Payments

Ant references data breaches connected to Euronet and warns of job losses if the European company were to acquire MoneyGram.

Final is a combination of a virtual and plastic card that brings an 'as-a-service' model to card issuance.

Shelton Shugar, the new CIO of Barclaycard U.S., shares his thoughts on fintechs, the merits of cloud computing and paying through Amazon Alexa.

From fraud to ongoing EMV issues and the challenge of getting to the top of consumers' wallets, there are no shortage of payments challenges facing credit unions.

Facebook is enhancing is transaction technology as payments increase in popularity on messaging apps.

Shugar has previously held technology positions at eBay, Yahoo, Verisign and The Thomson Corp., among other companies.

Harland Clarke's acquisition of RetailMeNot provides a broader range of marketing technology to serve merchants that are looking to improve mobile-driven sales against competitors such as Shopkick and Foursquare.

As mobile apps that allow consumers to order and pay before reaching the retailer expand, traditional hardware providers are rushing to adopt the technology, as evidenced by Ingenico's expanded Five Guys deployment.

Given the spike in online fraud that accompanies the chip card migration, there are a lot of new authentication methods. Most of them still rely on information that's not dymanic and vulnerable.

The company's selling product that's similar to a store-branded card, but without the physical plastic. It hopes to appeal to small or midsize stores that don't want to run their own credit programs.

Payment and marketing company Harland Clarke Holdings has agreed to buy the popular online coupon site RetailMeNot for an equity value of $630 million, a deal that would add digital discount technology to Harland's existing merchant services.

First Data is teaming up with the bank to deepen the pool of knowledge and connections from which startups in the program can benefit.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi and PNC Bank are the first three banks to adopt the service, which is aimed at customers who use Visa commercial cards to buy supplies from Amazon Business.

A technology development program will provide access to mentors and collaboration for developers.

Bank of America has added new features to its mobile banking app in an effort to build flexibility in mobile wallet options and more closely tie payments to financial services.

Both standards are confusing and not universally adopted. But both are a necessary baseline to protect merchants and payment companies.

With big companies frequently set in their ways for how they make cross-border payments, most innovation is targeted toward smaller shops that make fewer payments to foreign suppliers. But that isn't always the case.

A new company, bridge21, says it is using bitcoin to allow users to send money from the United States to Mexico at better rates than traditional payments companies.

Australian regulations recently denied banks the right to negotiate with Apple Inc. to directly add Apple Pay to their digital apps, but the victory may do little for Apple, considering consumers in the country appear to have little interest in using mobile wallets.

Switzerland's UBS is adopting an advanced type of digital signature technology, with a range of uses that include the capability to secure high-risk digital payments.