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Bitcoin companies are looking to win business from large corporations by offering more of the security features that traditional payments providers have long used.

An engineering student at Lund University in Sweden has created software that allows shoppers to pay for food by scanning their hands.

SmartMetric plans to introduce a facial identification feature to its biometric payment cards within the next six months.

This rise in data breaches and their resulting cost have companies asking “Am I doing enough to protect my data?” As breaches are expected to continue escalating, taking the proper steps to protect your data has never been more relevant or important.

Visa has created a new top post overseeing risk and public policy and named its next general counsel.

PayPal is recommending that some businesses upgrade their Payflow Gateway integrations to eliminate the risk of vulnerability associated with the widespread Heartbleed bug.

Prepaid program managers face a much different set of considerations than banks do when deciding how to deploy EMV-chip cards in the U.S.

Financial technology firm Fiserv has developed new anti-fraud systems for automated clearinghouse and wire payments.

A lot of merchants may not realize that they are using point of sale technology that runs on Windows XP, which Microsoft will no longer support after April 8.

Class actions related to Target Corp.'s massive data breach will be consolidated in the retailer's home state of Minnesota.