Technology

We are still in the early days of digital finance — but the heated tone of conversations surrounding approaches to data access threatens to keep us there.

PayPal Holdings Inc. said it will make more money in coming years than previously expected, easing concern that recent deals with credit card companies would suppress earnings.

Bluetooth beacons — small transmitters that retailers can use to broadcast offers to shoppers' mobile phones — have always lived at the periphery of the payments world. But that may be changing very soon.

The Wells Fargo scandal is an example of what happens when a system requires you to effectively hand over the keys to your identity to strangers as if you were giving them your car keys. Moreover, it is a call to banks to restore trust and become leaders in fixing the ID problem once and for all.

Fifth Third Bancorp reported higher third-quarter profit on the termination of tax receivables from its Vantiv payments subsidiary and several other one-time items.

Walmart Stores Inc. has hit the reset button on its China strategy in dramatic fashion.

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Combining biometrics with device ID, social data, behavior patterns and other factors builds a strong foundation for artificial intelligence to conduct identity proofing and transaction authorization.

While card issuers took a step in the right direction by replacing the fraud-prone magnetic stripe cards of the past, they made many missteps that complicated and weakened the EMV transition.

Alfred F. Kelly Jr. may be planning to run Visa his own way, but he will still face the same challenges his predecessor did. Here are a few of Visa's most immediate issues.

The fact that the number of cybersecurity incidents affecting companies is rising at an alarming rate year over year hardly raises eyebrows anymore.