Technology

Recent deals highlight the rush by Europe’s time-honored insurers to get in on the technology that’s changing financial services on Wall Street.

U.S. fuel cards were a relatively complacent niche until a few years ago, when a wave of consolidations and digital innovations transformed the $66 billion-plus industry into a hotbed of competition.

As subscription services get more complicated, the technology required to send bills, process payments and execute marketing campaigns will become harder to manage.

Whether or not retailers are properly guarding their payment hardware and their in-store networks, a bigger issue might just be the workers who have access to retail organizations' data — including both regular staff and temporary holiday workers.

Belmont Savings in Massachusetts isn't trying to fire or replace its employees who work the phones pursuing sales leads, but it has made some technological investments to get more out of them.

The spread of new payment technology and omnichannel commerce are changing the way people shop during the holiday season, even in brick-and-mortar stores. Here are a few noteworthy trends this season.

PNC and First Data see a benefit in tailoring the health care experience with a focus on the consumer, and are working to enable that process by funding a cloud-based IT company that digitizes medical office management.

Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati will record a gain of $9 million during the fourth quarter after selling shares in the payment processor Vantiv.

The Spanish banking giant Santander has withdrawn from the bank consortium R3 CEV, becoming the second defector from the blockchain group this week after Goldman Sachs.

Few of Apple's numerous patent applications make it to market, but if the consumer electronics giant follows through on one filed last week, iPhone users may have the Siri virtual assistant helping them with person-to-person payments through the iMessage platform.