Technology

CPI Card Group in Littleton, Colo., has joined the FIDO Alliance, a consortium of players in the payments security industry that works on improving authentication.

Visa has nabbed an executive from media company Time Inc. to be its chief marketing and communications officer.

To plan for the inevitable, issuers need to consider three essential risk-management strategies including a business continuity and disaster recovery plan, a diversified partner strategy, and continued education for EMV cardholders and merchants.

If mobile wallet developers are banking on young consumers to become early adopters, they should not include college students amongst them.

Discover says it will help consumers seeking to establish or rebuild a credit score by expanding the availability of its Discover It Secured Credit Card, which offers the cash-back rewards and security measures of its mainstream cards.

A new class of fintech startups is using loan applicants' social networks to determine creditworthiness as the banking industry debates the merits of alternate underwriting methods.

Fleet card provider WEX is realizing an unexpected marketing opportunity in preparations for Winter Storm Jonas: Its mobile app can enable snowbound users to instantly locate of the nearest operating gas station.

Reeling from the loss of the Costco account and other setbacks in 2015, American Express is looking to the future the same way any investor might — banking on the diversification of its portfolio to slowly climb back.

Starbucks' new order ahead mobile feature is off to a fast start, handling more than six million transactions per month only three months after the feature's launch.

The future of retail isn't happening behind the counter; it's happening in the aisles, on mobile phones and at a much faster pace than even the Internet can accommodate. And all of these ideas were the subject of excitement and debate at the National Retail Federation's conference in New York.