Biometric authentication is coming to numerous e-commerce merchants who may not realize that it will be a part of their checkout process, depending on the issuers involved.

President Barack Obama has appointed MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga to an administrative commission focusing on Web security.

Washington Federal in Seattle said its profit rose 3.4% to $41.7 million in the three months that ended March 31 as loan growth outweighed higher information technology costs.

The inadvertent downloading of thousands of consumer records to a thumb drive at the FDIC could happen anywhere. Here's a look at what the agency did right and what it could have done better.

The Rye, N.Y.-based credit union has managed to reduce its mobile banking abandonment rate by some 45%.

Airbnb, the company that disrupted the hospitality industry as Uber did to taxis, is sidling up to the fintech space.

Cross-border educational payments provider Flywire has added services in Japan, where there are nearly 200,000 international students enrolled in local schools and universities.

The inadvertent downloading of thousands of consumer records to a thumb drive at the FDIC could happen anywhere. Here's a look at what the FDIC did right and what it could have done better.

With fraudsters gearing up to assault mobile wallets, U.S. financial institutions considering a bank-branded mobile wallet would be wise to take note of the lessons learned when Apple Pay made its debut in the fall of 2014.

Xceed Financial Credit Union will transition its in-house DNA account processing to a Fiserv-hosted data center to expand its strategic opportunities and focus on members.

If the EMV chip-card migration in the U.S. taught the payments industry anything, it's that some players meet compliance deadlines, while others let them slip by.

The U.S. migration to EMV chip technology – intended to reduce card fraud, provide global interoperability, and enable safer payment transactions – may prove to be a valuable move for more than just the payments industry.

Airbnb, the company that disrupted the hospitality industry as Uber did to taxis, is sidling up to the fintech space.

Suddenly, online lenders are struggling, or paying higher prices, to attract the institutional money that has fueled their rapid rise.

Banks are starting to use Facebook Messenger as a way to connect with customers. For now, such interactions will be limited and largely based on artificial intelligence. Down the road, the move could place Facebook deeper into the lives of its customers and could give it an entrée into financial services.

Motorists in the Netherlands will soon be able to pay for fuel purchases before pulling into the gas station through a feature from the Dutch bank Rabobank’s MyOrder, which already supports a variety of mobile payments use cases.

Financial services and payments technology provider Affirm says it has raised $100 million in a round of equity funding.

Corelation Inc., a core processor in San Diego, was hired by seven credit unions during the first quarter. The new signings raise the total number of credit unions using Corelation to 48.

Those who want to understand exactly how bitcoin is being adopted in the U.S. would do well to take a look at the tech startup Snapcard.

Retail banks must reinvent the way they charge consumers for their services at a time when institutions are struggling for profitability.