Near Field Communication tags — stickers embedded with wireless technology — were seen as a bridge technology for contactless payments in the U.S. before phones came with NFC built-in. In India, however, NFC tags are proving to have a much longer shelf life.

The most important cybersecurity questions in banking are also the most basic: Who has administrator access? What kind of programs are installed on computer systems? "If I can't answer those questions, I'm sure the criminal can," says Andre McGregor, director of security at Tanium.

Apple Inc. is planning a new iPhone feature for Japan that will enable users to pay for mass-transit rides with their smartphones instead of physical payment cards. A future iPhone will include technology called FeliCa, a mobile tap-to-pay standard in Japan developed by Sony Corp., according to people familiar with the matter.

Because of zero liability rules, consumers rarely share the extent of the concerns banks have over account security. But their fears might be growing.

The refrain is familiar by now—health care payments are more complicated than consumer payments and require special technology and products. But there's another difference between health care providers and the rest of the world, one that's just as vexing and equally attractive to technology vendors.

For many JPMorgan Chase customers and Android device users, a hint of a marriage between the large issuer and the prevalent mobile wallet is welcome news.

A director at Citizens Independent Bancorp in Logan, Ohio, resigned after members of management chastised him for an email security breach.

The large custody bank was one of the first U.S. banking firms to embrace robotic process automation. Here's why a 232-year-old institution took a pioneering stance on a new technology.

It would have to take something big for consumers to flock to a mobile wallet en masse. Whether it meant to or not, California-based RadPad found out what consumers wanted, but it wasn't prepared for the aftermath.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s finance affiliate is considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong in the first half of next year after running into regulatory hurdles for a dual listing that would have included Shanghai, according to people familiar with the matter.

Ant Financial and Tencent Holdings Ltd. have won approval to operate digital wallets for customers in Hong Kong, a significant step in the two Chinese internet giants’ overseas expansion.

American banks are emerging from one of the most challenging decades for any industry in history, and one area that is showing a potential way forward is payments.

If credit unions don’t get on board with mobile apps, they may get left behind.

Federal financial regulators are incorporating lessons learned from the Swift hacks in their examinations, they told a lawmaker in a joint letter last week.

JPMorgan Chase has recruited an IBM executive to oversee its adoption of cloud services.

With flooding in a big portion of its market, Iberiabank executives detail how technology is helping it stay open for business in a way that could not have happened a decade ago.

The Near Field Communication (NFC) payment rings Visa launched at the Rio Olympics earlier this year are now available to the general public.

ClearXchange has access to a majority of the market's online banking accounts as it takes on Venmo, but there's one thing it may not have.

If there is a takeaway from Citigroup's not-quite-stellar rollout of the Costco Anywhere Visa card, it is this: Even in modern times, the transition of large card portfolios from one issuer to another can prove disastrously complex.

Financial institutions are still developing uses for blockchain, with the latest test coming from The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and Hitachi, which are using the technology for issuing, transferring and collecting electronic checks.