Technology

Compared to the United States, other geographies have seemingly had an easier task to bring real time payments to market – simply based on their size.

More banks are showing interest in developing their own branded mobile wallets, and Visa has launched a platform to make that possible.

The same multichannel shopping and payment experiences that are designed to reduce cart abandonment may also pose hard-to-spot vulnerabilities that can threaten information security.

Her prepaid card may have been short-lived, but superstar Kim Kardashian West still has opinions about payments.

Oberthur Technologies has teamed with Chinese smartwatch maker Mobvoi and China UnionPay (CUP), to add contactless payments technology to Mobvoi’s popular Ticwatch.

Embracing technology that gives innovators access to their platforms will provide banks with the upgrade they sorely need.

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or Swift, has the ability to oversee security on its network and demand far more of its members to coordinate those efforts. But its current structure may not be the best suited to do that.

To account for the heightened questioning and investigations around the Panama Papers hack, people need to “legal-up” and issuers, financial institutions and processors need to “gear-up” for expected spikes in work related to due diligence, more precise monitoring of transactions, payments and sanctions filtering, possible ad-hoc examination and possible fines.

Comments by JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon have added fuel to the long-discussed idea of a national database that would make it easier for banks to vet customers for anti-money-laundering and other risks.

Verifone and its beacon technology provider Footmarks are partnering with Allrecipes.com and grocery retailer Marc’s in Ohio to deliver meal recommendations to shoppers.