Technology

Users of virtual currencies like bitcoin are backing an industry group to oppose tax authorities’ efforts to collect detailed information about the customers of a popular digital currency exchange.

After two years of development and fundraising, Kerv Wearables says it is launching the Kerv Ring as a contactless payment device using a Mastercard prepaid account and the card brand's EMV chip technology.

Banks and consumer rights groups appear to have found unusual common ground in the debate over screen scraping, asking the CFPB to weigh in on the application of certain regulations to fintech companies that aggregate financial data on customers' behalf.

Credit union tech leaders share their insights on what it takes to get started in data analytics and what’s holding many credit unions back.

A previously unreleased paper lays out the pros and cons for banks of technologies designed to restore confidentiality on shared ledgers.

The app economy has grown big enough now that many of the early rules no longer apply.

Experts shared insight and strategies into collecting, analyzing and using big data at the Credit Union Analystics Summit.

Just as Intuit has to find a way to meld consumer and business technology for accounting in the 1990s, financial institutions have the same challenge, and opportunity, today with small business payments technology.

Startups in the payday lending space say their use of artificial intelligence is allowing them to make better loans at lower rates with fewer defaults.

Verifone is checking into a breach of its computer network, reports security blogger Brian Krebs.