Merchant

Visa and Mastercard are once again in the crosshairs of U.S. antitrust regulators over policies that can prohibit merchants from routing card transactions over alternative debit networks.

Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order Wednesday establishing a board that would come up with a plan to create a public bank in New Jersey.

Adyen has traditionally focused on streamlining card acceptance, processing and settlement for online payments, and now it wants control more of the merchant relationship by enabling merchants to issue virtual and physical payment cards.

The Clearing House is pushing contract terms that would give fintechs quicker access to consumers' financial information, but one large upstart has taken issue with the proposal's language.

Multichannel payment technology provider Ingenico Group is partnering with Singapore fintech Pundi X to deliver a point-of-sale terminal that can accept crypto payments.

If measuring PCI-DSS compliance was like tracking an athletic team's progress, one could say it was in a bad slump.

Doug Clare explains how the organization uses artificial intelligence to spot crime rings and skimmers.

Community bank leaders at an ABA-hosted meeting questioned the timing for a new accounting standard for loan losses and discussed their struggles to keep pace with new technology.

Alibaba's Singles Day e-commerce marketing event set another record, suggesting Asia's giant digital payments market shows no signs of slowing down.

The challenge is to digitize digital currency rewards in such a way where a retailer could issue its own token, and that token could be used at a multitude of retailers, says cryptocurrency lawyer Felix Shipkevich.