Now that Verizon has nailed down a deal to buy Yahoo's search and advertising business, it's starting to look a lot more like Google — and it might even have the tools to take a second stab at the payments industry.

Visa plans to open a facility in Palo Alto, Calif., the latest in a series of technology-focused facilities designed to cement the card brand's role in the world of payments innovation.

Edgeley, N.D.-based Dakota Plains Credit Union announced it has adopted the XP2 integrated technology suite from Fiserv, Inc.

For retailers at least, the most important screens are now the small ones.

Now is the time to correct the mistakes of interchange price controls that harm consumers and community financial institutions to the benefit of merchants.

When Amazon launched Amazon Dash buttons, many observers predicted that the concept would completely upend the retail model. But recent market research shows that fewer than half of Amazon Dash purchasers have actually used the button.

The notion that if you build it, they will come clearly doesn’t work with mobile payments, and Apple Inc. is ready to try another approach.

Patrons of the GC Express gas station in Caro, Mich., have another choice to make at the pump: Do they want to pay with a credit union's mobile banking app?

Brookfield, Wis.-based Fiserv, Inc., a global provider of financial services technology solutions, on Friday said Me/CU, based in Oklahoma City, Okla., has selected the company's Portico account-processing platform and an integrated suite of digital banking, payments and lending solutions.

Several core processing vendors with mobile-age platforms have sprung up in the past year. Making a lasting mark in a field dominated by entrenched vendors will take time.

Banks typically respond to pending regulations with a mixture of fear and dread, but new cybersecurity requirements being developed by the banking agencies may be met with relief.

To hear PayPal CEO Dan Schulman tell it, his company's agreement with Visa this week is a transformative and history-making deal. But in at least one way, PayPal must make sure that history does not repeat itself.

PayPal Holdings Inc. shares dropped the most in four months on concern about the cost implications of a new agreement between the digital payments company and Visa Inc.

Directors and senior executives have a duty to inculcate risk culture into banks so that everyone works as a team to contain cyber and other risks, including the human vulnerabilities within.

Credit union executives at the C-level have seen the writing on the wall about millennials for years, but a recent mobile-banking milestone has resulted in significant takeaways for the industry.

Profits rose by 9% at Capital One Financial during the second quarter thanks to strong growth in the firm's credit card and commercial banking businesses.

Visa and Mastercard both face the prospect of becoming "dumb pipes" as other companies innovate on top of their networks. To combat this trend, both are taking steps to be major players in the digital economy.

While the growth of digital commerce is a universal concept, digital has and will continue to manifest itself different depending upon the industry vertical and its level of digital maturity.

They say to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and First Data's Clover operation did just that.

The bank is using software "robots" — 30 of them, according to its CEO — to cut costs and shift workers to more fulfilling work.