Well before the mobile payments explosion, incumbents were already focused on how to respond to nonbanks "piggybacking" on banks' payments infrastructure. As the consultant behind a 1994 banking industry report on the threat put it, "there is no time for delay."

In the ongoing melee between the two major players, strong authentication has been put on the backburner in favor of the respective economies of implementing chip card technology.

New research findings challenge common assumptions about borrower behavior, illustrating how trended data — something mortgage lenders will soon be required to collect — could be a game-changer.

The debate over speeding up payments transactions should consider the necessity of allowing consumers time to rethink and abort their purchases.

As drilling has slowed, energy firms have had to lay off workers, many of whom are falling behind on their bills – compounding the troubles of banks already dealing with higher commercial loan delinquencies in the same markets.

Everyone agrees that electronic transactions should be as safe as possible, but a PIN mandate will not prevent online or mobile fraud.

A former Citibank payments specialist has been appointed to the board of Meta Financial Group in Sioux Falls, S.D.

WASHINGTON — Seven financial trade groups announced Monday that they are banding together to push legislation that would extend banklike data security standards to retailers and nonbank businesses.

Discover's new consumer credit information product provides FICO scores and a summary of the data that determines that score.

Synchrony Financial, the credit card lender that was recently spun off from General Electric, is considering an expansion into small-business lending.