Technology

Mastercard is betting its $920 million investment in the U.K.'s VocaLink gives it a significant edge in many emerging technologies, particularly in regions where it is lagging Visa in traditional card-based business lines.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's recent guidance on internal messaging software could impose significant hardships on banks and runs contrary to prevailing guidance on cybersecurity.

PayPal Holdings Inc. and Visa Inc. may unveil an agreement regarding data sharing, security measures and consumer choices on accounts linked to PayPal transactions, analysts said ahead of the companies’ earnings reports.

So here we are, just weeks out from a post-Brexit vote world, and a cloud of uncertainty hangs over the U.K. as it is left to try and carve out its new place in this new paradigm.

It is no secret to e-commerce merchants that Amazon, one of the giants in its field, has succeeded in part because it can make fast decisions about whether a transaction is legit or has fraud written all over it. And these decisions have to look at more than just whether a shopper is using a stolen card.

American Express Co., the biggest U.S credit-card issuer by purchases, said second-quarter profit rose 37 percent as customers increased spending and the company booked a $1 billion gain from the sale of its Costco Wholesale Corp. portfolio.

Paris-based SlimPay, which built a following among European consumers using its service to make online purchases directly from their bank accounts, is broadening its reach to the U.S.

HSBC is adding Samsung Pay support in the U.S., given the bank's customers access to all three of the major device operator-driven mobile payment systems.

Confusion among bankers on what real-time ACH payments are and how the transactions are processed is a major barrier to adoption in the U.S. Here's what banks need to know.

More big banks are committing to their digital wallet strategies, creating the opportunity to extend their brands into new realms as payments and shopping go mobile under their own brands—but there are some notable holdouts.