Payment processing

The goal is to get a better understanding of past incidents, thereby arming the Fed to improve its response as more companies implement faster payments.

Mastercard is testing two new bill payment services, with an eye on improving speed for consumers and businesses.

U.S. Bank wants to disrupt the way consumers pay their bills by offering billers a new platform fit for faster payment rails, new messaging formats and digital assistants.

U.S. Bank has hired payments veteran Peter Gordon to fill a new post as head of emerging payments product and strategy, tapping his years of experience developing real-time payments technology.

PSCU also found in its second-annual payments study that Americans were turning to debit cards over credit cards.

Determined hackers can always find a way. A detailed plan can manage the damage, says Datamatx's Scott Stephens.

Eliminating checks from corporate payments will take many more years, but Nacha’s latest data suggests the B2B category is playing a key role in Same Day ACH's growth.

Galileo has raised $77 million in its first round of venture capital funding backed by Accel and Ryan Smith, CEO of the software firm Qualtrics.

If banks and customers take steps to quickly adapt to the change now, the benefits will soon be realized, says Sage's Adam Prince.

Issuers often offer several types of cards, but cling to older methods of communicating with users, contends BelWo's Doug Cox.