Merchant

Millennials view the ATM as central to how they manage their money and go about their daily lives, writes Yonas Marcos, president and CEO of Star Financial Services.

When EMV chip cards were launched in the U.S., the initial fear in the security and payment industries was that fraud would migrate to e-commerce. But the migration has actually moved further along to the more lucrative venue of real-time Fed-mandated ACH payments.

Blockchain's decentralized model can help avoid the "insiders-only" tendencies of centralized markets while distributing risk, contends Donika Kraeva, strategic communications manager at Dentacoin.

The legislation, which still needs Senate approval, would let the head of the Small Business Administration raise the program's cap in periods of heavy demand.

Among the findings, credit unions may not be doing enough to protect against malware, which involved in nearly 40 percent of hacking incidents, as well as Trojan botnets and denial of service attacks.

The restaurant technology is a category-specific move that mirrors a broader strategy at Square, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the past few months to round out its merchant services products.

There are merchants that accept bitcoin. But it's still hard to pay with cryptocurrency, and that's holding it back as a payment option.

The online business lender would have reported its second straight quarterly profit if not for one-time costs tied to layoffs and lease terminations.

This deal is the fifth investment for Gulf Capital in the technology sector and is part of its efforts to develop the payment and digital financial transaction sector in the area.

Microsoft will use the Stripe Connect platform to enable hundreds of millions of Outlook users to immediately pay invoices and bills received via email in more than 135 countries.