Technology

In a relationship-based business, it’s not enough to sell your customers a sharp tool to pay for things. You also have to help them avoid cutting themselves with it.

Price of digital currency jumps 24% in first day of futures trading; Jay Clayton tells buyers to beware, then halts an initial coin offering.

Atos SE made a 4.3-billion-euro ($5.06 billion) unsolicited bid for Gemalto NV with the backing of the French state’s investment bank, seeking to create a European leader in cybersecurity, digital technologies and payment services.

For merchants, a processor that’s a tad better, a bit more comprehensive, can make an enormous difference, writes Eric Grover, a principal at Intrepid Ventures.

It may not yet be apparent, but we are on the cusp of a seismic change in our relationship with the automobile. This change will have significant implications for stakeholders in the banking and payments landscape.

Can preferential loan terms encourage environmentally friendly practices among corporate borrowers? Barclays, BNP Paribas, and Standard Chartered are working with fintechs — and even Prince Charles — to develop a blockchain to answer that question.

The cryptocurrency proved so popular it triggered two temporary trading halts on CBOE's Global Markets exchange.

A previously unknown ring of Russian-speaking hackers has stolen as much as $10 million from U.S. and Russian banks in the last 18 months, according to a Moscow-based cyber-security firm that runs the largest computer forensics laboratory in eastern Europe.

The risks of fraud, along with the current reputation of such currencies as often being used for money laundering and other criminal activities, has caused worry in the market, writes John Verver, and advisor to ACL.

The five-year window on HSBC's deferred prosecution agreement connected to a money laundering case expires; profile says outgoing Fed Chairman Janet Yellen has become "a pop culture phenomenon."