together to emphasize to Congress the need for increased standards for retailers.

The U.K.’s Food Standard Agency completed its first successful blockchain pilot this month, with plans to expand the test in August.

The Trump administration is making more than 80 recommendations to encourage financial innovation within a regulated space, including endorsing the creation of a federal fintech charter.

Some startups are eschewing San Francisco and New York to set up shop in the middle of America. And for good reason.

TransferMate, a cross-border B2B payments service, has received a $25 million investment from ING Group N.V. to accelerate its global expansion.

In a post-Equifax world, independent sales organizations, acquirers and payment processors are under much more scrutiny over merchant account applications and underwriting.

The cryptocurrency-focused merchant bank Galaxy Digital, led by a former Goldman Sachs partner, will start trading on a Toronto exchange this week. Its journey is a cautionary tale in regulatory risk.

Banks that have decided to use Hyperledger Fabric now have a place to find apps that run on it — apps that someone else has tested. The store, LedgerConnect, is also meant to give vendors a way to distribute their wares to banks.