Technology

The British machine learning technology company Featurespace is boosting its expansion strategy in the U.S. by arguing that fraud-fighting technology can improve on its own through experience.

Since e-commerce retailers often don't have the same personal relationships as traditional retail, it can be harder to dispute chargebacks.

Two related and equally humiliating cases of high-level bankers completely falling for fake emails illustrate the dangers of social engineering and the need to better protect executives and other employees from themselves.

Big-box retailers have beat back banks’ latest attempt to kill a legislative provision that has cost lenders billions of dollars in lost revenue. Known as the Durbin Amendment, the measure was included in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act to limit how much money banks can charge retailers when consumers use their debit cards.

Messaging app Kik Interactive is the latest and potentially most well-established company to delve into a quirky new form of fundraising -- creating its own digital currency.

The credit union was credited with "pioneering" use of biometrics capabilities in-branch.

At the recent Google Marketing Next event in San Francisco, Google revealed a new service designed to close the loop between online advertising and offline card payments. It's a service that should have marketers salivating, but it could easily backfire.

Contactless cards are becoming the global standard for most markets except in the U.S., where tap-to-pay card distribution lags far behind the rest of the world, according to the Smart Payment Association (SPA), a Munich-based organization that tracks global card manufacturer data.

CityBase would like to eliminate the significant difficulties consumers face when paying bills to government entities — and in doing so, lay the foundation of a more digital form of conducting business.

As volume grows, fraud and security risk will expand as well. Merchants and issuers can't afford to avoid the extra work to secure the channel.