Payment processing

Retailers must decide if they will heed this call and do the right thing by investing in the security we need today and the innovation of tomorrow, contends Jeff Tassey, executive director of the Electronic Payments Coalition.

About a month after Visa's European outage, Mastercard encountered a similar glitch for a brief period of time on Thursday.

Due to regulations that are designed to thwart money laundering, anyone attempting to transact on a global scale will encounter a patchwork of complex laws and local requirements that make payments anything but borderless, writes Brandon Spear, president of MSTS.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is putting its weight behind allegations of insider trading that Heartland Payment Systems has levied against its former CEO.

Banks need to be prepared for increased regulatory scrutiny as they adopt artificial intelligence technologies.

FundKite executives watched the small-business lending sector evolve — and determined that the trend of mobile point of sale providers offering loans and cash advances was limiting the market.

Brexit's implications for the U.K.'s technology industry are deepening political fractures, with no clear answer as to how startups fintechs and challenger banks can operate in the U.K. after it leaves the European Union.

A lack of standardization increases costs and complexity at each bank, opens the door to insecure solutions and hinders adoption by software developers that only have bandwidth to write to one or two open APIs, according to Steve Kirsch, CEO and founder of Token.

A cash management offering by Mastercard and Strands is the latest example of new answers to commercial clients' demands for better digital services.

Paul Galant will leave the CEO post at Verifone in the next few months, following a tenure in which he helped diversify and automate Verifone's merchant acquiring business and led a recovery from a series of strategic and economic missteps.