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Palm scanners for employee log-ins has not only increased data security, but it's also cut down the time employees were spending on authentication procedures.

Though they won’t name names, fintech leaders claim tier-one U.S. banks string them along, fail to communicate, don’t pay anything and, worst of all, out-and-out steal intellectual property.

India’s push to build a broad biometrics-based consumer identity database—now 1 billion strong—has been a boon to Paytm and other mobile payments providers leveraging Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the open-architecture structure supported by India’s government.

Business payments are notoriously resistant to automation and innovation, though there are some signs of digital processing showing up in the education and science market.

The Clearing House has become one of the first Mastercard-certified, third-party token service providers on behalf of issuing banks.

KRACK, combined with other attacks, allows for the reading of pain text username, passwords, credit card numbers as well as the injection of code including ransomware, writes Timothy Crosby, senior security consultant for Spohn.

Bank fires four forex traders, while the OCC slams its auto lending practices; United wants to renegotiate its co-branded credit card agreement with JPM.

Much of the excitement revolves around the development of scaling solutions that may enable Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other blockchains to reach a truly global user base, writes Nick Spanos,founder of the Bitcoin Center.

The biggest innovators in payments aren't necessarily banks, and that's a problem for JPMorgan Chase, which has such a large client base that every startup sees it as a target.

Trading on Friday afternoon pushed the cryptocurrency's market capitalization above $100 billion for the first time ever.