Mastercard will launch its “selfie pay” system in the Asia-Pacific region next year, expanding the global reach of its biometric identity-verification service for online payments to more markets as part of a gradual worldwide rollout.

Behavioral biometrics has already stopped several million dollars worth of online banking fraud at National Westminster Bank in London.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a proposal Thursday that asks the public to weigh in on consumer access to financial information, part of a fight between banks and fintech companies about the sharing and control of consumer records.

The global conglomerate Koch Industries plans to invest $2 billion in Infor, an enterprise software provider for various industries including financial services.

Post Office Employees FCU in Shreveport, La., has selected Sharatec System as its new core provider.

Credit unions can learn about cybersecurity and how to strengthen relations with digital vendors through a webinar hosted by the National Credit Union Administration.

The global conglomerate Koch Industries plans to invest $2 billion in Infor, an enterprise software provider for various industries including financial services.

OfferUp, a secondhand mobile marketplace, closed its latest funding round $11 million higher than previously reported and added PayPal co-founder Max Levchin as an investor.

In ancient mythology, Chinese unicorns are lucky, rare creatures that appear to mark the arrival or death of a great leader, like Confucius. Today, China's tech unicorns -- private companies valued at $1 billion or more -- are far more commonplace and look increasingly cursed.

The once-booming market for reloadable prepaid cards has seen a slowdown in new-account growth in recent years amid heavier competition and consolidation, causing longtime providers to look for ways to stand out in a crowded field.

With 14 million trades a day on Nasdaq and innumerable chats and emails, the stock market's risk and surveillance officers can't look at everything. Enter artificial intelligence.

Refusing to let innovators experiment in a permissive environment keeps regulators in the dark, and ultimately, prevents progress in financial services.

As online fraud becomes more pervasive, merchants need to strengthen their defenses against would-be cyber thieves.

There are security gaps in chip cards that are vulnerable to new types of skimming. Biometrics can help solve this problem, and will also prove handy as EMV cards migrate to smartphones.

KeyCorp integrated First Niagara just a couple of months after the deal closed. CIO Amy Brady says coordination between business leaders and the tech team paved the way.

Digital payments security provider V-Key will protect the cloud-based payments network of Ant Financial Services Group (Alipay) with its virtual secure element software.

Stats show young people like to use smartphones to take photos of themselves, a key element of Mitek's payments security strategy.

Payments technology plays a major role in web connected city projects globally.

On Dec. 7, Dwolla will drop its consumer-facing applications like its mobile app and Dwolla.com

Banks like SunTrust are looking to tech as a way to gain an edge in commercial lending, an area of banking where innovation has long been lacking.