The president of the technology giant’s credit union division is stepping down to get back into the fintech research arena he left some 11 years ago but will stick around for another seven months to help his successor, Vinnie Brennan, make a smooth transition.

Visa is bringing its QR-code based mobile payment system to Nigeria this year.

Grocery stores are well-oiled machines, with the placement of every product carefully researched to guide the shopper from one item to the next. But even this process has some room for improvement.

Not many people have taken the plunge to use mobile payments full-time, but a very high number have dipped a toe in the water.

Finding the right mPOS solution can be difficult. Demanding flexibility and device agnostic technology from partners can go a long way toward making a successful decision.

Cloud-based core vendor Nymbus announced Monday it has completed a $12 million financing round.

Banks sharing cyberthreat data is not new. But more information-sharing groups are forming, and technology is improving, to advance the effort.

To discourage scalping, the New York Comic Con asked online ticket buyers for personal information up front. The backlash shows the challenges of protecting identity in the digital age — an issue banks and fintech firms are exploring.

China UnionPay has launched its NFC-based QuickPass mobile payment system in Canada, marking its first acceptance by merchants in North America.

Badlands Federal Credit Union in Glendive, Mont., and Danville City Employees Federal Credit Union in Danville, Va., have partnered with Fiserv to offer their members speedier digital banking, payments and card management tools.

The early morning exercisers who stop at Thrive Café in Loves Park, Ill. may be drenched in sweat and dressed in outfits devoid of any pockets, but they can still pay for their post-workout refreshments without a wallet or phone.

Smart contracts, which automate parts of payment agreements, are the key to using blockchain technology in complex financial transactions. However, there are still open questions and concerns about how smart contracts operate in the real world and whether they can be trusted.

Microsoft Wallet has a substantial consumer base, particularly stemming from its gaming business, through there aren't a lot of banks that support its mobile payments technology. The software picked up some bank momentum with this week's addition of PNC.

ItzCash and India’s RBL Bank have formed a partnership to launch the country’s first cobranded prepaid card powered by the government-backed RuPay Network, the latest example of India's efforts to rapidly accelerate financial inclusion.

In a harsh reminder that hackers have found hotel point-of-sale systems to be a treasure trove, HEI Hotels & Resorts is informing its customers of a potential breach affecting their credit cards.

Heather Cox, the chief executive of Citigroup's financial technology unit and a key executive behind the bank's early embrace of wearable technology for payments and other financial services, is headed to USAA, an institution with a military-heavy client base that relies on digital transactions.

Bitcoin skeptics continue to misunderstand a technology that could forever change the way financial services operate. Here are four common — and incorrect — beliefs on why bitcoin will fail.

Shared technology resources such as application programming interfaces (APIs) may have a new audience as companies adapt to the rapid market shifts following the Brexit vote.

Nostalgia no doubt helped drive the recent Pokémon Go phenomenon, but another factor — one that will become critical to retailers’ future success — was also at play.

The federal government recently began to discourage companies from using SMS-based authentication in their two-factor authentication schemes. So do banks need to completely eliminate authentication via text message? Not entirely.