Online payments

When e-commerce fraud spikes, it can be tempting for merchants to pile on more controls and risk turning away otherwise legitimate transactions that appear to be fraudulent. The alternative is often to shut off these controls altogether and leave themselves vulnerable to criminals.

The mobile device and its embedded technology can make a strong combination to protect user ID, and comply with new European regulations for security.

Linking payments accounts to public profiles is a convenience that makes digital payments as easy as typing a tweet, but after a high-profile trolling incident involving one of President Trump's closest colleagues, it seems there are still issues to work out.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reduced investments in PayPal Holdings Inc., Nuance Communications Inc. and Freeport-McMoRan Inc., according to a regulatory filing Tuesday.

The growing number of Chinese consumers traveling to the U.S. and other countries is becoming a two-for-one opportunity for payment companies. The market's gigantic and growing — and it has a lot of trouble executing transactions.

You’d think financial institutions and retailers in the U.S., with a long list of EMV migration examples to look to in other countries, would have been prepared for fraudsters shifting their attention to e-commerce after security improved at the point of sale. But e-fraud is on the rise, so what's happening?

Consumers want to use e-commerce, digital payments and other new card innovations, but are still wary of fraud. Here's how to help them get over that fear.

Most talk around bots is decidedly consumer-focused, enabling ways for people to schedule an Uber or order lunch. But PayPal, in working with the business chat client Slack, is setting a much different tone.

Swedish payment company Klarna has entered a deal to buy BillPay, a German consumer financing company, bolstering Klarna's merchant reach in central Europe

Traditional brick & mortar stores must upgrade and innovate their experiences to again become destinations in their own right in order to lure back spoiled online shoppers.