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Ransomware attacks are on the rise, as cybethieves find other types of exploits less profitable and bitcoin helps them cover their tracks. Banks must strategize how to avoid becoming victims – or, failing that, mitigate the damage.

If modified, the cybersecurity standards in New York State are a step in the right direction to protect banks and consumers.

In venture capitalist Scott Tobin's chats with fintech startups, one name kept coming up: Cross River Bank in Teaneck, N.J.

Omnichannel commerce demands multiple layers of technology, and each layer adds a risk of latency and friction at time when payment companies can least afford it.

Payment security isn’t the highest priority for millions of consumers who increasingly use smartphones to buy games online, a new study suggests.

Online lenders' struggle with fraud is driving them to join new networks designed to find links between fraudulent loan applications and signs of borrowers trying to obtain multiple loans simultaneously.

A community bank in New Jersey has raised millions in funding from Silicon Valley's star fintech venture capitalists.

Open source development has joined blockchain technology in a bid to take a bite out of banks' long-standing control over the international payments market.

By establishing its e-commerce fraud prevention system as a "mobile first" platform, Forter worked to get a step ahead of a growing trend — that many new retailers accept only mobile payments through their apps.

Hitachi Ltd. is introducing a system to protect people from being conned into transferring money from their bank accounts at automated teller machines.