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There's talk of a bubble, but cryptocurrency creates value in different ways, so traditional market analysis doesn’t work, writes Mariam Nishanian, a representative for Dentacoin.

As consumers’ personal information is compromised almost daily, hackers are increasingly targeting banks.

This week's first transaction over The Clearing House's Real-Time Payments system may be a huge step for speeding up payments in the U.S., but it also highlights the long road still ahead.

The most popular P-to-P schemes such as Venmo are still linked to an underlying payment card, meant to benefit “pull” payment incumbents, according to RPGC's Rene Pelegero.

The system went live Monday with a real-time transaction between BNY Mellon and U.S. Bank. Those banks will soon be joined on the network by Citi, JPMorgan, PNC and SunTrust, which together represent the financial industry’s earliest adopters of RTP.

Bipartisan proposal would remove the SIFI label from more than two dozen banks; European regulator cautions investors on the risks as bitcoin price plunges.

Transit transactions will increase card use and loyalty, and will generate the same sort of reputational boost London enjoys with Oyster, writes Andrey Tikhonov, director of payment technology for Infinite Peripherals.

The San Francisco company is one of numerous online lenders that are struggling to become profitable.

Barclaycard is piloting a service to deliver instant digital purchase receipts to customers through a partnership with fintech startup Flux, which launched last year with the aim of eliminating paper receipts.

It is important to have the right layers of security in place, ideally those that evaluate passive and behavioral biometrics, as they are proving to be the most reliable, writes Robert Capps, authentication strategist and vice president of NuData Security.