Discover Financial Services, the credit-card issuer that’s expanded to student lending and unsecured personal loans, posted first-quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates as card spending increased.

Ingenico Group has begun offering tools to address some of the complex challenges in developing EMV-enabled mobile point of sale applications.

When EMV came to market in Europe in the 1990s, it entered a world with a much less robust communications infrastructure than what the U.S. has today. So, following the launch of EMV in the U.S., Visa decided it was time to break some old habits.

A closer look at a strangely named piece of malicious software shows it makes crafty use of drive-by downloads and Web injections to fool users into complicity with online banking fraud.

A closer look at a strangely named piece of malicious software shows it makes crafty use of drive-by downloads and web injections to fool users into complicity with online banking fraud.

An e-commerce technology unit eBay sold last fall after separating from PayPal has reformulated itself as Radial, tailoring its services for online merchants that want to make the leap to omnichannel commerce.

Community banks are at a crossroads as they face a threat from alternative lenders and the need to stay true to the traditional bank model. What they should do?

While beneficial for businesses and consumers, Nacha's new rule for same day transactions will require banks and other financial institutions to review thousands of additional transactions per day, leading to a significant increase in costs, not to mention an increased potential for fraud due to volume and rapidness of review.

The heat of battle can forge some unlikely bonds, as demonstrated by MasterCard and Western Union’s collaboration with the four-year-old mobile financial service provider bKash, giving the incumbents a foothold in omnichannel payments and making them a bigger threat to other newcomers.

As mobile wallets become more popular they'll also become more popular targets for fraud. Banks ought to improve enrollment guidelines and other security tools in plotting their mobile-wallet strategy.

The Clearing House and FIS say they are less than a year away from testing the first real-time payments network in the U.S., focusing on bill payment through early-adopter financial institutions.

Everything that makes Chase Pay possible is built on the foundation of ChaseNet.

The idea of financial institutions resembling utilities has caught on with some industry observers for reasons other than reducing systemic risk.

Cyberthieves using malicious software discovered by IBM Security have stolen $4 million from business customers of two dozen financial services providers this month, IBM said.

Consumers are winning the battle with online publishers, thanks to easy ad-blocking software that lets them surf the sites they want free from annoying ads. While publishers are turning to micropayments to gain revenue, that strategy also has holes.

The burgeoning market for pay-at-the-table solutions is drawing interest from many traditional payment industry players tackling restaurants’ problems, but one newcomer is gaining traction in the niche by making the consumer its primary focus.

Cyberthieves using malicious software discovered by IBM Security have stolen $4 million from business customers of two dozen financial services providers this month, IBM said.

Experts from across the payments industry gathered in Los Angeles for SourceMedia's annual Card Forum and Expo. Here are some of the biggest ideas discussed at this year's event.

The technology behind the snazzy new “bots” Facebook is rolling out for its Messenger chat app has enormous potential to internalize payments within social media experiences like shopping, travel and entertainment in new, more relevant ways.

More than bitcoin, blockchain is interfering with the margins and business models of the finance world. The technology is also challenging our banking institutions’ longstanding platform as intermediaries.