An acquisition as large as Fiserv's deal to buy First Data has lots of moving parts, but one big piece may be a new First Data product that's designed to improve the vexing problem of payment approvals.

The fraud challenge faced by issuers and merchants alike has become increasingly complex over the last few years with the prevalence of e-commerce and cross-border payments. Visa's response to these trends has benefited heavily from the global scale it got by reabsorbing Visa Europe in 2016.

As bots dominate new internet traffic, their ability to help crooks launch account attacks and exploit personal information has never been higher, says NuData Security's Robert Capps.

EMV 3DS is no longer just for payments. The use cases for identification and verification (ID&V) are expanding, so the scope of EMV 3DS has become much broader to include adding cards to a digital wallet, open banking services and financial services apps, etc., writes Jean Fang, product manager at Fime.

With millions of Americans struggling with Alzheimer’s and other diseases of the brain, there are ways for credit unions to better serve older members.

Banks and merchants absorb billions of dollars in payment card fraud annually, but it's not for a lack of tools designed to stifle that fraud. It's becoming increasingly apparent that those tools simply aren't being used to their fullest capabilities.

The agency's vote Thursday threatens to block many of the industry's communications with customers, though financial institutions did win one concession.

The agency's vote Thursday threatens to block many of the industry's communications with customers, though banks did win one concession.

The U.K.’s Nationwide Building Society has invested in Ordo, a fintech that protects consumers from invoice and payments fraud by allowing billers to send payment requests directly to it.

Less than a month after Municipal was placed into conservatorship, former CEO Kam Wong received a 66-month prison sentence along with an order to repay millions he embezzled from the credit union.

Stripe has launched Chargeback Protection through its machine-learning fraud prevention system called Radar.

Companies must be more prepared to defend user data from malicious outsiders, or suffer the consequences of lawsuits, sanctions from data privacy laws, decreased user trust, tarnished brand reputation, damaged investor relations and more, writes Ben Goodman, vice president of global strategy and innovation at ForgeRock.

The anti-bribery law that Stephen Calk is accused of breaking carries stiff penalties — up to 30 years in prison — but violations can be relatively hard to prove because prosecutors must establish the defendant had a corrupt state of mind.

While Noah Bank’s CEO has been accused of self-dealing in connection with SBA loans, its chairman says the directors had a succession plan ready to go and are rallying to rescue the bank’s reputation.

Facebook and Google were scammed out of more than $100 million, though artificial intelligence can help firms improve security, according to Anant Kale, founder and CEO of AppZen.

Albert Ko, who had been the chief transformation officer of Intuit, says he will work to improve Zelle's interface to make it more appealing to consumers.

While advanced push payment fraud has dominated the headlines in recent years, another type of scam has been costing U.K. businesses millions — even though many companies are completely unaware of it.

Data protection strategies need to consider how data travels and how that impacts vulnerabilities and breach risk, according to comforte AG's Jonathan Deveaux.

Insecure software development and insufficient use of security best practices creates significant risk for both consumers and commercial organizations alike, writes Carl Wright, CCO of AttackIQ.

Charges against Stephen Calk indicate he lied to regulators about what he knew when he approved loans to Paul Manafort, as well as his interest in landing a job in the Trump administration.