Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s finance affiliate has completed a record $4.5 billion equity fundraising round, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Avoiding fraud committed by large-scale criminal organizations using stolen credit cards and botnets or proxy servers can be particularly difficult.

Visa has had a major sponsorship role at past summer Olympics, using the setting to test new technology. This type of "global lab experiment" lets the card brand view the four years between this major athletic event as a gauge for payments advancements.

The U.K.'s referendum vote to leave the European Union has thrown cold water on London's reputation as a friendly venue for innovation in payments and other industries.

Tradeshift has launched a payments and travel booking virtual assistant that uses voice recognition to manage ordering, payments and risk.

The sheer volume of data that collected by Internet-connected "things" — cars, homes, wearable devices, and yes, refrigerators — could help deepen banks' relationships with customers. But it also adds more avenues for security breaches and raises privacy concerns.

American Express is working with Facebook to explore different methods of customer engagement through the social media network’s Messenger app.

London has been a magnet for technology startups, buoyed by a favorable regulatory environment and proximity to many of the world's largest financial institutions.

Facing more payments because of high-deductible insurance plans, 72% of consumers say they prefer to use electronic payment methods such as payment cards, Automated Clearing House or digital wallets to cover health care costs.

The recent White House fintech summit was helpful in exposing companies to regulators, and vice versa, but we need to strengthen the lines of communications even more.

Digital tools improve a bank's traditional sales process, but relationship-based banking is still a huge factor in winning over millennial customers.

A group of the largest banks in the world is working on a global standard for Bitcoin’s blockchain ledger technology, a secure funds-transfer system that advocates and industry watchers have likened to “email for money.”

Battling a sea of technology companies and major incumbents like Western Union and Travelex for a share of the international payments and currency exchange pie may seem like an uphill climb for a smaller company with less of a track record.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is seeking to create a regulatory sandbox that it hopes will allow fintechs and banks to experiment on innovations to the financial system.

ABN Amro is using cross-platform mobile messaging app WhatsApp as a payment request channel for a new person-to-person payments app.

Circle Internet Financial, the Bitcoin services company and wallet provider, has raised $60 million in financing from Chinese investors as it continues expanding its operations in China.

LINO LAKES, Minn. – Core processing provider Sharetec System here announced Thursday that WSSC FCU in Laurel, Md., has selected the company to provide its new core system.

The market for one-touch home supply-ordering services like Amazon Dash is heating up, and forecasters say it’s not just homes, but offices and organizations that could fuel growth, from a surge in “smart” buildings wired with devices to order items with the push of a button.

WASHINGTON — Fannie Mae has delayed the roll out of its new automated underwriting system that will require mortgage lenders to use trended data for the first time in submitting their loans for approval.

WASHINGTON -- Fannie Mae has delayed the roll out of its new automated underwriting system that will require mortgage lenders to use trended data for the first time in submitting their loans for approval.