France-based supermarket giant Carrefour and Gemalto leaned on Host Card Emulation (HCE) to create a new solution with the sought-after feature of combining mobile payments and the store’s loyalty program within a single app.

Digital payments tools can help commercial clients run their business more efficiently, but in a world still dominated by paper checks banks may need to show their customers the benefits.

Fresh off testing new payments technology at the Rio Olympics, Visa is heading to the Toronto International Film Festival to demonstrate transaction innovations for augmented reality and connected cars.

Netherlands-based ING is the latest bank to extend person-to-person (P-to-P) payments services to bank customers using popular social media platforms.

The U.K.’s redesigned five pound note will be released Tuesday, but research suggests the move by the British central bank is out of tune with the current landscape of consumer payments.

The newest iPhones are drawing a lot of attention for omitting the headphone jack, causing worry among the small merchants that rely on headphone-connected card readers to handle payments.

While paper checks use continues to decline due to mobile and online banking, a new report finds that checks are still the payment method most susceptible to fraud, and that check fraud accounts for the largest dollar amount of financial loss annually.

Overseers of banks' data analytics strategies share their thoughts on what other industries do a good job with data, how banks should approach analytics and how they explain their job to mom and dad.

Facing a growing threat from TransferWise and other specialists working to streamline cross-border payments, Barclays and Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) are trying a new system enabling customers to zap funds between the two banks in real time.

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council has released updated cybersecurity guidance for bank examiners.

F.N.B. Corp. in Pittsburgh has recruited an executive from the recently sold FirstMerit Bank to spearhead its data-security efforts.

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council has released updated cybersecurity guidance for bank examiners.

While much of fintech over the last few years has been about improving the front end of banking, the focus is now shifting to streamlining the back office.

It was inevitable that someone would try to add up those extra seconds it takes to perform an EMV transaction, and when Cayan did it concluded that EMV is forcing U.S. consumers as a whole to spend years in extra time at the register.

It’s well known that blockchain technology decentralizes decision making and fosters decision by consensus.

A new tool developed by the federal government may put the brakes on certain counterfeit card scams during the holidays, if law enforcement agencies can replicate the results of an initial test.

By utilizing the SimplyCredit solution, the New York-based credit union grew lending by 4% in three months.

The one thing payment terminal hardware makers should have been sure of this year was relatively strong demand from merchants finally upgrading to EMV-compatible equipment after the slow start last year to the U.S. chip-card migration. But that's not how it's turning out.

A year ago, 27-year-old software developer Roy Breidi was dreaming of launching a startup related to the digital currency bitcoin. Problem was, he “didn’t really understand what’s the magic behind it.”