Mobile wallets are poised to dramatically change the payments landscape, but what is holding them back from seeing more rapid adoption?

Artificial intelligence like IBM's Watson may not make bank compliance officers obsolete, but it could mean far fewer of them will be needed in the future, focused on higher-level tasks.

Community bankers are showing renewed interest in consumer lending but admit they may be losing ground to more tech-savvy players, according to a survey released Thursday.

The traditional audience for prepaid cards is the underbanked or unbanked, many of whom are excluded from the mainstream financial services system due to their lacking credit histories. Green Dot is nevertheless pursuing this audience with a Platinum Visa secured credit card that requires an upfront cash deposit and carries a raft of fees.

Samsung Pay has partnered with Quotient Technology to bring users an in-app coupon service and a function that lets them restore information when they sign in from a new device.

NCR, which is primarily known for its ATMs and point of sale hardware, is taking more steps into digital banking.

Generation Z, the generation following what is commonly referred to as the Millennials, has only just formed its identity, yet its older members are already preparing to enter the workforce and take part in modern commerce.

Kim Kaselionis saw a lot of small-business-loan applications die on her desk when she was a bank chief, so she started a crowdfunding firm to nurse along startups till they were bankable. That's where Fresno First comes in.

Freedom 1st Credit Union in Dayton, Ohio, has selected COCC as its new core processing system.

Citi will join Early Warning's clearXchange, giving the bank-operated digital transfer network a boost as it takes on apps like PayPal’s Venmo.

Walmart Stores Inc. is in advanced discussions to invest as much as $1 billion into India’s Flipkart Online Services Pvt, an alliance that could help the companies battle Amazon.com Inc. in e-commerce, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Nodding to a future in which innovation can come from almost anywhere and personal relationships matter just as much — if not more than — invention, Mastercard is changing how developers access the payment network to bring new ideas to life.

British cosmetics powerhouse The Body Shop this week will accept Alipay at three of its London stores, through a new integration by Germany-based Wirecard.

A new wave of exciting innovation is presenting businesses with opportunities to improve processes and the consumer experience.

Though the IBM survey did not include any credit unions, the industry has been monitoring this trend for some time and will bet keeping a close watch on the banks' experience with this technology.

The Chamber of Digital Commerce has opened a new outpost in the nation's capital. But instead of looking for a staid law office, the bitcoin advocacy group formed a partnership with the local incubator 1776 to launch the DC Blockchain Center.

The rise of equity crowdfunding is drawing more interest from U.S. entrepreneurs who can’t get seed-stage funding from a VC, from those who can’t get the money as quickly as the founders would like and from others who simply like the idea of getting buy-in from the mass market.

Swift announced Tuesday additional efforts to beef up security on its network, following highly publicized hacks of member banks earlier this year.

IBM is introducing a set of new systems and tools to help banks in the U.S., Europe and Asia adapt to certain global initiatives to modernize financial services, including advancing real-time payments and sharing customer data with third parties through APIs.

Lenders are starting to bring artificial intelligence into their lending processes. Some wonder whether the machines can make rational, unbiased choices.