Stripe Inc., the U.S. payment startup backed by Sequoia Capital and PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, is bringing its service to Singapore to help local startups build online businesses.

Bankers may have a reputation for being old-school, but their rapidly growing digital-ad budgets are in step with the rest of the business world. Banks can both gather valuable demographic data from who clicks on their ads and better measure returns on their investments.

Fiserv, Inc. has beefed up the predictive powers of its core ACH fraud-screening tool with additional data sources, enhancing banks' abilities to block suspicious electronic transactions in real time.

The expanding base of contract workers who use mobile apps to set up jobs and receive payment is upending traditional payroll practices, requiring new levels of speed and efficiency from financial services companies.

Banks can be more effective in connecting with customers by offering them personalized communications, rather than bombarding them with general sales pitches.

The surprise vote by the U.K. in June to leave the European Union may encourage fintech firms in London to expand across the pond. That was the case with Duco, a financial data management company, which recently added senior managers in New York. "Hiring talent in London was already hard on the tech side, and we think it's going to get even harder" says CEO Christian Nentwich. Duco was selected last year to participate in Accenture's Fintech Innovation Lab in London.

There's no tech solution in the world that can prevent cybersecurity attacks. To mitigate risks, however, banks can apply four controls after they first determine their risk tolerances.

Troy Leach, chief technology officer for the PCI Council, sat down with PaymentsSource to reflect on the council's performance to date and where it is headed in the coming years.

Subway is learning that to get people into its stores, its mobile app has to be every bit as compelling as its menu.

When Apple came knocking on their doors to sign up credit unions for Apple Pay, these companies saw an opportunity to change their ways and start acting like nimble, modern financial institutions.

Visa Inc.’s mobile payments app, mVisa, has gone live in Kenya, where four local banks are supporting the QR code-based service.

Mixed messaging on fin tech doesn't just emanate from the halls of Congress. It can also be found at the regulatory level as well.

When Apple came knocking on their doors to sign up credit unions for Apple Pay, these companies saw an opportunity to change their ways and start acting like nimble, modern financial institutions.

SourceMedia's annual PayThink conference is always boiling over with ideas and innovation. This year's event, which took place in New Orleans this month, was no exception.

German mobile payments startup SumUp failed to deliver on plans announced last year to invade the U.S., challenging Square on its home turf, but it wasn’t due to fear of the competition. Merchants were just much slower to act on EMV than SumUp expected.

Millennials hate banks so much, they’d rather go to the dentist than listen to what banks have to say. And digital payment alternatives are taking advantage.

While Barclays was slow to warm to Apple Pay in the U.K., the bank's aggressive development of its own bPay contactless payments technology has continued unabated with deployments ranging from gloves to saddles.

Regulations proposed by New York State regulators provide stricter and more specific guidance than banks have received from the federal agencies, especially in areas like data encryption and multifactor authentication.

Financial services technology provider Fiserv on Wednesday doubled down on its support of the credit union movement, as the company pledged its support to the America's Credit Union Museum Legacy Campaign and to the Filene Research Institute for one of its Centers of Excellence.

The latest iOS update will soon enable many consumers to initiate payments via voice command, but a German bank is one of the first to take its service live.