Technology

Stellar, a Silicon Valley-based non-profit organization and blockchain platform that connects banks and payments systems, has gone global with partnerships in India, the Philippines, Africa and Europe.

Large financial services firms are right to fight data-aggregation access, but they'll lose this fight to arguments based on innovation and "inclusion" if they do not quickly enhance their own value proposition.

The opening of the 2016 holiday season, which marks the first full year since the country's major EMV fraud liability shift, is proving what data security experts feared all along.

Amazon’s latest attempt to disrupt retail—a store that automatically handles the whole checkout and payment process via an app—is a concept that could have far-reaching effects as the millennial generation brings its digital expectations into the brick-and-mortar world.

Shopping practices have changed forever, and they aren’t done changing.

Mobile could become the one-stop shop that banking companies never quite achieved, blending basic banking, wealth management and other services, if efforts like those underway at Citigroup's fintech unit succeed.

A Johannesburg startup is set to become the first company ever to manufacture smartphones in Africa, taking advantage of low costs and growing local demand to build handsets, tablets and other devices based on Google Inc.’s Android system.

The U.S. may never face the type of crisis sparked in India through a government decision to recall high-currency bills to curb fraud. But the countries and their financial institutions have something in common — they welcome any technology that introduces digital money in lieu of cash.

While there are a handful of payment pilots underway, the real benefit of blockchain for banks is a long-term proposition--and most early projects will be internal.

As Starbucks prepares to transition its top executives into new roles, it helps to look back on its history in mobile payments and examine how its management structure helped this plan. Here are a few of the key decisions the company made.