Technology

Credit card issuers are wrong about why card balances are falling — fintechs are luring customers away, according to Wayne Best, Visa's chief economist

Retailers can control traffic flow and simplify payments and checkout, writes Scott Reese, chief technology officer at Harbor Retail.

For several years, independent sales organizations have been warned by colleagues in the merchant acquiring business that they had to keep up with payments technology to remain relevant in the payments ecosystem. And judgment day is fast approaching.

From data privacy to robocalling, industry leaders chime in on the biggest regulatory and congressional issues at stake for the remainder of the year.

More than ever, banks will be leaning on new ATM technology to not only handle the cash that continues to pour into bank branches, but also to manage that cash flow by recycling its use to other customers, right from the machine.

Pursuing collection payments can often be delicate, but there is emerging technology that can take the sting out of that, according to Fico's Tim VanTassel, a vice president at FICO.

Regional and small banks are striking digital partnerships and launching new savings offerings as they attempt to steal away business from bigger institutions.

The San Diego parent of Ascent Student Lending said Tuesday that it will buy Skills Fund, an Austin, Texas, startup that specializes in lending to students at computer-coding boot camps.

Adyen and African fintech Cellulant are working together to expand Adyen’s global payments offering to hundreds of merchants, banks and mobile network operators in Africa.

From improving call center operations to advancements in voice banking and more, distributed ledger technology has the potential to radically improve data security.