Technology

The technology behind the snazzy new “bots” Facebook is rolling out for its Messenger chat app has enormous potential to internalize payments within social media experiences like shopping, travel and entertainment in new, more relevant ways.

Biometric authentication is coming to numerous e-commerce merchants who may not realize that it will be a part of their checkout process, depending on the issuers involved.

President Barack Obama has appointed MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga to an administrative commission focusing on Web security.

The inadvertent downloading of thousands of consumer records to a thumb drive at the FDIC could happen anywhere. Here's a look at what the FDIC did right and what it could have done better.

With fraudsters gearing up to assault mobile wallets, U.S. financial institutions considering a bank-branded mobile wallet would be wise to take note of the lessons learned when Apple Pay made its debut in the fall of 2014.

If the EMV chip-card migration in the U.S. taught the payments industry anything, it's that some players meet compliance deadlines, while others let them slip by.

The U.S. migration to EMV chip technology – intended to reduce card fraud, provide global interoperability, and enable safer payment transactions – may prove to be a valuable move for more than just the payments industry.

Airbnb, the company that disrupted the hospitality industry as Uber did to taxis, is sidling up to the fintech space.

Suddenly, online lenders are struggling, or paying higher prices, to attract the institutional money that has fueled their rapid rise.

Visa insists that EMV chip card transactions take no longer to process than magstripe transactions do, but it is aware that many consumers disagree.