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Up-to-date operating systems, anti-phishing tools and good backup should keep banks and CUs safe from ransomware. Can your institution check off those boxes?

Up-to-date operating systems, anti-phishing tools and good backup should keep banks safe from ransomware. Can your bank check off those boxes?

As payments innovation expands and diversifies, retailers will need to find ways to deftly embed low-touch payments into omnichannel shopping.

Despite a flood of new technology options, e-commerce still hasn't cracked the code of convincing shoppers to complete their purchases once they arrive on the checkout page.

Verifone and Global Payments are the latest payments industry providers to try speeding up the EMV checkout process, with each company agreeing to adopt Mastercard’s M/Chip Fast technology.

Every year, payments experts gather at SourceMedia's Card Forum to discuss the trends shaping our industry. Here are some of the major topics discussed at this year's event in Austin, Texas.

The U.S. shift to EMV technology has dramatically reduced levels of counterfeit card fraud, but merchants and the card networks are divided on whether it caused the expected shift of fraud to digital channels.

Executives at the embattled bank made clear Thursday that they are not discarding its long-standing strategy of selling additional products to existing customers.

There's an outbreak of email and telephone hoaxes in France falsely attributed to the country's central bank, as criminals multiply attempts to steal credentials from French companies and consumers, the Bank of France said.

In banking, as in any other industry, a company's brand is a precious commodity. But as the digital economy matures, card issuers are finding a greater need to hand the reins over to their partners.