Technology

There is always the chance that privileged employees will either become bad actors who use their access to confidential data for their own gain, or that they will succumb to a hacking attempt and thereby open the door to an external bad actor, says Unisys' Maria Allen.

Miami’s mass transit system is adding contactless card payments on its Metrorail service as it combats ridership decline.

While bank stocks flounder, their bonds are seen as a haven against a possible recession; the senator asks bank about overdraft fees on closed accounts.

Credit unions have largely moved past their distrust of fintechs, but plenty of institutions still face challenges when it comes to finding the right vendors.

If firms don't enroll consumers quickly for card accounts, it suggests other elements of the institution may also be suspect, says Kofax's Dermot McCauley.

Banks, for the most part, have not advanced their core digital technologies as quickly as payments networks and disruptors ahead of the original PSD2 deadline. And the European Banking Authority has also cited the payments networks for not advancing the 3D Secure 2.0 online authentication model far enough to comply with PSD2 provisions.

Bluefin cut its teeth developing point-to-point encryption to protect sensitive payment information from being intercepted by thieves during the transaction process, and now it’s adding tokenization protection for the consumer data merchants keep.

By dumping Chase Pay's standalone point of sale app, JPMorgan Chase is handing a victory to the likes of Apple Pay — but it's also eliminating an app that was tangential to the issuer's long-term payments goals.

Capacity, formerly Jane.ai, originally designed its chatbot to answer consumers' questions, but when employees started using it, that gave the startup an idea for a new business line.

Human error makes credit unions vulnerable to cybersecurity threats, but executives can fight this by setting up the right processes and technology.