Technology

Dwolla and Plaid are collaborating to add protection to Automated Clearing House payments.

The company that made its name refinancing student loans plans to delve deeper into originations after a trial run of sorts.

Kosta Peric, deputy director of digital payments and financial services for the poor at the Gates Foundation, discusses his efforts to expand access to low-cost financial services in developing countries.

Payments and financial services technology are still stuck in yesteryear, chained to paper and dangerously prone to fraud, according to Matt Streisfeld, a principal at Oak HC/FT.

As the smartphones become ATM cards, a new set of security risks emerges. Thorough ID protection is necessary to keep no-card ATMs secure.

Amazon is using its substantial scale to rapidly diversify beyond its e-commerce core, with its latest move being a self-service subscription hub.

D+H Corp. has opened its technology to U.S. banks for testing on The Clearing House’s real-time clearing and settlement network in the next phase of development of faster payments.

Allen, Texas-based Giact Systems is combining its identity and payment verification tools into a single platform called Epic.

Attacks on ATMs and point-of-sale machines are getting more sophisticated and frequent. Crooks are trying to get as much use as they can out of their skimming devices before the migration to chip cards is complete.

Chatbots have been percolating for a while as the next big channel for commerce and P-to-P payments, and the technology hit a fever pitch last week with a slew of high-profile merchant announcements that suggest the technology has reached a turning point.