Technology

Some banks have backed away from the technology, but Northern Trust, State Street and JPMorgan Chase are among those actively working on blockchain projects.

Apple's App Store was a game changer for mobile payments. But Apple's ecosystem was also very much a digital Wild West, with app developers and Apple itself sometimes running afoul of regulators and legal authorities.

The short-term disruption is worth the benefits of improved security and user experience, writes IIya Dubinsky, head of the CTO office at Credorax.

Traditional authentication practices are incapable of meeting the real-time demands, writes Frank Teruel, senior vice president and general manager of ThreatMetrix.

As fintechs race to reinvent transit payments, Uber's laying the groundwork in Denver to make sure it takes a leading position.

Most financial institutions can’t compete on pay, but there are other advantages they can offer, including agile development.

Despite the technology advancements of the past decade, many consumers still provide spoken card details over the phone to company call centers. The practice has triggered security concerns throughout the payments industry.

Sens. Mike Crapo and Sherrod Brown are asking Facebook about its consumer financial data collection practices as they consider data privacy legislation.

Amazon is undeniably a juggernaut in the realm of e-commerce and digital payments — but its journey was filled with missteps and failed experiments.

Solving open banking's challenges requires a whole new approach to international payments beyond basic open development, says Marten Nelson, co-founder of Token.io.