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Bluefin Payment Systems is making point-to-point encryption available to large merchants that use Heartland Payment Systems as a processor, a key move as U.S businesses grapple with the migration to chip cards.

Kaspersky Lab has unveiled a cyber-heist in which hackers have already stolen $1 billion from banks across the world. Here's what banks should know about how the hackers did it — and what institutions can do to protect themselves.

The theft of 80 million healthcare records will cost Anthem Blue Cross more than $100-million, and payment companies are also under threat since the incident may result in a spike in false card accounts.

MasterCard is testing whether the time is finally right for biometric authentication to take over as the standard of customer-facing security.

Bankers, technology CEOs and President Obama are throwing everything they have at countering the growing threat of cyber attacks, putting their faith in biometrics, tokenization and data sharing. But it's far from clear that it will be enough.

In a wide-ranging interview, the head of the Cleveland Fed talks about her support for a two-tiered regulatory system, the biggest threats facing the system, interest-rate risk, culture and cybersecurity.

Paying for goods and services over the Internet in a variety of ways, from directly keying-in card details on ecommerce sites, to using online wallets, to paying with your phone, is more consumer friendly than ever.

Banks nationwide are finding ways to make mobile deposit capture available to more people and faster without taking on more fraud risk.

Visa Inc. now supports mobile geo-location technology to reduce transaction declines when consumers travel outside of their home area.

Top executives from Bank of America, U.S. Bancorp, American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Microsoft and Apple are expected to participate as part of a White House summit on cybersecurity issues in California on Friday.