Some retailers falsely think that if they are using EMV chip credit cards that they have eliminated any chance of security breaches at the register since the EMV approach is stronger than conventional credit cards.

Seeing its opening in the mobile wallet market, Mobeewave's pushing a product that exists somewhere between the models of Square and Venmo, resurrecting a relatively old idea of having people pay each other by using their phones.

Card-not-present fraud is creating "silent revenue killers" for card issuers because many consumers will close their accounts after dealing with fraud from shopping online, new research indicates.

A data encryption method that Heartland Payment Systems CEO Robert Carr swears by has received high-level acceptance as part of a new standard.

Rather than increased emphasis on the card, or even the way we pay, more needs to be done to secure the terminal through which the transaction is processed.

With Barclays at long last offering Apple Pay to its customers, Apple can now say it has a lineup of the U.K.'s largest banks supporting its mobile pay system.

Delaware, whose business-friendly laws have lured more than half the country's publicly traded corporations and more than 60% of the Fortune 500 to incorporate in the state, is now vying to become a hub for blockchain technology.

The demise of the plastic Google Wallet card may be bad news for Google and anyone who keeps a balance with its digital wallet, but Amex and Simple both see something familiar, and attractive, in the card's audience.

As they look to cut costs, banks are looking across the globe for cheap spots to host parts of their operations. A new report identifies the best back-office bargains.

R3 CEV, the blockchain consortium backed by some of the largest global banks, has partnered with Microsoft to accelerate the deployment of distributed ledger technology.

Bankers are increasingly turning to their compliance teams to gain insights about customers for business purposes. Compliance officers, meanwhile, are turning to technology to fulfill their heightened roles.

Amazon's new global partner program focuses on working with online platform providers and developers, similar to how mainstream payment technology companies work with independent sales organizations to reach new clients.

When your members spend their days coding at Intel or developing the next big mobile app at tech startup, you can’t afford to take a wait-and-see approach to technology.

Recent devaluations of startups and other signs of trouble do not mean the end of fintech upheaval but rather the start of acquisitions and other repositioning to advance stability.

Western Union is beset on all sides by newer, nimbler companies wielding emerging technology to slice overhead from cross border payments, and it’s striking back by using its global bank relationships and huge infrastructure as an advantage.

In order for mobile payments to be successful, there has to be a sustained effort to communicate the worth and educate both the consumer and the merchant.

Amazon.com Inc.'s relaunch of its online payments business in 2013 was greeted with skepticism. PayPal Holdings Inc. had a huge head start and credit card companies like Visa Inc. already had products that made buying something on the Web as easy as swiping a card.

More than two-thirds of all U.S.-issued MasterCard consumer credit cards are now chip-enabled and the number of merchants accepting EMV transactions continues to climb, MasterCard said March 31.

Beijing-based payment processor PayEase Corp. now supports payments through Apple Pay in China.

The migration to EMV chip cards in the U.S. has hit enough snags that some may wonder if it's better to let someone else smooth things out.