Technology

Stressing a need to address security in mobile payments and banking, ASC X9 has introduced a new standard — essentially part three of its wireless safety efforts, focusing on the management and security of mobile commerce implementations.

Blockchain and crypto will continue to have a revolutionary effect by presenting huge opportunities for how charities and beneficiaries interact, according to Nydia Zhang, co-founder and chairman of Social Alpha Foundation.

Brian Brooks, the mortgage giant's general counsel, is leaving this week to head the legal team at Coinbase.

State regulators and advocacy groups say a federal breach notification standard could supersede state laws that already benefit consumers.

Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos sees eliminating meal-time logjams in busy cities as the best way for Amazon to reinvent the brick-and-mortar shopping experience, where most spending still occurs

The Pittsburgh bank joins Bank of America and other large financial players in a distributed-ledger network that seeks to make global payments in real time.

Participation by all members of the global payments ecosystem is encouraged through EMVCo's work to secure card-present transactions and incorporate broader applications.

The single-platform transfer is part of London-based Moneycorp's full integration of Commonwealth FX, a U.S.-based corporate international payments business it acquired at the start of the year —and part of a strategy to expand its U.S. market.

Once personal and financial information is accessible to criminals, it feeds the pipeline of future cybercrime for years to come, writes Ryan Wilk, vice president of customer success for NuData Security.

Hackers are illegally generating Monero, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies by exploiting a software flaw that was leaked from the U.S. government, raising questions about the security of one of the fastest-growing corners of financial markets.