Technology

Bill Donnelly was named the first-ever finance chief at San Francisco-based LendUp.

No matter what the new tool is, you can almost bet it will come with its share of disruption to the very people who invented it, writes Kim Curley, director of people and organizational change for NTT Data Services FSI Business Consulting.

Amid the rise of online lending earlier this decade, banks were derided as being too slow to adapt. But over time it's become clear that banks hold key advantages over lending startups.

For most retailers heading into this year’s holiday-season sales crunch, the epic Equifax data breach was only the latest in a series of escalating threats that are having a profound effect on the way they handle payments.

China enacted sweeping changes to a business competition law to address fraud in the e-commerce industry, which is plagued by malfeasance ranging from fake positive reviews to merchants goosing sales numbers.

NetEase Inc., China’s second-largest video game publisher, is deepening a push into e-commerce with plans to increase spending on products from the U.S., Europe and Japan to sell to local consumers.

Customer service is steadily expanding within Facebook separate from its payments operations, as part of “an ecosystem for buying.”

Because marketplaces are the fastest growing channel in the e-commerce space, many retailers and sellers that have multiple e-commerce channels will see Amazon’s service as a logical next step, writes Victor Rosenman, CEO of Feedvisor.

During his time as Fed governor, chair-designate Jerome Powell has outlined his views on a host of bank regulatory matters, including the need for regulatory relief, the push for housing finance reform, blockchain and much more.

Four executives who sold stock after the company discovered a security breach had no knowledge of the incident when they made the trades, the company said. However, the status of federal investigations is unclear.