Technology

With the high-performance and capabilities AI provides, this technology will serve as one of the most valued assets in the future, writes Arushi Srivastava, senior director of public sector for NTT Data Services.

Despite lowering barriers and eliminating borders for commerce, the internet still makes it clunky comparison-shop for products across multiple sites. E-commerce startup Shoppable aims to solve this by creating a universal shopping cart.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued its first "no-action letter" to an online lender that uses alternative data to determine creditworthiness and loan pricing.

The once confrontational relationship between fintech and traditional banking has clearly changed as both sides are finding ways to work together.

In late August, Whole Foods started selling Echos as soon as it completed its sale to the e-commerce giant. It may seem like an odd item to stock at a grocery store, but there's a solid strategy behind it.

Blockchain is already taking a bite out of the fees traditional financial institutions extract from cross-border transactions by providing a workaround that avoids third parties.

Interswitch Ltd., a Nigeria-based payments-processing company, expects to complete its delayed dual listing in London and Lagos before the end of 2019.

By replacing human judgment with other identity technologies, higher levels of verification accuracy can be achieved in a fraction of the time, writes Romana Sachová, co-chair of the Security and Biometrics Workgroup at Mobey Forum.

Rather than waiting one to three days for funds through the Automated Clearing House system, merchants will be able to receive settlement payments straight to their debit cards within minutes through a partnership between Visa and the processor Vantiv.

More than 100 suits have been filed since the company revealed the massive data breach last week; price of digital currency is down 25% since hitting a record high a week ago.