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Quickly keeping customers informed about an attack is among the principles banks must adopt to mitigate the fallout.

Cashless payments provider SIX Payment Services has launched a virtual PayLife credit card for making mobile payments in Austria.

The U.K.’s Barclaycard and VocaLink are joining forces to roll out Pay by Bank, an app enabling Barclaycard customers to make purchases on a mobile device without entering payment card details.

The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has introduced real-time payments leveraging blockchain technology from Ripple, providing a new approach for the bank’s UAE-based customers to send and receive payments across borders.

As technology evolves, payment capabilities become more deeply embedded, becoming practically invisible to the end user. This concept works already in specific use cases such as Uber, and many companies have yearned to implement a hands-free payment experience for all of retail.

By partnering with Intuit, Wells Fargo is continuing its journey toward API-based data sharing, and away from screen scraping.

Traditional brick & mortar stores must upgrade and innovate their experiences to again become destinations in their own right in order to lure back spoiled online shoppers.

India's sudden shake-up of its currency system last fall was an early holiday for digital payment companies, and Visa was no exception.

The U.S. government and banks face similar challenges in implementing a biometrics identity system. Both should study what other countries are already doing.