Online payments

More than 212 million biometric authentication devices will be shipped over the next decade for use in financial services, according to recent Tractica market research.

Visa's online payment service, Visa Checkout, has added 33 more merchants and won the support of new issuers in China and the United Arab Emirates.

Stripe's quick disruption of the payment processing industry in the U.K. is measurable in at least one simple way — counting clicks.

As banks work to understand potential tech threats to their traditional business lines, Leader Bank in Massachusetts has built its own software to usurp one of its services — lockboxes used by landlords.

The Tel Aviv-based fraud prevention provider Forter insists that the legacy security model for e-commerce won't scale enough to combat the sharp rise in fraud coming in the post-EMV economy.

Harper Reed and Dylan Richard first burst onto Chicago's tech scene as part of Barack Obama's 2012 reelection team, and their social media wizardry is often credited for keeping the president in the White House.

MasterCard and First Tech Federal Credit Union are testing a system that might be the picture-perfect solution to the expected rise in e-commerce fraud following the October shift to EMV security in the U.S.

Information technology firm Infosys and digital payments company Payveris have partnered on a new service for bill payment and money management for credit union and community bank customers.

The recent explosion of mobile commerce and payments would not have been possible without open and sharable technology, and the credit union service organization CO-OP Financial Services aims to duplicate that success with its own technology.

Western Union has added several European countries to its WU.com online money transfer service, using an omni-channel strategy to fuel its expansion.

Envestnet in Chicago has agreed to buy Yodlee, the operator of a personal finance management and bill payment platform.

Twitter is reportedly integrating with Shopify and other e-commerce companies to find merchants to support its buy button.

China's central bank on Friday proposed a series of restrictions that may restrict overall e-commerce activity rather than simply funnel it through the state-controlled banking system.

E-commerce payment service provider Payfort has begun offering its merchant clients in Arab countries support for monthly payment plans.

American Express and Best Buy will allow consumers to make purchases on the retailer’s website using the reward points earned from their Amex spending.

Max Levchin, founder and chief executive of point of sale credit startup Affirm and co-founder of PayPal, has resigned from his position as chairman of Yelp's board.

PayPal this week released new research predicting a robust market in China for U.S. retailers, a bullish outlook that’s not being tempered by the vast selloffs in the Chinese financial markets.

Visa is partnering with and investing in Stripe, fueling the processing startup's international ambitions and product development while giving the card network added juice to build new technology.

PayPal's gotten off to a rousing start as an independent company, but Visa CEO Charlie Scharf doesn't appear to be worried.

E-commerce fraud management platform provider Ethoca has raised $45 million in investment after significant growth last year.