Technology

U.S. fintechs attracted $5.8 billion in the fourth quarter as institutions sought an AI edge.

Erminia Johannson's promotion is part of an effort by BMO Financial to generate more revenue from its U.S. operations.

It’s critical that retailers tailor their marketing campaigns to the evolving shopping behaviors of consumers, including catering to their tendency to wait until the last minute, writes Dani Cushion, chief marketing officer at Cardlytics.

More than 700 million global cyberattacks and 1.7 billion bot attacks took place in 2017, a 44% increase in the attack rate over 2016.

Austrian authorities are asking Interpol to help them track down suspects in an alleged Bitcoin scam that blew up last year and may have hit hundreds of investors in the country and abroad.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s People’s Party is preparing legislation including possible tax breaks to attract companies using blockchain technology.

Digital-assets exchange Coinbase Inc. is releasing a service for merchants to accept Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin payments, and deposit them into their own digital wallets.

R&D capabilities at Interac got a boost last month when Interac Corp. was created by merging Interac Association and Acxys Corp. It brought together a payments network handling nearly 5.7 billion debit transactions annually with a company specializing in payments development, management and consultation.

The cashless society is no longer just a feast for the 527 million Chinese mobile payment users, but to anyone with a solid digital footprint, according to Franklin Chu, managing director for Azoya USA.

This week marks the return of a series of intensive, hands-on training sessions in distributed ledger technologies for credit union executives.