Stockholm-based Seamless will soon integrate Near Field Communication technology into SEQR, its mobile payment app that was originally designed around the use of QR codes.

Furthering efforts to bring virtual currency mainstream, cryptocurrency companies and trade groups are teaming up to create a forum to aid law enforcement in weeding out criminal activity.

Addressing the desire of small merchants that want a straightforward way to sell online, Square and Ecwid are partnering to synchronize sales and inventory between the physical and digital worlds.

In the wake of regulators conserving a credit union that allegedly was involved in a bitcoin money laundering operation, cryptocurrency companies are trying to demonstrate a commitment to cleaning house.

Furthering efforts to bring virtual currency mainstream, cryptocurrency companies and trade groups are teaming up to create a forum to aid law enforcement in weeding out criminal activity.

Adyen wants fraud-detection software to learn from its mistakes, but it also wants a system that can teach the user about why it is reaching certain conclusions.

More than a mere buzzword, "omnichannel" is as close as the payments industry has come to assigning a name to the group of actions that make up a complete purchase across the retail store, Web and mobile devices.

American Express Co., the credit-card issuer grappling with the loss of its biggest partner, posted third- quarter profit that missed analysts' estimates as expenses rose and revenue declined.

WASHINGTON – After several false starts this year, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on a major cybersecurity bill backed by the banking industry.

WASHINGTON — After several false starts this year, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on a major cybersecurity bill backed by the banking industry.

Combing through data to find people who’ve paid for something twice or left their cash at the ATM helps the bank build goodwill with customers, says analytics chief Christian Nelissen.

European mobile point of sale company SumUp has brought its technology across the pond.

MasterCard plans to add its tokenization service to the MasterPass digital wallet to boost security for online and in-app purchasing.

Discover Financial Services has joined the Banking Industry Architecture Network to take part in the nonprofit's framework and messaging standards to lower costs and speed the delivery of services to customers.

So many banks are running systems that were implemented before 1984, the year Mark Zuckerberg was born. They’re going to be dead meat in the age of real-time connectivity in the near-free world of today’s mobile Internet.

Stockholm-based Seamless is threading currency exchange into its QR code-based mobile payment platform SEQR.

October 1 marked the dawn of a new era in the U.S. payment card marketplace. While there are not yet rules from the card brands that demand all parties utilize EMV technology, the financial liability shift is a significant first step across a line in the sand that cannot be erased.

Discover Financial Services, the credit-card issuer that's expanded to student lending and unsecured personal loans, posted profit that beat analysts' estimates as the firm bought back about 8 million shares of stock and provisions for loan losses declined.

While migration to cards with chip technology should help mitigate card fraud, additional steps by retailers and more layers of security are needed.

Deluxe Corp. is buying data services firm Datamyx LLC from Halyard Capital for $160 million in cash.