Data and information management

Atlanta-based bitcoin payment processor BitPay has suffered a phishing attack costing the company $1.8 million.

Alliance Data Systems has agreed to work with Toyota on a new line of private-label credit cards and to manage the Japanese automaker's existing co-branded card program.

Visa's ATM biometric trial in South Africa has the potential to spread a security technology that has encountered resistance in other parts of the world, including the U.S.

Royal Bank of Canada's marching ahead on two innovations designed to help it blanket the country's mature point of sale and connected devices.

Fintech firm Tanium says it has found a unique method for securing the tens of thousands of vulnerable points in the computer networks of banks and other companies.

Banks are starting to lay traps for cybercriminals that have broken through their defenses.

PeerIQ, which provides data to firms that invest in marketplace loans, has raised $2.5 million in early-stage financing.

Any EMV detractors saying the two-decade-old security against counterfeit cards has long passed its time are likely not aware of what the future has in store for the chip-based technology.

Blockchain technology associated with Bitcoin has caught the eye of bankers, but now comes the hard part: figuring out where it can be used — international payments, treasury services or elsewhere — without wasting a lot of time and money in experimentation.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week, including banks' subpar shareholder value and how big-data advocates can better communicate with critics who worry about the technology's potential discriminatory effects.

The Federal Reserve has named Todd Aadland—who had been a senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank Of Chicago—as its new payments security strategy leader. Aadland will also chair the Secure Payments Task Force.

Loss prevention firm Global Risk Technologies and Quatrro Processing have entered a strategic partnership to take advantage of the growing demand for fraud technology following major data breaches.

Barclays has introduced a cloud-based contingency payment service for corporate clients.

Orchard Platform, which provides services to institutional investors in the marketplace lending industry, has raised $30 million in additional funding.

With the EMV liability shift less than a month away, U.S. merchants have far more on their plates than merchants in other countries had when only weeks from migrating to chip-based payment cards.

Iron Mountain, the leading provider of document storage, is buying its main rival. If the merged company tried to raise prices, it might be the final straw that motivates banks to shift data storage to the cloud.

Private label and co-brand card provider Alliance Data Systems Corp. has released an EMV co-brand card that features tap-and-pay functionality.

Concerned about security, the Australian Parliament is recommending that all contactless transactions, which it defines as including Near Field Communication (NFC), default to opt out, meaning shoppers would have to proactively opt-in to use the technology.

Visual hacking has emerged as a dangerously straightforward way to pierce banks' complex security systems. Here's how banks can ward off malevolent shoulder-surfers.

Securing transactions by matching a user to his or her mobile device has existed for some time, but two major trends connected to payments will likely bring that technology to the forefront, according to InAuth CEO Lisa Stanton.