Technology

First Data Corp. and JotForm are working together on an integration enabling brick-and-mortar merchants to collect payments online more easily, along with detailed information on forms such as electronic signatures.

Payments processor iPayment Inc. is getting back into the merchant cash advance business.

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) will provide U.S. banks with a gateway to The Clearing House's real-time domestic payments platform.

The real lag behind fintech started when banks rested on those online and mobile banking laurels and allowed other players in the mobile space to bypass them in working toward mobile point of sale payment services, writes Jack Jania, senior vice president of strategic payment alliances at Gemalto.

Society has accepted central banks’ monopoly over creating and controlling the flow of money, but history and current technological innovations point to alternative approaches.

Warren Buffett’s firm buys big stake in retail credit card issuer while dumping shares in its former parent, GE; long-awaited update speeds transactions in the digital currency network.

An analysis of a test shows runtime application self-protection (RASP) successfully defends mobile banking apps targeted by BankBot against overlay attacks, writes Frederik Mennes, manager of the security competence center at Vasco Data Security.

Connected devices, mobile and new processing standards require a larger technology upgrade than the quick updates of the past, according to Rajesh Venkatraman, director of worldwide payments at IBM.

Walter Merricks, a consumer ombudsman represented by the U.K. law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, said a tribunal judge's analysis of the case was wrong.

Mastercard and Visa have also opened development centers in India, where digital payments are growing quickly.