Investment

Crooks are getting more clever when hacking e-commerce sites to hide illegal activity, requiring banks and processors to developer a broader picture of merchants and payment activity.

Mobile payment initiatives have largely failed because they focus on changing transactions instead of changing the way consumers and merchants engage with each other, according to Carta Worldwide, which touts new tokens as a way to reverse that.

When BankMobile, the brainchild of Jay Sidhu and his daughter Luvleen, relaunches on a new platform in January, security — especially for the onboarding process — will be completely redesigned.

Deloitte is looking to diversify beyond its "bread and butter" of professional service firms.

To launch its payments platform, Digitzs used crowdfunding as an alternative to the traditional venture capital. Its founder explains how it made that happen.

One of the earliest bitcoin companies, Circle has attracted several rounds of investments and is beginning to diversify its strategic focus.

In short order, Mastercard, Visa and now Amex have made rapid strikes designed to not only bolster identity protection for online commerce, but to make that protection nearly invisible to the consumer.

Stellar, a Silicon Valley-based non-profit organization and blockchain platform that connects banks and payments systems, has gone global with partnerships in India, the Philippines, Africa and Europe.

The opening of the 2016 holiday season, which marks the first full year since the country's major EMV fraud liability shift, is proving what data security experts feared all along.

While there are a handful of payment pilots underway, the real benefit of blockchain for banks is a long-term proposition--and most early projects will be internal.