Technology

Several community banks are turning their bright ideas into cold hard cash by selling or licensing products to other institutions.

Both major brands are accelerating a move away from traditional checkout, and all retailers need to make adjustments for the future.

Merchants should check operating systems, since the PC-based operating systems which run most legacy point of sale software have security flaws and are targets for malware.

The payments messaging network Swift has told its client banks that the threat of cyberattacks "is very persistent, adaptive and sophisticated — and it is here to stay."

The payments messaging network Swift has told its client banks that the threat of cyberattacks "is very persistent, adaptive and sophisticated — and it is here to stay."

In expanding its work with Facebook, American Express has introduced the Add a Card feature on its bot for Facebook Messenger.

The recent history of mobile wallets includes a lot of crashes and failures, but the people behind those projects are still around and are wiser for their experiences.

Banks and data aggregators agree that screen scraping is a practice probably best left behind. In the coming year, the two might get better at sharing data via APIs.

Too many data breach reports show that companies suffering compromises were unaware that cardholder data was present in their systems. The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council wants to fix this.

The core-tech vendor Fiserv has agreed to buy Online Banking Solutions in Atlanta.